jihchiang wrote:
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> My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1420. Device manager told me nothing useful.
> "Not Me" <cargodZeroOne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> My OS is vista home premium 32 bit, 2 GB Ram, 120 GB Hard Drive, Dual
>>> Layer 8x DVD Burner. I have 65.3 GB left in C: , and 9.35 GB left in D:
>>> drive. I'm thinking of buying pc games, particularly windows dvd games
>>> such as Crysis, Modern Warfare, Flight Sim. etc.I don't know if my
>>> laptop has enough to play such games. I've heard about video card(?) and
>>> graphic card(?).I don't know how to look up those infos from my
>>> computer. Someone please tell me what I need to upgrade, if any, in
>>> order to play those games. ALSO, please recommend a controller to use. I
>>> know I still need to use the keyboard besides the controller.Thank you.
I don't know why you say "Device Manager told me nothing useful". If you had
looked, it would have told you what graphics card (which is the same thing
as a video card) you have. Or you could have done what I did, which was to
Google "Dell Inspiron 1400" and go to directly to the Dell website and look
at the specs. Really crazy-difficult, eh?
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Now go to the various games' websites and look up their system requirements.
I can tell you right now without even looking anything up on the game
website that you won't be able to run Crysis on your laptop. You can't
upgrade the video on that laptop so either buy a gaming desktop PC or start
looking at consoles for your gaming needs.
Malke
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