can this graphics card play any games

barginboyrob

well.......i bought the laptop, (compaq presarioR4000) and found out that in fact it can't play pro evo smoothly not even at medium detail, 800 v 600 !

doh!

gaming_guy

T4i wrote:

System Requirements:

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Intel Pentium III 800MGHz or equivalent processor (Athlon/Duron/Celeron)
128 MB RAM
4X DVD-ROM Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 3 or ATI Radeon 8500 video card
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
DirectX 8.1 or higher (included on Disc 1)
*Network(TCP/IP 128kbps or higher)
800MB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Windows 2000/XPIntel Pentium IV 1.4GHz processor
256 MB RAM
8X DVD-ROM Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti, ATI Radeon 9600, or higher
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
DirectX 8.1 or higher (included on Disc 1)
*Network(TCP/IP 1.5Mbps or higher)
3GB free hard disk space

SUPPORTED CHIPSETS:
NVIDIA - GeForce 6800, GeForce FX (5950, 5900, 5800, 5600, 5200), GeForce4 Ti, GeForce3
ATI - Radeon x800, 9800, 9700, 9600, 9500, 9200, 9000, 8500

* Only needed for Network play

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A ATi 9600 has 325Mhz core speed. Yours has 350Mhz core speed. Will play it no problems!

so what is MGHz then? :rotfl:

barginboyrob

it's AMD athlon 3500+ (2.2ghz actually.......).man why is the game being so slow!!!! ARRRGGHHHHH

p.s. and 1024ram

Blacksheep1979

because its not just down to amount of ram on the video card or its speed the type of ram, no. of pipelines etc all make a difference - the reason why it doesn't play the game well is its a mobile graphics chip designed for low power consumption and not for gaming.

Toxteth_OGrady

@bbrob

Go to this link (Futuremark), download and run the 3D Mark 05 benchmark on your laptop and post back with the score you get.

:cool:

TOG

barginboyrob

Got 701 on default settings...........

Toxteth_OGrady

Typical scores for your cpu/graphics combo are in the range 400 - 750, so your system's gaming performance is to spec.

:cool:

TOG

nickmack

As you've found out, most laptops are no good as games machines.

Your 200M graphics card is roughly equivalent to a GeForce 5700 in a desktop machine.

The performance should be decent enough for mainstream apps and most older games though.