I bought Silent hunter 4 and found out that I can't play the damn thing. It's been a long time since I've even played PC games since the invention of Xbox 360. After the 4th one taking a $*&t, I decided to try PC gaming again for a while. Since my 40$ mistake I discovered "can you run it", which tells me that Vista is not an OS it supports, but it clearly reads Vista on the box. What is a decent card that I can run without spending a crap load on stuff I don't need? It dosen't have to support SH4, just something most of the games out there use. Thanks alot for your help.

Here are two great midrange cards: Radeon HD 4670 (Open box) - $56.25 GeForce 9600GT (open box) - $78.75 And two performance-mainstream cards: Radeon HD 4830 (open box) - $84.99 Radeon HD 4850 (open box) - $105.09 Socket 939³ Dual-core Opteron 185 @ 3.2GHz 2x 8800GTS in SLI 4GB CL2 PC3200 Blu-ray burner X-Fi Ti Pro PCI-E Antec P182 Samsung 24" LCD Vista 64

Don't know the model number of your HP? The HD4670 is probably the best choice from jackbomb's list. It has a very low power consumption (less than 60W) therefore it doesn't need the aux power connection from the power supply (PSU). Considering that you have an HP, the PSU probably has a fairly low wattage rating....a card with a higher power requirement *may* force you to upgrade the PSU.

Looks like the $56.25 HD 4670 and $84.99 HD 4850 were deactivated overnight. There are plenty more on that site...only a bit more expensive. Socket 939³ Dual-core Opteron 185 @ 3.2GHz 2x 8800GTS in SLI 4GB CL2 PC3200 Blu-ray burner X-Fi Ti Pro PCI-E Antec P182 Samsung 24" LCD Vista 64

Thanks for the replys, I think I'll check some of those out and see what works. If I ran the HD 4830 would it get me into trouble and force me to upgrade? I'm not looking into making this thing a monster or anything, just something to have some fun with. BTW the model# is a6632f Thanks for the help.

Looks like a 250w psu. I'd go for the HD4670. Anchors Aweigh... Skip