Mobility Radeon upgrade

[WannabeSQ]

I have a Laptop with a Mobility radeon 8MB DDR. It is a Compaq Presario 1720US with 512 mb ram and xp pro. The games I play (jedi outcast) work just fine, I just want a bit smoother graphics (im not that picky with graphics, I think my friends GeForce 2 MX 200 is good enough). His is a bit smoother than mine, and I found an upgrade on ebay to 32MB ddr ram. Would that give me the performance I need? I cant even run higher than 640x480 now. Is it worth it to upgrade?

 

[hans007]

32mb on that laptop is supposed to be faster, it'll probably be about as fast as the gf2mx200 in that case. the reason is that with 8mb , one bank of the ram isnt installed, or something , so the bus bandwith is not as high.



the radeon mobility m6 is what you have, and it should be about as fast as a radeon ve i believe. the real radeon ve, can have a 64bit ddr bus, but i think in configurations where it has only 8mb which is the internal memory on the die for the mobiltiy version it will only have a 32bit bus to memory. i could be wrong though.

 

[WannabeSQ]

sounds good. From what I can tell with my limited windows knowledge snooping around, The auctioneer said that I take out the 8 meg chip and replace it with the 32 meg chip. And in windows, i think it has 8 megs internal, and 8 megs on the upgradable chip? Am I correct here? Im new to video card stuff and am just starting out.

PS, do you know how I can see the framerate inside of Jedi Outcast?

 

[Deeko]

Is it Direct3D? Download fraps