Vista - Graphics card too slow

Hello,

I just installed the new GTA IV on my computer. I have a notebook with the required performance, Processor (1.8 GHz required, 2.0 GHz Owned) graphics card (256 MB Required, 384 MB Owned) and plenty of RAM (4 GB) but when the game loads, it says there is not enough video output to run the game. I have looked into why and I found the problem and was wondering if anyone could help. The problem is in the graphics memory usage. It says that 128 MB goes toward dedicated memory and 256MB goes towards shared memory. I was wondering if it were at all possible to make all of the video memory go towards the dedicated memory because in the game it says it is only getting the dedicated memory? I tried looking in BIOS to switch all of it to dedicated memory but was unsuccessfull in my attempts.

Any help would be nice and a new graphics card is out of the question because it is a notebook.

Thanks,
JB

if its not in the bio's i'm not sure it can be done...

Most laptop/notebook computers don't work with online games as the game maker doesn't configure/test the game to work with the video cards. I am unsure of games that run from CD.

Unless you are buying a 4K Gaming Laptop, you're going to be hard pressed playing the latest games, more so when it comes to GTA IV, which is believed to be one of the most Resource-Heavy Console to PC Ported Games.

Laptop/Notebooks were not ment to play games but to be a mobile workforce, the fact that they have marketed them as Gaming Notebooks is just a small scheme and even though they can play some of the games does not mean much... that's where Desktops come in.

Some of the latest games put a heavy requirements on your rig making the system run a bit hot and if you can't cool it off with some good fans, etc, you'll end up having a lot of BSODs.

The GM965 is the mobile chipset for intel. Which is the X3100. If this is what you have it does not hve any dedicated graphics memory. It is all shared...

For your information below as I own one. Great battery life though.

and additional:

JBracken

This is the recommended graphics card spec for GTA IV

Video Card: 512MB Direct3D 10 compatible video card or Direct3D 9 card compatible with Shader


.. as in 512mb 'dedicated' memory. Your laptop falls well short

Your are trying to play games on a chip that was never meant to play games. According to your system specs, Intel integrated for GTA 4? That would be like playing Crysis on a Geforce 2.

yes, they are all right, it like my with a 6 series geforce playing gta4

not going to happen!

the only hope is, buy another pc,
OR
overclock

Yeah but Intel says the 965g can play games,

Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family - Game playability on Microsoft Windows XP*

Nothing like playing Far Cry 2 at about 5 FPS.