how can i find out if VisionTek Xtasy Radeon™ X300SE Video Card is compatable with my computer?
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As long as you have a PC with a free PCI Express slot (not to be confused with a PCI slot), it will be compatible.
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The biggest issue I've seen with Video card compatability is the user being sold AGP cards when they dont have AGP slots. This can become very frustrating. Make sure you know what format card you need ahead of time.\n\nAs for software compatibility, XP can handle pretty much everything you toss at it, unless the card is extremely old. Even if you have an older card, odds are that the company who made it has created drivers that are publically available that will work on the operating system of your choice. If you are buying a card new off the shelf, just make sure you read the Minimum Requirements tab on the side of the box.\n\nAs for most boards having an AGP slot in the last 3 years, that is COMPLETELY untrue. I know for a fact that Dell computers use boards that never have AGP slots. Do not assume, open up your computer and take a look.
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PNY Verto GeForce 6200 / 256MB DDR / AGP 8x/4x / DVI / VGA / TV Out / Video Card and  Diamond Radeon X1300 / 256MB DDR2 / AGP 8x/4x / DVI / VGA / TV Out / Video Card\nbut just buy a cheap pc with pci e
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What's your motherboard?  Easier to figure it out that way.  Just need to match your AGP or PCI-E to the video card and it should work.
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The link below shows games compatability with the \nIntel® 82845G Graphics Controller\nwhich is what this motherboard has.\nAlthough PoP:SoT is not listed, on the basis of the minimum and recommended requirements for the game, and the games listed on the link - it is almost certain that your on-board graphics are superior to anything which you could get on a PCI card, AND\nI am confident that it will run on your PC:\n\n\n-Minimum Configuration:\nWin 98 SE/ME/2000/XP Only\nDirectX 9.0b\n800 MHz Pentium III, AMD Athlon or equivalent\n256 MB RAM\nNVIDIA GeForce 3 or higher (excluding NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX), ATI Radeon\n8500 or higher, Matrox Parhelia\nDirectX 8.0 compatible sound device\n300 MB hard drive space\nWindows-compatible mouse required\n\n-Recommended Configuration:\n1.2 GHz Pentium 4, AMD Athlon or equivalent\n256 MB RAM\nNVIDIA GeForce 4 or ATI Radeon 9500
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Generally it's not the case that a card is advertised as compatible with a list of games, but more often that a game supports a list of graphics chipsets.\nI have found \nhttp://www.tomshardware.co.uk/site/vgacharts/index.html\nuseful in determining the relative ability of graphics cards.\nEssentially, it comes down to how much you are able/willing to pay, within the constraints of which card type your mobo will support.  \nhttp://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=48 is useful for filtering down the list of what's generally available.\nGood Hunting!
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There is a good chance that the BIOS in your PC is so old that it does not recognise the new video card. That is alway the case with new hard drives and old PC but i am unsure if this is the same with video cards.
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First and easiest thing to try is downloading and installing the newest version of your video card's drivers.  Check your Device Manager under "Display Adapters" for the model, then go to the manufacturer's website and find the appropriate driver.\n\nI could give you more details if I knew the model of the card.
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Or, another way to find out what it is is to go to Start > Run and type dxdiag in the box and hit enter or click OK then go to the Display tab, it will have a lot more information about your graphics card there than Device Manager will.\n\nI see once again no one has actually tried the dxdiag command, it has more information than the Device Manager.  But everyone is right, if you don't have the drivers installed Windows will not tell you what it is so in that case go with the last suggestion of Belarc Advisor.\n\nNo Gecko au2003, these are not amateur suggestions.  While you do have a point about the drivers, I will to a certain degree assume the person posting the question is not a total moron and will have the drivers installed.  However, he is right as I said above.
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Though I can't promise that it will be a REALLY good video card, http://www.newegg.com offers computer hardware for decent prices.\n\nRemember to make sure that it is compatible with your motherboard.
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step 1: find out what the minimum requirements are\n\nstep 2: find out what kind of graphics slot you have (agp 8x or pci-express)\n\nstep 3: find out how much you can or want to spend on your new video card\n\nstep 4: go to an online retailer and start reseaching prices on video cards that match the above steps.\n\nstep 5: buy the video card\n\nstep 6: remove old video card drivers and card (if you are changing companies) and insert new card\n\nstep 7: install/reinstall new video drivers\n\nstep 8: play game
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You can check the minimum specs on the box itself or right the id software website.  From what I see your machine will handle it on lower settings.  You will need to throw that video card in first.
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If you wont drivers for your gpu just go to\n\nwww.nvidia.com and there you can find anything you wont
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You'll have to puchase a video card (AGP or PCI, depending on your motherboard), install this and disable the onboard video in BIOS.
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here is the driver page for the video card\n\nhttp://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
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If you get everest home edition :\n\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html\n\nThen from there identify what graphics card ( make and model ) and sound card ( make and model again ) you have for each and then go to the manufacturers website to download the driver(s).\n\nIf you have any problems locating them then go to www.driverguide.com , registration is free and easy and they have plenty of drivers,\n\nIf you post back with make and models for both I can help you find them later on, if you would like
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The first thing that I would do is re-install the video card drivers. \n\n(I would not rely on Windows to be correct, since you can't make changes, so if necessary, I wold open the Pc and determine the exact make and model of the video card.  If you have an onboard video adapater, then I would go to the manufactors web site to identify) \n\nOnce I installed new video drivers, I would check to make sure that the video card has the ability to change and display different video modes. (640X480, etc.) You can change that via the Adapters settings in the Display window. \n\nProperties: To access the hardware properties for your video card or on-board video hardware, click the Properties button. This is the same properties window that can be accessed through Device Manager. \nList all Modes: This useful feature lists all the supported graphic resolutions and refresh rates that can be sent to the monitor by the video card or on-board video hardware. You can use the list of valid modes to find a mode that is compatible with the monitor you are using. Once a compatible mode is found, you can change the refresh rate from the monitor tab, and the display resolution from the settings tab of the basic display properties window.