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SvennoJ on 29 May 2011
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20happyballs said:
naznatips said:
20happyballs said:
SvennoJ said:
naznatips said:
SvennoJ said:

I7 2.8ghz with GeForce GT 230

I get around 30fps on medium/low 1280x1024, all forms of blur and bloom off, no aa, no SSAO, light shafts on, rest on medium and very near lod.

I've encountered numerous bugs. Game freezing twice. Most sounds disappearing for random intervals just leaving the echo's and environmental effects (no use playing without subtitles) Game not responding to combat inputs anymore, I can still move around but can't use the sword anymore nor put it away. And I'm still on chapter 1.


Ouch. SOunds like the game is not running well with your PC. Seems pretty stable for most people. Are your drivers up to date and did you get the 1.1 patch?

I installed the nvidea 275 beta drivers and uninstalled the 3D vision driver as suggested by CD project, and installed the latest Realtek HD audio drivers plus the 1.1 patch. Last night I didn't have any problems with no new changes to my system. Maybe I had not rebooted enough yet...

Does anyone know a good graphics card that works with a 350w power supply?


Just buy a new power supply. 350w is very little. Besides, power supplies are really cheap.

550w:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6327567&CatId=1079

I wouldn't recommend buying the one above, but that was just an example of how cheap they can get. 


550w is unnecessarily high. Most top-end graphics cards recommend 400w power supplies, and anything above that will do fine. So I suggest something between 400-500 watts, plus a new GPU.


Huh. Not really. My HD 5770 requires that I at least have a 500w psu. My card is not even top of the line. 550w is not that high. Have you ever tried using a PSU calculator? It is very hard to make a reasonable build requiring less than 450w.  At the very least, get a 450w psu. 

I was afraid I would have to do that. Even the GT 430 recommends a 450w psu while only 1.5x faster then gt 230. I don't really want to turn my pc into a furnace but it seems modern gpu's are all 2 slots wide and consume a lot of power.

Oh well at least it's easier then replacing the motherboard to get the right slots. I still remember the transition from isa to vesa to pci slots being a pain in the ass.