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    Age of Conan and Dell M1530

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by iamallama, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. iamallama

    iamallama Notebook Enthusiast

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    Age of Conan recommends at least 512mb of videocard ram
    the dell M1530 has only 256MB of ram but at DDR3. The game wont give me any problems will it?

    and the 8600 with 256 i have will perform better than an 8600 with 512 at DDR2 even thou the game recommends 512?
     
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    On low or low/medium settings it will play fine. Some tweaking with the game settings will be required for optimal performance.
     
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    128bits card can only use 256MB so no difference for you. The 512MB 8600M GT are DDR2 thus slower than yours.

    Don't use low, it's broken.

    High with shadow & grass OFF + shader 2.0 is the way to go. 15~60FPS @1680x1050 on a DDR2 8600M GT so I assume you are at 1280x800? The game will run very good

    I also have enabled bloom
     
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