Is this the last hurrah for anyone's computer?

[Lemur]

The graphics card is definitely your weak link, as well as the RAM No need to spend £400, however. A good 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM should cost you somewhere around $60, and a nice ATI card that can handle the game (say, the 4850) should be somewhere around $160. If you must have Nvidia, the 9800 GTX will set you back about $200.

[Subotan]

The graphics card is definitely your weak link, as well as the RAM No need to spend £400, however. A good 2 gigs of DDR2 RAM should cost you somewhere around $60, and a nice ATI card that can handle the game (say, the 4850) should be somewhere around $160. If you must have Nvidia, the 9800 GTX will set you back about $200.

Well, I followed your advice, and went for the Radeon. I hope it works...

[Lusitani]

Does any of you have a setup like this...or close to it?(Laptop)

Win Vista
Inter dual core T7500 2.20 ghz
4 Gb Ram
GeForce 8600M GT with 512 dedicated memory.

I am somewhat skeptical about the ability of a decent performance of this setup.
So any help would be much appreciated.

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
Language: Portuguese (Regional Setting: Portuguese)
System Manufacturer: -
System Model: N/A
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3070MB RAM
Page File: 1631MB used, 4706MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode


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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 8600M GT
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0407&SUBSYS_002514C0&REV_A1
Display Memory: 1774 MB
Dedicated Memory: 495 MB
Shared Memory: 1279 MB
Current Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Monitor PnP Genérico
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.6759 (English)
DDI Version: 10
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 1/11/2008 07:43:00, 5263360 bytes

V.

[Patricius]

The Dell XPS must have a good processor as it is just about playable with a completely underspecified gfx card. If I could get a PCMCIA port gfx card or some sort sort of gfx card, I'd be fine.