Video Card

[Littlecheeks]

Hi Could anyone tell me I have toshiba laptop 2.10GHz 4.0 Gbit of Ram running windows 7 and my video card is a mobile Intel (R) 4 series Express Chipset Family,could I run the new game Starcraft 2,the requirements are Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c

2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor

128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better

12 GB available HD space

1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 users)

DVD-ROM drive

Broadband Internet connection

1024X720 minimum display resolution


*Note: Due to potential programming changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time.



            PC Recommended Specifications:
         


Windows Vista®/Windows® 7

Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor

2 GB RAM

512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better



 Thanks ,I just thought I would surprise my husband if this will run.
LittleCheeks


 


 

[Joey]

Hello,

From the specs I see on your laptop it would not be able to run Starcraft 2 properly. It is not fast/powerful enough.

Could you give me the exact model number of your Toshiba laptop? I see you wrote the CPU on it is 2.1 GHz but I am not sure what specific 2.1 GHz CPU the Toshiba has. There is a small change it could be 1 of the more powerful 2.1 GHz CPUs out there.

Also the graphics card that comes with an Intel (R) 4 series Express Chipset could vary from a few models. There is another small change it might be one of the faster ones.

[Littlecheeks]

Thanks for replying ok here are the specs,Pentium dual core processer cpu T4300 @ 2.10GHz 4.00 Gb ram,32 bit operating system,Toshiba 16 satellite notebook Pro L500,320 GB HDD windows 7.Hope this covers it lol. Really appreciate your help.
Thank you

[Joey]

Thanks for the info. The CPU is a little better than I thought. "dual core" processors are a little bit faster than the older standard.

I looked it up and found the exact video/graphics card your laptop has. It is the, "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD".

With the specs listed above the laptop would barely run Starcraft 2 even at the lowest possible graphics settings. It would be really jerky, maybe even freeze every so often. I do not recommend buying Starcraft 2 for the system.

The weakest point is the graphics card. It does not have enough graphics processing power to handle the new Starcraft 2 game.

[Littlecheeks]

I sure appreciate all your help thanks, what video card upgrade do you recommend.
Thank you
LittleCheeks

[Joey]

No problem.

Unfortunately you are not able to upgrade the video card on that laptop (that is the norm for most laptops). You are only able to upgrade desktop video cards.