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Mercedes · 09-28-05, 03:12 PM

Runs fine on mine.

HP Pavilion 3ghz P4, 1gb ram DDR, 128mb ati 9000 gfx card (64MB dedicated, 64MB shared from main RAM)

Dell 9300 Inspirion 2ghz Pentium M, 2GB ram DDR2, 256 MB nvidia gforce go 6800 (all ram dedicated)

But the Dell laptop runs it about double speed to the "Faster" 3ghz Pavilion. I know the Pentium M chips are very quick reletive to clock speed but it mainly shows just how important a good gfx card is AND that the system is balenced. The top machine can't run doom, the bottom laptop can run it at max settings no problem.

S3 IGP cards are a mixed bunch. I had a P3 600 with a S3 savage IX card with a whopping 16mb. It ran SC no problems at all. Probably get the specs for yours off their website and see if it supports everything DW's site recommends. If you can't see any problems there make sure you have the latest drivers. If that won't solve it, try looking for 3rd party drivers. If you get 3rd party drivers, the 'latest' version number might not necessarily be the best. Try different version numbers till you find one that performs the best. The Dell uses 3rd party drivers and the difference was huge.

09-28-05, 03:12 PM	#11
Mercedes Watch Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 23 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Runs fine on mine. HP Pavilion 3ghz P4, 1gb ram DDR, 128mb ati 9000 gfx card (64MB dedicated, 64MB shared from main RAM) Dell 9300 Inspirion 2ghz Pentium M, 2GB ram DDR2, 256 MB nvidia gforce go 6800 (all ram dedicated) But the Dell laptop runs it about double speed to the "Faster" 3ghz Pavilion. I know the Pentium M chips are very quick reletive to clock speed but it mainly shows just how important a good gfx card is AND that the system is balenced. The top machine can't run doom, the bottom laptop can run it at max settings no problem. S3 IGP cards are a mixed bunch. I had a P3 600 with a S3 savage IX card with a whopping 16mb. It ran SC no problems at all. Probably get the specs for yours off their website and see if it supports everything DW's site recommends. If you can't see any problems there make sure you have the latest drivers. If that won't solve it, try looking for 3rd party drivers. If you get 3rd party drivers, the 'latest' version number might not necessarily be the best. Try different version numbers till you find one that performs the best. The Dell uses 3rd party drivers and the difference was huge.