Video Card Question WC3

keith

I have a G4/533 with 640 Meg of RAM and the standard GeForce 2MX video card and almost all of my games seem to play just fine except for a few of them get slow when I go up to 1280x1024 32-bit color. What I am wondering is wheather it is the video card or the computer that is slowing me down. I am planning on upgrading when the new Macs come out and didn't know if having faster dual processors is going to help or if it is all video card. I am basically wondering also if you had two computers one with dual 5 Ghz G4s and a crappy video card and another with say a 500 Mhz G4 and a GeForce 4 which would be better at playing games.

Thanks,

Keith

wolfeye155

I would think that the single 500 Mhz with GeForce 4 would be fast at playing video games but I really wouldn't know. Most of what's going on know probably does have to do with the card you're currently using.

cinder

Video card is gonna handle most of the stuff in WC3 . . .



for 3D, obviously, the card is the most important - but the processor is the thing that's pushing the info to your card.



so the answer to your question is:



It depends.

Both are important.

serrano

well, if you're playing giants you will notice a difference in a dp machine because it is multi-threaded

allenchristopher

If it runs fast at a low resolution with all the details on and slowly at a high resolution then stepping over 1280x1024 uses a touch too much video memory, exceeds the fill rate of your card, or chokes up the AGP bus.



I'm pretty sure a G4/500 is going to be an AGP 2X machine. I don't think you really have any good options for a new video card.