Hey there,

I am wondering if my video card will support Midieval II: Total War. I have a laptop with an integrated video card:(

It is a Toshiba Satellite A100 with a 128 MB video card. The chipset is Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family.

If there is any other information you need let me know.

Also is it possible ot upgrade this video card or install better drivers?

Any help/tip would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

I am wondering if my video card will support Midieval II: Total War. I have a laptop with an integrated video card
no not with an intel gpu.

Also is it possible ot upgrade this video card
no

The chipset is not a video card; it refers to the chipset on the motherboard that your onboard video lives on.

Onboard video is very basic; it doesn't have many bells and whistles. Unfortunately, onboard video will not run Medeival II: Total war. This cannot be upgraded. There is no physical slot to put a graphics card in on your laptop.

It is a Toshiba Satellite A100 with a 128 MB video card. The chipset is Intel 945GM Express (http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/chipsets/945gm/945gm-overview.htm) Chipset Family.The chipset is not a video card; it refers to the chipset on the motherboard that your onboard video lives on."That would be the GMA 950 (http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma950/index.htm) for 400 points, Bob."

no not with an intel gpu.Onboard video is very basic; it doesn't have many bells and whistles. Unfortunately, onboard video will not run Medeival II: Total war.Not true on both accounts. Intel's latest GMA X4500HD, from the G45 Express (http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/g45/g45-overview.htm) chipset family, sports full DX10/SM 4.0/OpenGL 2.0 support - more than enough features and power to run Medieval II: Total War. While onboard video doesn't game nearly as well as dedicated vid cards (I often say it RUNS rather than PLAYS) you can't make blanket statements like these just because you would not personally do it.

I am wondering if my video card will support Midieval II: Total War.It will not, unfortunately. The min req's for the game require a 128MB DX9.0c-compliant vid card, which the GMA 950 is not. It's only DX9.0a/SM 2.x/OpenGL 1.4, a far cry from even running Compiz Fusion (! :eek: !) much less a monster game like Medieval II: Total War! And of course its puny 4-pipe design @ 400 MHz leaves much to be desired as far as gaming performance for the games it CAN play! :rolleyes: Yeah... onboard video isn't recommended for gaming at all, unless you're playing games that are a good 2 years behind its feature set. For the GMA 950, that puts it squarely in the era just before Doom 3.

Also is it possible ot upgrade this video card or install better drivers?The answer to the first part of your question, as the others have stated correctly, is no. Laptops/notebooks are not upgradeable in the graphics area. If you happen to have one that IS upgradeable, you would know it! ;)

The second part of your question is generally answered as "it depends". For common ATI/AMD and NVidia GPU's, there exists something called Omega Drivers (http://www.omegadrivers.net/). Though completely unsupported by manufacturers, the Omega drivers work very well for older GPU's that never really had good support to begin with! Like ATI's mobile Radeon 9000 series, which ATI appeared to support for about 5 minutes before letting them go stagnant! :mad: In your case, the GMA 950 will be supported only by your system's manufacturer (Toshiba) and Intel. You can check their websites for driver versions against your currently installed version for any updates.

However, be warned that driver updates alone do not typically equate to significantly higher performance, especially if they're WHQL-certified!! Don't expect any miracles in that department.