AoE is a game that depending on CPU power, not Graphics power as it doesn't
really do 3D. Rogue Spear doesn't ask much 3D power either (I did play Rogue
Spear perfectly fine on my old P233 + PCI video card). The gaming
performance of a PC cannot be judged by only few games, but general
speaking, without worry of CPU power, a TNT2 ultra card should handle most
games just fine if you don't mind to play at 640x480 resolution in 3D games,
today's mainstream video card is at Geforce2 MX level. they are not over
rated, you should be able to find more on this topic on most gaming sites.

However, I do agree that you don't need to have "state of the art" card to
enjoy games. only hardcore gamers rate "state of the art" hardware as a must
to play games.

Any video card will be perfect for normal office tasks today, I have no
doubt that for business machine, integrated video solution is the best as it
reduces cost. But I don't recommend them for home use if gaming is required.

Just a general speaking.

Jun Qian

*myself have a very "mainstream" PC at home.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hahnel, Winfried (W.A.)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video Drivers


> I play Age of Empires I and II;Rogue Spear on an HP with a 810 chipset
with
> onboard [8meg ram]video.  Works just fine even over the internet.  I think
> that some of these video cards are overrated as I bought an ATI Expert 128
> for my son and my computer still looks better.

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