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My computer cannot run SPORE: a game I have reserved two years in advance and have anticipated like the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

I’m going to go be very depressed for a while.

[EDIT:] I realize I was too vague with my post, clearly, so let’s elaborate quickly: I have a Hewlett Packard laptop, which has had sufficient power to run a lot of what I’ve given it. It even ran Oblivion at like, ten frames per second. It ran the Warhammer Beta, if with horrible lag. But SPORE simply crashes every time I try running it, and when I checked The System Requirements Lab, it revealed to me that despite my previous assumptions, my ATI Radeon Xpress 200M integrated graphics card simply misses the mark for playing SPORE. It’s just a smidge under requirements, where everything else on my computer is relatively decent. Even my processor isn’t half bad, and it’s a Turion 64, which is nothing compared to a Intel Core 2 Duo.

I was devastated all yesterday, and I’ve really kind of lost hope to be able to play SPORE anymore, except for one small glimmer of hope: the ASUS XG Station, a portable external graphics card and multimedia handler for laptops lacking in the graphics department. According to its Wikipedia Article (which isn’t a very reliable source), the ASUS XG Station has been delayed until sometime mid-September while it’s finished up. This means it could be possible to upgrade my laptop using the external video card and be able to play SPORE. However, I have no idea what the price tag on this thing will be, and considering the video card used in it is $260 USD or so by itself, I’m worried the Station will cost somewhere around $350 dollars or more, a cost I just can’t dish out so readily.

I await to hear more news, but for now, I’m pretty much resigned to not be able to play SPORE until I get a new computer in a couple of years. And that really hurts.

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