Hi. I've always wanted to play Mass Effect but I've held off buying it for fear that my PC won't run it... specifically I'm not sure my video card would handle it. I would be running windows XP natively on my iMac. From other forums I have determined that my video card is a slightly underclocked mobility radeon 2600 xt (not the 2600 Pro that Apple advertises). Of course, I'm not going to get high detail settings, AA, and super high frame rates but I would like to run in natively at 1680 x 1050 if possible and at reasonable framerates. I ran a performance test of my GPU and it produced aPassMark 3D Mark of around 345... somehow above the listed average for my card. Bioware lists their minimum video cards as having similar 3D mark scores as my card. Any ideas whether it will be able to run Mass Effect? My primary computer specs are listed below. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks!
Intel Core 2 duo at 2.4 Ghz
3 Gb of 667 Mhz ram
Mobility Radeon 2600 XT (256 MB)
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