PC Graphic Card - Help Appreciated

[Alkimi]

Also I'm not sure on the SSD, as they're typically slower due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).]

What the hell?

Also, yea the Intel in-built graphics chipset is garbage for anything gaming related.

[Lumiin]

Also not for very sure of SSD, as they're typical more slow due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).

Am I the only one in tears over this? I thought that part was freakin hilarious! Seriously!

[Ninix]

The graphics with windows of 8 card makes for do issue with game. If you can make for get window of 7 then you'd be very much well off. Also not for very sure of SSD, as they're typical more slow due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).

This post is fucking legendary

[Marishi-Ten]

The graphics with windows of 8 card makes for do issue with game. If you can make for get window of 7 then you'd be very much well off. Also not for very sure of SSD, as they're typical more slow due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).

Windows 8 actually streamlines RAM allocation and allows for heavy rendering to load faster than Windows 7 (VRAM/RAM caching).

SSD's (Solid State) have I/O speeds of 600MB/s while a mechanical drive is around 140MB/s. SSD's have no moving parts making them much more consistent and less prone to problems (MTBF is 500,000 hours on average). SSD's don't need to worry about heat, and can survive multiple critical power failures.

I believe you mean the flow of positive and negative electrons that send the 1/0 binary signal. Electron flow is constant and doesn't change. A hard drive is limited to R/W capabilities and the SATA/PCI bus speeds (which any SSD in the market today will out perform any mechanical drive that has ever been in production).

You signature leads me to assume that you might not take my word for it so here are some citations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage

[Cigaran]

1. Having an SSD does not make it "slower due to being solid". It's quite actually the opposite since the drive isn't required to spin up and then run out and fetch data that may be scattered over thousands of sectors.

2. As a general rule, unless you specifically got the laptop from a company that designs them with replacing/upgrading in mind you're not going to be able to upgrade the graphics card. I've only known a few companies that did this and all of them were desktop replacement grade laptops. Aethaeryn is right though in that we'd need to know make and model to be 100% sure but the odds aren't in your favor.

[Alish]

Unfortunately that laptop is not upgradeable in the graphics department. Sorry!

[Vanidin]

You're basically screwed on the laptop, outside of a small number of laptops designed for replaceable video cards (none of which are going to come with just the integrated intel chipset) your upgrade path is nothing. If "recently" is recent enough that you can still return it, do so and make sure that you get a laptop with an nvidia or amd graphics card in it. My wife's laptop has a GT640M in it that runs the game just fine.

[BobbinT]

The graphics with windows of 8 card makes for do issue with game. If you can make for get window of 7 then you'd be very much well off. Also not for very sure of SSD, as they're typical more slow due to being solid (the electric takes longer to pass through it).

wasn't SSD = "Solid" State Drive? lol

Maybe he was thinking of SSHD, which I might agree would be slower than SSD.

anyways, Intel HD graphic processor there. Not game worthy, unless you use it to play old games. Sorry. ^^;

[jackff]

https://forum-ru.msi.com/index.php?topic=78679.0

Here it is possible to replace the video card
see screenshots
Russian forum, see your English forum MSI

[Haibel]

https://forum-ru.msi.com/index.php?topic=78679.0

Here it is possible to replace the video card
see screenshots
Russian forum, see your English forum MSI

On an Alienware/dell laptop that is designed with that option in mind. OP has a Sony that cannot be upgraded this way.
Nobody said you can't upgrade any laptops graphics, Just that the OP Can't upgrade his.

As far as current laptops out there that can play this game. You can get away with anything that has an AMD A8 or A10 and play
this game fairly well. A6 and lower is only a little better then Intel HD graphics. So that really the option you have for Budget level
laptops. You can at times find sub $700 laptops with actual Graphics cards if you look around but you can find AMD A8's all day long
for $400-$600. Just depends how good you need the graphics to be.