Im done trying to convince myself that my Dell Inspiron can support gaming. Im done trying to convince myself that Microsoft Flight simulator does not have the system needs of other normal gaming software. My QUESTION: what is the minimal video card MB capacity that can support computer gaming with maxed out texturing settings? My Dell Inspiron has a crappy 384MB videocard. Microsoft flight simulator recommends at least 500MB video card. some computers have 1000MB video card. I think I saw an HP laptop with a 1700 MB video card. Whats the minimum for decent performance, and whats the price range?|||Well, the problem here is that you're assuming the amount of video RAM has a direct relation to video card performance. This is NOT the case. You need a good, dedicated GPU to have good performance. The RAM does not matter all that much as it only helps when cranking up the texture details at high resolutions when you already have a power GPU. Those video cards that supposedly have over 1700MBs of video RAM are complete garbage for gaming as they simply share system RAM and have a piss-poor GPU. Your 384MB video card is also in this category.
You'll notice that typically there will be more to the minimum requirements than just the video RAM. Typically it'll say something like "vertex shader 2.0" or, even better, list specific models of GPUs that it supports (GeForce 7000 series, for instance)
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