Graphics card for FFXIFollow

I am going to purchase an HP a1320 computer:
- Intel® Pentium®4 processor 524 with HT Technology; 3.06GHz
- 1.0GB DDR2 PC2-4200 SDRAM memory
- ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Graphics with up to 256MB shared video memory
- 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA hard drive

Will this graphics card work for FFXI? I do not see it listed on Playonline's Recommended Requirements page, so it worries me. The computer DOES come with a PCI Express slot, so I can get a better graphics card if necessary, but I'm a little nervous about installing one myself since I've never opened a computer before...If the integrated graphics card is no good, are there any recommendations for a decent graphics card that will play FFXI (not necessarily at max settings...)? I don't want to spend too much since the computer is costing $620. Any info would be great. Thanks in advance.

Question..Is that HP computer a laptop.

If the answer is no, you better have an AGP slot.

If the answer is yes..You may or may not have some problems with FFXI.

edit:
*puts on the dunce cap*
Pci-express system. Not AGP.


Edited, Sat Mar 25 12:41:00 2006 by thatdamnelf

I think he was saying that if it is, indeed, a laptop, the poster might have issues running FFXI.

Actually I've already seen notebooks with an internal serial ATA hard drive.


To upgrade. But the system is pci-express, which slipped my mind when thinking of video upgrades. I'm still on AGP myself.



Numorous posts in FFXI main with both ati and geforce chipsets for video on laptops, having a varity of problems, usually right after a patch to the game which does soemthing the driver the poster had did not liek, but I recall one onbaord video was scred in a severe way no matter whatr driver the poster tried. I say if hassle can be avoided, avoid it, instead of spending hours fixing it.



Yes how horrible of me >.>

Overreacting a bit ain't'cha?

You could have looked up what was wrong with onboard video/laptops with FXI just as easily.


Edited, Sat Mar 25 12:42:05 2006 by thatdamnelf

We could have you know, not gone. Cheer up there emokid. Nobody forced you to be an offensive a-hole over a trivial matter. Let it go.



Yes from now on I must research every damn thing before askinga question, know every factor and aspect of every device in a system, and google up the specs of every model number of everything before I even think of saying anything, because that might **** off blowfin. Gotcha.



I've been in it for 12, not that that has anything to do with any of this.

What series of logic? WTF are you even "driving at"?

I asked a question instead of bothing to go search it up. Both get the same info, one doesn't make me do the work. Big freakin deal. What ever happened to "no harm in asking"? And its generally true that onboard video SUCKS.



*claps*
I Didn't say 200gb.
Further more I don't have to go look up ****, why are you making a big deal over asking the OP? Your turning a mole hill into a mountain, and trying to march of to war over it.



And? Don't recall saying otherwise. Just the onboard ones that had problems. Cards have soem mior driver issues now and again, no big deal, onboard ones have issues nearly every patch to teh game.



As you are fond of telling me, this can easily be looked up.
Practice what you preech.



*rolls eyes*



*passes out after reading retarded bad analogy*

Heres a better one:

"If you buy a car with those bad* firestone tires, you better replace the tires before making any long trips."

*those got recalled later, but people were calling the brand bad before the recall, because of all the blowouts. If someone is reading this and thinking of doing the assinine retarded response of acting like I said a video card is being recalled so help me god I will find where you live and walk up and slap you for being stupid like that.

Now please, if you have anything you'de like to say to the OP to help him/her, do so. Leave me alone, flaming in tech support is waste of everyones time.

Edit: correctected text. Correction is bolded.

...
......Awe hell..
Wasn't going to bother but since I'm editing here anyway:
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1121916711667639571&num=47
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1121871213179145578&num=40
Plenty more where those came from.




Edited, Wed Mar 29 05:36:30 2006 by thatdamnelf

I typo. A lot.
Was suppossed to say "didn't say" because you said:



...I could say more here, but I really don't want more fuel on your fire.



Mmm no, you were just generally ******** about me asking and not looking up.



Translation: I don't have to be held to my standard of looking crap up, just everyone else. And while I'm saying you have to I'm going to try and distract anyone that may come acoss this thread I keep bumping for no good reason so they don't notice this double standard, by throwing around the words "fact" and "evidense" and hope they arent on one of the board down video chips that won't play FFXI.



Now that is amusing. I asked a question.

Your wasting peoples time and breaking swear filters.
*claps more*



LMAO

All I even stated was the mobile onboard ati and geforce cards have plenty of complaints from FFXI users and thats pretty easy to varify, in fact I'm shocked if you genuinely have not heard of this already, and I stated that onbaord is generally weak to start with, if you want performance you better be able to upgrade, I just said shorter "onboard sucks". It does. Don't even argue it doesn't. Don't even give me that facts BS. Onboard SUCKS.

For the record, you can get an alienware M7700 chasis with dual 160GB 7400rpm SATA drives in a raid 0 array, which effectivly registers as a single drive well over 200gb. The true single platter 200gb drives will be out in the next three months. That's besides the point however. There will be no flameing of people in MY tech support forum. If you ahve something to bring to the topic at hand, please do so. if you disagree with something someone else said, do so in a respectful manner. You want to flame eachother? Fine, but take it somewhere else. I DO NOT want any contributers who might have something useful to add to a discussion in here driven away because of that.

Thank you.