Geforce 6200 vs Gefore 6800

I think the 6200 supports shader model 3, not sure though.  It would probably run on lowest settings but I'd be surprised if it ran well.  Is it a pcie card?  If so you can upgrade to something a lot newer and better for about 50 dollars(I think the 8600gt is still in this price range).  Also, make sure the rest of your system is up to spec.

Its a Nvidia GeForce 6200 pci, if i were to upgrade it, i would need to buy a whole new computer... =/ But anyways everything else is up to spec. but just that .. I dont want the game if i doesnt look at least decent. But it would be able to run good?

Based on benchmark ratings from PassMark, average benchmark for 6200 is 56, for the 6800 is 307, I would say you would have problems trying to play the game. Biggest issue would most likely be choppiness from low frame rates.

To give you an idea how low both cards are, the top card right now is the GTX 285, benchmark for it is 2045.

When the beta was going I played it a little on a XP3000 2.1Ghz and 6800OC 128MB. Even at lowest settings busy parts of the game were choppy. I had an old CPU too so it probably contributed, but I believe a 6800 is pushing it for smoothly playing DG. Needless to say I don't play on that setup anymore

Even if i put it in low settings i wouldnt be able to play the game without choppiness?

probably not, Minimum requirements are just that, Min Req. which means the game will NOT run well on anything less, it may run, but not well, if it runs it will lag/low frame rate, possibly hang a lot,  and probably be choppy or torn.

how old is your computer? makes me wonder because AGP has been out for over 10 years (1997 release) , was the most popular video interface in the early 2000's and began to be phased out in 2004 when PCIe was released. So for you to be on PCI means that either the system is WAY OLD, or than it was a very inexpensive computer at the time that chose to go PCI or onboard video vs AGP to keep cost down.

are you positive that it's PCI and not AGP or PCIe?  is the slot the card plugs into white or another color? AGP slots are typically brown with a lock clip/slider at the back of the slot but can be a few other colors. PCI slots will be white. PCIe slots should be black and will also have some sort of lock clip, usually a push lever. double check this to be sure before you buy anything.

if truely PCI that is your biggest problem as it is not capable of running higher frequency. PCI bus runs on 33 or 66Mhz depending on the version

AGP runs a little faster (upto 533Mhz) and greatly increases performace over PCI. and likewise PCIe blows the doors off AGP. However 6200 cards and up ARE available in ALL 3 interfaces.

newegg.com has a few PCI cards in the nVidia 8400 or even the 9000 series for $50-$100.

a $50 8400 might help you but I have not seen how the newer cards run on PCI interface nor looked at any bench marks for them. 2 things are for sure though, it will be better that what you have, but they will not be any where close to their AGP or PCIe counter parts.

or if you are AGP newegg has some ATI cards in the X-series, or HD 2000 or 3000 for the same price range which will be a comparative equivalent. if I remember correctly the X-series was ATI's series during the same period of the nVidia 6000 and early 7000 series. moving to the HD 2000/3000 about the time nVidia was putting out the med-high 7000 series, and then the HD 4000 about the time the 8800 cards came out to current.  all they have for nVidia in AGP is the 6200, (no help).

good luck

don't take this post as saying your PC completely sucks, just trying to be informative as well as I know how frustrating it can be trying to do whatever upgrade you can to meet game requirements. I battled the same thing for a few years in the early 2000's

Sorry man, but the 6200 and the 6800 aren't even in the same ballpark.  Your card is more in line with the 3 series, the budget cards from Nvidia have always been royal stinkers.  You probably can't even get it to load the graphics, but if it does you're looking at 1 fps on the lowest settings.

A 9500 might work ok, I wouldn't want to bet on it though.  I'd forget about it and get a new computer first, PCI has been dead for even longer than my poor AGP board has.

I think people underestimate the 6200. I had one for years and it ran RA3 CoH and WiC fine on low settings of course. These games have similar requirements so I would think you could run the game on the bare minimum. You could try a "demo" version of course.

The 6200 is, I think, the last card to be available for just plain PCI. I'd really perform a check to make sure you don't have something like AGP or PCIE slot. If you have AGP or PCIE, then you should be able to upgrade to something much faster.

If you don't have AGP or PCIE - then I'd really recommend upgrading to a more recent system.

The 6200 the low end products of the 6 series and the 6800, the high end. I don't think it will run fine exept if you have a REALLY good processor that could make up (a bit) for it.

Yea, i only have a pci.. Unfortunalty. Ill just get ma money and just buy a laptop or another computer

actually though it really makes no sence to me they put out some 8400 and even some 9400 and 9500 cards for PCI pos.sibly even others this is just what I have seen lately

I would think that the GPUs would be way more than the PCI bus could handle.