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    strategy games on HP zv6000?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Jopro, Jan 13, 2006.

  1. Jopro

    Jopro Newbie

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    Can anyone tell me if you've played stategy games in the HP Pav. zv6000? How does it perform?
     
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  2. TBird

    TBird Notebook Consultant

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    How about Civilization III?...
    I have integrated Graphics and it runs quite fast
    but NOT Civilization IV Your laptop can't handle it
    -TBird
     
    TBird, Jan 13, 2006
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  3. xAMDvsIntelx

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    Well, if you get a 1GB of RAM, you'll be able to play BF2 at low settings. NFSU will run at med.-high settings.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Jan 14, 2006
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  4. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    If it helps, I played Rise of Nations on my old PM 1.1 with the first generation of Intel's integrated graphics cards just fine.
     
    Brian, Jan 14, 2006
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    What kind of strategy games are you referring to? If the games are not particularly graphics intensive you should not have any problem. As far as Civilization IV I have not tried that yet on my zv6000 but I don't think that is a particularly graphics intensive game and I believe it would probably work.
     
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    Also, I would recommend moving this to the Gaming section.
     
    lappyhappy, Jan 14, 2006
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    AS far as Civilization IV on this lappy (zv6000)
    I don't think so...
    Civilization VI will only run on about 8 cards available right now and they include like the NVidia Geforce Graphcs Go 7800GTX and its brothers (extremely high powered graphics cards)
    Believe me I bought and tried it on a desktop with integrated graphics like this lappy and it wouldn't even play it just crashed and sent me out to the desktop
    I imagined the game saying "You are kidding right?! with that graphics card! HA HA HA you are a stupid B$%^H!!"
    So if you want to play Civ VI go to something like Sager's High Performance desktop-replacement models or for that matter any brand's high performance desktop-replacement models...
    -TBird
     
    TBird, Jan 14, 2006
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  8. lappyhappy

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    Here are the specifications required for civilization IV:

    Minimum System Requirements

    Operating System:
    Windows® 2000/XP
    Processor:
    1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent
    Memory:
    256 MB RAM (Windows 2000) / 512 MB RAM (Windows XP)

    Hard Disk Space:
    1.7 GB Free

    CD-ROM Drive :
    4X Speed

    Video:
    DirectX 9.0c-compatible 64 MB video card with Hardware T&L support ( GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)

    Sound:
    DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

    DirectX®:
    DirectX® version 9.0c (included) or higher



    Recommended System Requirements

    Operating System:
    Windows® 2000/XP
    Processor:
    1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent

    Memory:
    512 MB RAM

    Hard Disk Space:
    1.7 GB Free

    CD-ROM Drive :
    4X Speed

    Video:
    128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 8 support (pixel & vertex shaders)

    Sound:
    DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

    DirectX®:
    DirectX® version 9.0c (included) or higher



    Supported Operating Systems

    Windows 2000
    Service Pack 1 or higher WITH Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
    Windows XP
    Home or Professional w/ Service Pack 1 or higher


    The ATI 200M is higher than the Radeon 7500 so I really think that it should work fine on the zv6000. Civilization is not known to be an extremely graphics intensive game.
     
    lappyhappy, Jan 14, 2006
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