Will the Nvidia geforce 7200GS DDR2 256MB run pc games that will come out in 2009?
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If you are familiar with Moore's Law, which describes technology doubling its capabilities every two years. This stands very true when it comes to graphic processing units (GPUs); and you will often see a video card family double its previous year's performance. With this in mind, video game companies are pushing the boundaries of what games currently in development can do since production lead times are sometimes several years in the making, and they don't want to produce an outdated-looking game before it hits the market.
You can expect the top titles in 2009 to surpass the realism of Crysis, and have at least 2007 GeForce 9800 series specs in mind for the recommended system specs.
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There is no blanket answer that can be given on this question I am afraid. There will be many games that this card will be able to handle but others that will likely push the card to it's limits (even when the game graphics are turned down)
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http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/09/18/mount-and-blade/3
In general, if you are looking for games your computer will run playably, here are some tips:
If DirectX 10 is mandatory, your card is incapable of running it
If DirectX 10 is an option, there's a high chance it won't run well on your older hardware
If it requires a 256MB video card, your card won't run it - it might have enough memory, but games that require that much memory are going to be intense and will not run well on that card.
If DirectX9 is mandatory as a minimum, the game will work, though this will not guarantee that you will be able to play it well.
If it will run on DirectX 8 hardware, odds are you will be able to play it OK. Anything that can run on DirectX8 hardware will at least work on very old video cards, so if it works on those old cards, yours should be able to handle it.
Here's a link that will tell you if the computer will run the game:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest
Due to the slow speed of the card, I would strongly recommend against running out and buying any new game. Get a demo first!
Fret not! If you have a PCI express slot in your computer (And it isn't a laptop), you can get a cheap new video card that will run things much faster! Open up the case of your computer, and look at the slots it has. They will look like this:
http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/PCXSLOTS.GIF
http://www.scan.co.uk/Images/Products/593686-a.jpg
See that long blue one? It might be a different color. If it is brown, it is an AGP slot. If you don't have a long slot like that, but only small (but not tiny) white slots, you only have PCI slots. Most likely, you don't have an AGP slot but it could be the case. Also, pay attention - if your monitor connects to a card going in to the board, that's the slot for the video card, and you can see if it is AGP or not by looking at the above diagram (and note that AGP is pretty much always brown).
If you have PCI Express, here's a really cheap video card that'll let you play some newer games:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127390
And here's something a little bit faster:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814145162
This would be about twice as fast as those:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161262
Neither of these will run something like Crysis playably, but if you're on a computer with a 7200GS to begin with, odds are it's old enough that you'd need a whole new computer. But adding a video card like those I've linked would let you play something like Left 4 Dead and be able to enjoy the game.
If you're stuck with AGP, things are a lot more expensive for a lot slower, but this would still be a big upgrade:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103072
If you only have PCI, you're kind of screwed. This would be faster, but not by a whole lot:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161227
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