System Specs Help

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03-18-2013
Foxes

System Specs Help

Alright, so Sins of a Solar Empire is on sale on Steam for about 7 USD, which excites me greatly. Unfortunately I have a problem, namely that my computer is a piece of shit.

My processor is .1 GHz below the minimum requirement, which I think might be okay, but the graphics are potentially a problem. I have a "Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" functioning as my graphics card, and the game requires an "AMD Radeon 9600 / Nvidia GeForce 6600 or Better."

Can anyone translate that to English and tell me if my graphics card is too shitty to run the game?
03-18-2013
Kill Bones

Delete system 32, it'll increase the runtime of your PC and improve the graphics
03-18-2013
Foxes

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Originally Posted by Kill Bones

Delete system 32, it'll increase the runtime of your PC and improve the graphics

I am extremely dubious of this claim and unsure of how to do that regardless.

Just did it.
03-18-2013
Hank

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Originally Posted by Foxes

Alright, so Sins of a Solar Empire is on sale on Steam for about 7 USD, which excites me greatly. Unfortunately I have a problem, namely that my computer is a piece of shit.

My processor is .1 GHz below the minimum requirement, which I think might be okay, but the graphics are potentially a problem. I have a "Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset Family" functioning as my graphics card, and the game requires an "AMD Radeon 9600 / Nvidia GeForce 6600 or Better."

Can anyone translate that to English and tell me if my graphics card is too shitty to run the game?

Mobile integrated graphics chips are designed to run the visual elements of an operating system and whatever most websites on the internet can display. They don't do videogames.

Let me be frank here: you don't have a graphics card. There isn't one present in your computer. What you have is a barebones chipset designed to make your computer function at the most basic level. It won't suffice, Foxes.
03-18-2013
Foxes

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Originally Posted by Hank

Mobile integrated graphics chips are designed to run the visual elements of an operating system and whatever most websites on the internet can display. They don't do videogames.

Let me be frank here: you don't have a graphics card. There isn't one present in your computer. What you have is a barebones chipset designed to make your computer function at the most basic level. It won't suffice, Foxes.

I dunno, dude, Shogun 2 works fairly well.
03-18-2013
Sora

Run a magnet along your graphics card, electricity is magnetic so it'll polarize the pixels and will be able to run better.
03-18-2013
Kill Bones

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Originally Posted by Foxes

I am extremely dubious of this claim and unsure of how to do that regardless.

Just did it.

now download some more RAM
03-18-2013
Hank

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Originally Posted by Foxes

I dunno, dude, Shogun 2 works fairly well.

That's surprising, considering that chipset is about comparable to a GeForce FX 5200, which is a videocard released 10 years ago.
03-18-2013
Foxes

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Originally Posted by Hank

That's surprising, considering that chipset is about comparable to a GeForce FX 5200, which is a videocard released 10 years ago.

As far as I can tell it can run things on minimum settings up until the minimum requirements of the Fall of the Samurai expansion pack. It went through a weird phase where it would refuse to run it, but at some point it stopped fucking around and it works alright now.
03-18-2013
Azarthes

It probably won't run on your system.