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
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.