Easiest way to find out is to pop over to fileshack and grab the demo. I think someone just the other day had the same question, and found the demo ran acceptably for him.

Hey everyone,

I can confirm that the demo runs pretty good on this chipset with 2GB of system RAM... 1GB unto vista, and the rest given over to a Sinful existence.

Bought the game, trying to get it downloaded before the box arrives... its a race between my pitiful internet connection and the speed of snail mail.

Large battles in demo tend to slow things down, so really big fleet engagements will probably be difficult to play, but other than that it was very very stable.. much more stable than GalCiv2, that seemed to have a massive memory leak. No crashed yet, all praise be to Stardock. Awesome game, and I was very happy and pleased to see it runs pretty well on this absolute-un-gaming laptop!

-Kyrie

Kitkun,

At that time, was referring to demo version. Was running it in default settings, which I think were Highest in all but bumps, that was set to low. Is playable without major difficulties except when fleets get real big... say past the halfway point of the Logistics research tree.

At that point it is still playable, just slow in resolving combat and a bit sluggish.

Bought the game, and the gold version works great -- no crashes, very stable, settings at High or Hihgest. Slow when fleets are large, but thats to be expected...

Just managed to get Impulse working, downloaded the new version, going to test it out tonight. Will let you know. Ironically, the game at highest is more stable than Impulse itself...

-Kyrie