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Offline viper38

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can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« on: October 28, 2009, 04:26:23 PM »
windows 7 home premium 32-bit
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2GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB HDD
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2009, 04:26:59 PM »
Need the GPU, but Celeron probably won't.
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2009, 04:32:24 PM »
where in the computer do i find that?

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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2009, 04:55:03 PM »
Depending on where you found that computer there might not be a dedicated graphics card...where are you looking?
BTW...to find a graphics card it will say something like "ATI" or "nVidia" and then a few numbers/letters.
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2009, 05:06:50 PM »
I have a laptop that's probably about the same as yours. I can play the game but it's far from optimal. The video card can't handle the video so there's a dark line about an inch and a half along the horizon. If a plane is close enough to you in the middle of the screen you'll see him but the rest of the horizon is all dark. You'll also get low frame rates.

You probably won't be able to play on battery power. If I started up the game on battery it would just sit there, frozen. You couldn't play it. Cooling might be an issue, too. The only time I ever heard the fan go on in my laptop was when I'd start up Aces High. I wouldn't even have to start playing, just starting the game would cause the fan to go on. I never had an overheating problem that I knew of but I suppose it could happen to other laptops.

Despite all the above, I played for some months on my laptop and actually improved my game. Once I got my Alienware system up and running again, I stopped using the laptop for the game entirely. There's just no going back from an Alienware.

About the only way to know for sure if your system will handle it is to do what I did and give it a try.

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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2009, 07:04:05 PM »
win7 on a Celeron 900 ? Does it take 2 days to boot ?  :devil
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2009, 07:20:05 PM »
win7 on a Celeron 900 ? Does it take 2 days to boot ?  :devil
Not 900mhz, its the series of Celeron.  It's 2.2Ghz 800mhs FSB.  It wouldn't be 900mhz in the first place since he has 2Gb DD2.  It would have had SDRAM yet.
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2009, 08:16:48 PM »
I found out that i have a Directs 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0  is that a good enough graphic card?
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 10:25:19 PM »
Viper. It seems that your laptop can handle the game. The only thing you need to worry about is frame rate issues. Install the game and try running it. You will see what I mean by frame rates later on. To fix the frame rate issues, you will need to purchase a graphics card that is compatible for your laptop.
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 01:41:44 AM »
No way but to go wrong with a genuine celeron..

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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2009, 05:47:00 AM »
I found out that i have a Directs 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0  is that a good enough graphic card?

That's just the software interface to whatever graphics card you may have.
Best would be if you gave us the model number and make of the laptop, or a link to a webpage describing it.

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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2009, 08:54:29 AM »
I'm afraid your laptop's videocard will have a hard time handling Aces High II
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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2009, 09:26:27 AM »
This is the killer for this laptop "Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M" its a chip on the MB and not a graphics card.  It may play the game, but at very low framerates even with the graphics turned way down.

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Re: can this labtop handill ah2 ???
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2009, 03:08:25 PM »
what is the fram rate on aces high if i put on low detail?