Bah, I'm an idiot. I just opened my PC and the TV tuner is a seperate card from the GPU. Anways, what do you guys think of this card:

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019827&cid=999.243.272

Is it worth that kind of money or should I got for something else?

Damn, those were some fast responses. Here are the results from can you run it like you requested "biggest_loser".

MINIMUM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/Silvia_Drift/Minimum.jpg

RECCOMENDED

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/Silvia_Drift/reccomended.jpg

So I guess the consensus is that the 8500gt is too garbage. The current reccomendations are the Nvidia 8800gt and 9600gt as well as the ATI 4850. So which one of these have TV tuners and HDMI like my current 8500GT?

Hi guys. I recently bought Crysis. After hours of trying to get the game to launch without crashing, I finally succeeded in getting the 32 bit version to run. The 64 bit version just stays on a blank screen and then crashes. Anways, thats not my problem since I've read that the 32 bit version performs just as good.

My problem is that the game runs like utter garbage. This is on the lowest settings at 800x600 without AA or any of that jazz. Also, the lighting effects looked messed up too. Here are my PC's specs:

- HP Media Center PC (M840f)

- Vista Home Premium

- 4gigs of ram

- Intel Q6600 Processor (Quad core 2.4GHz 64bit)

- Nvidia 8500GT

Now I know my video card is pretty weak but I was at least expecting the game to be playable. Its running like under 20fps almost all the time and is really choppy. Anyone have any solutions? And if my video card is too crap, can some reccomend one to me thats not crazy expensive. Remember, I would like to keep my TV tuner and crap so that the Windows Media Center works properly. I would also like HDMI on the card. Thanks in advance for your help!