Video card memory and the Ram factor in games!?

Hi its just like that i want to play crysis and through requirements analysis of canyourunit.com it failed me because of the video card memory. my video card is 128 and game requires 256 mb

though my RAM is 3 gb

its just that somewhere i read that if your video card doesnt have the required amount of space then it utilise the available space of RAM!

is it true?|||Some video cards can use main system memory additionally, some can't. Even if it does, it won't help much. It's far more important how good your GPU is to begin with, shader cores, core clock, etc



You're out of luck with Crysis. That won't even play well on most 256-512 mb cards. Get a new video card if you want to play it|||Video ram is pretty irrelevant unless you are playing at high resolutions. Anything in the 512mb-1gb range should be fine Stream processors and things like core clock/shader clock will be more important.



But the most important question by far is why exactly do you want to play Crysis? its not a particularly great game and only really serves as a benchmarking utility and for something to brag about how you can run it at max settings. Play a good game like TF2 or L4D instead. much less demanding and also much more fun.