Best graphics card for sims2?

Question

I'm thinking of buying a new laptop, it meets all the right specs for the sims2, but i am unsure about the graphics card. It is called: Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100. Can anyone tell me how good this graphics card is, if its good or bad, and if its bad what they would recommend, considering the price? Thanks.

Answer 1

It has only 128mb and no graphics acceleration. So it makes sim2 play slow. SO Buy an Geforce 6600 (256 mb) its cheap and speed up your sims.

Answer 2

as for graphics its bad, onboard and uses system memory.

try to get a unit with some sort of card.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?...

check out the video card.

Answer 3

The graphics card is not very good, purely because its "on-board", they are getting better but still far from perfect. You could probably run the sims2 on low settings with it, but I'd be more likely to go for a proper graphics card rather than a chipset built into the computer. If it must be a laptop, I'd consider one with an ATi Turion card, they seem to be pretty good for laptops, If you'd consider a desktop there is a much wider variety. But as I say, you could probably run the sims2 at fairly low settings with that.