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My old man has recently bought a second hand Sony Vario and (amongnst other things) was hoping to run Battlefield 2 on it.

It has installed, click start and the "splash screen" comes up before dropping to desktop (BF2 now not running)

All the info I have at the moment is:

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Im assuming this is not capable of running BF2 ?

Ive asked for him to send me his DXdiag file and ill post that when I get it

Any thoughts ?

Cheers

TB
 
Pretty much all Intel mobile graphic chipsets are useless for gaming unless you don't mind a slide show or play the Sims. You can try raising the memory allocation in the BIOS if it doesn't do it automatically but I doubt it'll make much difference.
 
I see it has the Intel 965 so the same as my Lenovo T61. I can't even run Civ 4 without it slowing down so that is the extent of 3D graphics the 965 is capable of! My Lenovo is a year old dual core with 2gb ram, but it was bought for business so isn't made for games.
 
No chance as said above. You'd need decent discrete graphics.
've just bought a laptop just for BF2 and a couple of other games and ended up with a Vaio with GT 230M graphics. That runs it fine. Obviously not a lot of help for your old man though!
 
If its shared memory thats going to be a massive problem... the core itself is about the same spec as the GPU I had when BF2 demo came out - and it ran ok if I put everything down to lowish settings... but that GPU had much faster memory.

The lack of memory is probably whats kill it tho - depending on the adapter you can usually increase this in the BIOS or driver control panel - some are hidden away in the device properties in device manager - and a few dynamically allocate memory on demand which can cause horrendous problems with some apps.
 
Rroff said:
If its shared memory thats going to be a massive problem... the core itself is about the same spec as the GPU I had when BF2 demo came out - and it ran ok if I put everything down to lowish settings... but that GPU had much faster memory.

The lack of memory is probably whats kill it tho - depending on the adapter you can usually increase this in the BIOS or driver control panel - some are hidden away in the device properties in device manager - and a few dynamically allocate memory on demand which can cause horrendous problems with some apps.
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what? no. Intel 965 graphics would have a hard time rendering peggle! :p

honestly though, any intel graphics less than the 4500 series can literally ignore 3D for all intents and purposes, they're that bad.
 
The G965 is the X3100.

The X3100 and X4500 both didn't have any kind of decent HyperZ. (first introduced by ATi with the Radeon 7000) The X4500 made up for it by having more, faster shaders. The X3100 was poo.

The only remotely decent Intel GPU is the Intel HD Graphics in Core i3 and i5.
 
Monkeynut said:
The G965 is the X3100.

The X3100 and X4500 both didn't have any kind of decent HyperZ. (first introduced by ATi with the Radeon 7000) The X4500 made up for it by having more, faster shaders. The X3100 was poo.

The only remotely decent Intel GPU is the Intel HD Graphics in Core i3 and i5.
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indeed. i think we can put this to rest by saying:

Integrated Intel graphics: no. just no...
 
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