How Many Leagues/Nations Can I Run With These System Specs, Please??

Can anyone reccommend to me how many leagues and nations i should be running with the following information on my laptop. I want to get the maximum ammount of leagues as i can on my game and i was just wondering what would be the maximum ammount of nations and leagues i could have in a game?

These are my system specs:

Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics

Rating: 3.5 Windows Experience Index : Unrated

Processor: Pentium® Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz

Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB

System Type: 32-bit Operating System

Im using Windows Vista Home Premium

Thanks a lot for your help!!

Enough

A good few nations and probably 20+ leagues (at least)

Whats your graphics card because that is what is going to ruin your gaming experiance.

A good few nations and probably 20+ leagues (at least)

Whats your graphics card because that is what is going to ruin your gaming experiance.

How can i find out my graphics card info mate and i'll let you know?

I think this is it:

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Start/ Control pannel/ System

Device manager/ Display adapters.

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Device Name

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Total Available Graphics Memory

1308 MB

Dedicated Video Memory

64 MB

System Video Memory

64 MB

You wont be able to play the 3D engine and probably wont be able to play in 2d either im afraid.

Device Name

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Total Available Graphics Memory

1308 MB

Dedicated Video Memory

64 MB

System Video Memory

64 MB

You wont be able to play the 3D engine and probably wont be able to play in 2d either im afraid.

Damn lol. Does that only mean if i were to run a load of leagues and nations??

So how many leagues and nations would you reccommend with these specs and this graphic card then?

erm - its two separate issues im afraid - with the RAM and processor you can run quite a few leagues and nations - however, you wont actually be able to watch a single match (you might manage 2D or at worst, commentary only) but you cant watch a 3d match with it.

You need a dedicated 3D graphics card with its own 128MB of dedicated Ram - yours is an integrated one that draws on your system ram.

erm - its two separate issues im afraid - with the RAM and processor you can run quite a few leagues and nations - however, you wont actually be able to watch a single match (you might manage 2D or at worst, commentary only) but you cant watch a 3d match with it.

You need a dedicated 3D graphics card with its own 128MB of dedicated Ram - yours is an integrated one that draws on your system ram.

I see mate. Have you got any reccomendations for certain graphics cards and where to get them??

I appreciate your help btw, thanks a lot!!

take it thats a laptop you have? if so you cant upgrade the graphics. you might how ever be able to give it some of your ram to use im not sure though

Yeah it's a laptop mate. I wish i knew more about computers!! :-( lol.

What would you say the most ammount of leagues i could run would be with these system specs and graphics card, without the 3D match engine playing up??

Those intergrated chips take memory from the RAM anyway - the problem is, they dont seem to work the way they are supposed to - technically that card can take 1300mb of ram from the normal system ram - which would make that card over twice as powerful as my 512mb geforce 9500M - but it doesnt work that way for some reason (which is more technical than my knowledge allows for).

My advice - take it to a computer store and ask them because laptops are much more difficult than desktops to add bits into.

If, however, its a desktop - just find ANY graphics card with 256mb or 512mb of dedicated graphics ram and shove it in - will work a charm with this game.

What would you say the most ammount of leagues i could run would be with these system specs and graphics card, without the 3D match engine playing up??

Zero, unfortunately. Its not a 'number of leagues' issue - its simply the second you started a 3D match the game would freeze up/ crash/ run in slow motion or any combination of the 3

Ok mate :-( . Cheers for the help!

T-Unit-LFC

with all thats been said though all you have to do is disable 3d in the preference menu. do you currently have the game?

take it thats a laptop you have? if so you cant upgrade the graphics. you might how ever be able to give it some of your ram to use im not sure though

Not true. I've seen some youtube videos showing you how to upgrade a laptop graphics card. Its not as easy as doing it on a desktop but it is possible.

lol yep ive seen a vid of that to but id be buggerd if i was going to do that

Those intergrated chips take memory from the RAM anyway - the problem is, they dont seem to work the way they are supposed to - technically that card can take 1300mb of ram from the normal system ram - which would make that card over twice as powerful as my 512mb geforce 9500M - but it doesnt work that way for some reason (which is more technical than my knowledge allows for).

My advice - take it to a computer store and ask them because laptops are much more difficult than desktops to add bits into.

If, however, its a desktop - just find ANY graphics card with 256mb or 512mb of dedicated graphics ram and shove it in - will work a charm with this game.

It doesn't work that way because RAM today means NOTHING. A dedicated graphics card, like the name says, is dedicated to processing everything related to graphics, it has it's own GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) which is constructed that way (different from the CPU, Central Processing Unit) so that it can perform certain calculations related to graphics way better than the CPU can, and on top of that, it free's the CPU's work load.

The RAM is there just to store video data and screen images, and nowdays there's rarely a game that uses more than 512MB RAM. The GPU, the architecture of the card, the shaders etc etc all are way more important than the memory.

An integrated card, like the name says, is integrated on the motherboard, it uses the CPU to process graphics and uses your main RAM as storing, therefore is a thousand times slower than a dedicated GC, or simply said, it's a pile of ****.

To thread starter:

I've noticed that you have a 4 GB Memory (RAM) but a 32 bit operating system, that means that you'll be actually able to use only slightly more than half of that memory, so, next time when you'll be formating your computer, install a 64 bit operating system.

And get a dedicated Graphics Card, harder to put in than in a Desktop but still doable, but let the specialist do it.

It doesn't work that way because RAM today means NOTHING. A dedicated graphics card, like the name says, is dedicated to processing everything related to graphics, it has it's own GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) which is constructed that way (different from the CPU, Central Processing Unit) so that it can perform certain calculations related to graphics way better than the CPU can, and on top of that, it free's the CPU's work load.

The RAM is there just to store video data and screen images, and nowdays there's rarely a game that uses more than 512MB RAM. The GPU, the architecture of the card, the shaders etc etc all are way more important than the memory.

An integrated card, like the name says, is integrated on the motherboard, it uses the CPU to process graphics and uses your main RAM as storing, therefore is a thousand times slower than a dedicated GC, or simply said, it's a pile of ****..

Well, I was right - but for all the wrong reasons - I knew it wouldnt work, I just got the exact method by which it wouldnt work wrong

To thread starter:

I've noticed that you have a 4 GB Memory (RAM) but a 32 bit operating system, that means that you'll be actually able to use only slightly more than half of that memory, so, next time when you'll be formating your computer, install a 64 bit operating system.

And get a dedicated Graphics Card, harder to put in than in a Desktop but still doable, but let the specialist do it.

Actually, thats not true - 32bit vista can write to 3.4/3.5gig of ram - so by changing to 64bit vista you dont gain a whole lot.

Actually, thats not true - 32bit vista can write to 3.4/3.5gig of ram - so by changing to 64bit vista you dont gain a whole lot.

Oh yeah, Vista, Arhggg!!! Hope 7 won't be such a huge failure...

Anyway, forgot to mention, a dedicated Mobile Card of around $60+ should be fine.