Assassin’s Creed 2 on nvidia quadro nvs 295 [closed]

Question

I installed Assassin’s Creed 2 on a workstation with nvidia quadro nvs 295. But the framerate is very low. Is it possible to run the game with this graphics card? The game requires :

Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better

Card detailed info:

Core Information
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    Name: Quadro NVS 295
    Compute Capability: 1.1
    Clock Rate: 1300 MHz
    Multiprocessors: 1
    Warp Size: 32
    Regs Per Block: 8192
    Threads Per Block: 512
    Watchdog Enabled: Yes
    Threads Dimentions: 512 x 512 x 64
    Grid Dimentions: 65535 x 65535 x 1

Memory Information
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    Total Global: 231.438 MB
    Shared Per Block: 16 KB
    Pitch: 2.09715e+06 KB
    Total Constant: 64 KB
    Texture Alignment: 256
    GPU Overlap: No

Performance Information
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Memory Copy
    Host Pinned to Device: 3601.01 MB/s
    Host Pageable to Device: 2443.45 MB/s
    Device to Host Pinned: 3280.4 MB/s
    Device to Host Pageable: 2480.89 MB/s
    Device to Device: 2062.33 MB/s
GPU Core Performance
    Single-precision Float: 20528.8 Mflop/s
    Double-precision Float: Not Supported
    32-bit Integer: 4096.07 Miop/s
    24-bit Integer: 20505.8 Miop/s

Answer 1

On paper it looks like it should work: the Quadro 295 has 256MB memory, DirectX 10 support and Pixel Shader 4.0 support, as you can see in this comparison chart. However, the Quadro is not really a gaming card, I don't know how it compares to, say, the GeForce 8800 GT listed as a minimum requirement.

In any case, it seems that the Quadro is definitely on the lower end of graphics card that can run the game, so you should change it to low graphic settings. Since the memory is rather low I suspect lowering the resolution could give you a large framerate gain; also make sure anti-aliasing is off, it has significant performance impact.

Answer 2

If I recall correctly, the drivers for Quadro cards aren't at all optimized for DirectX which the game likely uses. Workstation GPUs tend to give lousy performance in most games. It could also be the hardware itself that's different, but I don't think so. Possibly you could try installing the "normal" driver and see what happens.

Answer 3

The Quadro cards are not meant for gaming or DirectX. Their purpose is 3D design and modeling. Thus, you are not going to be able to run any semi-modern games.

It doesn't help that the Quadro 295 is almost the bottom of the barrel of Quadro cards...