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Lycie Yalin
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Join date: 25 Sep 2007
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12-02-2007 05:26
Hello everybody ! I'm about to buy a new laptop and I want to be sure the graphics card will be compatible with Second Life and its wonderful WindLight  )) I found an Acer laptop with a nVidia GeForce 8400M GS. And I see at System Requirements webpage that it seems compatible (GeFroce 8000 series). Yes, but what does mean the "M GS" notation ? And I don't see it in the graphic here : http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/15/typical-frame-rate-performance-by-graphics-cardgpu/#more-1388. I think it's OK but could you confirm me please Many thanks. Have a good day. Lycie. |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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12-02-2007 06:24
From: someone NVidia GeForce 8400M GS is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7400 for laptops and technologically a slower 8400M GT video card. The performance is slightly above the 7400 and therefore it can represent current games fluently with reduced details / resolutions. For people who play occasionally, it may be sufficient.
The particularity of this video card are the "Unified Shader". Pixel- and vertex-shaders do not exist any more but 16 of the so called stream processors do the graphic work. There's more on the 8400M GS at http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-GeForce-8400M-GS.3709.0.html
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Jaysin Westland
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Join date: 2 Dec 2007
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12-02-2007 10:48
The good news is that when I put 'nVidia GeForce 8400M GS' into the forums search, only 4 threads come up. (Yours included) There weren't really any problems with it for anyone here it seems.
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Lycie Yalin
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Join date: 25 Sep 2007
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12-02-2007 11:37
Thanks a lot. I think I will buy the laptop with this graphics card Have a good day. |
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Strife Onizuka
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12-02-2007 14:57
Nobody has complained about compatibility issues with the 8400M GS on JIRA yet.
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Memnoch Matzerath
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Join date: 20 May 2006
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12-02-2007 15:37
My laptop is running the Nvidia Geforce 8400M GT, which one step above the GS. Things have been fine for me. With the culmination of the rest of my machine I can max out the settings for Windlight and still get a decent framerate, along with everything else I run on it.
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Theo Kline
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Join date: 31 Dec 2006
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12-02-2007 16:11
The "GeForce 8400M GS" is the middle bracket of the 8400 series but is still considered a 'Class 3' video card. They also make a 8400M G(low end) & 8400M GT(high end) of the series. The "M" is used to denote it's the laptop version and not for a desktop. (M = Mobile) It should work well with SL. As Strife said, No Jira's about it, so that's always a plus. Seeing this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115412This specific Acer model with the same video, it's a dedicated 'card' which is always nice. |