Command and Conquer Red Alert 2

[Ruptga]

I'm thinking about buying CnC The First Decade, and I'm reasonably sure that RA2 will run on my GMA950, but does it support widescreen and how will it do at 1280x800?

Other hardware is a T2300 and 1GB of memory. Out of curiousity, does GMA950 benefit any from dualchannel memory? I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB, but the IGP is on the northbridge so I have to ask.

 

[Ultralight]

I can't answer all your questions, but I have played RA2 in 1280x1024 with no issues at all.

 

[Nightmare225]

Should have no problems at all. As much as I hate to say it, integrated graphics destroy RA2...

 

[Matthias99]

I'm pretty sure that RA/RA2 doesn't use 3D video acceleration much, if at all, so I doubt you'd have a problem. GMA950 can actually run modern DX9 games, just not real fast.

Widescreen support seems unlikely. Check out widescreengaming's forums.

I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB, but the IGP is on the northbridge so I have to ask.

I think it uses shared system RAM (or at least it can), so dual-channel would probably help performance in some cases. I don't know what you mean by "I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB", though.

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
I'm pretty sure that RA/RA2 doesn't use 3D video acceleration much, if at all, so I doubt you'd have a problem. GMA950 can actually run modern DX9 games, just not real fast.

Widescreen support seems unlikely. Check out widescreengaming's forums.

I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB, but the IGP is on the northbridge so I have to ask.

I think it uses shared system RAM (or at least it can), so dual-channel would probably help performance in some cases. I don't know what you mean by "I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB", though.

I meant dual channel doesn't matter to the CPU because the FSB can't handle the extra bandwidth, but I'm wondering if GMA 950 can take advantage of the extra bandwidth or if it makes no difference whatsoever.

Anyway, the important questions have been answered, thanks.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: ADDAvenger

Originally posted by: Matthias99

I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB, but the IGP is on the northbridge so I have to ask.

I think it uses shared system RAM (or at least it can), so dual-channel would probably help performance in some cases. I don't know what you mean by "I know it's irrelevant to the CPU because of the FSB", though.

I meant dual channel doesn't matter to the CPU because the FSB can't handle the extra bandwidth, but I'm wondering if GMA 950 can take advantage of the extra bandwidth or if it makes no difference whatsoever.

Anyway, the important questions have been answered, thanks.

I don't think you understand what dual-channel memory does.

What would be the point of having it at all if "the FSB can't handle the extra bandwidth"? On an Intel-based system, all memory access is through the FSB, so if it "couldn't handle" the higher RAM speed there would be no point to dual-channel memory.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Red Alert is purely a 2D game and will works with the GMA 950.