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    Friends 2gb ram Champions Online w/ intel igp 4 series, gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mas5acre, Sep 4, 2009.

  1. mas5acre

    mas5acre Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, its been awhile since I posted here, cuz I'm building a desktop for the first time, so just sayin 'ello to this great community!
    My friend just bought a compaq with an integrated intel igp, it says its the 4 series, so I'm guessin its a x4500.....not sure. Though he was playin Champions Online and it seemed almost playable, he only has 2gb of ram, and I knowing IGP solutions required ram stealing since they have no/limited vram, I suggested upgrading to 4gb of ram. Is that a bad idea? Think it will help performance? He has vista 32bit, yes I know 32bit only uses like 3.2 gb of ram, but might as well keep it dual channel since it cost under $50 at the egg I figured. Anyway, do u think it will help?
    Also is their any new beta drivers for these things that add effects like shaders and stuff, cuz I know the x4500 is hardware shader model 3.0 compatible just not enabled in the drivers, last I checked, and that was a long time ago...
     
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  2. NAS Ghost

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    This should be in DTR

    Anyway, I dont think more ram will help unless he is running out of framebuffer. What I think would help is higher memory bandwidth, though actually acquiring that is a different story.
     
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  3. mas5acre

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    Why DTR? its a notebook he got at walmart. Its the mobile x4500 I figured it was assumed being a notebook forum. The first sentence was a shout out to all the ppl here since I haven't been visiting, I'm building a desktop, friend bought a notebook. Anyhow, I figured vista likes 2gb of ram to run comfortably, and the gpu stealing it sure isnt helping, or maybe the gpu can't steal enuff?
     
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    I just bought my son a Dell w/ Intel GMA X4500HD gpu. That video chip will handle light gaming at best, more suited to web-based/Flash games, and DVD viewing. I doubt very much you'll get any improvement with RAM upgrades and the like to play a game like Champions. My son doesn't mind because all he likes is Purble Palace since he's only 5. :)
     
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  5. TevashSzat

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    Integrated Graphics with all there getting RAM from the computer sounds nice and such but in the end you cant really do much with them......tell your friend that hes basically out of luck.

    Increasing the RAM may help him if he is using up all 2 GB and entering pagefile but other than that, not really if its his GPU thats the bottleneck
     
    TevashSzat, Sep 5, 2009
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    My bad, for some reason I thought you were talking about a desktop.
     
    NAS Ghost, Sep 5, 2009
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