everything is the same just that its online.Multiplayer.

in that case, than GMA X4500MHD should be able to handle...

however, if u want to move betond that, a dedicated graphic card is still better...

I see.. Thx a lot.

no problem bro...

btw recommend any shops in PG to buy Laptops? Like studio 15?

wait..wait..

so the s42 with 9600GT 256mb is not good?

any answers to my question?

nope...

9600M GT is a mid end card after all...

even if it has only 256MB, it's still better than HD 4570 with 512MB...

anyway, for S42, 256MB is sufficient...

256 MB is sufficient because S42's screen resolution is only WXGA(1280X800).However, 512MB is normally needed for higher resolutions such as Full HD since the GPU can fully utilize its 512MB

Am i right or wrong?

that brings us to another question.. what do u use the laptop for?

assuming u ve a monitor with resolution with 1680x1050, it's best that u ve at least 512MB of VRAM if u game. But if u dun play games, and only watch videos and stuff. 256MB, or even 128MB, is already sufficient.

When u play games, eye candy like AA, AF, motion blur, etc etc, these take up memory space as well, thus we need more VRAM fro games...

if u notice, office machines are usually equipped with integrated graphic, and these graphic card usually take up abt 32MB of RAM only...

sry borrow thread a while, how do you allocate more ram for your graphic card for desktop and laptop?

the driver will do the job for you...

driver? mind elaborating more?

the driver is basically a piece of software that sits between the hardware and the OS...

when the OS wants the hardware to perform a task, it will tell the driver wat needs to be done, and the driver would then tell the hardware how to do it...

or the other way round, when we input sth, the driver would interprete the signals, and tell the OS wat has been input...

every piece of hardware has it's own driver to go with it (ie no driver, hardware dun work) keyboard, mouse, motherboard, graphic, hDD, DVD drive... all got it's own driver to make them work

so it takes ram automatically? For the graphics ?

This post has been edited by Angel01: Apr 29 2009, 10:54 AM

i know u r right..but i think he means sumting like how to share ram with the gc..some do it automatically..
but u might wanna tell angel about dvmt and shared memory settings etc,etc..

especially for laptops how to set it from the BIOS..

This post has been edited by bluehaven: Apr 29 2009, 11:00 AM

yeah yeah i mean how to increase the shared memory thing.

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Added on April 29, 2009, 11:01 amthe more ram shared with graphics the smoother your game goes right?

This post has been edited by Angel01: Apr 29 2009, 11:01 AM

ok, if u re talking abt integrated graphic, Intel will do it automatically, so u dun need to worry abt it... for ATi and Nvidia, u'll need to adjust the amount thru the BIOS of the motherboard...

if u re talking abt TurboCache and HyperMemory on dedicated cards, again the driver will do the job...

more RAM means smoother graphic, definetely, but more RAM shared also means less RAM avaliable for general usage... so u need to strike a balance between that if u re adjusting it manually...

okay..seeing how this discussion gonna go..then i gonna put it like this:
because im gonna do gaming on the s42 screen which resolution is WXGA(1280x800),and the fact that i'm not gonna use 1680x1050 monitor..so having 512mb would be overkill rite?some more i usually like to play the settings on high detail ..but not to the extent of extra eye candy like AA,anisotropic etc,etc..just the resolution i like to set max according to the laptop's display..

so if according to this scenario..i dont need 512mb..just a good gpu with 256mb ram?

so how do i set it now for Desktop? its intel integrated something.