Hey everyone, I wanted to buy the PC game Boiling Point Road To Hell. But the minimum system requirements for the graphics card is a 128 MB card! The game came out in early 2005 and it's graphics look like crap to be honest. I only have a 64 mb card in my laptop. So could I get away with running the game? Or would I have to have a 128 Mb card? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Tell us more about your laptop. They almost always share RAM and VRAM, so you might be OK.

It's about 2 years old, 4 GB of ram, Intel Core i3 CPU M380 @ 2.53 GHz

It would be better if you provide the model number of the laptop. Then we'll find out more about whether they use shared RAM and VRAM.

Lenovo Ideapad Z560

This seems to explain it in detail, but in short, your Lenovo shares RAM with your Intel HD Graphics.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120229232907AAxhz2I

You can run dxdiag to see how much your IGP can take from your system. You might be OK running the game.

Ran dxdiag, got this under my display device: Approx Total Memory: 1696 MB

That means that 64 MB dedicated RAM has additional RAM... and your game may take up to 1696 MB... the rest of it from your system RAM. It also means that if it needs the additional RAM and your system has already chewed it up, it will likely run out of memory.

Awesome, thanks for the help. Just two more questions: 1: Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl won't even install on my laptop cause it says it needs a 128 MB graphics card. Is there a way to override that? And 2: Everytime I start up SWAT 4 on my laptop, it gives me a warning about my graphics card not being up to snuff and whatnot, but the game runs just fine. I forget exactly what it says cause the warning always scared me off from playing it, worrying that it'd somehow damage my graphics card. Is that possible that it could do that? I don't really know anything about PC gaming or PC's in general so sorry if these are dumb questions :p


EDIT: Just tried installing STALKER, it actually went through this time but warned me about my graphics card not being good enough. Could it somehow over work and fry my graphics card? Once again, sorry if these questions are stupid :p

No. Instructions won't go faster than the hardware (the GPU) running them. The game will crawl, may not work properly, but your graphic card should be ok enough

First of all, no question is stupid. I don't know if there's a way around the warnings. If the game is resorting to a dxdiag.txt file parsing, you could find it and hack the RAM detected. But I don't know.

I don't think it will fry your GPU... even though my laptop got issues after playing a bleeding edge game like Mortal Kombat.

Don't worry about frying your GPU, it doesn't happen from being underpowered.

Hopefully the installer for Boiling Point doesn't prevent game installation if it detects inferior hardware, but that's not a call we can make because all installers are different. However, if your laptop can run Swat 4, you have a good chance of running this as well.