need help on graphic card

alrite, i decided to buy a new graphic card since my g-force 4 (or whatever i got rite now) wont let me play live 05 with lightening turned on and kind of sucks anyway. so what i would like to know is which graphic card i should get to be able to turn lightening on. and remember im not rich so dont tell me to buy the newest ATI or whatever...

id really appreciate some help since i dont really know alot about computers...

can u list ur comps specs, does ur motherboard have agp 4x/8x, stuff like that...

damn, this is gonna be difficult...i dont know shit about that...

motherboard with something like 1.6GH or whatever
about 380 MB ram

but what the hell is that:

agp 4x/8x

?

anyway, thanks for your reply

damn, this is gonna be difficult...i dont know shit about that...

motherboard with something like 1.6GH or whatever
about 380 MB ram

but what the hell is that:

agp 4x/8x

?

anyway, thanks for your reply

u probably have agp, its where u connect ur video card onto your motherboard
well i hope u have agp cuz if u have pci, u would be running slower cards but if ur old card was a geforce 4, it should be agp
but i wanted to kno if u have agp 4x/8x or 2x/4x becuz im not sure on this but when i had agp 2x/4x, i was not able to run agp cards that were 8x even though i ran it lower
umm, i think u can get ur computer specs if u do start->run->dxdiag

by the way, get ur specs and tell me ur old card cuz u should be able to use lighting, i think someone in another thread had same prob as you but then updated their drivers to omegadrivers and was able to turn lighting on, try that first so you wont have to spend money

ok, thats what i came up with about my card:

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with integrated RAMDAC (whatever the hell that is...) and 64MB

ok, thats what i came up with about my card:

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with integrated RAMDAC (whatever the hell that is...) and 64MB

ah ok, so did u try out omega drivers yet???

check it out at http://omegadrivers.net/

alrite, when i run the installation file it asks me to choose the type of installation. ive got to choose between 'performance' and 'quality'...do you know which one i should choose?
also do i have to reinstall live05 after installing those drivers?

in your case.. go with performance.

you don't have to reinstall nba live afterwards.

aight, i tried both, 1st performance then quality, neither of them let me enable lightening...is there anything i could have done wrong or anything i could still do before getting a new card? i mean what about the other guy that had the same problem...was he able to solve it?

anyways, thanks for your help guys

yo, i jst got a radeon 9800 ati for like 120 its its sick. def buy it

my agp is 4x and my vid card is gforce mx440 agp 8x 64 mb. is that a problem? are they not compatible? can i upgrade my agp to 8x? is that what causes my game to freeze?

THANKS!!!

pc specs:
winxp pro sp1
asus p4s533-x
p4 2.4Ghz
512ram
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 64mb ver:71.89

no has nothing to do with it, please keep your problems in one thread. if you have that much questions it's okay to start your own thread.