video card

[Roadkill]

will a 64 mb pci video card (i think its called geforce) be good enough for 1964 0.9.9? btw, i think this release is really awesome. im able to play mario 64 n mario kart 64 at near full speed with only 4 mb of vram! but goldeneye, wave race, n pilotwings r slow n messed which is y i plan to buy a video card. i plan to buy i think its called a geforce 2 with 64 mb of vram, i saw one at walmart for only 60 bux. anyways, i hope itll really improve my n64 emulation. heres my system specs:

700 mhz intel celeron
intel 82810E graphics controller
192 mb of ram

so does anyway kno if the video card would really improve 64 emulation on my pc? cause i dont want to buy the video card n then find out that it does improve much or not even improve anything at all.

 

[sheik124]

will a 64 mb pci video card (i think its called geforce) be good enough for 1964 0.9.9? btw, i think this release is really awesome. im able to play mario 64 n mario kart 64 at near full speed with only 4 mb of vram! but goldeneye, wave race, n pilotwings r slow n messed which is y i plan to buy a video card. i plan to buy i think its called a geforce 2 with 64 mb of vram, i saw one at walmart for only 60 bux. anyways, i hope itll really improve my n64 emulation. heres my system specs:

700 mhz intel celeron
intel 82810E graphics controller
192 mb of ram

so does anyway kno if the video card would really improve 64 emulation on my pc? cause i dont want to buy the video card n then find out that it does improve much or not even improve anything at all.

your system is alright, but i recommend upgrading to like an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton or a 2.6 Pentium 4 at least, and getting the likes of a nVidia Geforce FX 5700 for good performance, and if yer not on a budget, get a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and a Geforce FX 5900 Ultra or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[Clements]

It'll improve N64 by quite a bit, mostly accuracy-wise, but with it's own VRAM it'll also be a bit faster.

your system is alright, but i recommend upgrading to like an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton or a 2.6 Pentium 4 at least, and getting the likes of a nVidia Geforce FX 5700 for good performance, and if yer not on a budget, get a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and a Geforce FX 5900 Ultra or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Massive overkill for N64 emulation and v. pricely, it looks like he only wants to spend $60, not $500... :whistling

 

[Roadkill]

yea im only 15 years old n dont have a job. if i were 16, id try to get a job n save up money to buy a new pc, but til then i want to upgrade my pc with basically things that cost 50-60 dollars tops. so i suppose buyin more ram (like 128 or 256 more) n that geforce 2 would help out my 64 emulation on my pc pretty good

 

[Tagrineth]

Get the GeForce2 MX you're looking at, and also see if you can find (probably online, on eBay or something like that) a Socket 370 Pentium III that's around 900MHz~1GHz. You'll see a substantial improvement.

 

[Roadkill]

yea im only 15 years old n dont have a job. if i were 16, id try to get a job n save up money to buy a new pc, but til then i want to upgrade my pc with basically things that cost 50-60 dollars tops. so i suppose buyin more ram (like 128 or 256 more) n that geforce 2 would help out my 64 emulation on my pc pretty good

ok thanx.

 

[Roadkill]

for now, will a geforce 2 with 64mb work on a pc with a 700 mhz celeron?

 

[sheik124]

yes, if you're mobo has the right slot

 

[Roadkill]

thanks. just one more question, will a 128mb geforce work? cause i found some cheap ones on ebay around 60-70 bux. o yea, i have pci slot, no agp

 

[Clements]

If it is a PCI card then it will. If it is a AGP card then it won't work unless you have a motherboard with an AGP slot. The range of PCI cards is limited because AGP cards are much faster + better.

 

[Roadkill]

ok thanks. they r pci, i searched for only pci geforce cards, no agp ones.

 

[Tagrineth]

thanks. just one more question, will a 128mb geforce work? cause i found some cheap ones on ebay around 60-70 bux. o yea, i have pci slot, no agp

Don't get a GeForce FX 5200 PCI, they're generally slower than GeForce4 MX440 cards.

 

[Roadkill]

its too late, i already bought the geforce 3 fx 5200. it has apollo on it n its also called bloody monster 3 if anyone is wonderin. the box has a dragon on it too

 

[Tagrineth]

Don't ask if you aren't even going to BOTHER waiting for the damned advice, then. *fumes*

Edit: Well, there went another piece of shit into consumers' hands. Fucking nVidia... wish that ridiculous 5200 didn't exist... it's practically the downfall of the DX9 market.

 

[Roadkill]

well i just got the geforce card n installed it n its really good. mario 64 n mario kart 64 now play perfectly. although goldeneye is still slow, its probably because i need a better processor n more ram

 

[scotty]

well i just got the geforce card n installed it n its really good. mario 64 n mario kart 64 now play perfectly. although goldeneye is still slow, its probably because i need a better processor n more ram

It is. 2 months ago I got a new computer myself. I used to have specs similar to yours. I could still play goldeneye though, it was just a little choppy. I used to have a 1 GHz processor with a NVidida GeForce4 MX420 64MB PCI card, and 128MB RAM, now my specs are below, I think it was a good investment.

 

[desertboy]

well i just got the geforce card n installed it n its really good. mario 64 n mario kart 64 now play perfectly. although goldeneye is still slow, its probably because i need a better processor n more ram

Try ultrahle (Various versions) with evoodoo glide wrapper for goldeneye.

 

[Stezo2k]

Get the GeForce2 MX you're looking at, and also see if you can find (probably online, on eBay or something like that) a Socket 370 Pentium III that's around 900MHz~1GHz. You'll see a substantial improvement.

isn't worth the 300MHz improvement, RAM is the most effective upgrade, but in this case, a graphics card is, anything geforce 2/radeon 9000 or higher will do the job nicely

 

[Roadkill]

RAM is the most effective upgrade

it is. i dont kno if this is the right topic or even the right forum to discuss this in, but what does the pc66, pc100, n pc133 mean on ram? is that like the bus speed or somethin? like if my pc's bus speed is 66 mhz, do i have to get pc66 ram or somethin?

 

[Tagrineth]

it is. i dont kno if this is the right topic or even the right forum to discuss this in, but what does the pc66, pc100, n pc133 mean on ram? is that like the bus speed or somethin? like if my pc's bus speed is 66 mhz, do i have to get pc66 ram or somethin?

Get PC133. It's backwards compatible and will probably be cheaper.