Graphics Card Suggestions

[ishotbambi 4]

You've probably gotten a lot of these threads but I've spent hours trying to get this game to work to only find out that my graphics card is not up to par to play this game. I got ARMA II: Combine Operations for my birthday from Steam and would really appreciate it if you guys could help me out. The specs below are what I got from http://www.systemrequirementslab.com . It is a laptop. I would like suggestions of cards that fit my computer, not extreme but good enough to run a lot of games, smoothly without having to buy a better one in the near future. Please help. Btw, the game does start, but with really low FPS to a point of not being able to play

This site doesn't seem accurate as it says I would not be able to run WoW but I have before

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU t64000 @ 2.00GHz

RAM: 4.0 GB

OS:Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition Service Pack 2 (build 6002), 64 bit

Video Card: Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Pixel Shader Version: 4.0

Vertex Shader Version: 4.0

Dedicated Video RAM: 128 MB

Edited August 22, 2012 by ishotbambi

[wen36912 0]

i have a similar setting...from what i can see theres not much we can do...does it run at all?

this helped speed mine up:

[Kyzahh 127]

Yeah... it's not really possible to upgrade a laptops graphics.

[ishotbambi 4]

I get "control" of my character and see the surroundings slowly start to form but moving and looking around is extremely choppy. It has nothing to do with my connection though. Are you saying that buying a better graphics card for my laptop would not help? Should I just build a PC?

[Kyzahh 127]

Yes, building a pc would be a much better option.

Very few laptops allow for graphics cards to be upgraded, and the ones that do are really expensive.

For more info:

http://www.geepu.net/external-video-card/