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[kobekid]

has anyone played mass effect 2 with an nvidia 8400 gs video card. i also have 3 gigs of ram and an intel core 2 duo 2.00 ghz.

[Chazbop]

Hi buddy, I think ME2 will struggle with that graphics card, I am running radeon 9200 mobility, dual core 2 ghz like you and 4 gb (3gb recognised) ram and it struggles at times, i have to regularly bring up task manager then go back to game to get round the crash, mine runs a lot better on lower resolution and also if i knock off a lot of high level effects etc, i also have an incredinly irritating bug on one mission in particular on jarrahe Station, which I can't work out how to get round. as long as it lets you install it, you should be able to tweak it to run (In Theory)

[Gorath Alpha]

The official system requirements specifically name that rather awful excuse for a video device as unsupported, although I have read reports from gamers much more lenient than myself about using the things for Dragon Age and Fallout 3.  However, ME-2 uses a special video card feedback mechanism as part of its environmental interaction system, and it is time-sensitive. 

There have been at least two game players who tried to use 8400s unsuccessfully and wrote us about it here.  When any combat begins that has any more than one opponent onscreen, there were dropped keystrokes.  The card gets so slow in combat that it isn't providing timely feedback, and it ends up ignoring things that are happening because the card just can't keep up. 

There have been several others, who developed an assortment of work-arounds to play with such slow hardware, anyway.  If any are reading this, we may hear from them eventually in this thread. 

Gorath
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[Gorath Alpha]

Chazbop wrote...

Hi buddy, I think ME2 will struggle with that graphics card, I am running radeon 9200 mobility, dual core 2 ghz like you and 4 gb (3gb recognised) ram and it struggles at times, i have to regularly bring up task manager then go back to game to get round the crash, mine runs a lot better on lower resolution and also if i knock off a lot of high level effects etc, i also have an incredinly irritating bug on one mission in particular on jarrahe Station, which I can't work out how to get round. as long as it lets you install it, you should be able to tweak it to run (In Theory)

You need to look at your component inventory another time.  The Radeon 9200 was a follow-on to the Dx8 Radeon 8500 back about 2001 or 2002, about eight years ago, plus or minus.  It not only doesn't have SM3, it doesn't even have SM2.  It was considerably slower and much worse in every wat compared even to a clunker such as an 8400.

nVIDIA includes a 9200 in thier current IGP-enabled chipsets that is roughly on a par with a 7300 GS (not as good, really, as a Geforce 8400 GS).  nVIDIA also has two variations of a 9300, one a discrete add-on card, although very slow (essentially just a renamed 8400), and the other an IGP midway between the 9200 and the 8400.  You could have that nVIDIA onboard chip, and without performing the same sort of work-arounds as those 8400 card owners I've mentioned in my opening comments to this thread, you would eventually face the same dropped signals situation.

If you have a Radeon HD 4200 onboard chip, it's about the same as the nVIDIA 9300 onboard solution, just slightly better. 

P. S. Without immediately referencing the requirements, I think that every single low end part I have named here was shown as unsupported in the official requirements.

Gorath. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 25 mars 2010 - 02:59 .

[The_guy_who_gets_annoyed_easily]

What about the 8400gs Zotac edition?

[CaptainSlow]

The_guy_who_gets_annoyed_easily wrote...

What about the 8400gs Zotac edition?

Basically, this card is designed for High Definition (HD) video playback. As a budget graphics card, it has very limited 3D performance. The nature of its hardware spec is out of date and heavily watered down compared to other higher GeForce 8000 series. At least GeForce 8600GT is recommanded to run ME2 at low-medium settings with lower resolustions.

I personally suggest you to save up some bucks and buy up to date performance GPU, i.e. GeForce GTX260/or wait for medium GeForce 400 series, ATI Radeon 5750/5770. Some budget high-end DirectX 10.0 GPU also worth considering.