Can My Computer Handle The Newer Games?

[Unseen1985]

Well I mainly want to play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and alot of the new ones. If someone could help me. Even by telling me what to upgrade to. I'd be grateful.

Specifications for eMachines W3107

Operating Systems: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition SP2

Processor Brand: AMD

Processor Class: Sempron

Processor Number: 3100

Processor Speed: 1.80GHz

Additional Technologies: HyperTransport Technology

Memory Type: DDR

Total Memory: 512MB

Interface: EIDE

Capacity: 100GB

Optical Drive Type: DVD±RW Dual Layer

Audio Description: Integrated Audio

Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics

Video Memory: up to 128MB Shared Memory

Communications Description: Integrated LAN Support 56Kbps Modem

Data Transfer Rate: 10Mbps / 100Mbps

Power: 300 Watt

[goKi]

Your video card and memory.

You definately need a new video card, and i suggest spending a few hundred if you've got it around. I'd say to get most higher end video cards, you'd also need to upgrade your power supply from 300w, to probably 450w, or even 500W, depending on the card you choose. From what i found, your machine has an AGP8X slot, which kind of limits your upgradability, seeing as all top-end video cards are PCIE-16X.
Some suggestions are:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130274
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102492
Yes, expensive, but the game is definately system intensive.

512MB of memory will run Oblivion, but the load times will be awful. I'd suggest 1GB as a minimum.

It may be easier for you to get an XBOX 360 if you really want to play it.

[MottZilla]

What are the PC system requirements?

Recommended:

* 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 1 GB System RAM
* ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card

Minimum System Requirements: New!

* Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP 64-bit
* 512MB System RAM
* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card
* and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* 4.6 GB free hard disk space
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

* ATI X1900 series
* ATI X1800 series
* ATI X1600 series
* ATI X1300 series
* ATI X850 series
* ATI x800 series
* ATI x700 series
* ATI x600 series
* ATI Radeon 9800 series
* ATI Radeon 9700 series
* ATI Radeon 9600 series
* ATI Radeon 9500 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
* NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series
* NVIDIA GeForce FX series

I think goki is right, you may be better off buying an Xbox 360 unless you have other reasons to build a whole new pc which will cost you more than an Xbox 360. My system seems capable of running Oblivion if I were to upgrade my card, which I plan to do so.

[Unseen1985]

Thanks guys. But I wanted to update my new computer. Since I found out Wal-Mart, and E-Machine cheated me out of a 512 MB Ram. I found out that I got 384 MB's installed. Which sucks cause they had ads of this computer. I called them, and they said I could get my money back. Now the manager is checking all the systems to see if they all have that. All I wanted was a 512 to play alot of my games.

Now I'm thinking of giving this computer of mine. All the upgrades it needs to make it play all the games thats current, and future. Price isn't a issue

[Grasshopper]

I'm not sure how you are checking to see how much memory you have. But maybe you still have 512 MB of RAM. Remember that your 128MB of video memory is shared amongst the system's physical memory. So you don't actually have any dedicated memory specifically for video rendering. And if 128MB of memory is taken out of the 512MB, then you are left with 384MB of RAM. I don't know of any premade computers that come with less than 512MB nowadays.

[MottZilla]

Grasshopper is spot on, integrated video generally steals some system memory. If price isn't an issue, stay the hell away from things like eMachine. It's best to have a custom built PC.