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Joe Craven <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:42:23 -0500
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My daughters gave me a great game for Christmas – B-17 Flying Fortress II.
The graphics are crapola because of my antiquated system, which is as follows.
Micron Millennia XKU Tower
300 Mhz Pentium II
WD 4.2 UW SCSI HDD
128 RAM Memory
Number Nine Revolution 3-D Video Card w/8MB
2940 UW SCSI Host
20x Plextor SCSI CD-ROM
Hitachi 21’ Monitor
SB AWE 64 Sound Card

Is it possible to just change out my current video card with a new Radeon 32DDR or a NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR (like Leadtek) and realize most of the potential of this game or must I completely rebuild the system with new MB, CPU, memory and so on? Would the ATI driver problems be a factor here?
What might be the best video card for my limited system if I wanted to stay under $200? I appreciate anyone taking a moment to ponder this not-too-important
problem, since my ignorance factor is higher than most.

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