Help me pick a video card!

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I NEED HELP! Okay, So I bought The Sims 4 for PC without even checking the requirements. Well all of my requirements are met except one. When I attempt to run the game it gives me a video card error message. So I am going to upgrade my video card so I can play the game. My computer is old and I know it. It runs a Intel® 82945G Express Chipset Family (256 MB). It is a DC7600 HP Compaq. The requirements for the game are "128 MB of video ram & support for pixel shader 3.0 supported video cards: Nividia GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon x1300 or better, Intel GMA x4500 or better." I need to know some opinions on which cards to get & which ones will fit my computer and all that good stuff! Im new to this so I need to be talked through this like a small child, lol. Oh, & I can run 240W Max and these cards don't need to be to high priced i already bought an expensive game.
 
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Minimum required for the game is NVIDIA GeForce 6600, maximum is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or better. Go for the maximum one as It may going to serve you the best possible graphics with less mess - lags - bugs - vm crashes. It will also going to serve you quite best with other games. Cheers
Just a simple solution for your query, are you looking forward to a long lasting gaming video card or just for sims 4?
Because good video cards will be quite costly enough, As far as graphic card goes, Nvidia is very easy to modify rather than AMD, Performance of both are quite matchable but AMD is quite ahead in the battle, but you can enjoy your amazing journey with Nvidia GTX 750 Ti for quite long, in fact you can enjoy more upcoming games very much. Lag free - pure smooth performance. In fact I am also using the same card.
 


Thanks for your quick reply! I just want the basic video card to run the game right. This helps thanks!
 
Minimum required for the game is NVIDIA GeForce 6600, maximum is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or better. Go for the maximum one as It may going to serve you the best possible graphics with less mess - lags - bugs - vm crashes. It will also going to serve you quite best with other games. Cheers
 
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