need to play gears and need new graphic card

[just wana play gears]

i have a emachine w3650 (yes i know it sucks) need new graphic card to play gears of war. have know idea what kind of graphic card i can use.

[iamyourmom]

i use a nvidia 8600 GT and it works very well, (play in all high specs), however, you have to make sure that your machine fits the other specs, before you buy

[joefido]

If your only going to change 1 thing, you might be better off adding RAM instead of a different Grafix card. Without knowing your complete specs it's hard to tell. Your complete setup will determine what you should do. Check how much ram you have and how much you can add. In most cases, eMachines have an on board grafix card that share RAM so additional RAM would be an improvment. On the other hand if you change the grafix card and don't have enough RAM to start out with you would be disappointed with the results.

[iamyourmom]

Yeah, it would be better if you can post your entire specs, so that we can evaluate should you play GOW or not.

[ThrowingShapes]

It also depends on what resolution and settings you want to play the game at.  There's alot of factors involved with getting good performance n a game, so please give us a little more information.

In any case I wouldn't expect Gears of war to run very well on an onboard chipset, even given a ram upgrade.  I haven't played it since I upgraded a bit but on 2gb of ram, 8800gt, amd athlon x2 3ghz it would slow down considerably during cutscenes but gameplay pretty much locked at 60fps (max settings 1680x1050, directx10)

                                    Minimum                                                                                       Recommended
Operating System   Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU                           Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 2.0+ Ghz processor               Any Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2
Memory               1 GB                                                                                                   2 GB
Hard Drive Space   12 GB of free space
Graphics Hardware   Nvidia GeForce 6600+, ATI X700+                                                   nVidia GeForce 7600, ATI X1900
Sound Hardware   DirectX Compatible
Network               Internet or LAN connection required for multiplayer

Or so wikipedia says.

As for enjoying the game, I suggest taking a couple steps up from the minimum requirements, but that's just me.

[patio]

Without knowing what MBoard you have this is all speculation...

[ale52]

Another thing to consider...check the spec.s on the game itself.  It should tell you what the hardware requirements are for the game.

Alan <>< 

[just wana play gears]

ECS 945GCT-M3 (V3.0) Mainboard

 
Documented General Info: 
Processor
• LGA775 socket for latest Intel Core 2 Duo / Pentium D / Pentium 4 / Celeron D processor
• FSB 1066/800/533 MHz
• Support Hyper-Threading Technology
 
Chipset
• Intel® 945GC & ICH7
• North Bridge: Intel® 945GC
• South Bridge: Intel® ICH7
 
Memory
• Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture
• 2 x 240-pin DDR DIMM socket support up to 2 GB
• Support DDR2 667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM
 
Audio
• Realtek ALC655 6-channel audio CODEC (optional)
• Realtek ALC883 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio codec
 
Onboard I/O Connectors
• Supported by Intel®ICH7
 - 2 x Ultra DMA100/66 devices
 - 4 x Serial ATA2 devices
 
Peripheral Interface [Internal/Rear Panel]
1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V connector
1 x FDD connector
1 x IDE connector
4 x Serial ATA connectors
2 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB Ports
1 x SPDIF out header
1 x SPDIF in header
1 x Front panel switch/LED header
1 x Front panel audio header
1 x IrDA for SIR header
1 x Buzzer
AUX-in header
CPUFAN/SYSFAN connectors
1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors
1 x Parallel port (LPT1)
1 x Serial port (COM1)
1 x VGA port
4 x USB ports
1 x LAN port
1 x Audio port (Line-in,4x Line-out, Mic_in)
 
 
Expansion Slots
• 1 x PCI Express x1 slot
• 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
• 2 x PCI slots
 
BIOS
• Award BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM
• Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
• Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification
 
Onboard LAN
• Realtek RTL8110SC Giga LAN Controller
• Realtek RTL8100C 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet Controller(optional)
 
Video
• Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ( GMA950 )
 
Form Factor
microATX (9.60 inches by 9.60 inches [244 millimeters by 244 millimeters])
 
Other
• Only A2 chipset supports FSB1066 MHz, and Memory DDR2 667
For more info on this motherboard, download the manual in the download section.
 
 
 

[JJ 3000]

Do us a favor. Download Everest
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Open it, click Computer, then Summary.
In upper menu, go Report>Quick Report-Summary
Save it in text file, and paste it in your next post.
Don't include anything under line Debug - PCI

[just wana play gears]

i used direct-x Diagnostic and saw all cubes it made in 3-d

System Model   W3650
System Type   X86-based PC
Processor   x86 Family 6 Model 22 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~1999 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date   945GCT-M3 V1.10, 12/24/2007
SMBIOS Version   2.4
Windows Directory   C:\WINDOWS
System Directory   C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device   \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale   United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer   Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)"
User Name   FAMILYROOM\Owner
Time Zone   Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory   1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory   350.57 MB
Total Virtual Memory   2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory   1.93 GB
Page File Space   2.38 GB

[just wana play gears]

i have installed and uninstalled 3 times and everytime the first sceen say play i hit play then a message pops up saying wargame-g4wlive .exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. 

[patio]

Was GOW a torrent perhaps ? ?

 

[just wana play gears]

no i bought the game at a retail store

[patio]

What kind of shape are the CD's in ? ?

[just wana play gears]

the disk is band new , has no marks on it. ive found the same problem that other people wrote but no answers to theim.