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(More customer reviews)The XFX Radeon 4650 AGP video card will extend the life of your AGP-based system until you have enough money to upgrade to a PCIe-2.0 based system. You will need this card if you plan to play Starcraft 2 in an AGP-based system. With this card, I was able to play the Starcraft 2 Beta in 2vs2 games at [...] at 1440X900X32 bits setting with High Texture, High Shadows, High Lighting, High Shadow, High Terrain, and High Model qualities. However make sure that fuctions controleld by your CPU in Starcraft 2 are set to low like Reflections Off, Effects Low, Physics LOw and Unit Portraits 2D. In contrast, my old Nvidia GeForce 7800 card could only play Starcraft 2 Beta at its very lowest settings. Take note that I play Starcraft 2 with all sounds off.
Driver installation of the Radeon 4650 AGP is a pain in a Windows XP-based system. You will need to download the latest Catalyst AGP Hotfix drivers, unzip it and manually install the driver by pointing Windows XP to the driver. You do this by selecting the following steps:
1. " Install From A List Of A Specific Location (advanced)"
2. "Dont Search I will select the Driver To Install"
3. "Have Disk"
4. "Install From Disk Disk" window select "Browse"
5. Locate the driver in ATI/Support/10_5_agp_hotfix_xp32_dd_ccc/Packages/Drivers/Display/XP_INF/CX_99999 (Please note that this is for the Catalyst Hotfix AGP 10.5 version)
6. Select CX_99999 and presto! Windows XP wqill install the ATI Radeon 4650 AGP driver
7. Before pressing reboot disable your soundcard (you do this in the device manager of the Windows XP control panel) or else Windows XP will hang at the loading screen during the reboot
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