Sony Vaio VGN SZ360P notebook with dual core, 2 Gigs of RAM and an nVidia graphics card built in... GWX runs very well indeed for the most part.... However, SHIII shows off it's weakly optimized engine with the typical slow down in frame rates per second (and very noticebaly so) when encountering multiple contacts in bad weather, or when dealing with large convoys, etc. etc. With the way the program seems to have been written, I don't think that there's ANY computer hardware out there that can run the game smoothly 100% of the time (specialy when you consider that my computer came out quite some time AFTER SHIII, meaning that it represents technology beyond that which was available when SHIII was first sold)
As an interesting side note, my nVidia video card can be turned off to preserve power and help the computer run cooler, at which time it reverts to standard on-board intel video technology... One time I forgot to turn it back on before launching SHIII; well, the game did run, but was very laggy, and strangely enough, the watchmen on the bridge sported invisible binoculars. So expect a few strange graphical quirks with generic video cards.
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