im getting a geforce 6200 tc 512mb, and i have a pc with windows xp, 2gb ram and 2.66ghz cpu. what games can i run? can it handle ut2004 at medium? thanks in advance
Yes it runs ut2004.
It runs most dx9 stuff fine-ish at medium-ish, especially if the 2.66GHz is in a Core2 based cpu.
st31276a wrote on 2026-06-08, 13:48:Yes it runs ut2004.
It runs most dx9 stuff fine-ish at medium-ish, especially if the 2.66GHz is in a Core2 based cpu.
Medium? At 640x480 or maaaybe 800x600.
This GPU is basically low-end, especially TurboCache edition.
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LuzRoja29 wrote on 2026-06-08, 13:06:im getting a geforce 6200 tc 512mb, and i have a pc with windows xp, 2gb ram and 2.66ghz cpu. what games can i run? can it handle ut2004 at medium? thanks in advance
Games from late 98/early XP era. Forget about Crysis, forget FEAR.
Did you buy it or get for free?
Bad english? Don't mind, i'm still learning
WinSxS wrote on 2026-06-08, 14:15:Games from late 98/early XP era. Forget about Crysis, forget FEAR.
Did you buy it or get for free?
i bought it for an aproximated price of 37 dollars.
the heaviest game i want to play is ut2004, sims 2, maybe spore
Yeah, id say top end is UT2004, BF1942 and you can probably get Doom 3, HL2 and Far Cry running if you compromise resolution and settings enough. Nice card for Need for Speed underground and earlier, lots of RTS of the time, some Dungeon Siege type games and so on, even with otherwise ordinary P4 set up
Hi,
While the regular 6200 was not that horrible in performance as the FX5200, the TC "TurboCache" edition like WinSxS mentioned is a quite bad performer, mind the regular 6200 was also a low-spec card, but the TC edition also had bad memory throughput because most of its memory is system RAM accessed through the PCIe Bus.
If you are interested in technical details TurboCache worked in such ways that the 6200 had a very small, I think at most 64 MB memory installed on the card itself, and it borrows the rest of the memory from the system through the PCIe interface, so it is not only a low performing card, it will also lower the system memory available to programs and takes memory bandwidth from the processor (Depending on the CPU-MB combo this can result in a none to small performance decrease to the CPU itself, so the card in not only a low performer, depending on the MB-CPU combination it can make the CPU perform worse).
Personally I would only use the 6200 TurboCache in desktops that rarely if ever need to run a 3D application, it makes more sense as a Windows GUI accelerator than a gaming card.
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it." - Dune
6200TC 512Mb has 128 Mb of real memory, I think. So it's just a normal 6200 with 64-bit bus. It can't handle games that require something beyond 128Mb anyway.
No need to play UT2004 on low-end Windows XP system though.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
There are different versions of the 6200TC.
I had a GV-NX62TC256D8 (Gigabyte) with 128MB and it was quite fast, it played UT2004 rather well.
In contrast so that, I also got some Asus version with 64MB at some point and was rather disappointed in it, as it is visibly much slower.
What fascinates me most is that you seem to have one that still works. I have three 6200TC’s at the moment, all three are dead.
Nvidia products are garbage.
