Turbocache and game system requirements

Howdy all,

Had a quick question about how turbocache is factored into system requirements. I have a Nvidia Geforce Go 7400 Turbocache card in my dell xps laptop. At the time I did not know what turbocache meant and thought the card to be pretty high end in comparison to my former computer's card. I recently found out the meaning of turbocache and now wonder where I fall when it comes to system requirements.

For instance, Age of Conan requires a 128 mb card and systemrequirementslab.com says my card is only a 64. Does this not factor in turbocache for a reason and is there an ability to turn the turbocache so it always takes 256 mb from my 2 gb of ram to use for graphics perhaps in the bios or something along those lines? This is the only thing holding me back in the required section to play the game and I think besides graphics I fall somewhere in the middle. It would be a downer to find that my card is now out of date after a little under 2 years.

 

Turbocache will never make up for raw power. It just takes a bit from the system memory to use when needed. Your VRam is what matters, and at 64mb, it's quite a bit out of touch with requirements now.

 

Actually NV's turbocache isnt that bad, its hardware based so its alit more effective than ati's hypermem. For example when i got my m1210 with only 64mb dedicated ram, in benchmark comparions to a sony vaio with the same GPU only with 128 dedicated, the m1210 didnt just keep up, it actually won several tests. I'm sure there will be a free trial when the game comes out so you can see how well it handles it.

Sys requirement lab is weird, my desktop setup has an 8800GTS 320, on some runs I fail the reccomended because of the 320, sometimes I pass as it shows the total amount including the system ram vista uses.

 

Your system memory is probably about the same speed as your 7400, and both on a 128bit bus I believe so yeah you should be okay. Since the minimum card is a 6600, it should run near the minimum though