koima57: Hehe no offense taken, at least i can stop trying to configure that old cheap card as i was thinking about a driver issue at first. Oh well game is sitting on my shelf it won't be far, meanwhile i'll still be able to enjoy the first one to some extent. Thanks for the quick replies! :)
aecon: I would give it another try with 275.33 installed with low/medium settings and 1024x768. If the card has 512MB on board and not a 256+256 shared DDR2 memory it is only a tick slower than my 9500 card and dual/core processor which runs with Vista 64 and 8 Gigs of Ram without any trouble on medium. Vista 32 is memory intensive and you may wish to shut down some processes which may be causing it to hiccup. I shut down all Media, Anti-Virus, Print Spoolers, Java+Windows+misc. updaters and take the machine offline while I play TW2 to reduce the neverending Micro$oft intrusions. I also pause when running in graphic intesive safe areas to allow the graphics to catch up. For Example: entering Flotsdam; it may take a second or two to re-write all of the backgroud. Still worth the wait in my opinion to play this excellent game.
No, the OP's card is
much slower, nothing at all like even a 9500 GT.
Counting RAM to determine how fast your graphics card is, is like measuring the size of your tires to determine how fast your car is.
The G100 is an 8-shader card. That's all the pixels it can work on at one time. The 9500 GT (which is the same as the GT120) is a 32-shader card. In theory, though it doesn't measure out quite as well in practice, it's 4 times as fast as the G100.
Since the 9500 GT can just sort of run the game, the G100 is hopeless. A suitable modern upgrade from a G100 would be to a GT 440. I wouldn't go higher, not with that slow CPU.