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Help! - Its my daughters birthday tomorrow.
She loves Skyrim - or did until a couple of weeks ago and our aged Xbox 360 died.
I'm hoping to get Skyrim running on my old gaming PC for tomorrow night. I bought it on Steam with the hope it would cope and could play it. Its bordering on playable - but stutters and slows down far too often.
My spec is a Q6600 CPU, on a DP35DP Intel Motherboard and 4GB corsair RAM. 2
It has a 8800 GTX Graphics card. Skyrim tested it as "low settings" and I lowered the settings even further to run at the lowest resolution. It still lags a lot - There isn't much left I can do!
Is there a graphics card around the £100 price I could pick up tomorrow and make this game work for her on the above speced PC ?
I'm regretting not picking up a 2nd hand Xbox now, but I have already thrown the money for the game (and official guide + addons) at this, and if I could get this PC running well, she has my 83 game steam library to go at until we decide what to do next (next gen console, new PC etc)
Getting a bit desperate now. I've looked online at cards, but I'm a bit out of touch with gaming PCs and would really appreciate some help.
Thanks!
She loves Skyrim - or did until a couple of weeks ago and our aged Xbox 360 died.
I'm hoping to get Skyrim running on my old gaming PC for tomorrow night. I bought it on Steam with the hope it would cope and could play it. Its bordering on playable - but stutters and slows down far too often.
My spec is a Q6600 CPU, on a DP35DP Intel Motherboard and 4GB corsair RAM. 2
It has a 8800 GTX Graphics card. Skyrim tested it as "low settings" and I lowered the settings even further to run at the lowest resolution. It still lags a lot - There isn't much left I can do!
Is there a graphics card around the £100 price I could pick up tomorrow and make this game work for her on the above speced PC ?
I'm regretting not picking up a 2nd hand Xbox now, but I have already thrown the money for the game (and official guide + addons) at this, and if I could get this PC running well, she has my 83 game steam library to go at until we decide what to do next (next gen console, new PC etc)
Getting a bit desperate now. I've looked online at cards, but I'm a bit out of touch with gaming PCs and would really appreciate some help.
Thanks!