I just recycled some dvd drives for a same age computer as yours I gave to my daughter with win7 ultimate on it and she is playing her games as well as watching dvd's since I have it hooked upto the tv. I didn't use the advisor to check anything and its running on an nvidia agp card. I don't know what the model/chipset is but it hasn't given me any problems. I haven't heard of pixel shader 2 but she isn't into some of the high end graphic games, she is just using it for simple grade school games. Plays dvd movies fine though.
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:08 PM To: cf-community Subject: Question for weekend hardware geeks. I have a five or six year old desktop computer. I would like to update the graphic card in advance of upgrading from XP pro to Win 7 on this box. As well as letting my son play his Spore on the desktop instead of my Laptop. The MS Win 7 Adviser tool indicates that is the only thing lacking on this system, beyond needing a simple re-partition of my hard drive to provide enough space on my C drive for the OS. The current graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X. Apparently I need to upgrade to something with pixel shader 2 for both the game and the Windows upgrade. What do I need to be aware of, when I am shopping for a new card? Any suggestions on a good, but affordable card? While I'm at it, I apparently need to replace the failed DVD drive. Any concerns on incompatibility for basic DVD drives? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
