Apparently my video card isnt good enough for SC2..

matty6660

matty6660

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At the main menu, a pop up box appeared and said that my video card wasnt high enough to run the game to its full potential or something and it may be laggy. Dunno why this is because I've just bought a new laptop with 4gb of ram and a ATI Radeon HD 4530 graphic card. Isnt this card good enough to run SC2 effectively?
 
The 4530 is not a powerful card. Still, I don't see why the game would be unplayble

PC Recommended Specifications:

Windows Vista®/Windows® 7
Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor
2 GB RAM
512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better

The 3870 was a high-end card in it's time, near the top of the 3000 series; Your 4000 series card is bottom-middle end for that series. It [your GPU] would be outperformed by the 3870, can you play the game at all? You should get decent framerates on medium-low settings.

Been having a trawl through wikipedia; found the original starcraft (1998) system requirements:

Windows 95 or NT or superior
Pentium processor at 90 MHz or higher
16 MB RAM
80 MB available in the hard disk
CD-ROM, 2x or higher
DirectX 3.0 or higher

How computing has changed since I was born... :P

Never played it myself TBH, but it looks quite good, very similar to the less demanding online game D-Space
 
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Well I havent tried playing it yet but just got a bit worried when that message appeared - though I had thrown £35 down the crapper lol. Thanks for your help anyway.
 
Yeah you gotta be very careful with GPUs....just because the model # is higher don't mean its better :)


You should have no issues playing but you might have to turn some settings down is all. My old man is playing with a 7600GT just fine considering how old it is.
 
Twist86 said:
Yeah you gotta be very careful with GPUs....just because the model # is higher don't mean its better :)


You should have no issues playing but you might have to turn some settings down is all. My old man is playing with a 7600GT just fine considering how old it is.
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Didnt know it was a gpu, advert said it was a card lol.
 
It's called a graphics card or graphics processing unit which is GPU for short. That bugs me how number there models, can be deceiving to someone who doesn't know anything about computers. The first video card I ever bought was an 8400 gs for $80 because I didn't know any better, what a piece of crap.
 
JLuchinski said:
Hi Aruk, do you know the specs. of your system? Best way to find out is download this: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z/versions-history.html and either take a screen shot and post it or just copy the info. Then we can guide you in the right direction.
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There isn't anything he can do because he is running a laptop.

To OP, to explain this, on a desktop PC, the grachics card is just that, a card. If it has integrated graphics (will explain in a moment), there is almost always an expansion slot, be it PCI, AGP or PCIe, that a graphics card can be put into to upgrade the system.

All laptops have integrated graphics though, which means the graphics chip is not on a seperate PCB, it is on the motherboard itself, so can not be changed or upgraded. Your system is good for web browsing, music, films, word processing etc and older games, but not for modern gaming unfortunately, because of your graphics
 
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