32mb graphics

neon_glows

Im buying second hand laptop of some dude,

it has 224mb of ram and a 64mb graphics card sis or something he said. Im presuming its really a 32mb graphics card with shared ram to boost it to 64mbs, now my Question is i want to throw a few games on it,

what games do you guys reckon i could install on it and get it to worK?

neon_glows

Specs

Medion MID2020 Notebook

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
14.1" TFT XGA Display
Intel® Celeron® Processor with 2.6 GHz
224 MB DDR-RAM
40 GB Hard Disk
Graphics: SiS M650, 64MB Shared Memory
16 bit Sound chip
Internal 56K V.90 Modem
10/100 Mbit Fast Ethernet LAN port
2 integrated speakers
External AC adapter & Li-Ion battery VDE/GS approved
NetGear Wireless Card WG511

L1011

Its an SiS, its probably ENTIRELY shared memory....

The days when wheter you can play a game on a machine or not was dependent on the vram are long since gone. My 32MB Radeon M9 is significantly faster than my 64MB Radeon 7000, my 48MB-of-shared Intel 830, etc

Considering its not a particularly powerful chipset, you won't get much gaming out of it. Give up all hope of playing anything modern, for instance.

ambro25

Try 1-yr old to 2-yr old games, e.g. GTA VC & CoD should run OK (-ish).

L1011

ambro25 wrote:

Try 1-yr old to 2-yr old games, e.g. GTA VC & CoD should run OK (-ish).

GTA:VC runs OK-ish on my 32MB nVidia TNT2 M64. Which is 7 years old....

Yeah, he'll be able to run that anyway

ambro25

Yeah, but his lappie-gfx chip uses shared RAM, not dedicated like yours -
(i) Big difference between desktop & lappie AND
(ii) Big difference between shared & dedicated gfx RAM AND
(iii) not forgetting the fact that it'll be taken out of 224 RAM to begin with (if he's running XP, that ain't gonna leave that much)

L1011

ambro25 wrote:

Yeah, but his lappie-gfx chip uses shared RAM, not dedicated like yours -
(i) Big difference between desktop & lappie AND
(ii) Big difference between shared & dedicated gfx RAM AND
(iii) not forgetting the fact that it'll be taken out of 224 RAM to begin with (if he's running XP, that ain't gonna leave that much)

1998 era graphics card RAM and 2004 era laptop DDR RAM are pretty similar in speed, and the lack of fastwrites on the TNT2, despite being AGP, mean that a modern AGP card can suck data from system RAM faster than it could

However, he will need more system RAM if he wants it to be a comfortable experience.

jonski

Here's me once more Hi-jacking a thread , but I was wondering if you actually bought this ?

And if so , did you manage to find the drivers for it anywhere ?

I'm just off the phone with a cousin who wants to drop me over his MID2020 because he is having problems and the only reference to it I could find online was in languages not spoken by me :0

John