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Quick game requirement question

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I had been out of the loop as far as playing new games have been concerned. Right now I have no idea what constitutes minimum requirements for gaming. Recently I got a new laptop which has an Intel Centrino cpu with 2.536 GHZ speed, 4 GB ram and a Radeon 4500 video card with 512 mb dedicated memory.
Can this laptop handle the following games

- Mass Effect 1 and 2
- Prototype
- Assasins Creed 1 and 2
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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Re: Quick game requirement question

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You know that you can just Google the system requirements for these games right?
Prototype wrote:Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) and DirectX® 9.0c or (Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2)
Video Card: 256 MB 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c with Shader Model 3 support*
Processor: Pentium(R) Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or better
RAM: 1 GB of RAM for Windows ® XP / 2 GB Windows ® Vista systems
Hard Drive Space: 8 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 500MB for swap file.)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM
Peripheral:
100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible 4X DVD-ROM drive or better (600
K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers

*Supported Chipsets for Windows(R) XP and Vista
All NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 256 MB and better chipsets
All ATI® Radeon™ X1800 256 MB and better chipsets
Assassins Creed 1 wrote:Minimum
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU Intel Pentium D 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core) processor
Memory 512 MB (XP)
Hard Drive Space 9.0 GB
Graphics Hardware 256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher. 512 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card.
Sound Hardware DirectX 9.0 or 10.0–compliant 5.1 channel surround
Mass Effect 1 wrote:Minimum System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC

Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista

Processor:
2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD

Memory:
1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)
2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)

Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better)
ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)

Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
In short, don't expect it to play most of these games very well. You might be able to get by with low or medium settings for some of them.
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