Purchasing a PCI card good enough to play shipsim 2008

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Voting closed: September 26, 2008, 17:44:00

[shipmatejon]

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[Nathan|C]

I'm sure i read somewhere in the manual that the game does not support PCI graphics cards 

[shipmatejon]

I'm sure i read somewhere in the manual that the game does not support PCI graphics cards 

Really, looking at the min spec page 18 of the manual a Geforce 5900 or above is required, the PNY GeForce 6200 256Mb PCI graphics card  should work ?

Thanks

[Person264]

I had a ASUS Geforce 6200 with 256mb AGP and ship sim hated it. stuttery and the best i got was up in the low 20s in the atlantic. It lasted about 5 minutes in multiplayer because it couldnt handle it, then the game woud just crash. I dunno whether PCI would change much though.

[Nathan|C]

Sorry - not sure then.

[mvsmith]

I'm sure i read somewhere in the manual that the game does not support PCI graphics cards 

Just about every graphics card used in PCs today is a PCI card, usually PCI Express 16. AGP is falling out of use.

[J3nsen]

My dad have AGP Ati 512mb, and shipsim run ok! Now i got 2x Geforce 9800sli 512mb... and that run perfect =) hoho

[davepusey]

Previous to my current card, I have a PCI Express Geforce 8400 and that was only just playable.

If the "PCI" he is refering to is the older type (the middle one in the image below), then I doubt very much that it would be anywhere near playable.

[shipmatejon]

Thanks for all of your replies - Hopefully I will have a PC with a AGP slot soon, can anyone recommend a good card on a budget ta