Slow Graphics in General.

[Captain]

Slow chalky videos and laggy game play, movement and animation.
The larger the maps, the more glitchy and quite simply 'messed up' they become. Main screen has laggy Earth rotation and message saying 'recommended requirements have not been met' (although I think everything checks out but I am uncertain of the video card being a 128 MB one.)

Is the lack of a strong video card the root cause of this problem as I suspect? Is my SiS760 display adapter insufficient? Many thanks...

 

[aronk76]

Can be certain, but people have been experiencing problems with ATI and nVidia cards. Now, your graphics are controlled by an onboard Integrated Graphic chipset (somebody correct if I am wrong) so you will probably experience even more problems with the game.

 

[Captain]

Is there a way that I can see specific stats about my video card under the windows XP "see basic information about your computer" heading? Under Hardware>Device Manager>, I'm assumeing the 'display adapter' represents the video card.

Either way I think a new card is whats in the 'cards' for me.

Edit: Computer stats I know:
AMD Athlon 64 processor 2800+ (whatever that means)
1.8GHz, and 896 MB of RAM.

Sorry, maybe I should have posted this under a tech support forum?

 

[warpstorm]

That is an integrated video. They are usuallly not as good as the dedicated video cards.

 

[aronk76]

To find out more about your Video capability, right click on your desktop and select Properties. Now click on the Settings tab > then Advanced at the bottom. This should bring up any settings that you can change with your Display Adapter. As for your RAM - 896MB, that is including your 128MB of Video memory. The way that works is that your video memory is shared instead of dedicated just to graphics. The amount that is shared for video can be changed but most don't go above 128MB. Hope this helps you out some.

 

[Captain]

Wow, thanks aronk. I'm looking at my SiS760 Properties after following you steps via the desktop but, could you be more clear as to 'modifying' the shared settings so the 128 MB are strictly for video memory from the 896 or would that risk damaging other processes on my PC? Thanks...

This is a visual of my wacky situation. On any map 'this' is what the right half my screen looks like:

 

[Captain]

Well from what I've found online, it would seem that integrated video adapters are different than dedicated ones (which are required for this) and having my 128 MB's of strick video memory stuck with the other 768 is a perminant mechnaical fixture (i.e. not something I can change on my desktop). So is this the case?

 

[aronk76]

Well from what I've found online, it would seem that integrated video adapters are different than dedicated ones (which are required for this) and having my 128 MB's of strick video memory stuck with the other 768 is a perminant mechnaical fixture (i.e. not something I can change on my desktop). So is this the case?

That is the case. The video memory is actually part of your RAM. The Integrated Video Adapter can use up to a max of 128 MB of that RAM. On some of them you can change that # but I am not sure where you would do this. It may be in the Bios setup at boot up of the computer. Best of Luck.