geforce 4

serhankhan · Post by **serhankhan** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 19:58

Hello there, i hawe geforce 4 mx 440 graphic card with 128mb and hawe 512 mb ram in my comp.

can i play x3: reunion or terran conflict on my pc? or i hawe to play x2 : the threat with this old system?

answer please i will buy the correct game for my system.

perpiotrredman · Post by **perpiotrredman** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 20:01

You can play X2 The Threat, but you cannot play X3 Reunion or X3 Terran Conflict. Your video card is too weak, and those are the prettiest words I can put together for the GeForce 4 MX series.

aka1nas · Post by **aka1nas** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 20:13

That card not only lacks sufficient horsepower to run the game, but it's also only a Dx7 card(the GF4 MXs are slightly higher-clocked Geforce2 MXs, so you are basically 8 Geforces behind the curve now

), so is completely incompatible with modern games like X3, unfortunately .

Post by **CBJ** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 21:47

Moved to off-topic.

As the previous posters have already explained, the MX440 does not meet the minimum requirements for X3R or X3TC and will not run them at all. It can just about run X2, but you will need to turn off shadows and probably bumpmapping too to get a decent framerate even there.

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 22:48

as it's AGP you'll be better off searching e-bay for a more capable card..

..go for 6600GT or better, if you can afford it..

- at least you'll have a fighting chance of getting the games to work..

- as usual, I'd advise an ati HD3850AGP(512), but it depends if you really want to run your old rig for a bit longer..

- oh, and try to get your RAM up to 2Gigs

KillingMonkey · Post by **KillingMonkey** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 12:36

There's 4 series? Where did you find that antique? It belongs in a museum... No offense, though... Try an get a better card and some more RAM... I'd suggest something ATI-ish but if you want you can get a GeForce 7***... Just enough to run the game... RAM... Now... I'd suggest getting it up to about 2-2.5 Gigs, but just one would be sufficient for the games... Also, try and state the processor, core etc... Also the clocking speed... A processor like an Intel Celeron (most probably your case, stating from the video card...) will have a hard time running the game, even with 6 GB of RAM and an GF 8800**...

Al · Post by Al » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 14:02

As others have said get on ebay and get something better. There are probably loads of 6600GTs etc around. I've got one lying in a box somewhere and I dont exactly upgrade regularly. I suspect they are going for very little these days second hand.

andrewas · Post by **andrewas** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 14:09

Given the age of the CPU which probably accompanies that relic graphics card, its probably time to look at a whole new PC rather than trying to keep the old one running a little longer.

Al · Post by Al » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 14:16

very much depends on whether the OP has the budget to get a new PC or not.

perpiotrredman · Post by **perpiotrredman** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 14:39

serhankhan,

If you could print a DXDIAG file for us, we'd know more about your computer and what could be done for it. Or you could just go with what you've gotten and play X2 for as long as you like on that machine.

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 15:04

I had that card once, it was epic to me at the time.
I agree with everyone here, buy a cheap 6600 or 6800, I'd sell you my old AGP 6800 for about £10 if it wasn't still in use by my backup computer.

perpiotrredman · Post by **perpiotrredman** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 15:17

I disagree. The GeForce 4 TI (NV25) was epic. The GeForce 4 MX (NV17M) didn't even have vertex shaders - they were emulated in software. It held back shader based video game graphics development by two or three years simply by virtue of being the most common video card at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_4_Series

I did manage to overclock a GeForce 4 MX at work by quite bit though - from 250MHz core to 400MHz core, which made it possible to play Tribes 2 on the card, with just a little bit of corruption-snow.

The GeForce 3 TI 200 I used at home was still very much faster however.

nirwin · Post by **nirwin** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 15:30

perpiotrredman wrote:I disagree. The GeForce 4 TI (NV25) was epic. The GeForce 4 MX (NV17M) didn't even have vertex shaders - they were emulated in software. It held back shader based video game graphics development by two or three years simply by virtue of being the most common video card at the time.

Nah, I'm not saying the MX440 was an epic card (by all accounts it was a budget card), just when I got one I didn't know much about graphics cards, it had 64MB of RAM (man was I impressed), and it ran Jedi Outcast brilliantly.
It may be a poor card, but I'll always remember it fondly.

perpiotrredman · Post by **perpiotrredman** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 15:37

It would run Jedi Outcast brilliantly even today.

Any suggestions for what I could play on my extra computer with a GeForce 4 MX are greatly appreciated.

red assassin · Post by **red assassin** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 17:17

perpiotrredman wrote:It would run Jedi Outcast brilliantly even today. Any suggestions for what I could play on my extra computer with a GeForce 4 MX are greatly appreciated.

Minesweeper

KillingMonkey · Post by **KillingMonkey** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 17:58

Hmmm.... Now that I think of it... The administration level/wing of my company uses GeForce 2 series on their computers... Lol... I had forgotten... Better call the manager and see what budget I can spare...

MBD · Post by **MBD** » Tue, 10. Feb 09, 20:19

You could dl and run the X² The Threat - Benchmark to see for yourself how well your rig can run X².

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