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Colten Dilweg
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Join date: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
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09-19-2006 13:53
Would anyone happen to know how well the game runs with a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE video card?
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Phoenix Psaltery
Ninja Wizard
Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,599
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09-19-2006 14:01
So far as I know, the 6150LE chipset is designed for shared video memory, i.e. it uses a portion of your system's main RAM for its video memory. In most cases, this results in absolutely horrible performance in SL.
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Colten Dilweg
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jul 2006
Posts: 2
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Video Card
09-19-2006 14:09
really? someone else told me it runs the game very well. a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU?
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Ron Overdrive
Registered User
Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
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09-19-2006 16:05
don't go with anything less then a 6600GT or equivalent ATI card.
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 2,716
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09-19-2006 19:22
I just upgraded one of my older machines. Before I go any further, this machine was meant to be a cheap upgrade, a minimal 64 bit machine to run Vista RC1. The motherboard has intergrated Nvidia 6100 graphics. The graphics eat up 32mb of system RAM. Running with 1gb of DDR400, this machine would not even load SL. Just a black screen.
The 6100 series chipset just was never meant for gaming, and SL is most likely too much for it. In my case, the motherboard had a PCI Express slot, which is now occupied by a GeForce 7300GS card (sticking to the overall cheap theme), 256mb. It will run SL with ripple water, bump mapping and shiny. The 7300 isn't a great card, but it will do the job. Lastly, avoid any video card that is a LE model. LE cards tend to have chips that don't meet standards, and are packaged as dumbed down budget versions.
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