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    Graphics Card Issue...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by xBEEMANx, May 31, 2009.

  1. xBEEMANx

    xBEEMANx Notebook Guru

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    I bought some games while back, and after installing them found out that my graphics card isn't good enough to support it, but when going to the can you run it website, I barely pass in everything, except graphics

    Video Card

    Minimum: 256MB NVIDIA 7900+ / 256MB ATI X1900+
    You Have: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family () FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this minimum requirement.

    Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 256 MB , You have - 358 MB

    Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
    Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
    Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 3.0 , You have - 3.0
    Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 3.0 , You have - 3.0

    I understand that my graphics card isn't NVIDIA, but why do all the other tests pass? Can I trick my notebook into thinking I have a NVIDIA?
     
    xBEEMANx, May 31, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    There's no way to trick your laptop into thinking it has a different graphics card than it has...and even if you could, it wouldn't do you any good. Quite simply, you're not going to be doing much gaming on that thing.
     
    Mastershroom, May 31, 2009
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  3. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Intel integrated graphics are known for being slow, incompatible and clumsy with games newer than ~2002.

    It sounds like you are trying to run GTAIV, and I will tell you is known for bringing computers to the ground; that game barely runs on a GeForce 8600M GT which I would say is an average video card.
     
    namaiki, May 31, 2009
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  4. neilnat

    neilnat Notebook Evangelist

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    Trying to run GTA on Intel Graphics (965 even) is analagous to trying to reach a Lunar orbit in a 3 Cylinder Fiat.
     
    neilnat, May 31, 2009
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  5. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    The problem is not that your GMA X3100 lacks the necessary features, it's that it lacks the necessary processing power.
    It's like wondering why your 1.3 GHz Celeron M doesn't perform as well as a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo if they both support SSE2.
     
    TehSuigi, May 31, 2009
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