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I just found the specs. It looks like at least at Raedon 7500 card is needed and mine is a 7200. I'll likely need a new video card if I am going to play. Any recomendations for a good card that won't break the bank?

Here's a good place to look at:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphics/index.html

Hope this helps.

The crappy PIII that I use is my PC here at work.

I just bought this, and am quite happy with it. It's not the latest and greatest, but it's quite fast, and has 256Mb of memory for under $80!

I'm looking at this one, but it is not in stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102619

x800 with 256MB for $170. Any other suggestions on a place to get it for a good price that might have it in stock. I'd prefer to have it by Monday, so I can try out the game.

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This one is slightly more expensive, but just made it back into stock, so I ordered it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102608

Radeon x800 GTO AGP 256MB

That should keep me going until it is time for a new PC in a couple of years with PCI-X

I doubt that you're getting a PCI-X pc... and you certainly wouldn't want to run video off of that bus. Thank the industry for more confusing language-what you're looking at is PCI Extreme (PCIe).

Anyway, i'll stick with my 6800 Ultra for the time being.

I'm seeing it referred to as PCI Express everywhere...my X was short for that.

Either way, it will be a couple of years until I get a new system with that bus, at which time I will likely get a monitor that handles a DVI connection as well, since they are becoming more common too. I didn't realize how much I've been falling behind with all this stuff. I don't pay as much attention to the desktop side of things as I used to.

There's another standard called PCI-X, which is double the speed of standard PCI (theoretically), but PCIe can be much faster than that. Sorry, just being my usual pedantic self.

I did in fact get the game for Christmas. It has been working fine on my old unsupported video card on low settings for graphics without any crashes. There is a new patch that just came out on 12/23, so that might help Spiff. The new card should be arriving soon, so I'll get to compare low to high modes

I played my first full game last night. I was trying to do it without much in the way of military. I was doing great until there were about 50 turns left and the computers army came in and destroyed me. So much for not having military build up. I assume that is SOP for the computer if it is losing towards the end.