New Video Card or More Memory?

[afropuff]

Hello all,

I was wanting your advice on what I should do about my situation. I currently have a ti4200 @ 4600 speeds and 512 mb of pc2700(look in sig for complete stats). Anyways, I'v been noticing some slow downs in certain games like Painkiller, UT2K4 and Farcry. I do not run the settings very high, 1024 res with medium quaility. In UK4 I run 1024 res w/everything except characters on very low. I still experince slow downs when running into a few people on my screen at once and in general running around.

Well, my question is if this has to do w/my video card or more my memory. I hear people say you need more memory to play current games smoothly. I also know the ti4200 is pretty outdated and I AM going to upgrade to a 9800 pro within the next few weeks...just wanted to know if I should get more RAM too

thanks!

 

[WuzFast]

I'd get 512 more ram too. I noticed the difference in Far Cry.

 

[RS3RS]

Memory, no doubt. UT usually uses about 640 megs of ram on my system, Far Cry sometimes as much as 900. You don't want to have to use a paging file, soo... Memory

 

[afropuff]

So if I got some memory in waiting for the 9800 pro would things be more smoother with 512mb more ram and my ti4200?

thanx again

-fro

 

[WuzFast]

Yes, but you really need both.

 

[JARofHERB]

Well,,,im in the same boat as you more or less (well..a little less cause of my 9200 SE,hehe)but i have had as much as 1.5GB of ram in my system,it really isnt a huge issue.I think that 512 is ok if you have a fast directX 9 card,allthough more ram is always a +,hehehe.......
It really depends,i have had a fairly small ram footprint with ut2k4 and far cry,no more than 315 mb respectively.It would be nice to run thoes games in a ramdisk,,WoW,that would be fast....