Command and conquer 3 compatibility (laptop)

Thats good to hear that it works with your Go 6150, as the EA faq stated that it did not specifically guarantee support with any particular notebook gpu.

 

could anyone tell me what kind of notebook or at least the kind of speqs. I would need to play c&c3 on high settings for $600-750 ($900 dollars at absalute most) because I have been costomizing tons of notebooks on hp.com and looking at ones from bestbuy but i cant ever be sure. gosensgo99 are medium settings that bad?
I couldnt find the Compaq V6317CA or any other version of the Compaq V6000 for sale online.

 

i find that kind of difficult to believe. the comparitivley slow processer, and intergrated graphics indicate to me that you would struggle to get decent frame rates on low settings.

@ combat man, to find out what specs you should get, have a look at the minimum/recomended requirements, and get slightly better.

 

heres what i found for min reqs (i think these are desktope ones, no real notebook ones):

Single Core) Intel P4 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 2000+
512 MB of RAM
DirectX 9.0c, NVIDIA GeForce 4+ / ATI Radeon 8500+ video card
(Note: ATI Radeon 9200 and 9250 PCI, NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX cards are not supported.)
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
8X or faster DVD-ROM drive
6 GB of free space
Multiplayer: 2 to 8 players with optional voice support, network or Internet connection required (Cable, DSL, or faster connection)

For Windows Vista (64-bit version of Vista is NOT supported):

Intel P4 2.2 GHz / AMD Athlon 2200+
1 GB of RAM
8X or faster DVD-ROM drive
6 GB of free space
NVIDIA GeForce 6100+ / ATI Radeon 9500+ video card

im confused because its asking for a 2.2GHz processer and core 2 duo is only 2.0GHz maybe its single core or something.
This is what EA costomer support gave me.

 

Dual core and single core are different. Any dual core processor will run the game just fine.

 

I have a question, if CC3 cannot support Vista 64 bit, so it won't work on the santa rosa processors?

Are the santa rosa processors 32 or 64 bit????

 

Santa Rosa is 64-bit. It's the same with all Core 2 Duos. They're all 64-bit. The Core Duos however, aren't.

@ gosengo99

It's hard to believe you're can play it at medium settings with those specs. Medium settings probably but I'm sure that thing's gonna run at only around 15 FPS. If he's in low, it's probably going up to 30 FPS without much activity in the screen.

My laptop can handle it at high settings without AA at 1280x960. It runs silk smooth at 30 FPS. But it kinda stutters when there's a lot of screen activity, like huge tank battles. The bottleneck is usually in the GPU.

When EA cited the minimum system requirements, they based it off the older processors such as the Athlon XP and Pentium 4. 2.0 Ghz of those two processors are the minimum. But it's changed and we get more performance per clock cycle now. My Pentium M 730 1.6 Ghz is around as fast as a Pentium 4 2.8 to 3.0 Ghz when benchmarked. Same probably goes for the Turion MT-30 running at 1.6 Ghz and the Core Duo or Core 2 Duos running at that same clock speed, just a bit faster. So yeah, I don't think it matters as long as you're using the newer CPUs. The GPU is what matters.

 

so with a dual core (1.73GHz i think) and a good screen and a 256MB go 7400 and 1GB ram i could run it on med/high settings?

 

Yeah. With a setup like that you can go probably medium. I doubt high though. A Geforce Go 7400 is relatively slow. Why don't you get something like the ASUS A8JP or A8JS. A8JP uses a MR X1700. A8JS uses a GF Go 7700. Or you can just wait for a GF Go 8400 if you want something small like a 13.3" and there are a lot of 14" laptops using the 8600. I'm not familiar with any laptop right now that uses the new GF Go 88xx cards. Just ask some of the other members or search the forum.

 

It would be nice if i got my laptop by july, what will be new and what will be cheaper by then do you know?