geolawyerman
Chieftain
I need a better video card for my laptop, and I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for cards that would let civ 5 run, and can be used on a laptop.
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. (unless you have a very, very, very specific setup, which I doubt).geolawyerman
Chieftain
What about maybe using a portable usb memory card that I plug in?
geolawyerman
Chieftain
And can you tell me what happens when I don't have a good enough video card?
...er...what? For the graphics? Would not have any effect at all.
Depends on how bad it is.
Could be that the game doesn't start, that you get massive graphical glitches, or that the game just runs a bit slow.
For a more precise prediction we'd need your DxDiag (my what?!?).
geolawyerman
Chieftain
Here is my DxDiag
geolawyerman
Chieftain
Is the driver free?
Yes, if you get them from the official pages, then they are free.
There *might* be scam sites, which could try to charge you for such stuff. Don't know if this happens at the moment, but like said: Free, if from the right sources. Don't pay for it.
There *might* be scam sites, which could try to charge you for such stuff. Don't know if this happens at the moment, but like said: Free, if from the right sources. Don't pay for it.
geolawyerman
Chieftain
Thanks, but I'm getting messages that the driver update isn't working for my computer, which is a Lenovo Thinkpad.
I hate these laptop manufacturers 
. Why can they not just use the default drivers ?
In this case it means you'll have to see, if Lenovo themself offers a newer driver.
I can't check that, because you'll need the exact product description.
The respective download site is here, there you'll have to choose what machine you exactly have.
Good luck with that. I hope they offer newer drivers, but you can sadly not be sure :/.
. Why can they not just use the default drivers ?In this case it means you'll have to see, if Lenovo themself offers a newer driver.
I can't check that, because you'll need the exact product description.
The respective download site is here, there you'll have to choose what machine you exactly have.
Good luck with that. I hope they offer newer drivers, but you can sadly not be sure :/.
geolawyerman
Chieftain
I just downloaded a newer driver. Thanks for the help.
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