Under powered graphics card works?

SkelApe

SkelApe

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my graphics card (ATI mobility radeon 9000) which is 32MB can run black and white 2, and it says that the MINIMUM requirement is 64MB. It also fails the test for minimum on the system requirements lab, can anyone tell me why this is?
 
Are you complaining? ???

If I'm not mistaken, the Radeon 9000 is a DX8 card. It could be that since it doesn't process stuff like fur and blooming that it may use less resources
 
W...

I had to buy a new video card a long time ago because my Radeon 9000 wouldn't run it ;;  And I'm pretty sure it's a DX9 card, it just isn't very good.  At all XD

I think mine was 32MB too, so lol at that
 
The  9000 is DX 8.1 and has  a single  shader so could just run the game
Not a nice experience  but possible.
 
I had an underpowered graphics card that worked before, I think the game may have slightly lower minimum requirements then it says.
It should be pretty laggy, though. If you want to have fun playing, you should get a new card. That new GeForce card just came out didn't it, the 9000 series?
 
Well, yeah, but you don't need a expensive card like that just to play BW1, get a 5 series and you should play it at maximun specs ;0

Oh, some 8800 are better than the 9600 one, and cheaper i guess.
 
I would go for an ATI myself the HD3450 looks to be extra ordinary value at the moment..
Cheap ,Only needs 300w  PC power supply, Shader 4, DX10  so it won't be out of date soon like DX 9 cards will soon.  PCIe only though no AGP version  that I saw.
 
my card can process hair and things, and it laggs for the first... 2 minutes then runs pretty smoothly.
its just, if the predicted reqs for spore is a 64MB  graphics card, will i be able to run it i wonder? ???
bear in mind im on a laptop and cant change the graphics card (what a shame)
 
Spore  may well run on a 64M graphic card but I bet it would prefer 128m for DX9 ..DX10+ is when the game comes out  so the current cheap 1g cards are at the low end of the market.
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Perhaps you should  look to the "underdogs"  for you next game they have 1000's that will run on yours for  :D free.
 
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