Per pixel alpha on a budget?

Monday, October 17, 2005 by aimzzz | Discussion: Personal Computing

WB5 tells tells me the dreaded truth: "Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha."

Here is my current (circa 2000) set-up:
Motherboard; Asus PC133
CPU: Intel 670 MHz
Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
Video: ATI Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro - 32 MB (AGP)

Please post suggestions for vid upgrade supporting per pixel alpha on a budget.
Thanks
11 Reply 7 Referrals
sTonEbLuE
Reply #1 Monday, October 17, 2005 6:46 PM
I would buy a new computer, if you can afford it. 670 MHZ.....too slow.

Go for it!

Majic7
Reply #2 Monday, October 17, 2005 6:51 PM
I'm using a BFG NVIDIA FX GeForce 5500 OC PCI that I got at Walmart for 130$. They also have one with AGP port for the same price. So far its working fine with WB5. I had ATI 9200 before, about 99 at Circuit City. The 5500 works a lot better. Some others have had trouble with the 9200 and 9250 drivers supporting WB5. Anything much cheaper will probably have to be found on Ebay, used.

Island Dog
Reply #3 Monday, October 17, 2005 7:19 PM
I wouldn't even worry about upgrading your video card until you get a faster processor. My best advice is get a new computer.

aimzzz
Reply #4 Monday, October 17, 2005 7:28 PM
670 MHZ.....too slow


670 MHZ gets slower every day...

Halluci
Reply #5 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 6:42 PM
670 MHZ gets slower every day...


yea it does...

you can get a decent complete system nowadays (1.5 ghz or so with a decent vid card) for prolly around 700$ now

aimzzz
Reply #6 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:23 PM
I was hoping for less-- I can recycle sound card, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, ethernet card. My USB cards are < USB 2.0, so I should get new ones, but might get by with them for a while...

Island Dog
Reply #7 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:25 PM

Then just get a case, cpu/mobo, and hard drive.


aimzzz
Reply #8 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:40 PM
case, cpu/mobo, and hard drive


Let's see- I think I'm fine in the hard drive area-- have a 200 GB & a 30 GB, both PC133-- I forgot them on the recycle list.

I believe I need a vid card... I keep reading that on-board video doesn't support everything in WB5.

I guess I need memory, too. Is SDRAM completely obsolete?

So:
Recycle:
hard drives, sound card, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, ethernet card

New:
case, mobo, cpu, memory, video card

(maybe new USB card)

anything else?

gfcentral002
Reply #9 Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:49 PM
i just replaced my nvidia 6200 card with an ati radeon 9200 - it runs wb5 prefectly (was having problems w/ my other card - lol that post is on here). it only cost me $99 for it at office depot.

aimzzz
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:19 PM
Thanks Island Dog

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