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I recently bought a custom job that has the ProSavage S3 DDR On Board Memory (32mb Shared). I also bought Grand Theft Auto III and Die Hard Nakitomi Plaza and they both run so slow that they are unplayable. I have downloaded the latest S3 drivers and both games were unplayable even on the lowest resolutions (640x800x16. And I more than meet the recommended requirements of both of these games. Anbody know what the problem is?
First of all never buy a celeron for gaming and secondly the integrated videocards are the worsest. They really bad. Now way u can play gta3 without good video card at least 32 meg agp.
good luck
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ProSavage is the worst by far, even worse than Intel Extreme, and words can barly describe how bad Intel Extreme sucks.
There's your answer right there.
Get yourself a Radeon 9600. Best bang for yer buck right now, and is literally 20+ times faster than ProSavage DDR.
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Insect is on it. Even a "good" onboard video chip lacks the stuff needed for serious gaming. They need to make 'em smaller and less powerful to keep heat to a manageable level.
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Should have known... Anyway obviously I will have to get another video card. I don't want to spend over $75 and I will probably go the ebay route. Any suggestions?
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Make sure your motherboard even has an agp slot before you start shopping for a new video card, and even if it does be prepared for conflict problems between the onboard chip & the new card. Take it from one who has been there, integrated graphics can be a pain in the a$$.
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Just speaking from my experience. Maybe your luck will be better than mine. To be safe, get a video card from a store that will allow you to return it without a hassle, then if the new card works just as poorly as the integrated graphics (which was the case with mine) you can get your money back.
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I think I am using the same Motherboard and same chipset with you. You are much much lucky than me as I even cant install the the display driver properly and now I can only run 16 colors mode.
Which version and driver u are using? Your motherboard is running in VIA chips right?
My problem~~
>http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/38904.html
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Inability to play modern games is the very definition of "onboard" or "integrated" graphics. You ~shouldn't~ have any trouble adding a card to the AGP slot, but...
Until you get a card, the solution is to run software suitable for your hardware. Check the bargain bins for titles a year or two old. You'll save a ton of money!
-Bob
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get a radeon 9000 pro, its about 75 bucks
it has DFP ( digital flat panel) VGA (regular monitor) and an S-video.it works great and you can run a dual monitor system pretty well.
the best part is that is comes with a DFP-VGA converter (worth $50) and an S-video-RCA (to apadt to older tvs, worth about $20)
almost pays for itself and i love its performance so far.
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