BF2S Forums Graphics Card Installation Help???

It should be.. But i don't know if you have to remove the old drivers, as when you restart with the new hardware, your computer will detect it anyways and use the default universal poop-driver.

Cool thanks.

Its just when I read the manual of the 6600gt it said remove. But I got the shop to instal still a noob in relation to my computer. So far have only installed ram and my sound card.

I'm going to try the 7800gs myself. With fingers and toes crossed. LOL.

Dingarth wrote:

Cool thanks.

Its just when I read the manual of the 6600gt it said remove. But I got the shop to instal still a noob in relation to my computer. So far have only installed ram and my sound card.

I'm going to try the 7800gs myself. With fingers and toes crossed. LOL.

if i were u, i wouldnt buy a 7800gs.... but would save up and get pci-e board then buy sumthing real good like 7900gt

MarkPuppets wrote:

You chaged 6600GT with 7800GS AGP ? I don't think it's a smart choice. I would definately go with PCI-X if I were you

u mean pci-e, pci-x is waaaay different from pci-e. and its slower... pciX are the long white slots whilst pci-e generally are black or blue slots with clips

MarkPuppets wrote:

You chaged 6600GT with 7800GS AGP ? I don't think it's a smart choice. I would definately go with PCI-X if I were you

You're right, but if you're on a tight budget, just changing to PCI-X is not that simple.  Unless you're running a new 64 bit processor, you may need to upgrade this too and then it starts to get a bit steep. 

And if he's that inexperienced at PC upgrades, then changing a chip & motherboard (and all the jumper settings etc that involves ) might be too much, meaning paying someone else as well, adding more to the bill....

Alot of people here are recommending driver uninstallation, which is really just a bit of technical superstition in this case. When moving from an NVIDIA card to another NVIDIA card:

As both will (if reasonably new) use NVIDIA's unified driver architecture, the most recommended approach is to pop out the old card, put in the new card and install the most recent set of WHQL certified drivers over your existing ones. You can find them easily at GURU3D.com

petethecheese wrote:

MarkPuppets wrote:

You chaged 6600GT with 7800GS AGP ? I don't think it's a smart choice. I would definately go with PCI-X if I were you

You're right, but if you're on a tight budget, just changing to PCI-X is not that simple.  Unless you're running a new 64 bit processor, you may need to upgrade this too and then it starts to get a bit steep. 

And if he's that inexperienced at PC upgrades, then changing a chip & motherboard (and all the jumper settings etc that involves ) might be too much, meaning paying someone else as well, adding more to the bill....

If you're looking at either getting a pair of 1GB sticks (provided you only have a couple of 512's or less) or upgrading from the 6600 to the 7800 AGP, I'd go with the memory any day, where BF2 is concerned.

Alot of two-bit parts guys will tell you that you don't really need 2GB of memory, and that 1GB will suffice. Well, it does...but as the price differences are so little between matched 512MB pairs and matched 1GB pairs, I find it difficult to believe that people will still go with (or recommend) 512's for gaming applications.

I am excused, of course, since I bought my 512's all the way back in 2004.

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