Spore incompatible with FX5200?

[taosaur]

I just downloaded the Spore trial, and it no work. The earliest compatible card is 5700. Does anyone know what limitation of the 5200 is causing this problem?

I don't much expect a compatibility solution, I'm just wondering why the line is drawn at the 5700.

[dxx]

I'd guess because back in ye olde days, nVidia's budget line was actually just old GPUs rebadged. Thus, I believe t'was the case that the old 440MX, purporting itself to be part of the GeForce 4 line, was in fact just a Geforce 2 with some slightly ****ter memory. With myself being too strapped for time to actually find a correct answer, I'd reckon that the case is either that the 5200 is actually just a Geforce3 of some retarded runt-like blithering mongoloid birth defect, or it's just too slow to render the game at a fast enough pace.

[mojoman0]

freezes on my lappy's 6100go as well

[Medion]

I just downloaded the Spore trial, and it no work. The earliest compatible card is 5700. Does anyone know what limitation of the 5200 is causing this problem?

I don't much expect a compatibility solution, I'm just wondering why the line is drawn at the 5700.

The 5200 the budget card, sporting 2 pipelines. The 5700 was the improved 5600, with 4 rendering pipelines. However, it's a more optimized design, so actual performance is way more than 2x over the 5200.

[ragejg]

The 5200 lacks z and color compression. I believe the 6100 and possibly some 7300 variants also have this disability.

[mailman2]

Cause the 5200 was a crap card.

[Madpistol]

Cause the 5200 was a crap card.

yep... which is why I still have one on my laptop today. Amazingly, it plays TF2, so it's not that bad.