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[uberspacemonkey]

 Don't necessarily want to get the console version, so finally getting around to checking if i can run this desktop with -NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS video card
-Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor E2160 1.8ghz
-1022 MB of memory
- running Vista, plenty of hard drive space

Running at low is fine, and probably all i will be able to do

[tommy5761]

you can try as that`s your idea but don`t get your hopes up the only thing you can try would be to increase virtual memory as much as you can .If memory serves vista requires a minimum of 1Gig ram to run just the scaled down basic version and i think the vanilla version of dragon age requires 1.5 Gigs of ram plus at least 20 Gigs of hard drive space

[TheLiterator]

I'm surprised you can run Vista with that build. I would suggest upgrading to 4 GB ram before even considering this game.



Other than that, your specs seem to be about what mine are, and I run it just fine.

[Gorath Alpha]

TheLiterator wrote...

I'm surprised you can run Vista with that build. I would suggest upgrading to 4 GB ram before even considering this game.

Other than that, your specs seem to be about what mine are, and I run it just fine.

Sorry, I can't let that pass.  The Pentium Dual is just a Celeron with another name.  Almost every bit of the onboard cache is stripped totally out, so it performs at a greatly reduced level from the original C2D parent processor.  The only saving grace for any Pentium Dual is the high overhead for overclocking. 

Combining a below requirements CPU with a below requirements video card, and a bare minimum amount of RAM, and the result is a very questionable system better suited to playing Bejeweled or other casual games on than any high intemsity 3D game! 

The idiots behind the SR Labs site are wrong so often that the place is a laughing stock.  (Can You Run IT?  Is not going to tell you the truth most times!)

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 22 mars 2010 - 01:12 .

[joey_mork84]

I've got to agree with TheLiterator on this one, how are you able to run Vista with that? No offense, but wow.. If you are looking for suggestions, It would be a good idea to upgrade the RAM (as everyone has said.. 2-3 GB should work, I run 2 gigs, myself), as for the cpu, I would suggest going with an AMD dual core, and possibly a video card upgrade (I'm not even sure the Nvidia 8400 is compatible with the game). I would suggest an ATI card, but that's just me, I've had bad luck with Nvidia in the past...

[TheLiterator]

I run an 8400m GT with the game just fine. Granted, I'm terrified of raising the settings above "low", but I barely even get lag.

And the actual 8400 is much better in terms of performance and specs.

Of course, I've got a core2 t7300 and 4 gig of ram and win7 instead of vista, but the game is actually kind of low overhead in terms of graphics.

Modifié par TheLiterator, 22 mars 2010 - 01:50 .

[joey_mork84]

I've never used the 8000 series. my old Nvidia was a 6150. needless to say, it didn't last long before I ended up frying it lol. That's when I got my ATI

[TheLiterator]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

TheLiterator wrote...

I'm surprised you can run Vista with that build. I would suggest upgrading to 4 GB ram before even considering this game.

Other than that, your specs seem to be about what mine are, and I run it just fine.

Sorry, I can't let that pass.  The Pentium Dual is just a Celeron with another name.  Almost every bit of the onboard cache is stripped totally out, so it performs at a greatly reduced level from the original C2D parent processor.  The only saving grace for any Pentium Dual is the high overhead for overclocking. 

Combining a below requirements CPU with a below requirements video card, and a bare minimum amount of RAM, and the result is a very questionable system better suited to playing Bejeweled or other casual games on than any high intemsity 3D game! 

The idiots behind the SR Labs site are wrong so often that the place is a laughing stock.  (Can You Run IT?  Is not going to tell you the truth most times!)

Gorath

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If the game can run on a laptop with those exact specs (but slightly
more ram) and an nvidia 7600m, then it can run on his If he upgrades
his ram.

That, is, BTW, my roommate's build. mine is slightly better. VERY slightly.

[Gorath Alpha]

All things considered, the 8400 is both a lot worse than anything else that is popular, as well as amazingly resilient.  It does have a good complement of shader units aboard.  It does not have an even partly decent memory system bandwidth (64 bit system), and many of them shared with the 8n00M cards on the bad firmware that fried a boatload of GPU chips from running the fans wrong at high termperatures (seemingly a favored mistake at nVIDIA, and this particular one cost a quarter million dollars in service fees). 

www.gpureview.com/GeForce-8400-GS-PCI-card-576.html

However, for this question, it is the terrible processor, not the awful video card, that is the worst for an high-demand game. 

The 8400 is much worse than any 7600.  Do you see that 6 in the name?  That is what is important

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 22 mars 2010 - 02:03 .

[TheLiterator]

From what I can tell, my card is identical to hers, save I have a bigger memory interface, so it's NOT in fact, better. I haven't looked at any benchmarks, because afaik no one seriously benchmarks mobile chipsets.



And while his L2 cache is a quarter the size of mine, personally, like I said, my roommate has the same processor and she plays DA:O without any issues.

[Magnus of the Moon]

Do not raise your settings for that card! I had an 8400 and it ran fine in low settings, but I didn't like the look of it and turned them up. It wasn't long after that that my video card burned up. My whole system was very hot. I'm lucky I didn't blow up my computer.

If you want to play DA:O with that video card leave the settings as the game put them when you installed it.


Experienced 8400 killer.

Modifié par Magnus of the Moon, 22 mars 2010 - 03:28 .

[Gorath Alpha]

TheLiterator wrote...

From what I can tell, my card is identical to hers, save I have a bigger memory interface, so it's NOT in fact, better. I haven't looked at any benchmarks, because afaik no one seriously benchmarks mobile chipsets.

And while his L2 cache is a quarter the size of mine, personally, like I said, my roommate has the same processor and she plays DA:O without any issues.

WHO is the "hers" you are referring to?  Someone here in the thread has been told, and it is the truth, that a 7600, any 7600, is superior to any 8400, no matter if it had a terabyte of VRAM piled onto it.  There is no comparison between their performances.  The missing L2 cache is a serious CPU impediment, and apparently the 7600 has enough extra guts to it to overcome a part of that crippling effect. 

VRAM has no benefit when the card is crap, as is the case for the 8400, all of them.  A 64 bit memory system cannot pass across more than 128 MBs of VRAM, because the bandwidth just isn't there.  It's so simple.