What is My video card?

Hi, I didn't know where else I could post about this, so I decided to come here. My question is based off of another problem/question:

What type of video card do I have? I looked on the card and saw this number:180-10074-0000-B01 and it said "Model: A74" That first number is printed directly on the card, it's not a sticker. So my question is, if someone came up to me and asked "what video card do you have?" I'd like to be able to say, i.e. GeForce... blah blah blah. Instead of saying, "uh, nVidia makes it?" lol. The reason I want to know is because when I play sims 2, the menu options and what not, disappear if I don't move the camera somehow. I was thinking it was because my Graphics card is not up to par?

Posted on Oct 19, 2005 6:16 PM

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Oct 19, 2005 10:53 PM in response to Erick

1.2 GHz or faster G4/G5 processor
Mac OS X v10.3.8 or later
256MB RAM minimum
3GB free hard-disk space
32MB VRAM minimum
Radeon 9000 or later (ATI) or GeForce FX5200 or later video card
DVD drive

From the Apple Store, The Sims 2 page.

Sorry to report that your computer doesn't meet the games minimum requirements for a Video card.

While yours has 32MB it is not equivalent to the stated video cards. They each have 64MB.

In addition, your dual 867 processors work very well on Dual Aware software. Unfortunetly most games are not Dual Aware. The minimum requirement stated is 1.2 GHz or faster.
To sum up, your computer is just a tad slow for the game to be played correctly.

A new 64MB or 128MB video card would probably fix it enough to play properly. A pain, too true, but technology is changing fast. The new games take a lot of computing/video power.

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