I'm looking for a new computer graphics card.

----My Computer----
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.20GHz
2.19 GHZ, 768 MB of RAM

Could anyone tell me what would be the best graphics card i could get. I don't care about the price neither.

Just get any card and your fine.

Your just using onboard atm.

I can use any graphics card i would like?

would this be a nice one. i have $60 so i was going to get this one... maybe

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-01G-P3-N945-LR-GeForce-PCI-E-Graphics/dp/B001EH8FZA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1248034209&sr=1-1

Thats more than enough for halo PC/CE

Make sure you have a large enough power source.

Everything is more than enough for HCE.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/

This helps, it says what you lack and what you need for it, minimum and required.

this solved this thread, aswell as most others regarding specs i think

before you buy anything you have to find out what slot type you have on your motherboard, there are 3 kinds, pci, pci-express, and agp. look it up before you buy anything so you dont pay 100 dollars for a card that doesnt work

The game should run, I run it with a 10mb graphics card =P, I play Halo CE off a laptop built in 2001, and it is not top of the line of its time....

it will run, but will look like crapola. everyones seen ur screenshots kip :P

before u buy a video card, check ur slot type, there 4 slot types

ISA- black ones that are long, found in older computers like pentium 2/3's these are to slow for 3d graphics programs and are best left for soundcards an modem/network cards

PCI-small white slots found in every computer made in the last decade, can run halo, but expect extreme lag

AGP-small brown or green slots, only one on mother board, can run halo with no problems

PCI-e larger than standard pci, colors vary, fast enough to play any game nowdays

a computer with a 2.2ghz p4 with 768mb of ram probly wont have it, it will either have AGP if ur lucky or it might end up being an elcheapo desktop with only pci with if it dose, id recomend upgrading ur mother board, a pentium 3 with a good agp video card pwns a pentium 4 with onboard almost all the time

id recomend gettin an nvidia geforce 5200, it will run halo fine
Edited by cody on Jul 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM

That is what I have.

Do you mean an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200?

That is what I have currently. Halo CE runs pretty decent with it. I only get 25 FPS with running Halo at 800x600. 10-15 with 124x768. Which pretty sucks. You should get something better. Than that.

ye, the 5200 FX

hmm, i seem to get 30fps on a pentium 3 at 1024x768 with hi settings, althought, i got 1gb ram an dual cpu's 1.2ghz x2

the next step up would be somethin like a 6200 or an ATI 9600 seriese. its up to him since he buying the video card, but i just wanted to make sure he knows what type to buy. i strongly urge him to open his pc an take a look

That's why. lol Like I said before. I only have a single core with 768 megs of DDR DIMM

Get a ati hd 4850, there cheaper then the 4870, and can run almost ANY game at higher performance settings. I run crysis on ultra high settings around 40 ~ 50 fps with mine.

Is that card AGP?

Hey, I get about 20 to 30fps......

its not too bad, I just lowered the graphics so online performance is better, I also lowered it because our old vehicles used to be too detailed and hi poly...

I can put it on the max detail and run great now (with no more than 3 people and myself...., any more users, and I need to lower it, I can get a bluescreen easily, thats what Beginner2 does to my laptop instantly XD).

the last ati cards made in agp are the HD2600's the rest were pci-e

im running a 4870 with 1gb gddr 5 in my quad core

runs gta 4 at high setting at max resolution my monitor can run, though i got a quad core with 3gb ram

that'll run halo no problem!

so will a mac with a turbo taped to it =D
(well, minus the mac) lol

well my laptop can't play halo ce on max -_-

Need to get a new one...

What are your specs?

Alwin has been to my place, and me to his.. He has a 1.73 Ghz dual core and something liek 64 Mb of VRAM.... on med settings he gets around 20 FPS... MEDIUM!!! Then he got pissed when he saw I was getting 300-400 FPS maxed lol.

Halo maxes at 30.
Next time you falsify facts, at least make them make sense.

10 frames per second is hard......running smoothly that is....
and Alwin Roth, your laptop should run the game, add me on xfire, my version will run on laptops.....seems to always work better...=P

scott, i believe it maxes out at 60+ cause i used to get about 100 then i locked it to 60(cause my screen sucks), so i dont know but the 300-400fps i dont think happens, maybe in the menus lol

If you turn off vsync you can go far above 30 FPS.

Why would anyone want to go above 60??
Just keep it at 30......its fine there....it runs great!

But none the less, anyone who cannot run Halo CE, add me on xfire, I have a CE version that will work....
Edited by KillerKip1 on Jul 22, 2009 at 07:55 AM

the thing that limits fps is ur monitors maximum refesh rate, im on an old 1993 monitor so i dont get more than 85 fps without my monior screechingin pain

remeber, the human eye can only see 60fps, and 30 is just fine, turning off vesync can make u dizzy, worked on me

I run a motherboard graphic card at the moment my gforce 8400 killed on me but it powered by BFG so I should have a lifetime warrenty am i going to bother to get a new one I doubt it I just buy the latest gf card out there.

Even with my on-board graphic card only issue is the particles setting and something else I turn off... but for the most part my halo runs the same and at 30fps or so with my Nividia gforce 8400 it ran at I believe between 60 and 70 fps for halo on all high settings.. but then again I got 2GB of RAM.

I would recommend upgrading your RAM too if you need to because it will greatly increase your speed and performance.
Actually I recommend that you always upgrade your ram and Hardrive as faster hardrives and RAM comes out you may even have to buy a new motherboard.. but all the same It greatly contributes in a positive way to your gaming experience. Graphic cards are really only for graphics.....
Edited by skynet on Jul 23, 2009 at 04:03 AM

I don't use Vsync, I set my laptop to 72-refresh rate, high detail, particles on, etc. and I set it to 60fps....

Its a good laptop, just not a great one <=/

I have fricken fast everything =D
I played on Cold Snap with 12 people, with high graphics on, in an air battle, and nothing bad happened =P.

I should have got a screenshot when I had gotten 4fps when Cody and I were recording XD....too much going on at one for me, Xfire, Firefox, Halo CE, broadcasting live game, and xfire internet =D, and pigeon (multiple IM software, I used to run Xfire off of it, but I now just use xfire <=/).
Edited by KillerKip1 on Jul 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM

The one in bold yes you should use those Graphic card but the thing is I think they can't do camouflage right and I had to run a tweaker to get the camo to work properly on halo and I have Nvidea 9500GF FTW!!!

lol Dang. That sucks.

How do you guys have problems with the camo? I had a 6100 integrated graphics card and the camo was fine. Even my new card runs it fine.

look at this

that a terrible camo for that kind of high nvidea

but in the other hand I use a tweaker to get around it and now look how good the camo work

My Nvida card is a 6150 SE nforce 430 intergrated and I have no probs running camo. I can run everything Maxed out

Camo for me on my laptop works fine...