Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura

[KenM]

NEVER try to fit a AGP card into a PCI slot, and vice versa. get a card with the right kind of connection.

 

[LrdApoc]

well, the video card I got is a PCI one, so hopefully that'll work. And I do still have the receipt for it, in case it isn't.

In that case you should be safe. Any modern system will have at least one PCI slot. One way to find out about your video card, at least in Windows 98 or newer is to open the display control panel and then choose advacned. There should be an adapter tab in there and it will list it. I don;t recommend you doing much fidgiting about, as it seems you are not well versed in Windows Hardware info.. but at the least it can identify your video chipset...

Also check the HP website for the Computer model and it will list all that stuff as well..

Good luck!

 

[LrdApoc]

Did the research on your model and I think I see your problem.

Yes you have integrated video. The owners manual should tell you how to disable it. I really recommend having your buddies give you a hand, changing video drivers is actually the tricky part.. installing the card itself is easy to do.

Here's what HP says you have on your system:

Attribute
Properties

PCI Local Bus Controller
Intel 810

Video Memory
11 MB shared memory, Integrated graphics, not upgradeable

Feature connector
(game/joystick)
Yes

Resolutions (video resolutions dependent upon specific display used)

640 x 480
16/256/32K/64K/16.7M colors

800 x 600
16/256/32K/64K colors

1024 x 768
16/256/32K/64K colors

1280 x 1024
256 colors

I got this info from this link:
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?lc=en&docName=bph06670#P75_1067

 

[Hand of Vecna]

ZAA!!! Got my new video card installed, it works fine, and now so does Arcanum!!!

*goes off to re-create Bwah Ogrunson, his Half-Ogre*