Help a Non-Gamer. Is A Radeon 7500 Sufficient For Spiderman?

[Dan]

I built a system for someone based on a Shuttle SS50G (P-4 1.8GHz, 512MB DDDR, onboard video/audio, etc.).

The son wants to play the new spiderman game so they installed a Radeon 7500 video card. (It's a PCI card with 64MB, full version, not LE.) They apparently had some problems with the install so now they think they need an even better card.

I'm not a gamer, so I have a couple of questions. First, is the Radeon 7500 enough card for the game? If it isn't, my second question is what should I replace it with? A GeForce3? GeForce4MX? (Bear in mind, the card has to fit in the Shuttle mini-case.)

 

[tenoc]

Yes, the 7500 is on the list of t&l capable cards approved for the game.

The game also requires the latest drivers and DirectX 8.1. Make sure those are loaded.

 

[Dan]

Excellent! Thanks for the good news.

 

[Flashram]

The card runs Unreal Tournament 2003 just fine on my laptop so I'm assuming Spiderman will be ok.

 

[xcela]

ok

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: Flashram
...I'm assuming Spiderman will be ok.

ok?!? the game is awful!

but as for video cards ya the 7500 will do fine. if you do want to upgrade though a geforce3, or even a geforce2ti, is a much beter choice than a geforce4mx.

 

[JackBurton]

ok?!? the game is awful!

but as for video cards ya the 7500 will do fine. if you do want to upgrade though a geforce3, or even a geforce2ti, is a much beter choice than a geforce4mx.

The game was pretty good, but you better have target locking down.

As for the video card, the 7500 will play it but not well with all the eye candy turned on. I have a P4 1.9@2.1GHz w/ a GF2 Pro and the game slapped my card around (1280x1024x32). My friend has a P4 1.8GHz w/ a GF3 TI200 and it did much better, but some of the scenes with alot of action it started to get really choppy (1024x768x32). The 7500 might get you by at 1024x768 but you'll have to turn down some of the video settings.