I'm currently using a 8800 GTX but have had to turn down the lighting to make it playable. Of course I have since found that the power supply I have cannot deal with extensive battles in STO and tends to turn off my graphics card at innopportune times. So, you should be able to play with no problems with your card. Just make sure your power supply is enough to handl extensive graphic sessions if you plan to spend several hours at a time fighting multiple mobs.
I had a single 9500 (512k) and it worked fine, I now have 2 of them running SLI and no issues either way.
I did have to update to the new drivers from the Nvidia website.....
My bro plays fine with a ATI hd4200 onboard gfx, it has 128mb ddr3(+384 shared) built in also which is nice for a onboard card. Which is about the same as a Nvidia 8400, so you should be fine if you dont go to high on the resolution.
My 4870x2 2mb runs fine with a 1000w psu to make sure it gets the power it needs and an accelero cooler to make sure it stays cool. I learned my lesson from my previous pc which I think suffered from cooling and power issues but the people that made it never advised me. Now it's overkill .
I run on an 8800 GT 640MB with everything turned up full (I think). I also discovered last night that it will also run on my laptop (which has a 7300 Go 128MB!) on recommended settings but in half resolution mode. Granted it looks a bit naff, but it's perfectly playable.
I run a nvida 6300 from a couple years ago. I have no problem with anything graphic wise in game and even though its an older card, it seems to handle everything rather well with no glitches.
Except......when in ground battles my guys look shredded with colors bleeding into the figures from the back ground enviroment. I can still make out my charachters, but its almost a tiger effect where Im not seeing the whole charachter.
I run a nvida 6300 from a couple years ago. I have no problem with anything graphic wise in game and even though its an older card, it seems to handle everything rather well with no glitches.
Except......when in ground battles my guys look shredded with colors bleeding into the figures from the back ground enviroment. I can still make out my charachters, but its almost a tiger effect where Im not seeing the whole charachter.
Is it buggin or do I need to reset something?
Neither... your card is not supported in the minimum system requirements. Not trying to be mean, but for any card lower than a NVidia 7950, if the game works but has issues you're pretty much on your own.
I'd make sure all settings are turned down or completely off, and the resolution is 1280X or less (if CRT, 1280x900, widescreen, 1280x720... working off memory, numbers may not match so feel free to ballpark it if you must). That would ensure the best framerate, but for graphical glitching, not much to be done.
Running it on my ASUS G72 Laptop... C2D 2.53 Ghz, 6GB RAM, GeForce GTX 260M w/ 1GB RAM. For this laptop, Bloom effects that trigger close to your camera POV causes BSOD crashes to occur... even when I replaced it with the same model and tried it with other games just to make sure... weird. Fortunately Bloom is something I can live without.
But I digress... I turned down lighting and reflections to low (not a fan of shiny starbase floors and the screen is bright on this laptop already) and I left everything else up full blast, in the Sol Starbase it's about 40-50 FPS with some choppiness on load-in and when walking past busy areas. Everywhere else, Space or Ground, with those settings it's 60 FPS average with a lag spike here and there.
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I did have to update to the new drivers from the Nvidia website.....
Except......when in ground battles my guys look shredded with colors bleeding into the figures from the back ground enviroment. I can still make out my charachters, but its almost a tiger effect where Im not seeing the whole charachter.
Is it buggin or do I need to reset something?
Neither... your card is not supported in the minimum system requirements. Not trying to be mean, but for any card lower than a NVidia 7950, if the game works but has issues you're pretty much on your own.
I'd make sure all settings are turned down or completely off, and the resolution is 1280X or less (if CRT, 1280x900, widescreen, 1280x720... working off memory, numbers may not match so feel free to ballpark it if you must). That would ensure the best framerate, but for graphical glitching, not much to be done.
But I digress... I turned down lighting and reflections to low (not a fan of shiny starbase floors and the screen is bright on this laptop already) and I left everything else up full blast, in the Sol Starbase it's about 40-50 FPS with some choppiness on load-in and when walking past busy areas. Everywhere else, Space or Ground, with those settings it's 60 FPS average with a lag spike here and there.
Not disappointed by a Best Buy lappy for once. :O