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Name: Gabobb
Date: March 11, 2009 at 19:23:40 Pacific
OS: windows vista home premiun
CPU/Ram: intel core 2 duo p8400-4GB 800MHz SDRAM
Product: Toshiba / Satellite e105-s1402
Subcategory: General
Comment:

I would like to play videogames on my laptop, but it only has a 128MB dedicated video memory, and on the gpu settings it says that there is a total available graphips memory of 1759MB, it also has 0Mb of system video memory and 1631MB of shared system memory, my cuestion is: how can I increase the video memory from 128Mb to 1GB or more, without adding other hardware to my laptop?, please its urgent



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Name: jam
Date: March 11, 2009 at 21:00:50 Pacific
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Sorry, your laptop's not a gamer. The amount of graphics memory isn't the problem, the weak Intel 4500MHD integrated graphics chip is the problem. It's fine for HD video & "normal" tasks, but it's not good for modern gaming. Here's a few clips from a recent review:

"System performance was great in nearly every category except gaming."

"Gaming was limited to past generation games, or heavily tweaked games that wouldn’t task the system that much."

http://www.notebookreview.com/defau...

Here's a review of the Intel 4500MHD integrated graphics chip:

"the performance is just on par with the entry level dedicated graphics cards and therefore not suited for demanding games."

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-...

If you have a specific game in mind, try running this to see if it will be playable or not:

Can You Run It?

The bottomline is, if you wanna play games with a laptop & play them well, you need to buy a gaming laptop. They generally cost considerably more than your $900 BestBuy special, but the Alienware Area-51 m15x at only $1100 is a hell of a lot more machine for the money:

http://www.alienware.com/products/n...


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