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Originally Posted by Arrakis
I'm a bit lost among all these Nvidia graphic cards...
I have on my laptop a Nvidia 9600GT 512 Mo.
Maerean, in his post, is positive that a nVidia 8800GT 512 will be fine to run the game with all options checked.
But, is a 8800GT better than my 9600GT? Will I be able to play the game properly with that one?
Do you think you'll change your graphic card to play SH5?
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This is the main reason why Nvidia changed its naming scheme (its not that hard to get confused with it). The first digit (as in 9xxx) is the GENERATION of the card (they really only started doing this with the 5000 series) the second digit (as in x6xx) is the Performance of the card so the x3xx is slower than the x4xx and so on. Both Nvidia and to a lesser extend ATI are bad for re-branding cards (the Nvidia 9800GT and 9800GTS were little more than renamed 8800 cards, same with the GTS 240 and GTS 250 which are again essentially 8800s as well).
Another very important thing to mention is that you should probably go download a program called GPUz and check what kind of memory your GPU uses. DDR2 is not very good in graphics cards, GDDR3 is about the norm now, and GDDR4 and GDDR5 are best (ATI and IIRC Nvidia too now uses GDDR5 in their best stuff. Also I don't mean to rain on your parade but an Nvidia 9600GT in a laptop and one in a desk top are two VERY different animals. The graphics in your laptop have much more in common with the 8600mgs than they do with the desktop 9600. Deceptive marketing on Nvidias part but ATI is just as bad (4650 in a laptop is a way different chip than a 4650 desktop card) still chances are you SHOULD be able to RUN (as in playable maybe with some of the graphics settings turned down a little) it unless Ubi have gone off their rocker.