Good Medieval II Total War Graphics Card?

[ChampionEuropa]

I'm thinking of getting a new graphic card for my Windows XP 2000 Home Edition to play Medieval II Total War and I've been looking at this graphics card in the link below. I've only been able to play Medieval II Total War on my friends computer and I'm hoping to be able to play it on my computer. Does this Graphics card fit the minimum requirements for Medieval II Total War? And if you have any other rreccomendations for graphics cards under $50 please say so.
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-512-P2-N7...5704654&sr=1-1

EVGA 512-P2-N738-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Product Features

• PCI-Express video card with 512 MB of 64 bit DDR2 memory
• Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Shader Model 4.0
• True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
• PCI-Express and Open GL 2.0 support
• 2 dual-link DVI outputs support 2 2560 x 1600 resolution displays

Technical Details

• Model Number: 512-P2-N738-LR
• Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS
• GPU: 459 MHz
• Stream processors: 16
• RAMDACs: 400 MHz
• Memory: 512 MB DDR2
• Memory bus: 128-bit
• Memory clock (effective): 532 MHz
• Memory bandwidth: 4.26 GB per second
• Bus type: PCI-E 16x
• Output: DVI-I, HDTV-7, VGA
• SLI ready: No
• Refresh rate: 120 Hz maximum
• Resolutions: 1920 x 1200 maximum for digital
• Driver support: NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (Windows Vista/XP/MCE)
• DirectX support: DirectX 10
• OpenGL support: OpenGL 2.0
• Windows Vista certified: Yes
• Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.5 inches / 165 x 65 millimeters (W x H)

[Silent Assassin]

This is more than enough my friend, you will probably be able to play your campaigns at Very high settings and Large units scales without a single Lag, but this goes also that you need a good PC, the card is good but you need other things to make it work . Whats are your PC's SPecs

[ChampionEuropa]

How do you find the specs? Do you look in dxdiag?

[Silent Assassin]

What is your CPU strengh
How much Ram do you have
How much gig is your Hard Drive
What is the resolution of you screen that you usually play your game on

[ChampionEuropa]

What is your CPU strengh
How much Ram do you have
How much gig is your Hard Drive
What is the resolution of you screen that you usually play your game on

1. 662MB used, 585MB available
2. Don't Know where to find the answer.
3. 1024x78

[Silent Assassin]

1. 662MB used, 585MB available
2. Don't Know where to find the answer.
3. 1024x78

OK so if you click on start/control Panel and then System the window that opens should be it.

It should show you
1- What exploitation system you have XP opr Vista and with which service pack
2- Your liscence number
3- The CPU that you have
4- tThe ram that you have

[ChampionEuropa]

Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Dell Dimension DIM3000
Intel(R)
Celron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
2.66 GHz, 512 MB of RAM

And thanks for your help with this.

[Silent Assassin]

Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Dell Dimension DIM3000
Intel(R)
Celron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
2.66 GHz, 512 MB of RAM

And thanks for your help with this.

Ok you will have a problem, you should if you can buy some RAM you need at least 1 Gig of Ram to be able to play M2TW. Your CPU is IMO borderline. Now if you have money I would suggest you to buy a new PC because the you'll probably hace trouble to find the Ram that you need it should be DDR but they are getting more rare and more expensive becuase they are rare.

Definatly I would if you have some money buy another PC. Now at that point it's your choice so don't buy that card unless you want to upgrade your Ram, but for not much more you could have a much better machine.

Hope I helped

Rebel6666

[Legio]

Moved to technical help.