Well, luck is with me! I was in staples the other day grabbing a binder and some transparency sheets for my mass of marketing handouts, when I happened by the discount table....
I found an NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX, 64mb video card for thirty dollars. It's probably about two years old, but even older cards usually sell for about a hundred bucks (the 128 version was also at the same table for about ninety, and there were two Radeon cards there with the same specs, for almost twice the price) since the new ones are upwards of two to three hundred.
I took my chances and bought it (I don't really have much perspective in terms of video cards) but it turns out that it's a good card, and Phil installed it for me, and now Halo works wonderfully, and Armed and Dangerous will actually run (though it doesn't have controller options- damnit!). Phil also gave me some spare RAM that he had, so now I have about 380mb of RAM, and I won't have my in-built video card leeching off of it anymore. W007!
The downside is, I can't run games at the highest resolution and such because my monitor goes all screwy and the picture messes up. Another indication I need a new monitor.
*sigh* Owning a computer is like owning a car.
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Very true, though I have yet needed to pop open a computer and spray it with oil to stop it from squeaking. *though a common problem with my car*
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