Celeania wrote...
I just got myself a shiny new Toshiba Satellite laptop, after months upon months of using a crappy old box from 2004. The first thing I wanted to do was play Mass Effect again, because it'd been so long and now I could finally run it... in theory.
Video Card
Intel® HD Graphics (Core i3)
Also, you shouldn't have patched it to 1.02. Steam automatically installs the latest version of the game. That may have messed things up, so you may want to try uninstalling and redownloading the game (you may have to reinstall Bring Down The Sky after that, though)
But first, are you sure your graphics drivers are up to date? I would make sure by downloading Intel's official graphics drivers here: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/.
IMO, it won't make enough difference to really matter, unless someone is prepared to accept a really poor showing.
Just from the point of view of standard definitions, the use of the word "Card" there was a major misnomer. An actual card is on its own separate circuit board, which is manufactured on a separate production line. Only at the end, when there is both a separate mainboard. and a graphics card, each complete, are they joined together. Onboard chipset video chips, including Intel's various parts that are being merged into recent CPUs as "Sandy Bridge" devices, were never intended to play games. There is no card there. None.
AMD and nVIDIA also sell chipsets with onboard video included, and until the past year or so, Intel couldn't or wouldn't compete with those on performance or quality. Now, they have a product that equals what the real 3D companies have been selling for maybe ten years. But no one at this exact minute sells any onboard video made to play games with.
AMD's plans for this past winter all went up in figurative smoke last fall, when neither Globabl nor TMSC was able to bring new Fabs online for 32 nm wafers. They intended to have GPUs, APUs, and CPUs, in that order, on the thinner wafers for the HD 6n00 graphics generation, and the brand new "Fusion" chips that combined high quality graphics in multi-core CPUs were only possible because of the potential efficiencies of 32 nm production. The Bulldozer CPUs are still hung up right now.
For low-power devices, AMD had to be satisfied with beating Intel, while not trampling over them graphicswise, but they finally do have Netbooks, NetTops, and Notebooks all in the channel using modified APUs similar to what they planned originally. (That was a slip on my part, edited off here.) Gaming-capable APUs equivalent to Medium Quality graphics plus the multi-core CPUs for gaming laptops and desktops may have to wait while they see what they can do in the Tablet space (unless the 32 nm Fabs are going online now and I missed hearing about it). .
I misreported the intentions for their highest ranked Fusion APUs when I initially wrote my comment, since the enthusiast level of graphics, while not a profitable product line, stands out as a flagship, needs to exist, and currently isn't suitable to attempt to include inside an APU.
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 07 juin 2011 - 02:15 .
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