Can my computer run Empire: total war?

[Veho Nex]

What?
Since when is a mobile chip faster than it's desktop version? They're usually slower.

The 6 series mobile chips are weird as hell from my experience. I've compared it to my computer (7600 gt 512) to his 6600 mobile 512 and his ran games far better. Maybe it was the processor, but at points where my computer would freeze up, his could chug through keeping an average of about 30-40 fps. It could be that the extra .2 on his processor could handle what mine couldn't but I doubt that as the factor. But the PCI-e type cards are also a lot faster than AGP which is what I currently use.

[ncbeach]

The 6 series mobile chips are weird as hell from my experience. I've compared it to my computer (7600 gt 512) to his 6600 mobile 512 and his ran games far better. Maybe it was the processor, but at points where my computer would freeze up, his could chug through keeping an average of about 30-40 fps. It could be that the extra .2 on his processor could handle what mine couldn't but I doubt that as the factor. But the PCI-e type cards are also a lot faster than AGP which is what I currently use.

512 is that max speed your card can "talk" to the mobo.. but using an agp connection will limit you to 64.. in one direction at a time.. talk about a bottleneck.. your card cant even come close to reaching its potential...

a 6x mobile series wont do much better.. nothing integrated will... even laptops with beefy discrete cards only run well until they overheat..

to the original poster: although your pc specs sound a bit old.. spend 60$-80$ and drop a new graphics card in it and you will get another year or so out of it.. check out card reviews at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...tx,2270-2.html

running amd doesnt help either.. next time get an intel.. way more head room.. you can get an extra 10-20% by a slight voltage increase.

[AchubaNanoiaBR]

I use an iMac with bootcamp to run. Pretty "meh" specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
2 GB Ram
Radeon Mobility HD 2400 XT

It runs M2TW fine with everything on high, but with no aliasing or vegetation. I tried installing the ETW demo, it installs just fine, but the game is pretty much unplayable, even with everything on low.

[ncbeach]

Radeon Mobility HD 2400 XT (256MB DirectX 10 PCI Express x16)would compare in speed to a 8500gt on a desktop.. (i keep an 8500 in my living room pc.. it plays movies well but id never game with it)

a quick look at the benchmarks show this card will never play any dx10 game....

the good news is you dont have an integrated card.. so you can pull that one out... put it on ebay... and get something else...