bugger

[treehack]

i got MEDAL OF HONOR PACIFIC ASSAULT" as a pressie and did not notice it was a pc dvd rom.my computer does not have a dvd drive only a cd drive.can i upgrade the driver to a dvd one for not much money?

[docevi1]

you can pick up DVDroms which you install yourself (dead easy) for £20 nowadays. Just check any major PC retailer (including PCworld) as they'll sell them cheap enough (although websites will be cheaper overall).

[treehack]

ta i'll check out pc world as i'm goin near one today.how easy is dead easy though as computers really arn't my thing

[treehack]

got a dvd rom and amazed myself by fitting it(and not wrecking the computer in the process).installed the game,tried to play it only to find out the graphics card "does not fully support directx8.1"
double bugger now what?

>> Edited by treehack on Sunday 26th December 23:19

[paolow]

whats the card?

[treehack]

pass but i'll try to find out,all iknow for sure is that it came already installed when i got the computer.
on the case it say's intergrated intel extreme graphics.

[chris watton]

When you take the side off your PC case, see if there's an 'AGP' slot, it should be just above the highest PCI slot (the slots where expansion cards like modems and soundcards go), and the AGP slot should be set back further than the PCI slots. If you have one of these, buy a vanilla ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card or similar, this little upgrade should see you through the more modern games,, as long as your CPU and memory are also up to scratch!

Chris

[treehack]

all sounds greek to me but i'll have a look.thanx for all the help peeps.anymore will be mucho appreciated though.failing that i'll take the tower to a shop to be up-graded

[john_p]

A lot of "home" PCs come with an all in one motherboard which has built in sound, graphics etc. Keeps costs down, but makes it difficult to replace things like the graphics card.

Assuming it's a good few years old now so it probably won't run newer games.

You can probably buy a newer graphics card for about £50, but your motherboard might not have an AGP slot which the new graphics card plug into, you could buy one which is "PCI" (not PCI-Express, this is different) but chances are you are best upgrading the CPU, motherboard and memory as even if you did could fit a new AGP graphics card, the games would probably run so slowly as to be playable.