**Can My Notebook Run It?** -Ask about your notebooks here

I second that. You should probably look at the 8600GS and over. Those notebooks shouldn't be that expensive now given all the new hardware thats come out over the past 4 months

 

i cant speak for fallout3 but HL2 should be running at max settings and max resolution. Its not a demanding game for new computers.

 

Question: Hi, will i be able to run the new GTA or COD WAW in my HP laptop, and with what setting if its playable,specs in sig

 

Looking at the Lenovo T500:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2)
Display type: 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT, w/ CCFL Backlight
System graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 with 256MB
Total memory: 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz
Hard Drive: 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm

How will it run the following games: Sins of a Solar Empire, Fallout 3, WoW, LotR Online, Diablo III (eventually)?

I am also considering stepping down in size to the T400:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2)
Display type: 14.1 WXGA+ TFT, w/ LED Backlight
System graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 with 256MB
Total memory: 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz
Hard drive: 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm

Same question, same games. I've read somewhere that the T-series uses GDDR3 on the Radeon GPU's, but I can't find confirmation of that on the Lenovo site.

 

wuhoo, a friend I know is playing fallout 3 well on a 9600m geforce. Keep in mind I only have his word for it though.

 

Radeon HD3650 will run all of those games you have mentioned fluently (medium to high settings, depending of a game). Combined with strong processor you have chosen and plenty of RAM memory, you will feel no cutting while gaming. I am not talking about Bioshock 3, since I am not familiar with that game or it's system requirements.

Radeon HD3450 is noticeable weaker, but it still will be able to run aforementioned games, but on lower settings (low/medium). Also, you are getting a smaller screen.

As far as I am familiar with it, ThinkPad series use DDR2 graphic cards, although I might be wrong with this.

 

Since you already own the laptop, a great site to check out would be yougamers.com, were there is a great setup to see if your system will run it.

 

First of all thanks for the reply nice to hear that also a cheaper laptop can run WoW easily. Though...how many fps and lag are we talking about? I'm coming from an ancient one which I couldn't even visit dalaran with or go near naxx without dcing. Playing got very frustrating that way and I would love to get a good running laptop now where I can play WoW on without too much worries (though that is doubtfull lol )

As far as I see on the notebookcheck website both the 9600 GS and 9600 GT are placed higher than the ATI Radeon HD 3650. There are all in class 2 though I see but they are ranged from best to worst no?

 

Urrg, I linked you too the wrong ATI, sorry.
I'll do some more research, and edit this post.

EDIT:
Even so, since the 9600 and the HD 3650 are so close, I think my discription is about the same. Not everything on high, but more than a few things

 

LOL! I meant Fallout 3. :laugh: So, for a gamer not that into FPS games, the HD3650 should be a very good experience, then? I really like turning on the eye candy (with some games it's almost criminal not to) - to the point that the occasional dip in frame rates doesn't bother me.

Interesting. Maybe I'll ask around about that over in the Lenovo forum.

 

I looked at the minimum system requirements, and I exceed the graphics card and meet most of the minimum system requirements, but it runs .4 Ghz too slow. Will that be much of a problem?

 

Yes, in your case HD3650 seems like a very good choice. RTS games are mostly not too GPU intensive, so HD3650 will be just fine. They are more RAM and processor power dependable, and you have enough of both of it. Also, T500 will get you bigger screen, which sometimes means a lot while gaming.

 

I was looking at one of these Acer Aspires:

7720G-584G32MN (2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 8600M-GT) price around € 800
6930G-594G64MN (read quite good reviews for gaming - 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 9600M-GS) price around € 900
6935G-844G32BN (2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 9600M-GT) price around € 1200
6935G-944G32BN (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 9600M-GT) price around € 1300

My requirements are playing World of Warcraft with medium to high settings at a good steady fps, around 60 (even in dalaran above 30 or so if possible). The laptop's performance probably gets better when more expensive but it's not really worth spending lots more money if a lower priced one already gives close to no issues, if you get what I mean. If anyone can help me choose, plz do so

 

Thanks for the info on the Radeon HD 3650. Looks like it's also being recommended to those who aren't sure what card to get. I never thought I would need an ATI again, but have been looking up information and there is more bad about NVidia boards and in my opinion, sneaky renumbering on NVidia's part that doesn't help someone when they want to keep up with system requirements.

 

And...at the risk of belaboring the point, how about graphically detailed adventure games and RPG's like Fallout 3, Diablo III, etc.? I don't mind sacrificing some frames per second, for great-looking graphics. Any foreseeable issues there?

 

GTA IV on my machine in my sig? FPS?

 

i plan to buy a laptop.
can i use CPU 2.26, GPU NVIDIA 9200M GS to play Warcraft III 12 player-game such as dota, as well as Counter Strike???
i can update the memory to 4G, that's easy...just tell me how is the graphic card, coz hp dv5 series don't have 9600M GT to be customized anymore...

 

you will be able to run it very easily i imagine

 

Reporting back with some findings of my own.

Grand Theft Auto 4
Ive tested it with settings as low as it could go, strolling around on foot it was reasonable at roughly 20fps, but any kind of action will slaughter the n 9200m GS quicker then hogs in a hotdog factory. Dont bother trying this, stick with san andreas wich runs perfectly on it.

Fallout 3
CAN be played on it, but expect to get your butt blown off by rifle raiders ALOT. Draw distance is crazy low. I coulnd even see the sniper guy in minefield town untill I limped up to his hide-out. Crowded places (rivet city, birthday scene) make the thing suffer aswell. Plays, but not very enjoyable.

Grid Racing
Runs quite well on low and 800x600 resolution, I was actually rather impressed with how it still looked after beating down the graphics quality like that. Very playable.


Anyone tested the other games on a nVidia 9200m yet?
Any game reccomendations?

 

There will be no problems with adventure games since they, even in full graphic details, are not too GPU intensive. Sometimes they require a somewhat better GPU than pure Radeon HD3470 or similar, but your HD3560 is powerful enough for that.

I do not play RPG's so cannot comment on this. Generally speaking, there shouldn't be any problem with them on reasonable settings, but cannot prove this from my personal experience.

 

not well, but you will get away with low settings

no you have not. 8200m is significantly weaker than the minimum requirement.
your processor is fine though, it would be alot faster than a 2.4ghz p4.

ut3 (which use the same engine as bioshock) is reported to be able to run on a go 7050. i guess you may be able to do bare minimum on a custom resolution under 640*480. it's not pretty.

 

I edited the link to the "The Official CAN MY NOTEBOOK RUN [insert game here] THREAD" since it was still linked to the old thread.

 

No, I think he can do a tad better than low settings with a Geforce 9600M GT.

 

How can I expect to run games like Fallout 3, STALKER, Call of Duty 5, Mirrors Edge, Need for Speed, Crysis Warhead?

Specs in my sig.

 

I am gonna play GTA 4, Assassins Creed, Crysis. What screen resolution and what settings can I play this selected games at?

HP HDX 16 Inch Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 Laptop (16 inch widescreen)

Intel Centrino 2 Inside
2.13 GHz
4 GB DDR2 Ram
320 GB Hard Drive 5400 RPM
512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Graphics
Lightscribe DVD Super Multi Drive
Built-in Webcam
Fingerprint Reader


Thanks in advance,
D3158

 

Hello, can my laptop run Mass Effect, StarCraft 2?

Specs:
Dell Latitude E5500
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz, 3M L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
- Windows XP Pro
- 4.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 120GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM

Thx

 

FWIW, I had an HP Compaq with C2D 7250 and Intel GMA 3100, and it couldn't even run EverQuest (original, not EQ2) at anything even close to a playable framerate. I don't know how the 4500 compares to the previous version.

 

Not sure if this was posted already, but is it possible to sticky this link from the notebookcheck.net site?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

They have an almost complete 3Dmark benchmarks for most major notebook graphics cards from the Geforce 9800 GTX to the ancient SIS Mirage cards. They also list some Framerates for games such as crysis, doom3, etc.

It seems like a useful supplement to Chaz's graphics card guide.

 

Will my sony vgn-cs215j play games like WOW, fallout 3, COD 4?
Specs:
Intel Core Due Mobile 2.0Ghz
4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Ram
Mobile Intel® Graphics Accelerator 4500MHD
video memory up to 1750MB total available

 

What settings do I have to sacrifice to be able to play Fallout 3 well, with minimal eye candy loss?

Vostro 1500, C2D T7300, 2GB RAM, 8600M GT, specs in sig, 1280x800.

 

WOW should be alright, Fallout 3 isnt worthy of an attempt, COD4 might run but most likely not enjoyable. Intel intergrated graphics chips usually arnt the best preformers when it comes to games im afraid.

Im afraid you might have to sacrifice your wallet if you want to play Fallout 3.
Ive tried it on my C2D P8400 with 4gb RAM and a 9200M GT on as low a setting as possible, still was impossible to play enjoyably.
Draw distance gets drasticly short, so bad you wont even see people shooting at you with longrange rifles.
Places like megaton and rivetcity made minced meat out of this nvidia chip. Youll need atleast a 9600m GT to play.

 

Fallout3: Med - High
Stalker: Med - High
COD5: Med - High
Crysis: Medium

Not sure about the other two.

GTA4: Low @ 1024 x 768 (probably with lag)
Assassins Creed: Med - High @ 1280 x 800
Crysis: Medium @ 1280 x 800

Mass Effect: No
StarCraft2: Maybe

WOW: Low
Fallout3: Maybe on the lowest
COD4: Low @ 800 x 600

@ 1280 x 800 set everything to medium to start, enable HDR, no AA maybe a little AF, water settings on medium, untick detailed reflection, shadows on medium with reduced draw distance(or low with a higher draw distance) and set the other draw distances to medium(or lower) aswell. Should provide 30+ frames for the most part.

 

can an nvs 135m play COD4? because whenever i play on my frens computer it crashes and says iwmp3 not responding. i can shoot and move the mouse aroudn ingame but once i press asingle key on the kb it crashes

 

I can't believe I can play Assassins Creed on med-high while the GTA IV with low and lag to go with it. I thought Assassins Creed was needed more gritty graphic card compared to GTA IV.

Thanks for the response!
D3158

 

Try updating to the latest forceware drivers from laptopvideo2go.com.
180.84 work well for me.

GTA4 is a poorly optimised buggy console port. It's also very processor intensive, pretty much needing a quad to perform satisfactorily.

 

Im really planning to buy a MSI GX630-028US

OS:Vista Home Premium (ill most likey but XP or Win7 Beta on it...)
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 QL-62(2.0GHz)
Ram: 4GB DDR2
Hard Disk 250GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT DDR3
Video Memory 512MB (dedicated i think)

only games I plan on playing is
TF2 (would he happy if it was on high but i never played it any higher then low so no big deal..)
Diablo 3 and Startcraft 2 (whenever they come out )
Mirriors edge ( high?)
Fallout 3

sorry if these been asked already for this model but its tons of pages and my break it timed lol

 

TF2: High @ native res, maybe some AA too if your processor doesn't bottleneck you too much
Fallout3: Med-High @ native
D3 & SC2 probably on medium and up(processor intensive again)
Not sure about mirrors edge.

 

Yo, with a HP dv5
CPU: P7350
RAM: 4GB
G Card: NVIDIA GeFORCE 9600 GT....

Is GTA IV or Left4Dead even playable at any setting level?

Fallout 3 should be okay though right?

Peace!

 

I don't think it'd be worth playing GTA4 with a 2.0GHz processor, unless you like 15 fps @ 640 x 480
L4D will run on high settings, might get a little laggy with alot of zombies on the screen due to your processor again.
Fallout 3 will run on medium - high settings just fine

 

would i be able to play games like COD4, Fallout 3, WOW, Crysis?

 

COD4: Medium - High
Fallout 3: Medium - High
WOW: High
Crysis: Medium

Enjoy

 

Cheers Willy S!

Too bad about GTA. Surprised about Left 4 Dead though, it said a 3Ghz processor was required on the copy I looked at. Good news! Some zombies are gonna get hurt real bad...

 

i installed the drivers u posted but no luck.the same thing happens. everythings on low btw. am i installing it wrong? i remove the drivers from add/remove program

 

Hello,

I'm new to NBR, so forgive me if I'm not doing this correctly. I was wondering if I could play certain games on my laptop:

Games:
Grid, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Gears of War, Crysis on medium/high settings?

System:
Sager np5793 (clevo m57ru-u)
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2400 MHz
4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR2-SDRAM )
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
XP64 and Vista Ultimate 64

PS
Any thoughts on whether xp64 or vista64 provides better fps? Based on my rudimentary observations, i get the feeling xp64 is, though probably by relatively little. Also, I've heard that DX9 actually makes crysis run faster than DX10, is this true? Thank you for your time.

 

How much of a Difference will you see between the 9600 GS and the 9600 GT.

 

It might be better to start your own thread in the gaming section on the issue and see if anyone else has any solutions.

Grid: High
Fallout 3: Med - High
Mass effect: Med - High
GOW: High
Crysis: Medium
*All @ 1280 x 800 or similar

Vista 64 is definatly the way to go.

Little to none, it will also depend on whether either card is DDR2 or GDDR3.

 

@ Willy S:
Fallout 3 med-high on a T8300 with 8700m GT?

Ive tried this on my P8400 with 9200m GS and its unplayable.
Draw distance is forced to ludacrisly low (I cant see attackers with longrange rifles making swiss cheese out of me),
and crowded areas like rivet city and megaton make an ugly mess out of my framerate.

Is it really thatmuch more powerfull?

 

Yes, I can play it on medium @ 1024 x 640 on my laptop in sig with the gpu overclocked and 30 fps(sometimes lower, most of the time 40+)

What settings/resolution do you use?? Turn the character fade up if you want to see people in the distance.

 

I tried running @ 1280x800 (native) with everything as low as it could go.
The birthday scene didnt give much hope as FPS crapped bricks the entire time,
and after loading a save from my desktop machine and visiting some other busy places,
I just gave up on playing the game.

My machine:
Samsung Q310
C2D P8400 @ 2.27Ghz
9200m GS - 256mb
4Gb memory
320gb 5400rpm HDD.

 

What driver are you using?

1280 x 800 is way too high, even on low settings, try 960 x 600, and with the right driver you should be able to bump some settings up a little.

Just to be sure everything in order:
Check your control panel settings, make sure Antialiasing and v-sync are set to application controlled and not on.
Make sure your running on the performance power plan plugged into the ac adapter too.