qwert12 Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 hello ! i am new here and new to the world of overclocking . see i have a very old system and dont have money to buy a new one. and everything is outdated motherboard , graphic card everything. so please dont say to buy new one. i have nvidia ge force 5200 fx 256 mb graphic card bios - 4.34.20.27.02 dac type - integrated ram dac driver version 175.16 driver release date 5/2/2008 p4 2.66 ghz , 1 gb ram. ok so it supports pixel shader version 2. i want something either tweaking or overclocking so that it supports pixel shader 3. i am able to play halo 2 on my pc. but it runs very slowly and laggy. i used the swiftshader pixel shader 3 emulator but in that the game was running even slower than the original maybe because of low processor or ram and it did not utilized my graphic card at all. i have enough ram on my pc and card to play games like call of duty modern warfare , crysis . its pixel shader 3 that ruins everything. i tried to understand the threads given in faq but it just went over my head. so could some one please guide me..!! please i want to play halo 2. please !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Theres no way around it, you need a new graphics card to play modern games. (even a slower one would do) If that laptop never had a Geforce 6 card available (even if it did I wouldn't bother upgrading), I would just get a cheap desktop graphics card. If you have a desktop PC, you can get a Pixel Shader 3 card for under $20. The lighting engine (hardware shader path) in the GF FX was very bad compared to any PS 3 card, you can't fix bad hardware that with an emulator. While an emulator in theory could help you run the games, you would need a very powerful PC for it to work fast enough. (core i7 territory with fast RAM interface) Pentium 4 is also a joke compared to modern CPUs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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