Can i fun FF7 on my.......

[Lostsoul73]

video card??? I have a "530 rev A2" its made by SiS and is 8 megs. The supported video cards are 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo 2, 3D Labs Permedia 2, ATI Rage Pro, Intel i740, Matrox G200, and Second Generation PowerVR . Anyways will this game work? ( i could care less about the graphics) if not can i download a solution etc etc. Thx alot
{Lostsoul}

[RAY16]

lol, i feel your pain. I used to have a SiS 620 Intergrated Graphics Controller with 8Megs of RAM. It ran FF8, but it ran a little sluggish.

[Lostsoul73]

Ya it sux!!. Anyways my Cd-rom drive just broke last week so im trying to download it on Kazaa(In on 56k 2:o ) O Well hopefully i can get a new pc soon :mad: . Peace
{Lostsoul}

[Rhenna]

I think what you have is a SiS 6326. I seem to remember a similar label on a video card in a PC I worked on about 6-8 months ago. It wasn't very impressive. The CPU in this box was a 466MHz Celeron, the only two games installed were Half-Life and UT.

HL ran, but only in Direct3D, and not too smoothly. There were some pretty obvious rendering errors, too, but it WAS playable. UT ran, but the card was dropping textures like crazy, even at low resolutions. Not surprising with just 8Mb of video RAM.

Also, I think the 'readme' for the MechWarrior 4 series of games states that the 6326 is a no-go. Doesn't seem like much of a gaming card. I think almost anything else would be a step up. Sorry.

[Lostsoul73]

Rhenna what are you talking about, FF7 or Mechwarrior?? Anyways i think i have a totally different cpu then your talking about (even though it does have some errors in the video card) its not that bad. Well if you think this game "Wont" work just say so because 175 megs is a lot of time on 56k. :D

Off topic:
Rhenna what is your job fixing CPU's?? If so what would it cost to send it in and get a new video card (just a decent card) and a new cd-rom drive put in. Thx again:D
{Lostsoul}

[Lostsoul73]

Bump

[Rhenna]

I apologize for the confusion caused by mentioning MW4. I only meant to use that as one example of game "engine" that doesn't support what I think you have at all. Again, sorry 'bout that.

Can you tell me the details about the rest of your system? Then, I can offer my two cents about how I would go about an upgrade.

My experience in PC hardware is entirely empirical. I built my first PC from scratch in 1987. I've pretty much been hard at it, since.

:)

[aphremen]

I think it should be ok. I know for a fact it won't work right on a rendition card.

[Lostsoul73]

Sorry i coudnt respond yesterday(Had to meet my P.O.:cool: )
Anyways here are my computer specs.:
745 mgz proseccer. AMD
64 megs of Ram
10 Gig HD
SiS 5513 PCI IDE Controller(Video Card?)
Zip(100 mg)
Floppy
and my broken Cd-Rom (48x:( )

Well Take care all. Thx again Rhenna ;)

[Lostsoul]

[aphremen]

As long as you have enough HD space, you have more than enough specs to run it. And your video card should be just fine and dandy. The game was published back in the days when pIIs where the bomb-diggity.

[future man]

I suggest a new comp...youll be amazed at how well it will run everything.

[Rhenna]

Open your Control Panel, then the System Properties window, and expand the 'Display adapters' tree. That should nail down what you have pretty thoroughly.

This veteran of a 1000 combats I'm using at the moment has a GeForce2 Pro, as an example. Let us know what'cha got! ;)

[aphremen]

Huh? Oic...well, it doesn't matter what his video card is, according to eidos it will be fine running it in software mode (in fact, I played the game on a 133mhz Pentium with 64mb of ram and a rendition card which wasn't supported at the time).

[RAY16]

Too bad software mode doesn't smooth the textures, it will look just like you are playing on PSX. Just in a higher resolution.

[aphremen]

The game will look like crap no matter what though. You'll still cry at the end of disk 1 though.