So about 6 months ago my cousin gave me his old
alienware Area-51 7500-R4 (pre dell...it's from 06)
I finally got around to buying a nice monitor/speakers and setting it all up. For everyday use it is awesome. My old dell laptop is starting to fall apart and become incredibly slow, so that is now reserved for car tuning.
Anyways, I installed steam, and the counter-strike source/DOD-source pack, as well as the sims 3. I tried opening CS:Source and DOD:Source and it would appear to start launching, and then just stop and do nothing. I was doing some reading and figured it might be a steam issue. I tried to play sims and I get a notification that reads:
"Unable to start game
Device 0 cannot run this file
No supported video graphics card detected. Please check your system hardware"
Heres a list off the specs off the original invoice from 06.
EVGA NFORCE 680I SLI MB Motherboard
D-CORE 2 DUO 2.13 GHZ E6400 2M CACHE 1066MHZ PROCESSOR
PDP 1GB DDR2 LOW LATENCY PC-6400 AW96 MEMORY
SEAGATE 250GB SATA 3G 7200RPM 8MB CACHE NCQ SYSTEM DRIVE
EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX 768MB PCI-E GRAPHICS PROCESSOR
So the sims box says I need a directx 9.0 compatible video card w 128MB of video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 2.0...under supported video cards are lsited:
NVIDIA GeForce series FX5900, and all NVIDIA G, GT, GTS, and GTX video cards.
As far as computer hardware goes, I'm a complete moron. Does it seem like this is an issue with the graphics card needing to be upgraded, or does it seem like a software issue (such as directx needing updating, windows service pack updating, etc.)?
I am trying to not throw a bunch of money and time into it, so if I can get away without upgrading/replacing a bunch of stuff, I would prefer to go that route. My cousin also said a while back he upgraded the RAM but its still only 2 gigs.
If the graphics card is fine for these games, any ideas on what to look into next? I'm lost.
alienware Area-51 7500-R4 (pre dell...it's from 06)
I finally got around to buying a nice monitor/speakers and setting it all up. For everyday use it is awesome. My old dell laptop is starting to fall apart and become incredibly slow, so that is now reserved for car tuning.
Anyways, I installed steam, and the counter-strike source/DOD-source pack, as well as the sims 3. I tried opening CS:Source and DOD:Source and it would appear to start launching, and then just stop and do nothing. I was doing some reading and figured it might be a steam issue. I tried to play sims and I get a notification that reads:
"Unable to start game
Device 0 cannot run this file
No supported video graphics card detected. Please check your system hardware"
Heres a list off the specs off the original invoice from 06.
EVGA NFORCE 680I SLI MB Motherboard
D-CORE 2 DUO 2.13 GHZ E6400 2M CACHE 1066MHZ PROCESSOR
PDP 1GB DDR2 LOW LATENCY PC-6400 AW96 MEMORY
SEAGATE 250GB SATA 3G 7200RPM 8MB CACHE NCQ SYSTEM DRIVE
EVGA NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GTX 768MB PCI-E GRAPHICS PROCESSOR
So the sims box says I need a directx 9.0 compatible video card w 128MB of video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 2.0...under supported video cards are lsited:
NVIDIA GeForce series FX5900, and all NVIDIA G, GT, GTS, and GTX video cards.
As far as computer hardware goes, I'm a complete moron. Does it seem like this is an issue with the graphics card needing to be upgraded, or does it seem like a software issue (such as directx needing updating, windows service pack updating, etc.)?
I am trying to not throw a bunch of money and time into it, so if I can get away without upgrading/replacing a bunch of stuff, I would prefer to go that route. My cousin also said a while back he upgraded the RAM but its still only 2 gigs.
If the graphics card is fine for these games, any ideas on what to look into next? I'm lost.
