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| 01-24-2008 | #1 |
| | Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 Have just discovered that my new laptop, an Advent 9315 2GB mem, Vista Home etc, contains a SiS graphics system which is not supported by Second Life. What can I do? Also I have loaded Call of Duty 4 but it too won't run. Help please as I am going mad without secondlife (I'm a reporter for the sl newspaper) eeeekkkkk Any help will be appreciated. Thanks  |
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| 01-24-2008 | #2 |
| | Re: Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 Most laptop video cards cannot be upgraded. That SiS video is very underpowered for Second Life and CoD4. Not really much you can do other than use another computer, sorry. -- Dustin Harper dharper@xxxxxx http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page "Baron DeSantis" <BaronDeSantis@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:051384F5-E213-43D4-8635-DE640C8D3A39@xxxxxx Quote: > Have just discovered that my new laptop, an Advent 9315 2GB mem, Vista > Home > etc, contains a SiS graphics system which is not supported by Second Life. > What can I do? Also I have loaded Call of Duty 4 but it too won't run. > Help > please as I am going mad without secondlife (I'm a reporter for the sl > newspaper) eeeekkkkk > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks |
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| 01-24-2008 | #3 |
| Vista Home Premium 64bit | Re: Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 The bare minimum for COD4 is an Nvidia 6600. Sorry............ |
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| 01-24-2008 | #4 |
| | Re: Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 "Dustin Harper" <dharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3792A096-D7B2-4031-9968-6A8EE736876F@xxxxxx Quote: > Most laptop video cards cannot be upgraded. That SiS video is very > underpowered for Second Life and CoD4. Not really much you can do other > than use another computer, sorry. > > -- > Dustin Harper > dharper@xxxxxx > http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page common chipset maker that tends on the budget side for business. More than likely your model SiS won't work. Update the drivers from SiS (if there are any), run DXDiag on your computer and see if everything checks out OK. More than likely you are not going to be able to run games on this laptop. What model notebook are you using? Brand/Model, please. |
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| 01-25-2008 | #5 |
| | RE: Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 well... there's two possibilities, one is better than the other (no duh.): 1. You're lucky enough that the graphics card is NOT integrated. Then you can opo you computer open, pull the card out, and put a high-end nVidia 8-series card in or any other graphics card by nVidia or ATI. Although I seriously doubt this possibility since Advent laptops do not look like customizable gamer PCs. Anywhoo, this is the better option. 2. Wah wah wah. Integrated card. Put you computer up for sale on ebay and hope for the best. Then get a Dell, HP, or a brand-name laptop from a big company. "Baron DeSantis" wrote: Quote: > Have just discovered that my new laptop, an Advent 9315 2GB mem, Vista Home > etc, contains a SiS graphics system which is not supported by Second Life. > What can I do? Also I have loaded Call of Duty 4 but it too won't run. Help > please as I am going mad without secondlife (I'm a reporter for the sl > newspaper) eeeekkkkk > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks |
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| 01-26-2008 | #6 |
| | Re: Second Life and graphics card problem & COD4 True that they do SUPPORT DX gaming, but whether or not you can play any game released within the past 6 years is up in the air.  I'm even beimpressed if older OpenGL games like Quake 3 ran with an acceptable frame rate. -- Dustin Harper dharper@xxxxxx http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page "Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:50953C33-10F5-4B77-B0ED-FB6D70C34493@xxxxxx Quote: > "Dustin Harper" <dharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:3792A096-D7B2-4031-9968-6A8EE736876F@xxxxxx Quote: >> Most laptop video cards cannot be upgraded. That SiS video is very >> underpowered for Second Life and CoD4. Not really much you can do other >> than use another computer, sorry. >> >> -- >> Dustin Harper >> dharper@xxxxxx >> http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page > Actually some SiS video cards actually support DirectX gaming. SiS is a > common chipset maker that tends on the budget side for business. More than > likely your model SiS won't work. > > Update the drivers from SiS (if there are any), run DXDiag on your > computer and see if everything checks out OK. More than likely you are not > going to be able to run games on this laptop. > > What model notebook are you using? Brand/Model, please. |
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