go 7200 256mb

someone fill me in on what kinda games i can play with that card, i know its not a top knotch card but id like to know what kinda games on it so i wont waste money on games i cant play.

sorry put it in the wrong catagory gettin tired here sliped up

 

It works here. It's kinda hardware related. You probably won't be able to go above stuff like Doom3 at medium to low settings, if that gives you an idea. I wouldn't even think about Oblivion, consider games that were released about a year ago or so. Far Cry should work ok at medium or so. Hope that helped.

 

Consider performance for now between 6150 and 6200. From Nvidia's site it looks like thats 256mb of system memory with no dedicated (chip is listed as not supporting any memory:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/go_7_series_techspecs.html)

 

i dont need recent recent games, just somethin that will play a pretty nice game.

 

Ok here it goes:
Warhammer
World of Warcraft
Warcraft3
Half Life2
Farcry
Counter-Strike
Doom3
Quake3
Age of Empires3
NFS Mostwanted

Id suggest setting everything LOW or MED depending on the game

 

On games like farcry and doom3 i'd say that 800x600 low details would fit the bill for that card, if your running at LEAST 1gig of ram, 2gigs would be better.

 

what don't you check here System Requirements Lab

 

i cant check to see if my system can handle it because i dont have my system yet

those sound like some cool games to check out, you think it will be able to handle flight simulator 10? i seen the requirements for it, it said something like 1 ghz processor 256 mb graphics card and im not sure bout the memory but i thin 512, im gettin a 2 ghz processor 1 gig of ram and that graphics card.

 

256mb DEDICATED graphics card

 

7200 is 64MB On Board + 192MB Shared

 

and that means? lol i dont know i guess bad lol

 

It means it takes some from your system and some from however much memory is on the card itself. FS will want a card with 256mb of ram on the board itself. The 7200 is very undocumented but going by the comment above its got 64mb of ram on the card.

 

but i think i should be able to play it though not on high settings cause im on a old old old desktop and i can play fs2002 on it but it goes into safe mode due to out dated drives which arnt avaible for xp

 

what are you thinking of buying? something llike HP dv2000t or what?

 

i ordered a dv6000z last week

 

just an fyi... madden 07 have some issues with nvidia go 7200

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/230/glitcham8.jpg

 

Does it not say there that it's the integrated 6150 chip?

 

The 7200 isnt as weak as some people are making it out to be. Not many people here (if any) who are commenting on it are either familiar with it or tested it. I have. I sell the new HP's with the 7200 on a daily basis as my shop is the main dealer of HP laptops in Ireland.

The 7200 shares the same Graphics Processing core as the 7300/7400. The 7200/7300/7400 only differ on the amount of shared/dedicated mem they have and their core/mem clock settings.

The 7300 is the standard card and is most commonly found with 64mb dedicated and supporting 256mb.
The 7400 is a beefed up 7300 which usually comes with 128mb dedicated/128mb shared (265mb total- "Turbocache". Its clocks are set higher than the 7300 as well.

Now the 7200 has the least amount of dedicated memory (either comes in "128mb Turbocache" with 32mb dedicated...or..."256mb Turbocache" with 64mb dedicated) Its clocks are also set pretty low to conserve heat and power and so that it can be viable for a very thin/light laptop.

It DOES play Doom3 at 1024x768 at Medium settings or 800x600 at high settings with NO PROBELMS. (AA OFF)
((Just for comparison so you guys dont think im gettin ahead of myself..the 7600 256 runs Doom3 at 1024x768 at "Ultra High" settings and at 1280X800 with High settings extremely smoothly))

Far cry can be played pretty much maxed out and at 1024x768 on a 7200 but shadows have to be turned off as there was "some problems" running it with shodows turned on...even though it stayed smooth!..
FEAR runs smoothly at 800x600 at medium settins (shadows off) FEAR actually plays smooth (20-25fps+ average) on an x200 at 800x600 on low to med settings!!!! I dont know how!
Half Life2 will run maxed out at 1024x768....
...and so on.......
Now all them games mentioned are pretty demanding and anything older will run very well. And by running smoothly i mean that the game maintaines a fps above 30.. which is seen as the minumum for perfectly smooth gameplay (although anything above 25fps is "OK"...

One person mentioned that Oblivion is gonna pretty much suck on a 7200 and i have to say that he is absolutly right! The same goes for any new high end game. I recently played Call of Juarez on my 7600 256mb and it struggled!

To sum up..the 7200 is a pretty weak card BUT it IS a proper gaming card and will run anything around the same spec as FEAR/Doom3 at ok/good settings. However it will not handle any of the newer demanding titles on the horizon at any more than low-slightly medium settings...

 

according to nvidias website, the 7200 has no dedicated memory

http://www.nvidia.com/object/go_7_series_techspecs.html

 

That's obviously is not true, as was stated the Go 7200 comes with either 32MB (and up to 96MB TurboCache) or 64MB (and up to 192MB TurboCache) dedicated memory.

Please stop being so naive!
Do not believe in everything what is written on the manufacturers' sites.

 

The Nvidia site doesnt say that the 7200 doesnt have any memory.
IT doesnt have any information on the spec sheet about the speed of the On board memory. Dont know why they dont have it actually. Maybe cause they dont want people to know that the memory is clocked at the same frequency as the 7300.. not sure..
But DREAMER is right in sayin that the 7200 DOES have its own memory. I have used the 6000 series Hp's and they have dedicated memory. And preform pretty well in games!

 

i got my notebook the other day but its playin two of my games really good at high settings BUT they are older games so. they are ms train simulator and fs 2002 i havent got my hands on any newer games as of yet.

 

The card is a very good card, no worries. I can play Prey, Quake 4, and Doom 3 at med/high settings. And it seems enabling AF, at any level just drops the fps by 3 or 4 fps.

 

I didnt say I personally believed it,I really could care less to be honest. I was digging up info on the 7400, read the comparison chart, then came across this thread, I was just pointing out what's on the chip makers site

 

The card is a very good card, no worries. I can play Prey, Quake 4, and Doom 3 at med/high settings. And it seems enabling AF, at any level just drops the fps by 3 or 4 fps.

That's obviously not true unless its 640x480.

 

Same as what I wast thinking. A 7200 running Prey at med/high....yeah right.

 

Actually I can get prey to run at medium with 800x600 with af at 2x, and it never drops below 20fps. I consider that playable. This is with the laptop in my sig.

 

Hi, I am running all expansion and stuff packs of Sims 2 on my brand new Pavillion dv6095ea, with Nvidia Go 7200.

Everythng runs fabulously, most settings on high, smooth edges up to top but after about an hour/hour and half of playing the system reboots.

First time i got to see the Blue screen message it mentioned infinite loop and nv4_disp so I went to HP and got the newest drivers.
But it happened again.
This time the Blue screen message said something about changing caching and shaodowing settings in bios and the main driver nv4_disp.dll.
I'd rather not change settings in bios at this stage.
I'm waiting on tech support from HP.
Would anyone agree it is a driver problem, or is it a Sims 2 problem - settings too high (all except the texture and sim detail,are as set by the game, I think I even lowered the shadow setting) or that I'm expecting too much from this display adapter? The odd thing is that as I said above it plays great for ages and then I get the BS.

Hope this is in an OK place.

 

I have a 7200 256MB in my HP, and if I want, I can push highs on Far Cry easily. On BF2 I can run everything on high, 100% draw distance, with no anti aliasing and get good framerate and still have it at 1024 x 768 resolution (stretched to full screen). FSAA is very taxing on weaker GPUs, so I never use it in favor of higher detail.

 

Eventually I found a windows update for the nvidia go 7200. Hopefully this will sort out my problem. Fingers crossed! Will be back if not.

 

This is because you are pushing the graphics card to far and it is heting up. It is basically due to overheating. You need to lower some of the settings or get a notebook cooler. This used to happen to me on my Intel GMA 915. Oh yeah, and it has happened to me with my current notebook when I was playing lost coast and pushed everything to maxed out settings, AA 8X, AF 16X, HDR at FUll and everything at max. I played for like 5 min and the screen became blue. Even though I played it for 10 minutes the game was running at like 5 fps. It was strugglin like crazy. I don't know what is with Lost Coast, it makes my computer in my sig, stuggle.

 

A geforce 7200, hmmm yeah I wonder what the problem is so!

 

Anyone have any details on how to overclock a GF Go 7200? I really want to do it, I want more POW-WAH!

 

Yeah I was wondering as well, if there is anyway to overclock.

 

The 7200 is good but not that good. STOP pushing it so hard! Dont use AA and a minimum abount of AF in games and you should be fine. Dont attempt to overclock it as the low end 7000 nvidias are very tempermental, especially when strapped to unreliable HP's!. If you insist on overclocking, use Riva Tuner and only increase the clocks by 10-15%. Increasing the clocks on the memory will have a more noticable affect than clocking the core..
Could you tell me what the Core/Memory is currently clcoked at??

 

Given that the Go7200 has a 64-bit bus and a limited amount of processing power as it is, even a moderate overclock is not going to get a substantial performance boost; I would say it is not worth the risk. Overclocking the card is not going to make games that are currently unplayable on the Go7200 playable.