Cody,
What kind of Mother Board Chipset (Or Mobo if you are using the slang) do you have. In general if you are using the integrated video on your mother board, it usually isn't the best choice for 3d video games. The few exceptions are the Geforce cards from nvidia and the ATI radeon 8500 or 9000 or 9700. I think you said that you have a Savage 3d. These cards pretty much aren't so good. If you weren't able to find a 3d hardware acceleration vs. software acceleration switch within the game, you probably need to upgrade your video card. Your proccessor is plenty fast, and I don't think you have a shortage of RAM, although I prefer 512 megs and up of ram, 256 should be plenty. I would recommend getting a geforce 2 or better, or an ATI radeon 8500 or better. Of course the stiplutaion being that the better card you get the more likely it is going to be able to handle more advanced games/simulations that software developers put out in the future, but of course, the better cards are more expensive. Again if you decide to get a better video card, check www.pricewatch.com. They list the prices of many vendors and online mail-order companies. Check www.maximumpc.com, and www.tomshardware.com for many video card and hardware reviews. I hope I have helped.

Allan