i need help

[Roadkill]

ok i have a 3 year old pc with these specs:

700 mhz intel celeron
192mb ram
windows xp (just installed it recently)

i dont have a video card but i was wonderin if my pc would be able to run 64 roms at a reasonable speed if i bought at least a 32mb video card. i only have about 4mb of on-board video memory i think n of course the 64 roms run REALLY SLOW so i just wanna kno if my pc would be able to run them if i just buy at least a 32 mb video card

 

[Trotterwatch]

Pick yourself up an old PCI or AGP Voodoo 3 (or above) card. It'll work well with your PC, and you'll be able to play a shedload of games using Glide64.

You may also want to consider a cheap GF2/4 MX style card.

 

[Roadkill]

thanx. would i be able to use pj64 or 1964 if i just bought one of those old video cards ur talkin about, cause this site that i went to said my system specs r recommended for 1964 or pj64 but i just need a video card. just wonderin. o btw, heres the site - http://www.smiff.clara.net/require/hardware.htm

o yea, one more question, would the roms run at full speed if i just got one of those video cards u mentioned?

 

[Trotterwatch]

Quite a lot of roms would run at full speed (or close to it I would imagine). However of course many wouldn't.

I think the best advice will come from those with similar systems I don't want you to buy a card on my advice then find it's a POS, lol

And yes you would be able to use 1964/PJ64 if you bought one of those cards.

 

[Allnatural]

o yea, one more question, would the roms run at full speed if i just got one of those video cards u mentioned?

CPU speed is paramount. 700 MHz is borderline if you intend to use PJ64 or 1964. Older games will likely run well. Newer games on the other hand...maybe.

 

[Roadkill]

the games that use the memory expansion would run slow am i right? im mostly gonna play older games such as mario 64, goldeneye, mario kart, wav race, fzero x, etc. those r the games that would run well right?

 

[Roadkill]

those r my last questions i promise

 

[Roadkill]

well i guess no ones goin to answer my last 2 questions, o well, i got enough advice. thank u guys so much

 

[revl8er]

All of those games should run fine except Goldeneye. You might want to wait for the new 1964 when it's released because Goldeneye requires a high system to play at full speed. I have trouble getting full speed on a 1.2ghz system with 512mb ram.

 

[kazooie]

Yup, my system are specs are almost identical to yours, with a very average and outdated video card.

I can run a good number of N64 games at full or almost full speed. Many other games will run well mostly but slow down at certain points.

So yup I say buy a cheap video card - there will be many games you won't be able to run at a playable speed but there will be a lot that you can.

And like Mystic Gohan said, all us guys with low-end systems are hanging out for the new 1964 which will hopefully make more games playable for us.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

All of those games should run fine except Goldeneye. You might want to wait for the new 1964 when it's released because Goldeneye requires a high system to play at full speed. I have trouble getting full speed on a 1.2ghz system with 512mb ram.

WITH THE ATHLON XP BARTON, MAKE SURE THE FSB IS AT 166 MHZ!!!

 

[Roadkill]

Yup, my system are specs are almost identical to yours, with a very average and outdated video card.

I can run a good number of N64 games at full or almost full speed. Many other games will run well mostly but slow down at certain points.

So yup I say buy a cheap video card - there will be many games you won't be able to run at a playable speed but there will be a lot that you can.

And like Mystic Gohan said, all us guys with low-end systems are hanging out for the new 1964 which will hopefully make more games playable for us.

thank u so much for ur advice!!! i plan to buy a video card (probably 32mb) very soon. thank u all for ur help. u guys rule!!

 

[kabz]

all my games run so slowly on my project64.could anyone help me.
I have a S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR graphic card

 

[kabz]

and its 16MB

 

[vleespet]

Go download Glide64 0.5 + evoodoo nemesis + 1964 0.8.5. Extract 1964, put evoodoo in the main-dir of 1964 and Glide64 in the plugin-dir. Then select Glide64 as GFX-plugin and enjoy your games!