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    Dell XPS studio 16 graphics

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by seoulless, Sep 12, 2010.

  1. seoulless

    seoulless Notebook Guru

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    I see that the studio 16 has 1 gb shared graphics card. I don't really know all that much about computers, but my understanding is that graphic cards that share memory with the rest of the computer are generally undesirable, is this true?

    My main goal as far is gaming is concerned is to run old playstation games like ff7 through an emulator.
     
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  2. seeker_moc

    seeker_moc Notebook Virtuoso

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    No, the 1645/7 has 1GB of dedicated VRAM, not shared. Also, you really don't need that much to run PS1 games. The emulator may be inefficient, and have significant CPU overhead, but GPU wise a much slower card would have no problem running it. I mean, the PS1 only had 1 MB of video ram...
     
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    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    The 1645 can run Wii and PS2 games fluently even wii upscaled to 720p so don't worry.
     
    Brendanmurphy, Sep 12, 2010
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