Curious

[jsmi0808]

I've played the demo for CotN and think it is really superb. However, I'm wondering with the minimum system requirements, would the game install on a system with a 8 MB video card. Accepted it would likely be a far inferior quality, but would it even install?

Of course, I realize the easiest solution to the problem would be updating the card - but on a laptop that's quite expensive.

[Keith]

I might install, but it may not run.

[wodinoneeye]

I've played the demo for CotN and think it is really superb. However, I'm wondering with the minimum system requirements, would the game install on a system with a 8 MB video card. Accepted it would likely be a far inferior quality, but would it even install?

Of course, I realize the easiest solution to the problem would be updating the card - but on a laptop that's quite expensive.


8meg isnt enuf to fit the textures in graphics memory so if it works at all it will probably go REALLY slow just from that aspect. And after that a card with only 8meg is also probaby (being fairly old) not too good on the graphics calculation speed (making it go even slower).

The installer will probably work (unless they did something clever and have it pretest graphics capabilities and stop the install)

[Marius]

I really would recommend a better video card.

Minimum requirement from the box is a DirectX 9.0b compatible Video card with 32MB... and thats really stretching it to minimum... game will function ... but barely.

They recommend a 64MB card on the box but I would at least double that if you can afford to.

The problem is laptop cards are not usually built for gaming purposes ...A few have nVidea graphics processors worth their salt but many older machines have pathetic cards like SuperSavage and the like. These SupSav cards were designed to be super cheap and run MSword /Office applications ... essentially to do little more than show print and static images on your screen. They do not do well with rendering on the fly.

You might consider a cheap desktop for gaming purposes... or a new laptop (i'm sure it cost less today than the last one you bought did) But if you get a laptop make sure it has a decent Video card in it as many manufacturers still put cheap low ball Vidcards in laptops.