All the fun of running an ATi. Sadly ATi had a period where they were miles behind Nvidia and were still running Shader Model 1 rather then 2 back in the 9xxx days. At the time this didn't matter as Shader 2 was never heavily implemented. I think this was due to AMD's takeover of ATi which slowed the company down. They are just about catching up with Nvidia now though.
Anyway I'm digressing, Grid is an awesome game. A lot of work has been put into the games engine and it needs a good card to display the great job Codemasters have done.
I use a BFG Tech OC Nvidia 8800GTS. My system is about a year and a bit old now but handles the game well. So you can easily play the game on an Nvidia 8800 card, probably even a 8600. Not sure how much they cost now, as the 9xxx series is out, hopefully cheap for you.
Well worth the investment though, the 8xxx series can handle HD so if you ever want a cheap bluray player you can just buy a bluray drive for the machine. And when I said Grid is awesome....... best racing game is years.
A quick look on Ebuyer, you can get an 8600 for around £50 and a 8800 for around £80. I sure hope you have a PCI-e slot as AGP is really antiquated and I'm not sure there is a lot you could do there.
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