- Mar 18, 2002
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I recently realized that my current system probably isn't going to be able to run some new games at a decent speed if at all. In fact, some older games don't even run that well on it. Here are the general specs-
Pentium III 733 MHz
128 MB PC133 SDRAM
32 MB NVidia Riva TNT2 Video Card
Sound Blaster Audio PCI 128
Win98 SE
16X DVD-ROM Drive
No idea what motherboard, all I know is it's by VIA Technologies. I don't know how to find out. If anyone can tell me, that'd be great.
Anyway, the games I want to play are Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Star Wars Jedi Outcast. Screenshots of the games can be seen here:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
I want to upgrade for this one especially because the final game will dozens of people walking around those levels.
and here:
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
I was thinking, in order to make my system a bit more suited for these games, of getting the following upgrades-
Visiontek GeForce3 Ti200 64 MB video card (One of the programmers for Tony Hawk 3 says he uses a GeForce3, so I figured it'd be a good choice)
An extra 128 MB RAM (or perhaps more)
And a Creative Labs Audigy Gamer card
However, I've never upgraded a PC before, just gotten new ones when my old one finally was too old (ie. finally going to what I have now from a 133 Mhz Pentium... Argh). So I'd like to know: would this be enough, or would it be better to upgrade the processor, too? Thanks for any help!!
Pentium III 733 MHz
128 MB PC133 SDRAM
32 MB NVidia Riva TNT2 Video Card
Sound Blaster Audio PCI 128
Win98 SE
16X DVD-ROM Drive
No idea what motherboard, all I know is it's by VIA Technologies. I don't know how to find out. If anyone can tell me, that'd be great.
Anyway, the games I want to play are Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Star Wars Jedi Outcast. Screenshots of the games can be seen here:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
I want to upgrade for this one especially because the final game will dozens of people walking around those levels.
and here:
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
I was thinking, in order to make my system a bit more suited for these games, of getting the following upgrades-
Visiontek GeForce3 Ti200 64 MB video card (One of the programmers for Tony Hawk 3 says he uses a GeForce3, so I figured it'd be a good choice)
An extra 128 MB RAM (or perhaps more)
And a Creative Labs Audigy Gamer card
However, I've never upgraded a PC before, just gotten new ones when my old one finally was too old (ie. finally going to what I have now from a 133 Mhz Pentium... Argh). So I'd like to know: would this be enough, or would it be better to upgrade the processor, too? Thanks for any help!!