Halo 2 PC Wont Run

[mrhotdog]

Hey
I went and bought halo 2 today, my laptop is an acer aspire 3680, 2.5GB Ram, 1.86GHz processor, dedicated graphics (ive made it 128Mb) but i cant play at all. I get the following errors (see attached), is the lack of a graphics card the only problem?
cheers

[arrow224]

It is not the lack of graphics card, but a lack of graphics memory. Are you sure you boosted it to 128MB in the BIOS?

[MudBlood]

right click on the computer link in the start menu

go to properties

tell us what your windows index is..

and more than likely, it is the graphics card letting you down,, Last i checked dedicated GFX didnt share system memory...

Having a quick look here Your laptop will not run it....

[Jesterarts]

Yeah... pretty sure you need a graphics card to run the game... and the processor is pretty slow.

Check this site out, very useful.

YouGamers - Games - Halo 2 for Windows Vista

Gives specs on games, etc but also runs a check on your system to see if you will be able to run it.

[mrhotdog]

Thanks for the replys. Yeah i changed it to 128Mb in the bios, its got a rating of 3. I think im going to look into a cheap graphics card (although since its a laptop thats unlikely lol).

[arrow224]

Umm....if it is a laptop, you CANNOT upgrade the video card without some very serious modification and money.

[MudBlood]

When for ~$600 you can get a desktop machine that will run it. and better games

[danja]

When for ~$600 you can get a desktop machine that will run it. and better games

For $600 you can get a console that is better again, and is guaranteed to run every game perfectly for 5 years

[mrhotdog]

yeah i found that out the other day (im used to working with PC's). I'll just grin and bear it for now. Thanks for the replys