[Macros]

damnit.
now I want

how does one run a systems diagnostic to see what my specs are?

[Traveller]

If you don't have anything suitable, I'd recommend this...

http://www.belarc.co...e_download.html

It's called Belarc Advisor, it's a free program you can download. It checks your drives, and gives you a very detailed list of all your computer specs, installed hardware, versions, types...everything. Quick and easy too.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 05 March 2009 - 03:47 PM

[Macros]

cheers traveller, thats an awesome app.

I've (apparently) got 2 gb of ram and 2ghz processor. Hopefully that will be sufficient

will have to investigatge if a "ATI Mobility Radeon X1300" is a powerful enough graphics thingy

[Impirion]

 Macros, on Mar 5 2009, 05:22 PM, said:

cheers traveller, thats an awesome app.

I've (apparently) got 2 gb of ram and 2ghz processor. Hopefully that will be sufficient

will have to investigatge if a "ATI Mobility Radeon X1300" is a powerful enough graphics thingy

Is the processor dual core? because if not, then that's not enough, needs 2.4Ghz I think.

You can run dxdiag to find your specs

This post has been edited by Impirion: 05 March 2009 - 05:36 PM

[Macros]

god dmnait
seriously?

thats ridiculous, god damn shitty laptop.

time to break the home computer and suggest to parental unit is beyond repair.

eta - dxdiag suggests i have:

intel® Core™ 2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
2046MB RAM

and my radeon is approx total memeory of 128 mb


most definately insufficient

This post has been edited by Macros: 05 March 2009 - 05:50 PM

[Impirion]

If you have dual core you should be fine. the 2.4 Ghz is only for single core. However, your video card is definitely not good enough.

From notebookcheck: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 is one of the weakest graphic cards from ATI. It can hardly be used for current games.

[Mentalist]

cheer up, maccy, at least it's better then my Mobility IGP 9000....

[Macros]

i can run tiberium wars on it, its pretty new, RA3 as well.
med tw 2 runs aswell, but seeing pretty boat pictures makes me doubt empire will run

[Mentalist]

Jesus, i've just checked notebookcheck

my videocard's only 64 MB
yet i'm running medieval 2 on it... how?

[Impirion]

yeah that seems weird as the specs want 128mb memory card. Maybe you have a pimped up one and you didn't realise?

Also, how slow is it on your comp?

This post has been edited by Impirion: 05 March 2009 - 07:20 PM

[Mentalist]

lol
not, very,haven't played in a while though

I don't mind the slowness, makes for better tactics, more time to think.
But I mean, i also ran DoW on this laptop...

I'l be getting a new one when SCII finally comes out.

[Macros]

ditto to that.
but i can see myself just buying a pimped tower and poaching the rest of other peoples cast offs. cheaper

[Wry]

Everest Everest is also good for checking your specs, gives alot of detail.

I'm thinking i may need to upgrade my graphics card

[Mentalist]

lol
I heart my laptop, especially now that it's been upgraded from 512 MB to a glorious 1.5 Gigs of RAM

I'd much rather get a GFX upgrade than a new laptop, since they'll insist on sticking Vista into into it... and I want to stick with XP.

[Traveller]

I've got a 2.60g processor, which is a few years old now. I upgraded to a whole gig of RAM when Medieval 2 came out, and also got a GeForce 6200 for cheap.

Empire is running ok so far, not on highest detail level, but looks good enough!

Only problem I have is the video - the intro and the in-game clips are so slow i just have to skip 'em.

I'm sure you can find a 250mb card that isn't that expensive. I might have to have alook, just so I can speed it up a bit...

This post has been edited by Traveller: 05 March 2009 - 08:31 PM

[Macros]

is upgrading the video card in a laptop hard?

[Mentalist]

has to be compatible
laptops have limitations--for my RAM, for example, I could only put in a DDR (nowadays everyone uses DDR II-type RAM), and the max I could upgrade by was 1 Gig.

i'd heve to look up the specs to see what's the best GFX my motherboard'd be compatible with.

my laptop's over 4 years old though, I got it before Uni, and even then it wasn't top of the line.

[Impirion]

 Mentalist, on Mar 5 2009, 07:20 PM, said:

lol
not, very,haven't played in a while though

I don't mind the slowness, makes for better tactics, more time to think.
But I mean, i also ran DoW on this laptop...

I'l be getting a new one when SCII finally comes out.

I have heard that SC II (assume it's starcraft) is really undemanding, as is usual with Blizzard games. They just are so popular because of their great gameplay, although saying that, SC did have a rather easy winning tactic.... Zerg rush!!!

[Mentalist]

lol, well, I'm expecting it'll ask for 256MB, at least.
plus DIII won't possibly be too far behind.. *drools in anticipation*

[beru]

my pc was to crap to play the game... (need one more gb ram and a better processorSp) but we will se how costy it is to upgrade it was needed enyway