I bought a Game Card today at Target
 

Yea i bought a $9.95 (30 days) game card today at Target and since there was mention about system requirments a while back to play POTCO on the card there is:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Pentium 3 800mhz Processor (P4 1Ghz recommended)
512mb Ram
400 MB disk space available
32MB Video Card (64mb recommended) and i have a 256mb Nvidea 6600 old school and i still get lag.

directX 9 or better
broadband connection.

just thought i would point this out.

a good rule of thumb is to triple the requirements, when playing/buying games,

as ive never ever seen a game that ran on what they suggest as a bare minimum.

again its BARE MINIMUM so this means u can log onto the game (as if this wont take u a long time) u get to move around but very laggy u crash often ect. but according to disney you can still play the game

but yes tripling the requirements is best

Ive got tripple the requirements and I still get lag. Its all about the system than anything.

Wanna scan or take a photo of it and upload it for us all to look at?

Here's a scan of the back of the last card I redeemed:

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/6b41c42314.jpg

I've got much more than triple the requirements (2.4 Ghz Quad core, 8GB of RAM, and GeForce 8600), and I still get lag now and again. Granted, I'm running at 1680x1050, and my card is a budget gaming card. And the only time I get it, normally, is when I'm in combat. And there's a noticeable slowdown in the game.

It just irks me that my new laptop with the same graphics core, runs completely flawless (and gob-smackingly beautiful) at 1920x1200.

Ok guy who pictured the back try to do the frount, i can't do it with my camera,

It's a 3 in 1 Cellphone,Digital Camera,Mp3 player. heheheheh Praise the N73

I'm quite sure that I could not only try to scan the front of the card, but I'll just bet I could actually get it done; however, the front of the card doesn't convey any information about system requirements, and the operator doesn't respond well to commands.

errmm..our walmart ate target..

so i just use visa gift cards, have worked fine for me.

still pretty cool to see one..as i never will lol.

This was the first game that I've ever used a "game card" to pay for my subscription; I would have joined a week and a half earlier, but I didn't like the credit card agreement (too many hoops to jump through to cancel, and no chance to play out remaining credit after cancellation). I don't shop at Target that much, mostly because of the extremely poor access to parking at the unit closest to my house.

The front cover art is interesting, so for people who haven't had a chance to see the cards--here's the front:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/02a8e398bd.jpg


As a note, I am at the minimum for RAM and video (in fact, it's 32MB worth of integrated video on my notebook); and, while I do have lag etc., it isn't any worse for me than for anyone else (and much better than some people I've heard about that do have fancy video cards). I'm ready to rotate in a new desktop, and I'll likely go with at least 1GB worth of RAM, but I'd have no reason to add on any fancy video cards, as I won't purchase it just to play games. I actually use the RAM for large satellite/aerial images, and other GIS/mapping applications.

Large satilite and aerial photo's......location Florida USA......What you work for NASA or something?

No, I do not work for NASA. I work for everyone really; my organization is about research and education, but we're not operated for profit. I'm just an old run of the mill archaeologist; well, actually, diachronic anthropologist (which I'd love to explain over the course of 1 hour and 15 minutes, 3 days a week, for 16 weeks).

Here are some examples from some recent work:

1. General Land Office (GLO) Map from the early-mid 1880s, over which I've plotted the settlement pattern of two different communities.

2. After consulting the GLO records regarding the original land grants, I plot those properties over the earliest aerial I have for the county. It's from 1938, and the image is stitched together of many smaller aerials of that flyover--the full image's file size is enormous.

3. This image shows the properties over a 1958 County-produced road map (another large file in full). This period reflects some intrusion by industrial interests, and the community center has shifted slightly north from the original focus.

4. The last photo is unrelated to the area of the previous images, but the next phase will be to do some type of sub-surface exploration in the area of my new project. The photo shots an excavation unit, with the top of the natural surface just barely exposed. The road was built on top of a white sand dune in the early 1920s.

Interestingly, I found the that former roadbed of sand and shell had cemented together to become fairly impermeable. There was clear staining from the road bed level, all the way to a meter below the surface. The same type of drainage pattern could be expect anywhere such a loose substrate is not protected from road pollution by adequate drainage. In this case, it was draining right into a waterway that was a steady spring-fed run leading to a protected bay.

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that's some intresting work you do there, you blew me out of the water, it's cool though that someone with your profession find's time to play games.

good job on your end.

Thanks. It is pretty interesting work; but, like anything else, it's still important to find some time to play, to keep from getting burned out.