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[petergg22]

Stats:

Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo

RAM 2GB

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

2.26 GHz

250 GB hard drive



Just the original one

using steam

[Gorath Alpha]

petergg22 wrote...

Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

2.26 GHz

Just the original one

Don't expect much, and all will be well.  That's not a gaming class video card, so you have ot run it at lowered resolution to play the game.  

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 29 avril 2010 - 12:59 .

[Fredvdp]

Issn't the 9400M a bit slower than the desktop 8500 GT, which is below the requirement? I ran this on an 8500 GT before I upgraded and got 20-25 fps at 1024x768.

[kylepalma]

AMD ATHLON 2



Graphics Nvidia Geforce 6150 SE N 430



will this work for playing mass effect?

[Gorath Alpha]

Fredvdp wrote...

Isn't the 9400M a bit slower than the desktop 8500 GT, which is below the requirement? I ran this on an 8500 GT before I upgraded and got 20-25 fps at 1024x768.

Although the various Geforce 9n00 cards are primarily new editions of the older 8n00 cards, they are on thinner die wafers, which automatically improves efficiency to some extent, but you are correct, neither a 9400 nor an 8500 are better than a minimum level video card, and the typical laptop version has most likely lost the desktop 9400's edge in performance past the 8500. 

The official minimum is the Geforce 6800, and there are no officially supported onboard video chips at all.  The several NF4 / NF5 chipset's onboard chips, such as the 6100, 6150, 7100, and 7150, were hardly any better than their own equivalents from Intel.  In other words, very bad as even video chips go compared to the concurrent Xpress IGPs from ATI.  And even those weren't anything to write home about! 

Instead of including the entire silicon from a desktop card version in their chipset, nVIDIA "edited" the already puny Geforce 6200 silicon to create a watered-down version of an already noncompetitive (with ATI's X1300, that had sired the Xpress 1250) low end card (the Xpress200 and Xpress1100 were also essentially the complete silicon from the X300, but since that was not a new design like the X700, X800, and X850, it trailed behind the 6100 / 6150 in features, if not in pure speed).

So, no, there is no 6150 able to "run" either of the Mass Effect games. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 10 mai 2010 - 02:04 .

[Gorath Alpha]

kylepalma wrote...

AMD ATHLON 2

Graphics Nvidia Geforce 6150 SE N 430

will this work for playing mass effect?

This has already been answered, and it's "no".  As always, "SE" doesn't really mean "Special Edition", since it is ALWAYS a worse choice than the plain vanilla version, so the initials are read as "Excrement Edition", but in the vernacular (vulgar) expletive alternative. 

For the sake of what CAN'T work, consider the "unsupported" list from ME-2 as unusable for ME-1: 

MINIMUM Graphics
Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported GPU Chips: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD 2400, 3100, 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, and HD 4350 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel  and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

(Edited -> the 6100, 6150, and 7150 are all weaker than the 7200, which is a renamed 6200, and is a discrete card.  The Xpress200, Xpress1100, and Xpress 1150 are weaker than an X300 (or the X1050, renamed from the X300 SE), and the Xpress1200, 1250, and 1270 are weaker than the X1300, which in its own turn is weaker than the HD 3450, although roughly on a par with, or slightly better than, the HD 2400.) 

RECOMMENDED
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better, recommended
NOTES: For the best results, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards. Laptop or mobile versions of the above supported video cards have not had extensive testing and may have driver or other performance issues. As such, they are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.  Intel  and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 10 mai 2010 - 06:45 .