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    NFS Pro Street Supported on SZ with 64-MB nVidia

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Willy330Ci, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. Willy330Ci

    Willy330Ci Notebook Consultant

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    The Game is Just Released and its ROCKING GREAT, will our beautiful SZ48GN with the specs. at my signature support this game, even with minimal dsiplay / graphic quality? The Game is 5 GB Im downloading it now, and at the support site they say the minimum VGA card should be 128 MB, ours is 64, do u think it can run?

    Please Please Please Respond back:eek: :eek:
     
  2. roor

    roor Notebook Deity

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    well the turbocache would help i would think. im not sure, it should run. but i dont now how good it will run.

    try it out and let us know, i was wondering the exact same thing.
     
  3. mandeep

    mandeep Notebook Consultant

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    i doubt it will even open
     
  4. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    I am going to try the demo first.
     
  5. Willy330Ci

    Willy330Ci Notebook Consultant

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    any success guys the demo file is about 800 MB, i dont want to waste my time downloading it, I have 128KB DSL Connection it will take 30 hours.

    Plz let me know, Im dying to get it and PLAY with it, Also I presume that the 64 MB we have will be supported by the 2 GHZ with 4 MB CACHE, plus the Ample 2.0 GB RAM

    Right?

    or it all depends on the VGA even with Pentium 3 CPU

    Another Question our machines has 64 MB dedicated, but does it share with RAM to have more memory allocated? if you can confirm this, then we will have the game working awesomely.

    Regards;

    Willy
     
  6. Hunningolla

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    Yes it shares ram. The 8400m gs shares upto 831 if I recall correctly
     
  7. Willy330Ci

    Willy330Ci Notebook Consultant

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    GUYS IT ROCKS, It worked like a Charm, with 800x600 Resolution, I just Discovered that the SOP nVidia Card of mine shared total of 800+ cuz I have 2GB Ram now, You all should try it, it really implies new AI Generation, Ultra Amazing Graphics, and with our SZ, its really beauty.

    Wily
     
  8. SirRobin

    SirRobin Notebook Evangelist

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    Which settings did you use? All on high or medium?
     
  9. Willy330Ci

    Willy330Ci Notebook Consultant

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    dunno about that, I just setuo 800x600, Remeber!!! its the Demo version that I have, not the retail, I dunno how would the retail BE/ RUN
     
  10. jassalmithu

    jassalmithu Notebook Guru

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    nice to hear bout it. i am also d/l it and just cant wait. and if anyone could please tell me how much graphics RAM is available for use in nvidia cards in sz6 laptops.i am asking about real onboard RAM not the total shared RAM
     
  11. Hunningolla

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    64 for the "lesser" ones but I think I read somewhere that the premium models would have 128. Not sure on this one as its just smth I think I've read
     
  12. Willy330Ci

    Willy330Ci Notebook Consultant

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    Real Onboard Video RAM For the SZ = 64 MB Only, and if you have:

    1. 1 GB DDR RAM it will share from it and be = 380+

    2. 2 GB DDR RAM it will share from it and be = 830+ MB

    Thats great...

    The Game is Running Great in both Cases , so dont you worry about the ONBOARD Video RAM, you will not feel a single glitch!
     
  13. XPSdaBest

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    i played it on the highest resoluition but i turned all the details off and it ran smooth
     
  14. Redline

    Redline Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    Hmm, I ran it at 800x600 and mid-low settings, it did ok, at best. I'm actually not a fan of the game much either since Most Wanted was a better arcade game, and full on race sim isn't a strong suit of EA, so I uninstalled it now. The SZ6 should definitely do better, since it has the GS instead of the G...