piratesmvp04 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Here's the little secret I've discovered about graphics card requirements for PC video games: "THE GAME COMPANIES ARE LYING TO YOU!" They say that you need a high-end video card, but they fool you into thinking that your more basic or slightly older video card will not be good enough for the game. But here's why I discovered they're false. My brother has an old Windows XP machine from 2001, and it has an Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 video card. This card is the very first gaming card Nvidia made, and it is the predecessor to the GeForce cards. The only MVP that this card will work on is MVP 03. But EA specifically says that this card will not work with MVP 04. So, I decided to test to see if this was true. I got this great program called 3D-Analyze, a software which basically uses all your system resources to emulate certain hardware features which your card does not physically have. Anyways, I tried launching MVP 04 with 3d-Analyze, and I changed the ID settings within the program to trick the computer into thinking my graphics card was a GeForce Ti 4600 card! And, the game worked! It couldn't work without 3d-Analyze, but when I used this program, MVP 04 worked smoothly! If anyone else has experience with this program, please post. Or, if you've discovered any other workarounds to playing games on older computers, post that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberger Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 3D Analyze has been known on this site for a long time. If you do a search, you'll find tons of threads dealing with this program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vorlando90 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 wats the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJEagles Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 This is old news on this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro23 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 wats the link 3D-Analyze: http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/index.php Forum Discussion: http://mvpmods.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=5898...15/start=0.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratesmvp04 Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was already known here. I mentioned it on the other site a while back, and they kinda looked down on that solution. Glad 3DAnalyze got some recognition over here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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