Can a Go7400 Play 2142?

My question is, if a Go7400 could play Battlefield 2142 well. I dont expect to play on the highest graphic settings but could it manage? Thanks

 

yes it will play the game

 

It'll definetly play. I haven't played the full game, but my GF Go 7200 (which is similar to the 7400) played it fine. Despite being the same engine as the BF2 (which I can run really well), it runs slower and is more finnicky. Leave it to DICE to badly code a game again to where it crashes for no reason.

 

Yea i pllay 2142 alot, but still enjoy a game of BF2. I am looking at the XPS M1210 and i really like it. I hope that it would

 

Go with something that possess a much better GPU set up for games.

 

Yea im looking at the Asus G1, but it is a bit too much money. I think the XPS wil work nicely

 

Well one thing to consider is the really crappy memory interface with the 7400 and it's dedicated VRAM. The GF Go 7200, 7300 and 7400 set ups all use the same GPU core know as the G72M and the dedicated VRAM memory bit interface for all of them is only 64-bits wide, which is very weak by today's standards. With my experience of having the Go 7200 set up, I can tell you that newer games that are built with a 128 or 256 bit interface in mind will not perform up to par even if you compared the G72M GPU to other GPUs with similar performance. The 64 bit memory interface is a bottleneck.

The 7400 memory set up out of the factory on that Dell is 128 MB of dedicated VRAM running on a g4 bit GDDR3 bus @ 700 MHz, resulting in a piss poor 7.2 GB per second data transfer rate. Even with the core and memory overclocked, you'd still have the bottleneck to deal with. If you really want to play BF2142 with decent settings, I really suggest getting a different GPU. The X1400 is similar in performance, yet possesses a 128 bit memory bus, so it's more suited for newer games. It would actually be worth overclocking.

 

The 64-bit bus doesn't cripple the Go7400 - it peforms almost identical to the 128-bit X1400.

The 64-bit bus would only start 'bottlenecking' the card at high res, high details or with AA and AF - something which you wouldn't be able to do on the Go7400 and X1400 anyway with the majority of recent games, so your point about it being totally unsuited to modern games is not relevant, really.

People also lamented that the 7600GT was 'only' 128-bit bus, yet it absolutely destroyed alot of the 256-bit cards. It's not as black as white as you make it out to be, especially in this case.

Take a look at my Go7400 screenshot thread here