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[SamScott89]

Hi,
All my other specs are fine and I can run ME1 fine but I am apprehensive to go ahead and buy ME2 as I have an ATI Radeon hd3200 graphics card. Im on a laptop, so theres no chance of me upgrading, and I want to hear from anyone that is running ME2 on the above graphics card.
I don' t especially need to run on anything near Max Settings so if I have to put some settings on low (or the lowest) then I don't really mind.
So if there is ANYONE that is running ME2 on an ATI Radeon hd3200 then please let me know. 
Thanks for any help. 

[v0rt3x22]

I'm not running it on that same ATI card, but I AM running it on another ATI laptop card supporting DX10 - and it runs fine.

[SamScott89]

Is your card similar to the hd3200?

[Kilroy514]

I'm running it on my laptop with the same video card and it works just fine.

[SamScott89]

Thats great news, I so want to play this game. So do you just put it on the lowest settings?

[SamScott89]

I'll only bump this once. Just wanted to see if there was ANYONE else that is playing ME2 on an ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics card. (Just want to get a second person as I don't want to rely on just one guy.)

[Toushii]

I would also need that answer I have HP Pavilion tx2650 with that HD3200 and wonder will ME2 work on my laptop.

[Gorath Alpha]

SamScott89 wrote...

Is your card similar to the hd3200?

There is no support for any onboard video chip, because all of them are too slow and too weak.  The 3200 was the first from ATI to actually break into the Low End "card" territory, but that doesn't mean it was game-capable.  The silicon shared some features and functions with the HD 2400, which for Low End business cards, was particularly poor (especially when compared to the rank in perfoprmance of the prior generation's X1300 Low End card within its generation). 

The official minimum now is named as the X1600 (I suspect that to be a bit of a reach, however, and would suggest that the "practical" minimum is the X1650 XT).  Anyway:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

With HALF of the memory bandwidth, the actual card had half the performance, but an onboard chip version is at least 15% weaker than its real card sibling for many reasons, but shared RAM is the biggest problem. 

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 février 2010 - 10:51 .

[JamesJAB1]

My laptop is a Dell Studio 1536

Turion X2 2.2ghz

4GB DDR2 800mhz (dual channel)

Radeon HD3200



I installed the game on this machine and set it to minimum settings.

It's pulling somewhere around 25fps, I'd call that amazing for an onboard chip.



Keep in mind that quite a bit of your hd3200's performance is dependent on your system memory.

Make sure that you have 2 identical memory sticks in there, so that it runs in dual channel mode.

Upgrade to DDR2 800 if it doesn't already have it. (or faster if your laptop supports it)



On to the processor (if you are not afraid to take the machine apart)

Having a hd3200 and a single core processor should put you on a socket S1 (if it's AMD)

In that case you can drop a Turion 64X2 in (the 1.9ghz ones are really cheap on ebay)

Here's the part number for the 1.9 that you would want TMDTL58HAX5DC





Gorath Alpha, there is one thing that you are not taking into account in your comparison.

The memory bandwidth on the hd2400 card is 64bit, while the hd3200 is 128bit if your system is running dual channel memory. That would put the theoretical memory bandwidth on par with the x1600. On top of that it is a true DX10 graphics processor, so it does have an advantage on things designed for DX10.



That's my input on this, hope it helps

[SamScott89]

Ok, im buying it today. I' m willing to go on a little faith, and to be honest, its worth the risk. I think all of what you said JamesJAB1, I have. So even if I have to put the settings on minimal, i' ll still be happy with it.

[Toushii]

Well, I also decided to buy it. And... it is working on HD3200 Not the best performance, but playable

[weoni]

I have Ati Mobility Radeon hd2600 and i do run ME2 with max setting and it do run just fine.

[Gorath Alpha]

A Mobility HD 2600 is the "Real Thing". It's an actual video card, and not too shabby of one when new (three years ago), while the OP is asking about a low quality onboard device, much slower and much more limited than any current generation real cards, definitely way below your card.

[StrikeSaber47]

Toushii wrote...

Well, I also decided to buy it. And... it is working on HD3200 Not the best performance, but playable

As what Gorath said, expect low FPS. However it is playable and if it is fine with you then that is great! The HD 3200 isn't too shabby if you aren't going with high expectations.

[Lohdinagin]

Sorry to post on a relatively old topic, but i have an Ati Radeon 3200 myself, and decided to buy and try out ME2 while i waited for my radeon 4770 to get here. Suprisingly it runs pretty good (Core overclocked to 700mhz), im able to turn on every effect but i havn't tried resolutions above 800x600. It IS playable right now.



Athlon II x2 Regor 2.8ghz (oc'd @ 3.0)

2gb G.skill ddr2 800mhz

Seagate IDE 80gb HD

Ati Radeon 3200 IGP 128mb Sideport memory

Integrated HD sound