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Grrr
The main project for this weekend was upgrading Emmy's computer to the point where she could play a couple of Harry Potter games that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flower_cat bought for her without checking the supported hardware list. (Runs on Win98, we have Win98, shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. The box lists the specific ATI and NVidia cards it supports.)
So I went out and found a $50 ATI Radeon card in one of the local surplus joints. Sweet -- I may pick up a couple more. Then I discover that the machine I was planning to use (currently in the sewing room) doesn't have an AGP slot! And a little experimentation proved that the onboard video doesn't support the games. Foo.
At this point it looks as though the only plausible candidate is the machine I normally use as my Linux workstation. Annoying.
flower_cat bought for her without checking the supported hardware list. (Runs on Win98, we have Win98, shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. The box lists the specific ATI and NVidia cards it supports.)So I went out and found a $50 ATI Radeon card in one of the local surplus joints. Sweet -- I may pick up a couple more. Then I discover that the machine I was planning to use (currently in the sewing room) doesn't have an AGP slot! And a little experimentation proved that the onboard video doesn't support the games. Foo.
At this point it looks as though the only plausible candidate is the machine I normally use as my Linux workstation. Annoying.