laptop vram question

[goatsalad]

So the laptop I'm getting has a mobility radeon 7500, which I hear is a pretty good chip for games, but it only has 16 megs of video memory. Will this screw me over? I mean, if I wanted to play WC3 or UT2003 on this laptop (has a 1.8 P4 w/ 256 DDR ram), is it going to run chunk-style due to a lack of Vram? It seems kind of stupid to make a video card for laptops that's all fast and whatnot, well suited for games, and then embarass it with so little memory. Whats the deal?

[toastbim]

wc3 is ok
ut 2003 no

i tried ut2003 on the highest end machine 3000$+(i work in retail and have access to most of them) and no it wasnt satisying..i dont know it cud be or it cud my athlon with geforce 4400 oced :D
then again laptop cant beat desktops when it comes to high end gaming at high resolution.
hope u realise that

btw are u getting toshiba 2410?
if u r , two thums up, awesome notebook, awesome price :)

[goatsalad]

Its a Sony vaio, actually. A GRS-100, to be exact. I understand about UT2003... if I can play WC3 though, and Age of Mythology, and also Unreal Tournament then I'm cool. Still though, I cant get over how lame such a wee memory bottleneck is... laaaaaaaame...

[jagojago12]

Originally posted by goatsalad
Its a Sony vaio, actually. A GRS-100, to be exact. I understand about UT2003... if I can play WC3 though, and Age of Mythology, and also Unreal Tournament then I'm cool. Still though, I cant get over how lame such a wee memory bottleneck is... laaaaaaaame...

For the most part, you should be able. Just turn down the texture detail and everything will be just dandy.

I have the Mobility Radeon 7000 (Radeon VE) which performs like a GeForce2 MX200 and/or Voodoo3 in terms of performance. Well, I get around 20fps with it in Unreal Tournament 2003, which is OK.

I've played Quake3, Hitman 2, Jedi Knight 2, Medal of Honor: Allied Assult and all of these games played great with only 16MB of RAM @ 1024x768@32-bit color.

[jagojago12]

Well, I've finally found a game that will just not run on my laptop: Splinter Cell.

The game needs at the minimum, 32MB of VRAM. Even if you set everything to low and run at 640x480, you're out of luck.

Kind of strange since I could even run Doom 3 on my laptop without a problem, and Doom 3 is much more demanding than Splinter Cell.