Error with ATI Driver

[DuoMaxwell]

Thats the way things go, especially for games, many new hardware featres are added over the years, parts get much faster with every new generation as well.

Look at it this way tho, if you pt a decent more current graphics card in your box and install a 3D window manager like Compiz or Beryl that offloads all of the stuff on screen to the graphics chip instead of doing much of it on the CPU you will add a bit more responsiveness to everything that your compter does.

Graphics cards are for allot more then gaming these days, the most recent ones also have video processing codecs hard coded into the card allowing even the most demanding super high qality videos to play on your computer without skipping.

This can be seen easily with a 1080i or better video from a site like http://www.apple.com/trailers/

Some ppl think that 1920x1080 video is a bit excessive, but if you get a decent HD LCD or plasma screen TV that is really an HD screen thats the native resolution, and most of these tvs have a DVI jack so you can conect your computer to it, that or they always have an HDMI jack and you can just pick up a DVI to HDMI adaptor.

Theres also that 24" and 27" 1920x1200 LCD sceens are becomming more and more common, these like those TVs require a bit of oomph from your comp to run at their native resoltion.

30" LCD monitors are even more demmanding comming in at 2560x1600 resolution are real monsters for your computer to handle unless you have a serious graphics card.

I'd personally love to have an 8800GTX graphics card pushing a nice 46" LCD tv haning from my wall, could use the comp sitting in a nice comphy chair lol.