Why is my new graphics card not enough?

[nobodyslove]

I just got a new grapics card for my Windows XP. A Diamond Stealth ATI Radeon 9250 with a spaking new power supply.

And yet... I still cannot play the games I want. Error message: "Your Grapics card does not meet requirements"

PLEASE please, help me with this. I was foolish and relied on a random computer tech who obviously did not listen to me when I said I wanted to game freely over any game.

Games tested and failed: Star Wars the Old Republic, Rift and Spore Creature Creator.

Games Playable: Zoo Tycoon, Battle for Middle Earth I and II and Red Alert 2.

 

[trapper]

like six hundred bucks....

You need to go in a talk to them. You could have bought a new PC for that price that would have done all you wanted and more.

Is it a small local shop? Or a big chain? Either way...the price charged is ridiculous.

 

[nobodyslove]

Give the place bad reviews online.

Thats easy, it was Staples EasyTech

 

[fb39ca4]

like six hundred bucks....

I would complain to the upper management about this now.

 

[Guest]

Get your money back! Once this mission is acomplished, several of us here can help get you started on building your own rig. You would`ve been better off to just buy a prebuilt anything. That is obviously still a real option.

 

[nobodyslove]

Get your money back! Once this mission is acomplished, several of us here can help get you started on building your own rig. You would`ve been better off to just buy a prebuilt anything. That is obviously still a real option.

I most certainly will get my money back. I wish one of you could go with me to really insult the troll.... but I guess I am alone on that.

But thank you all. I shall ...hopefully...return with good news and some bucks to make a decent gaming comp.

 

[kulmnar]

like six hundred bucks....

If this is true ($600 for an ATI 9250 and a PSU upgrade to run the 9250), then I say the tech guy is the biggest of the small crooks in the world.

For around $650, you can have online retailers build a new low-end gaming PC for you that includes a 1 year warranty. Typically the PC will include a core i3 2120 3.3 Ghz CPU (a gazillion times better than a pentium 4) and a GTX 550 Ti 1GB video card (another gazillion times better than a 9250) and a Corsair 650W TXV2 power supply (I am willing to guess this PSU is also a gazillion times better than the one the tech guy sold u).

 

[paddys09]

Just read through this thread, I pray to god you are trolling us! $600 for a 9250 and a psu? what?

Make sure you get every last cent back, I wouldnt be satisfied until the guy ate the graphics card and the psu infront of me. You got short changed about $590.

 

[nobodyslove]

Just read through this thread, I pray to god you are trolling us! $600 for a 9250 and a psu? what?

Make sure you get every last cent back, I wouldnt be satisfied until the guy ate the graphics card and the psu infront of me. You got short changed about $590.

im not trolling.... and he also gave me a stick of memory, which i see is only 512 mbs but he charged me for a gb.

 

[paddys09]

Then seriously, make sure you get all your money back, thats shocking. Half a gb of ram is worth nothing these days so my comment still stands.

Have you spoken to them yet?

 

[nobodyslove]

Then seriously, make sure you get all your money back, thats shocking. Half a gb of ram is worth nothing these days so my comment still stands.

Have you spoken to them yet?

I have and they want to give me a steep dicount on one of their desktops. Sice its Staples they cant "return" the items.
But they do not have what i want. Suggestions?

 

[trapper]

I have and they want to give me a steep dicount on one of their desktops. Sice its Staples they cant "return" the items.
But they do not have what i want. Suggestions?

So they admitted that someone screwed up? Thats good to hear at least. But no money back, just a trade towards a new PC?

 

[nobodyslove]

So they admitted that someone screwed up? Thats good to hear at least. But no money back, just a trade towards a new PC?

yep, basicily. my computer is slowly getting worse to... it wont install my games. But I will be deleting them soon enough as I am getting a new comp. But not from them.

 

[trapper]

Glad to hear that man, just sucks that you had to go thru all that.

 

[paddys09]

I have and they want to give me a steep dicount on one of their desktops. Sice its Staples they cant "return" the items.
But they do not have what i want. Suggestions?

Im not from the US, so don't know the ins and outs of the law where you live, where I am from the UK, we have the a government body known as 'Trading Standards' and laws preventing things like this from happening. If you got the opportunity to explain this infront of a judge, your guaranteed to walk away with your money, Im sure there is something similar in the US.

Don't roll over speak to a solicitor/lawyer.

They are a big company, they are not going to take the risk of damaging their name, you just need to apply pressure!