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adamant02

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i am looking at a laptop with shared video memery and i have a game that i would like to play on it but thats not why i am looking for a laptop i am going to college and don't want to lug my desk top up there. i didn't know: is shared video memery okay to use for playing some games i am not a hard core game player. the game i am wanting to put on it would be world of warcraft and i didn't know if the shared video memery would be okay to play that game it. i played it with a 64 mb video card and the shared memery video card is a 128 mb. would any one know if this game would work on shared memery video.
 
Shared memory sucks! Bottom line, that's how it is... System memory is much slower than standard video memory and it really slowes the whole thing down. On top of this, your computer looses however much memory you shared...

I have a 6200 TC and it does well untill you begin to use the system memory(beyond 64M) After that, there are pretty drastic drops in frame rates. Definetly, any dedicated memory would be much prefered...

However, to answer your question, it might just be capable to run some games. My video is awfully weak in my laptop, but I still can play Need For Speed Most Wanted, if I so desire...its capable, but obviously the settings have to all be on low...
 
I think most of the notebooks have shared memory because they are compact.
My Sony Viao PCG NVR23 has shared memory also, maybe the really high end notebooks might not. where is laptop extreme ? anyway, heck you are there for college. If you are going to connect to the college network make sure you have a firewall and good anti virus / spyware and carefull downloading stuff from their network. I see the infected PCs and notebooks that come back from colleges.
 
You would be quite suprised at how many laptops use shared graphic memory. Well, just how many computers in general do... I guess you're typical $2000 would almost certainlly have dedicated memory, but most computer now have shared... Blah
 
Only onboard or odd cards like the Geforce turbo cache.

Just as a example; My video cards memory runs at 35.2GB/s when my computer memory DDR2 RAM 533Mhz DDR runs at 4.2GB/s :O (8.4GB in Dual Channel)
Shared goes for your computer memory which is much much slower.
 
My previous laptop (Celeron M 1.5Ghz, 128MB Shared Intel Memory, 256MB DDR2) was able to play Medal of Honor on medium settings, CS: Consition Zero on high settings, and a few other older games).

So i would say yes it can run it, but deffinetly not on high settings.
 
i would say that any independant 64mb card would beat a 128mb shared. and the 64mb was on your desktop but you can definately get a resonably good laptop for a lot less than 2000 that will give you an independant graphics card
 
Well there are many myths of shared memory. Yes it does take some of your system memory, and yes it can bottleneck if you've got a lot of junk running. But if your system is clean and you've got a lot of RAM to spare, then you should be fine. You may not be able to play many graphic intensive games (Doom3, FEAR, etc) at max settings, but can carry all other tasks with no problems, including video ripping or rendering. There are also many dedicated with shared like someone else mentioned. Example: 64mb dedicated + 64 shared = 128mb.
 
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