Is my hardware compatible with the minimum req...

Im trying to play empire earth 3. Im not sure if this is my problem but all of my other hardware seems up to par.

• NVIDIA® GeForcecard or equivalent DirectX® 9.0c-compliant 128 MB 3D video card supporting Hardware T&L and Shader Model 2.0 or higher



i have the hp pavilion laptop with this video card in it...

Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family

Intel® GMA 950

128 video memory

 

You need GRAPHIC CARD not integrated onboard
but the only way to be sure is to install the game and try it.

GPU forms

Dedicated graphics cards
Main article: Video card
The most powerful class of GPUs typically interface with the motherboard by means of an expansion slot such as PCI Express (PCIe) or Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and can usually be replaced or upgraded with relative ease, assuming the motherboard is capable of supporting the upgrade. A few graphics cards still use Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slots, but their bandwidth is so limited that they are generally used only when a PCIe or AGP slot is unavailable.

A dedicated GPU is not necessarily removable, nor does it necessarily interface with the motherboard in a standard fashion. The term "dedicated" refers to the fact that dedicated graphics cards have RAM that is dedicated to the card's use, not to the fact that most dedicated GPUs are removable. Dedicated GPUs for portable computers are most commonly interfaced through a non-standard and often proprietary slot due to size and weight constraints. Such ports may still be considered PCIe or AGP in terms of their logical host interface, even if they are not physically interchangeable with their counterparts.

Multiple cards can draw together a single image, so that the number of pixels can be doubled and antialiasing can be set to higher quality. If the screen is parted into a left and right, each card can cache the textures and geometry from their side (See Scalable Link Interface (SLI) and ATI CrossFire)

Integrated graphics solutions

Intel GMA X3000 IGP (under heatsink)Integrated graphics solutions, or shared graphics solutions are graphics processors that utilize a portion of a computer's system RAM rather than dedicated graphics memory. Such solutions are cheaper to implement than dedicated graphics solutions, but are less capable. Historically, integrated solutions were often considered unfit to play 3D games or run graphically intensive programs such as Adobe Flash. (Examples of such IGPs would be offerings from SiS and VIA circa 2004.)[4] However, today's integrated solutions such as the Intel's GMA X3000 (Intel G965), AMD's Radeon X1250 (AMD 690G) and NVIDIA's GeForce 7050 PV (NVIDIA nForce 630a) are more than capable of handling 2D graphics from Adobe Flash or low stress 3D graphics. However, the aforementioned GPUs still struggle with high-end video games. Modern desktop motherboards often include an integrated graphics solution and have expansion slots available to add a dedicated graphics card later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_accelerator