Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

[brickloaf]

anybody?

any help appericated!

[SO19Visionaries]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

well my mates mobility x1600 works on medium settings no aa with frame rates of like 70 odd so, i would assume so.

[brickloaf]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

is your card really choppy? also do you have 256MB or 128MB....that would make a diffrence to

[SO19Visionaries]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

my card personally? i have an x700 in my laptop could play it medium settings also with a good steady 50-60+ frame rate, not choppy at all.

im lucky though that i have a rather large resolution on my screen on my laptop so it looks good without AA etc.

but then again i havn't played the latest patches on my laptop as my desktop is alot better than it.

[mlkmnz]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

anybody?

any help appericated!

Possibly, but it won't be pretty. Although it has 256MB of ram on it, the X1400 isn't that fantastic a chip (kinda like pairing 2GB of RAM with a Celeron 1.3GHz). You'd be better off with a 128MB card with a decent chipset on it, even an old Radeon 9800 Pro or Nvidia FX5700 would fare better, so if you can, return the card and buy a decent second hand card.

[brickloaf]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

well my question is......do you guys think it would be so choppy it would be pointless to play......PS 1gb of ram,1.66 dual core, also does anyone know if i can upgrade the gfx card on a dell Inspiron E1505 laptop?

any help appericated!

[SO19Visionaries]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

you can upgrade them on dell laptops, by either:


A) Not Buying a Dell

B) Giving dell a far greater amount of money

[mlkmnz]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

well my question is......do you guys think it would be so choppy it would be pointless to play......PS 1gb of ram,1.66 dual core, also does anyone know if i can upgrade the gfx card on a dell Inspiron E1505 laptop?

any help appericated!

No you can't upgrade the graphics on that Dell. You'll be able to play BF2, albeit at lower resolution with a lot of the eye-candy turned off, but it should run at a reasonable FPS with some tweaking.

Oh, one other thing, check to see if your graphics memory is shared, you'd be better off only allocating 128MB to that graphics chip as it won't utilise 256MB properly, the rest of your system will use it better.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: Will my 256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 work in anyway?

Moved.