Internal Graphics Accelerator vs. Graphics Car (Can I run Open Rails?)

[conductorchris]

I have an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (Core i3), an internal graphics adapter. It's got 32 MB of Dedicated video memory and 1632 MB of Shared System Memory.

I don't know enough about graphics cards to understand if this is going to be fine or a problem when I get Open Rails. Can you tell me?

The Open Rails documentation says, "Open Rails recommends a video card with 256MB GPU RAM for decent performance"

It's got DirectX11 and Pixel shader 2.0, so that's no problem, I just wonder if it being an internal adapter vs a dedicated card is going to cause problems.

thank you in advance

Christopher

[seagoon]

Chris, I run OR perfectly well on a PC laptop (Toshiba Satellite with Intel i7 CPU) which has an integral Nvidia GeForce GT 525M "card" with "2048 Mb DDR3 dedicated video memory".
More dedicated memory than yours, admittedly.

But the question is easily answered by looking at how satisfied you are with the performance of MSTS.
If you are comfortable with that then OR will be a breeze.

Bruce

[kox]

geforce is not integrated. There were some years ago(when the integrated gpu-s were in chipset, not in cpu like now), but now the integrated gpu next to az intel cpu can be only intel, same true at amd. If the vendor is different, then that's a dedicated vga.
AMD integrated gpus are fast. but intels... are only enough for browsing, video play, not for gaming.
However i'm sure it can run openrails, but not with max graphics, and decent fps. For that you need an AMD APU, or a dedicated video card.