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8MB? What brand did you say it was? Sounds like a Comodore 64 from 1987. It might not be the easiest thing to change that chipset. Expecially in an older system, it is most likely integrated and was not made to be upgraded. It can be done, but you gotta know what your doing.
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It has a bunch of slots on the bottom I can open. Is one of those the G Card?
I'll post a screenie of the card info so you know for sure. Hold on. I'm in school right now on my laptop... the teacher is coming. I'll post later, cya.
The graphics chipset isn't that bad... ATI, and it is AGP (albeit 2x). If you look in the BIOS you may be able to increase the amount of video RAM available, if it's the shared RAM type, which most laptops are.
I have the same problem, and Dboy, no matter how many times you've said this, it has nothing to do with Vista.
I have an Intel Chipset 945GM, and the issue's called text corruption.
It bounces all over the screen, doesn't stay in the boxes, generally makes the game unplayable. I fixed the issue by rolling back my driver, and adding a few changes to the freelancer video compatibility ini files. But I reformatted, and forgot how to fix it, as it was a year ago. Let me check TLR, a few websites, and get back to you.
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