Definition of hypermemory

Itronix

Itronix

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My Gateway MT3707 has a 256 mb graphics card (64 mb dedicated). It uses hypermemory for anything beyond the 64. I am leaving on a trip in about a week and I was thinking about putting the Scarface game for pc on it, possibly just temporarily (just save the save files) for the trip. It requires a 128 mb graphics card. My question is, will it work on my computer, graphics card wise? I mean, how long can it use the system memory? Can it constantly pull the extra 64? I have a gig of memory running Vista Home Premium. The game needs 256, the os needs around 400-500. So, say at the worst, 756 or so mb. Can it still pull the extra 64 and play? I just don't think I really understand the details of hypermemory. The name makes it sound temporary. Thanks.
 
im guessing u have a geforce 7300gs/gt with that or turbo cache technology, i believe it is suppose to run at the same speed of ur 64mb on the card and yes it wil take memory from the ram as long as it is needed. what procesoor u have

the game lagged on these specs- pentium d 2.8 ati radeon xpress 200m 128mb 1gig ram --- onboard video card


ur computer should run it with lil or no lag
 
Hypermemory is ATI, Turbo Cache is nVidia. Basically both are the same; you have some onboard memory(in your case 64MB). If any additional RAM is required, it's dynamically shared from your system's RAM.

Memory wise, yes, it should work fine. You technically have 256MB. However, RAM says very little about a GPU's actual performance. I'd probably run on the lowest settings, but really pushing it... What do you have? An x1300?
 
Sorry, I probably didn't give enough information. I have an ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M graphics card. The laptops specs are Intel Pentium dual core 1.6 ghz, 1 gb memory, and 160 gb hard drive. I run Postal on it, which only requires a 64 mb, but there is lots of fire and other crap that can easily lag a computer up, and it runs it great. I was at Circuit City today and an employee mentioned a, I guess, pci graphics card that just goes into the pci port for around $90.00. I think my computer has the port to support it, but I'm not sure.
 
$90 is alot for a PCI card. I would check your motherboard specs since it should have either an AGP or PCI-E slot, which you can buy a card for $80 that will be a heck of alot better then any PCI card.
 
Ah...ok. I didn't think the Xpress chipsets had that much memory. Regardless you can't upgrade it. If I'm not mistaken, that's intergrated into the chipset. And even if you could upgrade, laptops use special video cards, not just basic ones you find in the store...
 
*hits head on desk*

I didnt even look to see if this was posted in the laptop section. So ignore my post above, if it's integrated video then it's virtually impossible to upgrade. And the price of laptop GPU's are insanely high.
 
Ok. I didn't think that it was possible to upgrade the graphics card. The guy just said that there was one that I could stick in the pci (I believe) slot on the side of the laptop and use it along with the internal one. Something didn't seem right about that. So, I guess I should stay away from that game, period? Maybe it's really pushing it? Maybe I should get the Godfather instead. Would you risk it?
 
They do have a card for the PCMCIA and/or CardBus slot, but it's not a gaming card, and wouldnt work well for it.
 
Itronix said:
The guy just said that there was one that I could stick in the pci (I believe) slot on the side of the laptop and use it along with the internal one.
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I would LOVE to know what he's talking about :P Even the couple PC-Card GPU's out there can't even use the internal monitor. You must use an external one. And as omega said, they aren't gaming ones. There has been talk about this one external enclosure that allows for PCI-Express video cards, but again, you need an additional monitor.
 
Ok, sure. I usually find that most of the people in those stores don't know what they are talking about, but of course, I'm the one asking questions here:P. So, facts aside, is this graphics card good enough to not have to worry about this game, or would I be pushing it? How decent is this chip?
Thanks everyone.
 
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