bwayne72

Thanks for the useful advice. I noticed that some of the PCI cards have DDR vs. SDRAM --- would that really matter on a PCI card?

Ok, looks like I could go for ATI Radeon or Nvidia GF --- which would be the best choice (especially for Combat Mission)? Noticed there are a wide variety of 64meg PCI cards out there ranging anywhere from $40 to $100 - I'm tempted to go as cheap as possible but what would I be missing?

Thanks for the advice -- turns out it was the monitor and the fact that being set as "default" was causing problems. Downloaded the drivers for my old Tatung Monitor and everything appears to be fine now (what a relief I bought a Dell 2350. With 256DDR, CD Burner, and 60Gig Harddrive for $400 and Free Shipping, I thought it was a pretty good deal. Once I install a Geforce PCI card, I'd think it should make for a decent home computer/gaming system. Long story short, I take back all the curses I threw at Dell when I thought it was the stupid Int. Graphics that were causing my problems (at least for the time being:)

Sorry I didn't answer sooner -- was on a business trip. Right now it is set as 'Default' Monitor. Being that the monitor is about 8 years old, I tried setting the refresh rate to 60 -- still doesn't work. Realizing that I'm pretty computer illiterate, any other advice The fact that you can run it on the machine you were using is very encouraging -- sounds that I just need help tweeking the monitor settings.

Ok since it appears that I am you know what in regards to playing CBM with my computer using the cruddy Integrated Graphics that came with it (No AGP SLOT!!!) :confused: my only other option appears to be to purchase a PCI card. Are they actually ok (doesn't have to be the top of the line performance but at least 'adequate') and if so, what are some decent cards to look at (also since I just spent $ on the computer, the lower the $ for the card the better). Thanks!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to give advice -- I had hoped that loading the latest drivers from Intel would do the trick --- evidently not... drat!! Darn Intel for their stupid Integrated Graphics and Dell for selling a machine with no AGP slot for easy video upgrade (and not making that point obvious)... Maybe I'll try the PCI card. Anyone know how well the PCI cards really work -- they don't need to be great but are they ok and do they support CBM?? Guess I'll post the question also as a seperate topic

I'm hoping I'm not going to experience a nightmare but here goes. So far BO has been my favorite game that I used to play on my old HP. Recently I just got one of the new cheapie Dells with XP and the Integrated Graphics (no AGP slot!!!). Right away the first game I've tried running is BO but when I run it I get some sort of graphic corruption (I see some sort of fuzzy note about resolution spread about six places on the screen). I also tried running the game with the Windows 98 Compatibility (what my HP had) and all I get is a black screen with a pointer on it. When I ctl+alt+delete out, I get a Unhanded Exception C0000005 At Address: 0053ed9a. I believe I now have Directx 8.1 in that I can now run 'America's Army' fine. Solution?????? Thanks!