Sorry, but another Graphic Card Question

I know there are piles of these threads but I want to ask a question. I do not have a clue what Graphics card I have in my laptop. I have a Fujitsu seimens laptop with windows vista and it more than passes the requirements for RAM and processing speed.

Now as far as I know my laptop has only got the built in graphics card (intel or something). Could someone tell me if this will run FM09? Or how do I go about finding out information on the graphics card I have in my laptop?

I just havent had the time yet to download the demo to try it, and probably wont have time to do so until the new game is released so any help would be very much appreciated.

Tnaks in advance

Simply click Start, then click Run, type dxdiag, then on the Display sub menu it will tell you your graphics card.

I believe there is an issue with the built in Intel cards just now. But if you do the dxdiag thing then it'll come up with the model of graphics card in the top left.

Ok it is a "Mobile Intel 965 Express chipset" with a total memory of 358 MB. Surely this will be good enough for the game??

That memory is shared memory with your RAM, not dedicated memory. I believe the 965 is above the minimum but as I say there is an issue with the game not recognising them sometimes just now.

I have a 965 (Dell Laptop) and it works fine

Hopefully it will work ok. As I said I havent had time to download the demo to test it and prob wont get a chance before the real thing comes out. Thanks for the response lads, makes it good reading that they are (mostly) positive responses lol

Brian this site obviously doesn't include FM09, but it does give you some healthy pointers.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgm965/sb/cs-026146.htm

Cheers Kriss, good site that. Some detailed games there so hopefully FM09 will be ok. Will be absolutly gutted if it doesnt work lol

I can also give you confirmation of a working 965 set with 385 memory.

So if it doesn't work for you, it should just be a case of tweaking, but I'd say 98% confidence it should be fine.

i have 751mbnvidia geforce 7000m turbo cache but it struglin is it a poo card or is it likly to be somethink else

i have 751mbnvidia geforce 7000m turbo cache but it struglin is it a poo card or is it likly to be somethink else

A quick google search turns up the nvidia forums suggesting this isn't a paticularly good gpu.

However, they are talking CoD, Crysis etc. which should be considered much heavier use than FM. So yes its a poo card, but only so far as most laptop gpu's are poo! I'd suggest checking out other areas first, what else is running, system resources etc.

Yeah, make sure your hard drive is defragged, nothing else inessential is running in the background, etc.