"Slash" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:42:47 -0000, "Paul"
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im using a Ti4800 and still find when there's a lot on screen sim city 4
scrolls pretty slowly, probably bad game engine imo

SimCity 4 is an extraordinary CPU hog - how fast is the computer you
want to put the FX5200 into? The 8500 is a pretty decent card if you
stick to resolutions of 1024x768 or lower for most things, but if you
have a slower processing subsystem or small amount of memory (SC4 also
eats memory like some sort of crazy memory eating machine) it might
not make any difference whatsoever.

The system is Athlon XP 2100 (266 DDR), 768 MB RAM.

So will a GeForce FX 5200 be any better than what I currently have?

Thanks,

Simon Howson