I have a Toshiba Satellite A205 and I wish to play City of Heros without the excessive amount of lag. The game claims that I do not have the most updated video/graphics card and I was wondering if someone could help me find what would work best. The card that I have now is a Mobile Intel(R) 945 Chipset Family. If anyone could help that would be great. Thanks alot. -Joe
2007-11-27 21:19:31 · 2 answers · asked by Person 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
What you want is so easy to do on a desktop PC but almost impossible in laptops. There are NO retail internal cards for laptops. There are a few proprietary ones for Dell or Alienware.
The Asus XG Station is purely an external set up. It requires a separate monitor, so it literally turns a laptop to a desktop. XG Station is expensive BUT NOT awesome since it only interfaces with the PC Express Card slot which just connects to system bus via a PCIe x1 lane.
The best you can do with your GMA950 onboard graphics is to have 1 to 2 Gb RAM so that shared memory would scale up to 224Mb. Then play your games at low settings. Sometimes reducing color quality from 32bits to 16bits also help.
2007-11-27 23:09:20 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bad news is that your video is on board which means its probably not possible to upgrade it internally. This is one of the downsides of laptops - they don't have the same sort of hardware options as desktop computers. the only solution I know of is to use an external unit like this one
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=5369
these are pretty new technology. you would need to contact asus about a release date. the reviews look good though.
2007-11-27 22:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋