solved - graphics card

[coach3play4]

i still play war games with an internal graphics card. I play mostly grigsby war in russia with no problem, but im worries that i will not be able to play waterloo. (have ati radeon 3000 internal).
the specs say "should have external graphics". can i still buy game and get ok experience with it?
thanks

[zakblood]

depends on rest of pc spec tbh,

Radeon 3000 (IGP) is an integrated GPU on the AMD 760G Chipset. It's manufactured with a 55nm technology but it's not based on the shader unified R600 architecture and therefore pixel and vertex shaders work separately (thus does not support DirectX 10).
It's based on the RS760 Core and offers 40 Shader Processing Units, 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs a 32-bit memory interface of standard DDR2. The central unit runs, commonly, at up to 500MHz and the memory clock's operating speed depends on the system RAM's speed.
Radeon 3000's performance depends on the users system configuration which will define the operating memory clock's speed and on the desktop manufacturer which decides its central unit's speed.
Radeon 3000 is related to Radeon HD 3200 but unlike the latter, does not offer DirectX 10 support. Both DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games aren't supported.

so unless you have the money to try and see approach i'd say while it may work, the performance might be too poor to be of any use i'm sorry to say...

support may give a better answer, but if you buy and it doesn't work, then you wasted your money as you won't get a refund for poor spec etc

[Gunfreak]

Cpu is more important then graphics card for this game, that said on board gpus are never a good thing.

[Tim1966]

If you download the demo for Gettysburg and that runs then the Waterloo game should be ok too.

[montesaurus]

I was looking at the Gettysburg game, but saw no demo download. Where do you find this download, as I would like to try it also!

[con20or]

We recommend a dedicated graphics card. We have had reports of crashes on large army battles for people using laptops with integrated graphics. Smaller battles seem to run ok But it depends what your preferred playing style is.

[zakblood]

ORIGINAL: montesaurus

I was looking at the Gettysburg game, but saw no demo download. Where do you find this download, as I would like to try it also!

http://www.scourgeofwar.com/downloads.shtml

have fun

[coach3play4]

thanks to all for comments re graphics card. i am able to play the Gettysburg demo, but concerned about largr scenarios.

[con20or]

I suggest you have a look at the technical sections here and on our own forums before spending any money and see if you can run it. As I said, we recommend a dedicated graphics card.

Product Requirements :
MINIMUM
OS: Windows XP (SP2+), Vista or 7
CPU: Dual Core 1.5 GHz CPU or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Video: 256 MB Dedicated Video Card with DirectX 9.0c or higher. Video card should NOT be integrated on motherboard, but should be separate, no shared memory
Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Hard Disk Space: 2 GB Free
DirectX Version: 9.0c (Included)
Resolution: Variable, 1024x768 minimum

Here is an example

http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/nuts-a ... to-desktop

The problems encountered by pople with integrated graphics cards are usually on the larger scenarios with the two full armies fighting it out, 150k+ troops on the field.