[Mcell]

i have a new laptop and i was just curious if anyone could tell my why i fail on systemrequirmentslap the results for "left 4 Dead" are below, it says i fail video but all the specs like vid ram/pixelshader version ect see to all meet the req. thanks for any help, just want to know how reliable requirmentslab is before i go buy any games.

CPU
Minimum: Pentium 4
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz PASS

CPU Speed
Minimum: 3 GHz
You Have: 2.00 GHz Performance Rated at 3.89 GHz PASS

System RAM
Minimum: 1 GB
You Have: 2.9 GB PASS

Operating System
Minimum: Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Vista64
You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit (Build Service Pack 16001) PASS

Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better
You Have: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family () FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this minimum requirement.

Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 128 MB , You have - 1.3 GB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 4.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 4.0

Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)
Your driver version number is: 7.15.10.1502 FYI: Your video card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper video card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.

Sound Card
Minimum: Yes
You Have: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti PASS

Sound Card Driver Version
Your driver version number is: 6.0 FYI: Your sound card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper sound card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product.

Free Disk Space
Minimum: 7.5 GB
You Have: 142.6 GB PASS

 

[Laurie52]

The "Can You Run It?" site is a useful guide, but it is not absolute. However, intergrated graphics/video may not have all the "right stuff" needed to support an graphics intensive game. You may get video glitches, slowdowns or, worse, not run at all.

Have you checked the "Left 4 Dead" website to see if your laptop Intel graphics are supported? Or if others, who also have laptops, have posted having problems...or not.

When was the last time you updated its drivers? Installing extra RAM is the cheapest way to improve your chipset performance....usually. VISTA requires 2 Gig RAM just to run the OS.

 

[Mcell]

i ended up borrowing my friends copy, and it seems to work, thanks for the answer though, ill use it to check some other games.

 

[McNinja]

you see the site doesn't like the intergrated graphics because it uses shared memory not dedicated memory. As long as your card has the right vertex shader versions and all that jazz you should be good to go.

I've had it fail for my girlfriend's laptop for the game "Faces of War". sure the game lagged but it still played it.

Is this a laptop?