Maybe wrong board, but will this run?

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I'm looking to buy Morrowind: GOTY for my crappy PC, but I wonder if it'll run. Here are the specs. Can it run?

Processor: Celeron D 335
RAM: 256 MB
Graphics: 96 MB Intel Extreme Graphics 2 3D

The processor and RAM are not what I'm worried about, but the graphics card is what makes me unable to run some games, including even Psychonauts. Little help?

Here are the system requirments I found for it,

System Requirements:

Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
500 MHz Intel Pentium III
256 MB RAM
8X CD-ROM drive
1 GB free hard disk space
32MB Direct3D Graphics Card with 32-bit color support
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
Keyboard
Mouse


Todd

I have Morrowind : GOTY here... Unfortunately the 'Extreme' part of those Intel graphics chips was that they were extremely bad. They knock the CPU performance around a lot.

So to play Morrowind comfortably and really get immersed in it (and it is a big world to get lost in), you'd need another 256MB of RAM, best to add another 512MB card. Then you'd need a dirt-cheap video accelerator, and then only if your system could take such a card. Total cost would be pretty low, but still higher than the cost of the game.

Some parts of the game are a lot more taxing than others. You'd be playing it for quite a few hours before you saw it at its slowest. Best option might be to try it and see. Then upgrade if you find that you love the game.

Morrowind = BAD

I would now only think of AT and nVidia graphics cards as the minimum for gaming. All others aren't really up to today's games. SIS, Hercules, Matrox, Intel, etc. These are just cheap graphics only good for a basic systm