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[Cherokeeblackraven]

is there a patch that I can download that will make Mass Effect 2 compatible with my Laptops Video card??????

[Bogsnot1]

1) There are only the official patches.
2) How should we know if you dont tell us what your laptops video card is?

[Gorath Alpha]

Cherokeeblackraven wrote...

is there a patch that I can download that will make Mass Effect 2 compatible with my Laptops Video card ?

The word "compatible" was used thirty years ago to refer to the closeness with which competing companies were able to write a system BIOS to that of a genuine IBM-PC.  It isn't exactly what fits onto the differences in performance capability that are found between very Low End Chipset video chip graphics and the proper game-playing discrete graphics CARDS.

For anyone out there, since Bogs is being sarcastic or something (it's OK, he was here to make an answer while I was sleeping, but he does live way down under there), hardware cannot be functionally altered by the use of software. It will remain the same until physically changed, and laptops no longer allow for the graphics to be removed / replaced.

Here is a discussion of graphics that goes into more detail:

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/519461

Some of Intel's very newest (inside the i3 / i5 families of CPUs) onboard video chips actually have all of the basic functionality, but just lack the power. They are going to run slowly, no matter what. But there is software that enables them to "fool" the configuration check step, so if running slowly suits you, then you can.

However, the odds are then not favorable regarding the continued operation of the laptop, since it will be running so far over its figurative head, and the stress is going to create heat, which laptops do not handle well, so that in the long run, the laptop will probably fail much sooner than it should have.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 17 juin 2011 - 10:02 .

[Bogsnot1]

Gorath Alpha wrote...
For anyone out there, since Bogs is being sarcastic or something (it's OK, he was here to make an answer while I was sleeping, but he does live way down under there), hardware cannot be functionally altered by the use of software. It will remain the same until physically changed, and laptops no longer allow for the graphics to be removed / replaced.
...snip..

Actually, I was humouring him. I have had a few people of late ask me about video patches and they were referring to driver revisions. I made the mistake of agreeing to go computer shopping with some friends to act as their "tech guy" to make sure they got the right thing, and werent ripped off. Bad move.

[Gorath Alpha]

The fact is, although I like them "a lot less", I do like laptops. I like all computers from desktop sized and downward. I think that they are fantastic, and do not enjoy the idea of purposely damaging any of them just because someone paid no attention to graphics quality at the time of the purchase.

I know that this software disguise exists; I do not approve of its use, and normally avoid mentioning its existence. There is now exactly one maker of anything that is built in who offers an integrated anything that has some REAL game playing capability.

AMD's "Llano" family of APUs was not designed for use in gaming laptops, but nevertheless, the onboard capability equal to an HD 6450 discrete card was included in some of them (proportionally, even though there are two cores in the CPU, the majority of what is in the APU chip is graphics ~~ well, what with cache RAM, I need to make that read more like "there are more transistors devoted to graphics in the chip than to processing").

There is a Llano for a small non-mobile system, also, but AFAIK, "Trinity" or whatever the desktop APUs will be, doesn't even have a proposed release date yet.

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/7656155/1#7656644

There already is a "Can My PC Run It" here in ME-2:  

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/7484236

(Edited three days later.  I may recycle that Can You Run It thread here.)

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 19 juin 2011 - 09:54 .