vram or video card

afatbollix

i just bought call of duty 4 but its not working it just crashes...

after reading the box i read that i need at least 128mb vram... i looked up my system and ive got 64 vram.. ive no idea what that means... can i just buy it off the net and install it myself or is it a it guys job?

cheers

Anto

sijdal

I guess youve got a mini
short answer no it will not work
VRAM is the amount of memory that the video card has access to, V for Virtual. It uses the system memory and the card is embedded (part of the motherboard, and uses its resources, the RAM) and slower. To run COD4 you need a decent dedicated Graphics card (has its own dedicated memory ie only it uses it), the Intel minis are all onboard graphics only the G5 Mini had a dedicated video card and only 32M at that , I did manage to play most of Doom3 on one though. If you want to play games on a Mac get an iMac with a 512M video card, Mini although a good machine is not cut out for it.
Hope this helps

afatbollix

sorry man i dident really post a good post up there... my head is all over the place with a cold...

its a 2.16ghz, 2 gig macbook so it has got them bits ok to run the game... its just the vram or video card that isent up to the job... so with new info of it being a macbook does that help my chances of getting it to work?

babypink

2 things first:

VRAM.. v=video, not virtual. Further, there's nothing virtual about the memory used by the graphics chipset i.e. it's not a swap file on the hard drive.
there was never a G5 mac mini - there was a G4 one though.

anto-t.....it's not looking good. the requirements are far too high for the macbook. It's the card itself that's not up to the job. there's nothing wrong with your card...just that it's not good enough.

That's the thing about the MacBook - it's not good for heavy duty games!

Asypr's website says

NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.

i'm afraid it doesn't have the bits to run the game........major bummer coz it's a cracking game!

sijdal

G4 mini ooops!
As for Virtual/Video , too late to be thinking straight.
Doom3 will run ok..ish if its your cup of tea. Good game also Quake3 or COD3.

SouperComputer

Might be worth investigating if a third-party patch\workaround is available to reduce the detail level displayable by the intel GMA chip. Of course, if the textures are simply huge, that might be a no-go.

sijdal wrote:

If you want to play games on a Mac get an iMac with a 512M video card

Biggest single mistake you can make when selecting a graphics card is by judging it by the amount of texture memory/VRAM it has. Granted, with the iMac your options are limited. But just for those who may not be aware, you should never base your graphics card selection on VRAM alone. In many cases higher memory models of the same series use slower memory, reducing instead of increasing the performance.

K.O.Kiki

Sell your current Macbook & get one of the new aluminium models -- that could work too.
Googling found that you're screwed otherwise.