I have a 1GB RAM and also have a 1GB Video Card. Will it work smoothly on Games?

Video Card is nVidia 8400gs

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Honestly, it doesn't change a thing on the games I'm playing >.<

Follow up question: Do I need to do something?|||Depends on what game and what OS you're on.



New games like Black Ops??? Hell no.



Minecraft? Sure.|||Without knowing what games you play and your complete system specifications it's impossible to say how they will run. An 8400GS is a low end nVidia card suitable for running games 2008 or before on low in 1024x768 or less, 1gb ram is probably sufficient on XP for games 2008 or before, completely insufficient on vista/7 as the OS eats like 700mb, so you only have 300mb to load the game onto. Probably you have a single core p4/celeron or athlon/sempron, which again, will mean most games after 2008 aren't really going to run well, and many from before.



A word of advice, ignore the amount of video memory, only pay attention to the model of graphics card, as their performance is almost exclusively determined by the GPU (graphics processing unit, aka the Core) not the memory.



http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best… In case you want to know where you stand.



Basicall you can play Half-Life 2 and UT2003/2004 games on mediumish, and UT3 games on low.|||Today's games use almost 2gb of System memory. The rest of the system will need at least 1gb. You can get by with 3gb of System RAM at the minimum.



The Video memory on the graphics card helps with the detail. Mainly, it's used for playing games at a higher resolution. Otherwise it doesn't really do anything to effect the performance of the game. While playing a Game at Direct X 10 details a 1080p display will never use more than 1gb or Video memory. In terms of Video Memory, it's more important to have a larger memory bus and faster GDDR5 memory.



When you buy a graphics card, you're trying to match the power of that card up with your monitor's native display resolution. A mid-range card like the GTX 460 will be just as effective on a smaller display resolution as a GTX 580 on a large display resolution. A good review of a graphics card will list the card's performance at multiple display resolutions.



The 8400gs is a very weak card and it's not for playing games. Let's not romance this card. It's suited for playing games from 2005 at comfortable levels on a 1024x768 screen resolution.



You need to bump the system memory up 3gb. Then you will need to upgrade the card to something like a Radeon HD5670.



Like I said before, the goal of gaming should be to play the game on your monitor's native screen resolution. If you're using a 1080p display you should take a look at cards like the 6770 and higher. The 6770 costs $120 and you will need a 450w or higher power supply to run that card. Also, If your system has a single core or an older dual-core processor it will bottleneck the card.|||It all depends on the games you want to play and on the in-game options you choose. A good example would be: CRISIS: if you want to play it at 60fps with max in-game options, you will need more than 2Gs shared. If you want to play... say... SIMS 3 what you have now will work fine.



What you can do is get more system RAM max your board if you can and that will generate some improvements, you can always OC your nvidia and your cpu but thats a whole other ball game(if you will).

Oh if you are running XP != 64bits then dont bother getting more than 3Gbs of RAM.