Please Help Me

[Chad the Rogue]

I went to my friends in another town for the weekend. This is where I was into'd to wow for the first time, he gave me his disks to take home, because he could see I was instantly in love. I got home and loaded the disks exitement in my eyes. As the 5th and final disk got done, I jumped in sheer glee, and clicked the PLAY WOW button. The screen turned black and my anticipation peaked, then in one swoop it was all taken away from me. A message appeared on my screen that said, "Please install a 3D accelerator card with dual-TMU support." I was nearly in tears, so I tried again and again, but all for naught. It seems I don't have a supported graphics card, but thats the extent of my knowledge. I have a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 750c with a Nvidea TNT (unsupported by wow). I am running windows xp/200, and need to know what kind of graphics card I should get, along with where I can find it for a decent price. I would apperciate your help so I can join the online sensation.

btw, you may see this thread somewhere else, i misplaced it.

[Kalos]

Basically, any graphics card still in production today will surfice. I recommend the Geforce 7600GT, but it's next to impossible to get anything worse than what you already have.

An interest point however, if you have such an aweful graphics card, your processor can't be that good, nor can your ram. It's likely your whole PC is six+ years old. Meaning, everything is likely under spec. Just buy a machine that doesn't belong on a scrap heap, Nvidia stopped making the TNT graphics cards over five years ago, it's an antique peice of junk as graphics cards go, certainly not what you'd use for modern gaming.

[Chad the Rogue]

Thank you, but a simple, "get a diff computer," would have been good too. My computer itself isnt bad, its got Pentium 4 cpu, 1.80 ghz 1.79 ghz, and 512 mb of ram, thats not bad rght? maybe it is, obviously im not he comp wiz, but I def. don't got the money for a brand new desktop right now, do you suggest playing wow on a laptop?

[Stigg]

Its not that bad. your cpu is incredibly outdated. If you have a laptop that is better, you may as well go ahead and use that, and save your video card update money and put it towards a new computer. Computers now-a-days are incredibly cheap. Check out www.tigerdirect.com www.newegg.com and www.zipzoomfly.com

They have barebone deals for like....$300 that will blow your computer out of the water.

[Chad the Rogue]

Thank you, 300 is acceptable, and I was also wondering if i get one of those computers will it not be up to par in a couple years?

[Chad the Rogue]

And for anyone that can help, of those sites above, what kind of barebone deal do you reccomend, from experience what brands are reliable, and work well, because I dont recognize any of those brands.

[Chad the Rogue]

And do you need alot of computer smarts to run one of those barebone computers? becasue lets be honest im no computer wiz.

[Dark Matter]

Barebones PC just means you get the basic motherboard, graphics, etc., no monitor, printer etc.

Barebones can come with configurable RAM, CPU etc.

So no, you don't need computer smarts as you are not building it from scratch, you just need to know which slots to plug your peripherals into.

On a side note, please be aware that you can edit your posts for up to an hour - if you post something, then have another thought, please edit your post rather than posting again.