system requirements

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it says in the min system req. you need a 128 mb video card to run the game. i have a nvivdia geforce 7150 with only 64 mb. i was wondering if anyone knows why i can run sins on my computor. i can play large maps and my computor has no problems at all....until someone lays down a few thousand mines in every gravity well. if anyone could enlighten me on this subject, it is driving me crazy. im thinking maybe my video card is intergated into my system memory some how but i have no idea at all so.........

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The game won't outright refuse to run if you're below the reqs, as the ones we set are much more generous than you'd usually find (that is, if you're at the minimum you should be able to play fine, not just barely).

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Every object in the game has to be stored in memory and processed every "round" (for want of a better term). The more there are, the more it has to do, so the longer it takes = the slower things are.... And if you DO have shared memory as many older (crappier....:X ) cards, then it will reduce the available system ram and possibly result in your system "thrashing" (constantly swapping memory to/from hard disk as more memory has been requested by all your running apps (including Sins) then is in your machine...

Also, make sure you haven't upped the graphics too much - played a 5v5 game online with someone who had graphics on high with a card that couldn't handle it and it took us 5 minutes to get going... We lost 2 people while we waited and he eventually dropped the settings - his CPU was at 100 on the latency screen!!!!

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