Required video card ?

[djd3]

Hey I use can you run it to lookup what games I can play .. however when I looked up a recent game it said I didn’t have the minimum card required. 

 

But .. I have enough vram..  ram .. and cpu to meet or exceed the numbers. 

 

So my question is : why does it say I need a specific video card or higher if my current card has the numbers to run the game ?

[Slottr]

Vram isnt everything.

 

The 2080 and 1070 arent the same card just because they both have 8GB of vram

Theyre totally different chips

 

What game are you wanting to play and what specs do you currently have?

[Crunchy Dragon]

What are your specs and what games are you trying to run?

 

Also, do you have the most recent drivers installed?

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, djd3 said:

Hey I use can you run it to lookup what games I can play .. however when I looked up a recent game it said I didn’t have the minimum card required. 

 

But .. I have enough vram..  ram .. and cpu to meet or exceed the numbers. 

 

So my question is : why does it say I need a specific video card or higher if my current card has the numbers to run the game ?

Because the numbers that are on spec sheets in stores and on the box aren't everything.

 

A quad-core Core i7-965 will get its butt handed to it by a quad-core Core i3-8100 simply because the internal improvements of the i3-8100 make it a much better processor.

 

A GeForce Titan X which has 12GB of VRAM will get its butt handed to it by a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 11GB of VRAM simply because the RTX 2080 Ti has more processing power.

 

Heck even some values in the spec sheet aren't always telling.  You would think an 8-core AMD FX-8350 would kick the butt of a quad core Intel i7-6700K, but the Intel processor will outperform the AMD processor in practically every test.

[djd3]

Minimum: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM

You Have: GeForce 940MX

[djd3]

considering buying resident evil 2 remake

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 hours ago, djd3 said:

Minimum: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM

You Have: GeForce 940MX

 

2 hours ago, djd3 said:

considering buying resident evil 2 remake

 

If we took this at face value, the GPU you have isn't good enough since the 940MX is slower than the GTX 760.

 

However, I don't think that level of performance is actually required to run the game. Since the game is more or less based on Resident Evil 7's engine, benchmarks for that game show the 940MX capable of pushing 60 FPS on low settings at 720p, dropping down to 30 FPS on medium settings at 1080p (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Resident-Evil-7-Notebook-and-Desktop-Benchmarks.197208.0.html). I'm sure with some tweaking you can find a middle ground.