Choosing the right graphic card for trainz?

[unionp509]

okay, i just receive the graphic card in the mail, and my computer wont take it, but its perfectly in on the PCI slot and it wont install



so then whats the best video card out there for trainz???

it could be a AGP or (PCI) card

anyone suggest one thats good or recommended?

 

[fran1]

You cant put an AGP in a PCI slot, just in case thats what you've done. it wont work.
PCI-e are the newer ones.
Does the card you have need a power lead to it?

 

[cascaderailroad]

I chose to buy mine in a local big chain store, as my 300W power supply had me very limited to only low wattage video cards.

I should have gone for a new more powerful power supply ($85+), then I could have put in any high wattage PCI-E video card in.

 

[unionp509]

nope ididnt place the agp in the pci slot, but any good models of nvidia cards

 

[Jaymom]

For a really nice all around video card you might want to check out the following....

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250_us.html

I have used both the 240 and the 250 with little noticable difference. I use them for Ubisoft IL-2 as well as Trainz. Shop around though for the best price.

Harold

 

[tolansherwood]

Shop around

Get hold of some benchmarks for GTX vs GS cards, and then shop around carefully. I have found several great bargains from places like Best Buy where their GTX cards get mistakenly priced in the range of a GS card. GS cards are a general use, reliable card for handing most computer tasks, while the GTX cards are designed for high end gaming. The GTX cards will perform far better, due to having much better texture and polygon processing abilities.

 

[clam1952]

Might be an idea to find out just what motherboard is in your PC, you already have one card that doesn't work. Before rushing out to buy anything being recommended here, you need to check whether you have AGP or PCIe or even just PCI? plus if your Power supply can handle newer cards and has the additional plugs and cables that some cards require.

 

[sfrr]

You'll probably need a whole upgrade of your mother board and everything. Sounds like you're playing with older equipment.

 

[meatloaf747]

Must be a pretty old PC if you haven't got a PCI-Express 16 slot... Even with the old AGP slot motherboards, you should check to see if it's AGP slot is, 2, 4 or 8. If you are going back to your era of motherboards, alot could only take up to 2 gigs of SDRAM !!! - (Trainz runs better if you have 3 or 4 gigs of Ram).

Wouldn't hurt to give us your PC spec's and then we will be able to better advise you as to what we think is your best option/s. - (as the old saying goes, you are probably better off keeping the bath water and throwing out the bath)...

In other words, you might be better off putting the video card money into upgrading your motherboard, CPU, ram, video card & power supply, & possibly case. Might be even simpler to just look at a whole new "gaming" PC...

Not knowing your budget or your exact PC spec's you could pick up something like this for $40 - $50 bucks; NVIDIA GeForce 6200 512mb AGP X 8 or a Matrox Mellennium P690 Plus LP - PCI video card 256 mb DDR2 for $100 - $150+

Cheers, Mac...

 

[R701Rusty]

If you were to go to Tom's Hardware you could find two very helpful articles on graphics cards right on the home page at:-
www.tomshardware.co.uk Could save you a lot of wondering if "..............."

Cheers
Russell.