How demanding is Pirates! graphically?

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Originally Posted by tycho102

The open ocean is pretty easy on the card. It's the dancing, sword-fighting, and land battles that really pull the frame rate down.

Check this out.

You can buy a 9800se for $77, do the driver/bios mod to enable the extra pipelines and bump the voltage up. Take the heatsink off, put some Arctic Silver 5 on there, put some small BGA ram heatsinks on the memory ($5), and run the game really well. The mechanical mods are very easy to do, and as long as you keep yourself grounded, it's difficult to damage the card. The software mods are very easy, depending on what you want to do. Enabling the extra pipelines involves downloading the right drivers, which are all available at Guru3D.

I wish. Didn't mention that it's a laptop.

PD