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Originally Posted by Soundman
I would tend to believe any 256 meg card will do you good. 128 meg may be a little laggy, maybe someone else can chime in here. BTW, On my laptop, all graghics are set full with the possible exception of "Volumetric Fog" and I get a good steady 30 FPS. It may slow slightly while viewing a massive explosion using the external camera, otherwise, rock solid.
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I doubt I would have the fog turned on. Just being able to play SHIV where I can see the ocean and the enviroment simmilar to what I have seen in photos here would make me happy. Lag wouldnt be a problem to me, I still play SHIII on this computer and have serious lag around convoys.
I am not 100% sure how this works cause the way I currently understand it is the video card has 256MB of its own memory and it also uses memory from the pc so if that is the case then I figured going to a 3GB memory upgrade from the standard 2GB it should allow me to play with lower chances of lag.
I just dont know about video cards is all. After all I did my research and looked on ATI`s website both the HD 3400 series and the HD 3600 series video cards. To be honest the only things that are different is the HD3400 has 181 million transistors on 55nm fabrication where as the HD 3600 has 378. The other is the HD 3400 has 64 bit DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface and the HD 3600 has 128 bit DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface. But other than that both of them support DX10.1, OpenGL 2.0, and Shader 4.1.
But I just dont know, and I surely wouldnt trust asking a computer shop cause god knows they could tell me I need a very expensive graphics card when one of these would do the same thing.