Video card information?

Question

i need some video card information to play AOE3 / company of heroes / diablo 3 when it comes out.

video cad = grpahics card right???

i have radeon pro 9600 256mb with 1 gig ram.

i read the system req for some games and it gave me

Video Card: DirectX 9.0c 64 MB VRAM with Pixel Shader 1.1

what is that?

Answer 1

With that  9600Pro you won't play CoH and Diablo 3, and AoE3, even if it has 256MB memory but its DDR1 memory @400MHz, the graphics chip is  again realy outdated working @ 400MHz, and the Pixel Shader 2.0 support is not enough, and its a AGP, so again a  a nail in the coffin

Answer 2

have to agree with travis ,the second post

u can play all those games and ya ur right

video card=graphics card=display adapter=VGA card

all r the same things

Answer 3

does ur video card is built in onboard

some games wont support for onboard video cards

nvidia geforce is the best  

Answer 4

The card you said you had well exceeds the system requirements you said you read. VRAM is literally how much memory your card has, yours is 256, which well exceeds the 64 MB requirement. DirectX is essentially what provides the graphics display, you can check your version by using Run and typing in dxdiag. Vista runs DirectX10 while XP runs up to 9.0. Just google DirectX 9 and you can update it if nessicary.

Pixel Shader 1.1 is an old version dating back to DirectX8. They are up to Pixel Shader 4.0 now so you should have no problems running the game you were looking into.