Is my Video card strong enogh

[lostsoul62]

I built a computer for old games and the most advance game I'm putting on the computer is Quake4 and I built the cheapest computer I could build which is an AMD Sempron Single Core 2.8 Gigs and the video card is a Diamond AMD Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR2. I'm getting blown out of quake4 so I'm pretty sure that the AMD Sempron Single Core 2.8 Gigs should be plenty strong enough to push Quake4 but is the Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR2 Video card strong enough which I have a feeling that my problem lays with this video card? Which one is blowing me out of the game? If I get a stronger video card should I be able to play Quake4 on this computer?

 

[Darren]

Video card is pretty weak. CPU should be okay.

 

[spirit]

Yeah it's not the strongest. Something a bit beefier may help you.

 

[Okedokey]

Go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and have a look there. Both components are piss-weak so it could be either or both. It will depend how the game engine works, so go to the link i suggested and select Quake 4.

 

[wolfeking]

not sure how they line up, but the game recommends a x300 or Geforce 6200, and I am 99% sure the 4350 should be equal or faster.

CPU recommendations are Athlon XP or Pentium 4 @ 2.4GHz, so hos sempron should pass there with flying colours too.

I would recommend him listing out everything he is using, and suggest he run the game in compatibility mode for XP or 2K, as that fixed stutter in my system for a few older games similar in requirements to Quake 4.

 

[lostsoul62]

All I wanted to do is put about 10 old games on this computer but I forgot that I had 10 medium games that I could throw on as well like Quake enemy mine and then I though how about Rage then I thought why didn't I just build a gaming computer? I have a cheap Motherboard but it works so I’m thinking about taking out my NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 - 1 Gig Ram from my other computer and turning in my AMD Sempron for a AMD Athlon™ II X4 640 which is a quad core at Core Speed (MHz): 3000. I'm just trying to do something mid-range and will build a monster computer later which is something I should of done but that's what happens when you get old making dumb decisions. I have XP so if I did put a Quad core on it would XP be able to handle it and could I still put DosBox on?

 

[spirit]

XP will work fine as will DosBox.

Your board definitely supports the X4 640 does it?