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Video Card Confusion
Hi Guys,
I just bought a Samsung QX 410 and was wondering if my setup would be good enough to run Darkfall on at least medium settings. Here are the specs:
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: Intel i5 Quad Core (2.66ghz)
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce GT 420M (1GB GDDR3)
I'm confused with the video card. "Can You Run It" says my video card is terrible and can't run anything properly. Is this just a fluke in it's system or is my card that bad?
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You should be ok, not sure about max settings though. Maybe someone else can answer that one.
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Wait, you've got a desktop Lynnfield processor, together with a laptop video card that is the lowest end GPU chip in Nvidia's modern lineup? What sort of crazy machine do you have? Actually, from your description, it looks like you probably don't know what you have.
It's not that bad of a card, but it's not a very good card, either, and certainly not meant for gaming. Having only 4 ROPs will mean wildly variable performance from one game to another, ranging from kind of all right to rather bad. This is why you ask what to buy before you make a purchase, not after.
Well I didn't buy this laptop for gaming mainly just powerpoint, excel, ect. It's mainly for business. I stumbled upon Darkfall after reading that it was similar to The Elder Scrolls and being a big fan of the Elder Scrolls Series I decided to give it a go. I guess we'll see what happens with the Darkfall trial.
It uses Nvidia Optimus - Does this help?
Nvidia Optimus means that it switches between Intel integrated graphics and a discrete Nvidia card. That means you can get lower power consumption at idle, as some Nvidia cards use quite a bit of power at idle, though the lower end cards are better at this. It also gives you one more thing that can go wrong in drivers, in case either the Intel and Nvidia drivers don't play nicely with each other, or the video card doesn't kick in when it should.