New laptop and have a few questions

I just got a laptop for my graduation/birthday gift. What I wanted to know is I have just about three or two games I want to put it on. But, I have Vista and I wanted to know if that will affect it in anyway. If you need any information about my laptop, just ask.

Vista's not an issue. Works great.

What sort of video card did the laptop come with is the important question.

Vista's not an issue. Works great.

What sort of video card did the laptop come with is the important question.

WDT-BlackKat

Very important, and does video RAM actually use some of system RAM like many laptops are doing.

my system information

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T8300 2.40 GHZ

3.00 GB RAM

NVIDA GeForce 8400M GT

Windows Vista

Full HD 1080

And I forgot to add, 32 Bit

my system information

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T8300 2.40 GHZ

3.00 GB RAM

NVIDA GeForce 8400M GT

Windows Vista

Full HD 1080

rush2323

That's a really good computer. The processor looks good, the RAM is about as much as you can use with a 32-bit machine and get full benefit of all the chips you put in. The video card has really good benchmarks. Windows Vista... I don't know much about what sort of problems games have with it, but that is up to the game developers to deal with that and put out patches to solve any of those sort of problems. Full HD 1080? What is that? Hard drive, or does that have something to do with your screen resolution. I don't follow.

Here are the benchmarks for the video card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-GeForce-8400M-GT.3708.0.html

Oh sorry, my fault about that, The full hd 1080 is my screen resolution

[QUOTE="rush2323"]...

. The video card has really good benchmarks. ...

Here are the benchmarks for the video card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-GeForce-8400M-GT.3708.0.html

df853

Actually it's a pretty horrid video card. You're going to be limited to low low low settings for any modern game you try to play on that laptop. The benchmarks only look "good" when you compare it to old low budget and old mid level cards as they did on that link. Also if you note the benchmarks were with some super low resolutions.

For medium settings you need a laptop with an 8600M GT, for high you need an 8800M.

[QUOTE="df853"][QUOTE="rush2323"]...

. The video card has really good benchmarks. ...

Here are the benchmarks for the video card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-GeForce-8400M-GT.3708.0.html

WDT-BlackKat

Actually it's a pretty horrid video card. You're going to be limited to low low low settings for any modern game you try to play on that laptop. The benchmarks only look "good" when you compare it to old low budget and old mid level cards as they did on that link. Also if you note the benchmarks were with some super low resolutions.

For medium settings you need a laptop with an 8600M GT, for high you need an 8800M.

It says it was playing doom 3 on ultra quality and was getting nearly 60 frames per second. That sounds decent to me. My video card can't even play on ultra quality and it craps pretty bad on high. However, I am able to play that game on medium and I can play oblivion on medium as well. So, I'm just saying, as video cards go, mine works fine to play some pretty graphic intensive games, and the card he has is better than mine. Is it top of the line best thing out there? Surely not. What video card do you have? Must be pretty cool...?