Video Card Suggestion

tonyfung820 · Post by **tonyfung820** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:58 pm

Hi, I am using WinEQ 2.0Pro on my Celeron 2.66G, 2GB DDR Ram and FX5500 128 Video Card for boxing two EQ1. When I try to start the third account, I got the message something of 'Running Out of Video Memory" and the third account couldnt start. So, I want to updgrade my video card to Magic Pro Radeon 9550 Challenger 256MB (since I don't really satisfy the performance when boxing two EQ1 anyway).

Can someone advise me if the Radeon 9550 Challenger 256MB video card will solve the problem or should I get a better chipset of 128MB video card? Thanks!

Post by **Lax** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:28 pm

You CAN stretch your current video card to 3, possibly even 4 sessions.
1. Set your AGP Aperture in BIOS to 256MB
2. Launch all sessions immediately, then log each into the game.

If you log sessions into the game, then later try to launch another, chances are you'll be out of video RAM because EQ keeps using more and more. However, if you launch them all at once, you can bypass that problem and play without any issues.

tonyfung820 · Post by **tonyfung820** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:50 pm

Lax wrote:You CAN stretch your current video card to 3, possibly even 4 sessions.
1. Set your AGP Aperture in BIOS to 256MB
2. Launch all sessions immediately, then log each into the game.

If you log sessions into the game, then later try to launch another, chances are you'll be out of video RAM because EQ keeps using more and more. However, if you launch them all at once, you can bypass that problem and play without any issues.

Thanks for the advises. However, I'm not an expert on setting those. Should I set the AGP Aperture to 256MB on motherboard BIOS when using FX5500 128MB or set it on video card BIOS? Do I need any program to set the AGP Aperture to 256MB?! Thanks!

Post by **Lax** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:00 pm

Everything you need to know is here:
http://www.lavishsoft.com/bios.php

tonyfung820 · Post by **tonyfung820** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:38 pm

Lax wrote:Everything you need to know is here:
http://www.lavishsoft.com/bios.php

I tried to look for the setting, however, there is no such setting to change. My motherboard is PcChip M909G v 1.0.

Post by **Lax** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:44 pm

Not familiar with that board so I cant really help other than what is in the waklthrough

Either way, you can still try loading up all 3 before playing, and you may be able to get around the limitation. If not, then you would want to go with a card with higher video RAM yes.