Dell Vostro 1500 - Does it makes sense?

[aza]

Hi,

my girlfriend wants to play planeshift too but she does only have a DELL Vostro 1500 laptop.
Unfortunately she is miles away so I can't test her computer and she doesn't wants to install it for nothing.
Can anyone tell me, if it makes sense? I read the System requirements and I think the graphic card (it's just a chipset) it to bad.

Thanks a lot for your replies,
aza



I forgot the specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5270, 1.4 GHz
1-GB DDR2 PC2700 667 MHz SDRAM
Intel Mobile 965GM Express Chipset Motherboard

[Dracaeon]

I am not an expert on this, but it looks to me that it should run.  I had a below average computer for a while, and Planeshift ran just fine, with a few tweaks (sound causes lots of lag, shaders as well), although I still had some lag.

[RlyDontKnow]

the bigger issue here seems to be the RAM

I have a slightly better system that I'm using for my windows tests which works (sorta):

Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 @ 1.60GHz
2GB DDR2(?) ram
Intel Mobile 965GME
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
graphic driver from Lenovo (branded version of latest one available from intel)

so the only real difference here is a slightly better CPU and twice the ram

however, it should be noted that the intel graphics driver causes *heavy* issues for me.
e.g. you have to turn graphic details rather low and even then the driver doesn't seem to free buffers properly, so it leaks ~1.5MB per second (couldn't reproduce it on any other system so far).
on top of that it has issues with off-screen rendering (renders upside down and too big - again couldn't reproduce on any other system).

so to sum it up: basically it *could* work, but highly probably requires someone with some tech knowledge and a lot of patience to get it working properly as it involves a lot of playing around with graphic settings, driver versions, etc. as intel cards simply aren't made for gaming :-/

[aza]

Thanks for your replies.
I think I'm going to wait until I can test it by myself on her computer, I don't want to scare her off ... and maybe some new RAM on x-mas