Video Card and frame rates

[Darryl]

Hello everyone. I've never played Dominions before and I'm an admitted Master of Magic addict who has decided to try Dominions II out. I downloaded the demo and have gone through a walkthrough and as I was doing it I noticed that watching my battles was completely unacceptable. The benchmark was 1.266 fps I believe.

Now I'm running a 1.2 Ghz Athlon with 896 MB RAM, so I figure that should be enough there. The video card is an S3 Trio3D/2X. Actually, I run dual monitors, but the one that Dominions would play on is that one (the other one is an ATI TV tuner card - I tried it on that screen as well - similar results).

Now I'm not much of a gamer and my system runs fine with everything else. So if I wanted to get a video card, I need something "with Open GL"? Supporting OpenGL? If so, any suggestions? Anything I should look for? Or is it just that battles are just painfully slow? Also, what kinds of video cards are people using? I have no intentions of getting a video card with 2 Ghz of onboard memory (you know what I mean) but something that makes the battles run more smoothly would be worth it to me. Thanks.

Darryl