My laptop and gaming

herman2811

I downloaded the demo version of a game onto my laptop, and when I try to play it, I get the message:

"Warning, your computer does not meet the minimum specifications necessary to run this software.
You may experience errors during operation.
The video card does not have the necessary specifications."

My options are to to abort, retry and ignore.

When I ignore this message, the demo does load up and seems to work ok.

My question is this:

If I was to buy the full version of this game, will it work, given that the demo version seems to?

I obviously don't want to waste my money!

sco0ter

If you tell us the laptop spec and game then it might help..

Demos can be different to the full game as they get tweaked and improved but can also need slightly different equipment to run.

ianian99

your laptop is old , get a newer one.

sco0ter

ianian99 wrote: »

your laptop is old , get a newer one.

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ianian99

"Warning, your computer does not meet the minimum specifications necessary to run this software.
You may experience errors during operation.
The video card does not have the necessary specifications.

looks like you have an older laptop

herman2811

sco0ter wrote: »

If you tell us the laptop spec and game then it might help..

Demos can be different to the full game as they get tweaked and improved but can also need slightly different equipment to run.

My laptop is actually quite new.... about 3 or 4 months old!

It's a Dell Inspiron 6400, Vista, 1.86GHz, 2gig RAM. I don't know anything about graphics/video cards, and wasn't thinking about gaming when I bought the laptop, so don't know what I have (not sure how to find out either)

The game I'm trying to play is Pro Evolution Soccer 2008.

epz_2

ianian99 wrote: »

your laptop is old , get a newer one.

could be brand new but if the op is trying to play crysis with integrated graphics they are stuffed.

we need to know the make & model of the laptop and the game/genre they want to play

epz_2

herman2811 wrote: »

My laptop is actually quite new.... about 3 or 4 months old!

It's a Dell Inspiron 6400, Vista, 1.86GHz, 2gig RAM. I don't know anything about graphics/video cards, and wasn't thinking about gaming when I bought the laptop, so don't know what I have (not sure how to find out either)

The game I'm trying to play is Pro Evolution Soccer 2008.

odds are you have intel integrated graphics, football games arent that demanding and while integrated graphics are hidious it may be able to still run it, as the rest of the specs are healthy, ignore the comment and try it a very low rez working up till it aint playable.

herman2811

Thanks for that... if anyone else has any opinions, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

sco0ter

Make sure you have the latest card manufacturers drivers for your card and not the ones from the laptop manufacturer..