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Dear fellows, I'm having a problem with this game-silent hill 4-. I installed everything: directx, updated video drivers, etc...and when i want to play the game I get the following message:

"this game requires a video card with a minimum of 32mb VRAM and programmable vertex/pixel shader support. The application will now close"

What is that? I wonder if I can download any patch or game fixes in order to make the game run...or do I have to buy such card? in this case, I mean, which card is that?

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What card do you have currently? If it's integrated, chances are you're missing pixel shading.
The minimum specs for Silent Hill are:

Windows XP/ME/2000/98
1.0 GHz Pentium III or Athlon processor (or equivalent)
256 MB RAM
GeForce3 Ti/Radeon 8500 Video Chipset w/32MB VRAM
DirectX 8.1b
DirectX 8.1 compliant sound card
2x DVD-ROM drive
3.0 GB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows XP/2000
2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or Athlon processor
512 MB RAM
GeForce4 Ti/Radeon 8500 Video Chipset w/64MB VRAM
4x DVD-ROM drive

3.7 GB free hard disk space

USB Gamepad controller

NOTE: It may be necessary to update your hardware drivers.

Supported video chipsets:
NVIDIA GeForceFX, GeForce4Ti, GeForce3Ti (GeForce MX series not supported.)
ATI Radeon 9800, 9700, 9600, 9500, 9200, 9100, 9000, 8500

(http://support2.vugames.com/konami/answer.aspx?ID=7165)