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[quillan]

I did a quick search over on www.newegg.com , with a max price of $125, and the best I came up with was a Rosewill 9600XT for $124.99. That's decent, but if you can afford a little more, I'd recommend going up to around the $200 range and snagging a 6600GT. It's more powerful than a 9800 Pro or XT (by a small amount), and should last you until you buy a new system in a few years. I really, REALLY don't recommend getting that FX5200. That card is woefully underpowered. If you have to have a budget card, I'd suggest grabbing one of the 6200 TurboCache models in nVidia, or a 9250 Radeon.

[HeibgesU999]

The game looks great on an ATI 9600, Pentium 4 3.06, with less than 512RAM.

[Dutch_vn38416]

I saw an ATI Radeon 9600 for 129.99 at Best buy the other day. I might try and save up for it. I'll probubly go with this card, seems to get pretty desent reviews. Thanks for all your help guys, you lucky dogs who have it, I'll hopfully join you in a few weeks.

[Tomcat41]

if u got a FX5200 u'd be getting a

-rather crappy old card
-that also gives u hte UZO / Bino bug

so dont

[archer49d]

You can get a Radeon 9200SE and it runs the game with FULL setting perfectly. It's about 30 bucks on ebay.

[CCIP]

Hmm. I have a perfectly-working (slightly noisy fan, but that's it) GeForce 5200 in my closet

(it has been there for a couple of months since I got a 6800 card). If you're really desperate, I'm willing to part with it for ridiculously low cost - as long as I get a suggestion on shipping it. I really have no need for it, myself

[Tomcat41]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by archer49d:
You can get a Radeon 9200SE and it runs the game with FULL setting perfectly. It's about 30 bucks on ebay. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


sounds like a very bad idea to me, no offense

[archer49d]

None taken, but I installed and played the game at FULL VIDEO SETTINGS (100 particles and detailed and synched textures) with 4x FSAA and AF and it looked just as good at the full res tutorial vids, with the same framerate, no hiccups.

P4 1.8
256 RAM (under minimum)
Radeon 9200SE (one of the worst vid cards around)

[Tomcat41]

i dont think the 9200 supports pxel shader 2.0 tho, which SHIII does take advantage of (i think?)

and it will be crappy for every other game for sure :P

[Ioandar]

unsure about 9200specs? you may want to take a look here:

http://www.ultimatehardware.net/rad9200/rad9200.htm