lollercookiez wrote...
That's strange. My laptop can handle Left 4 Dead 2 perfectly fine. It can even run Resident Evil 5 perfectly even though it's completely below specs.
I got a HP Pavilion dv6 notebook.
Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 @2.1Ghz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 with 2281MB of Ram (Wtf? Can someone explain this to me?)
4G of DDR2 Ram
An ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 is a powerful card for a laptop.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4530.13972.0.html
It is as powerful as a
desktop 8600 GT and Radeon X800XT (old cards which were powerful in their day), which are quite powerful.
Video cards need memory in order to hold/remember polygons that appear on screen. And so they utilize memory in order to display what you see on the screen. Depending on the game/program, a lot of memory may be required in order to show what's on the screen. Your card is blessed a lot of memory, however, a majority of the 2281MB of RAM on the card is actually being borrowed from the 4GB of RAM from the computer. I would guess that 1GB of Video RAM is actually on the card itself. It can run any new games on low-medium, as long as the processor can keep up.
That is why yours can handle Left4Dead 2 perfectly fine. His card is far below yours,just open the link above, and find 4500 in the right column, you should see Intel 4500MHD.