Prey prolems

hi i have game PREY.its realy interesting.but its lagging. i have pentium4 2.8ghz 2gb of ram and geforse fx5200 128mb.it should be enaught to run the game frealy but it still is lagging. i think that this could be driver problem.maybe you have some suggestions?

 

First of all: You have enough time in the world to type out your post, so PLEASE make it at least semi-legible.
Second: Yes, get the latest drivers.
Third: Set all of your Prey settings to their lowest, and scale from there until it lags, then go back to the last good setting. (Otherwise known as tuning.)
If 2 and 3 don't work, please go into deeper detail of your system config, and how it stutters.
Also, there is a program on the Microsoft website which will tell you if your system is good enough to run certain games. I'd suggest a search on this, I don't know its exact location.

 

that video cards is a little lacking in, ummm goodness lol. i used to have one and it was OK for older games but with something like Prey you need a newer card. If you're up for upgrading then lemme know. otherwise you're gonna have to turn down the settings

 

ok... maybe you know how that program is called?that one which will tell you if your system is good enough to run certain games?

 

Alright, I found it. It's called the Game Advisor.
Make sure you have the latest Direct X for your system.
Get the latest forceware drivers for your computer.
And if that doesn't work, then your graphics card is probably too far out of date. I managed Prey pretty well on my 6600GT. It was fun.

 

44% of the systems scanned by the Game Advisor rank higher in performance than your system.


what this means? i cant understand.
ou...and thanks for you rtips.they are werry good.

 

That just means that 44% of the people who used Game Advisor had better machines than you do. Now, I don't have good enough internet to use the Game Advisor myself, but I'm sure with a little poking around you can find out if your system is good enough for Prey.
Also, I looked up the minimum requirements of Prey, and though it doesn't state your card exactly, it does have " NVIDIA GeForce3/Ti series, NVIDIA GeForce4/Ti". Now, is your card part of one of these two series?

 

http://www.srtest.com is the one.

 

an FX series is actually better than that, but really not so great by todays standards. try running the game in a low res. if there are options for anti aliasing(AA) or Anisotropic filtering(AF) turn them off. and turn any shader/lighting options down to low settings. If you can afford a new video card i can help you choose the right one.