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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34
Posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 793 times:

I have an averatec 3150 laptop with a S3 Pro Savage8 card with 32 mb's shared video. My question is that i installed gta3 today and it runs pretty decent just the textures dont look great and some take awhile to load. I know the card isnt the greatest, but is it cuz its shared mem? The game is designed to run on much lower end pc's IE: P3... so Any idea what the problem is?

Oh,

Other specs

1.4amd xp1600

224mb's ram

30gig hdd

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TedTAce From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 789 times:

Quoting Cadet57 (Thread starter):
1.4amd xp1600

224mb's ram

Yeah.... Shared memory: uummm hummm

On the bright side: for about $500, you should be able to get something from this century.

Bill142 From Australia, joined Aug 2004, 8320 posts, RR: 9
Reply 2, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 788 times:

Yeah laptops aren't ideal for gaming due to the shared memory.

DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 3, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 783 times:

Quoting Bill142 (Reply 2):
Yeah laptops aren't ideal for gaming due to the shared memory.

Mine is...A Dell XPS with 2Ghz Centrino, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 17" widescreen and a 256MB nVidia 6800GT video card.

Seriously though, you need something better if you want to play games on a laptop. Nothing fancy as mine but at least get rid of the shared memory.

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Boeingfanyyz From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 991 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 778 times:

Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 3):
A Dell XPS

That's quite new, isnt it?

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DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16
Reply 5, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 777 times:

Built in the midlle of last year. A few of us in our company have them for application development and contact center scripting though I did load Tiger Woods 2006 on it when I was out in SFO. It worked great and oh that big beautiful screen.

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Boeingfanyyz From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 991 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 775 times:

I'm a simmer, but I also use my computer for work.

Would you recommend it?

Prince range (CDN, please)?

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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34
Reply 7, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 753 times:

Quoting TedTAce (Reply 1):
On the bright side: for about $500, you should be able to get something from this century.

ya ummmm, for 375 this works just fine for my needs sarcastic

unless that 1.8ghz 256mb's of ram and a 40gig hdd from dell is just your ticket sarcastic

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KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12026 posts, RR: 43
Reply 8, posted (7 years 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 751 times:

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Laptop memory can be picked up reasonably cheap. Buy like 1GB of SODIMM and you might be good to go.

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