New Graphics Card Installed

Ideal Maxima · #1 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 09:49 AM

But is it enough?

I have a Radeon 9200 SE 128 MB. I know most people will tell you it's garbage, and it is. But as surprising as it is to me, it runs quite a few of my games quite smoothly. I know Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is out of the question, but how about a notch down? You guys think Morrowind will run for me?

spudscooking · #2 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 09:57 AM

I have a Nvidia Geforce 6 6200 240MB, which ( I'm not too knowlagable on ATI's) is about the same level, albeit with an extra 120MB, can you not try it?

fable · #3 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 10:05 AM

It will run very poorly, and (with only 128 MB RAM) it will probably crash a good deal--but it will run.

dragon wench · #4 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 11:11 AM

My video card, though an Nvidia, has similar specs, and it packs a surprising amount of punch.
Certainly, when I play Morrowind my FPS sometimes slows to a crawl, and loading times can take forever. But, that is largely due to the fact that I run so many mods and texture replacers; without them my card would likely perform very well.
I find if I close my game down approximately every 30 minutes (assuming I'm playing for an extended period), it helps considerably.
I also recommend turning off any AV or antispyware scanners.

Look at it is this way, the GOTY version of Morrowind is quite cheap these days, so you can't really go wrong. In a worst case scenario you might have to save the game until you have upgraded to a new machine, but I really doubt that will occur.

Kytherus · #5 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Ideal Maxima

But is it enough?

I have a Radeon 9200 SE 128 MB. I know most people will tell you it's garbage, and it is. But as surprising as it is to me, it runs quite a few of my games quite smoothly. I know Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is out of the question, but how about a notch down? You guys think Morrowind will run for me?

Yes. I ran Vanilla Morrowind when it first came out on a G4 MX 440 64MB Card just fine. You should have no problems.

fable · #6 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 11:35 AM

128 MB. Let's not forget that part.

Sparrow · #7 (**permalink**) 10-09-2006, 02:53 PM

I ran Morrowind on an ATI Radeon 8500 128 MB card for a long time, and I can report that it works just fine. And I ran all graphic detail maxed.

Since your card is better than that, I don't think you'll have problems.

The best place to test your card in this game is down in Ebonheart. If you're running smooth when you go there, you're ok. I don't know why the Ebonheart area is so tough to run, but it is.

Ideal Maxima · #8 (**permalink**) 10-10-2006, 03:46 PM

Sorry Fable, my brother put up that thread a minute ago. I told him I put up a thread, but I think he misunderstood.

Ok, so when I run Morrowind now, everything runs fine at first, but to quote my brother,

"Here're my system specs:
Graphics Card - Radeon 9200 SE 128 MB
Pentium 4 2.00 GHz
256 MB RAM
7.2 GB of HD space remaining after installing Morrowind.

My problem is that graphics are extremely choppy. The game runs at a nice speed, but there are blue shades where they're not supposed to be, missing body parts to NPCs, and the text boxes are blank. Things would appear sometimes, but only for a split few seconds. This is the first time running it on my machine may I add. So anyone have any idea why this happens?"