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    empire total war

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by fish8590, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. fish8590

    fish8590 Notebook Enthusiast

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    This game comes out early next year. the system requirments arn't out yet, but i'm going to buy a laptop for college soon and would like to be able to play it. What graphics card should my new notebook (15.4 inch) have to make this possible. my budget is $1300 - $1500 so a 8800 or 9800 is probably out of my price range. Will the 9600m gt run this game?
     
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  2. shave100

    shave100 Notebook Geek

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    u should be fine..... mines roughly and 8400gt and i will be dissappointed if i cant run it

    u'll need a decent processor for the game aswell
     
    shave100, Jul 20, 2008
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    StealthArcher Notebook Consultant

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    Get a Gateway 6860FX, or better yet, wait and buy it's Montevina refresh.

    It should most likely come with an 9800GTS, currently 8800GTS for 1349

    It goes on sale very often so just watch best buy. Buy a T9300 off of ebay for pure processing power, I got one brand nox sealed new for 255$
     
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  4. BHD

    BHD Notebook Deity

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    it will definitely run with 8600M or 9600M. however, your experience may vary depending on your expectations and graphical standards. the game will look no worse than what you're able to play now say CoD4 for example.
     
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    Gateway is a good choice for someone looking for powerful card w/ limited budget, not as good for a college student looking for a solid 15.4" notebook :)
     
    BHD, Jul 20, 2008
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    Baserk Notebook user

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    Finally. Finally a kickass RTS again.
    Folks, if you enjoyed Rome Total War, this is what's coming:

    <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.game1.nl/flash/jwplayer.swf" style="" id='player' name="player" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=http://www.game1.nl/playlist_jw.php?id=7920,ig&amp;displayheight=360&amp;overstretch=false&amp;usefullscreen=true&amp;backcolor=0x8E9292&amp;frontcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;bufferlength=6&amp;smoothing=false&amp;linkfromdisplay=true&amp;callback=http://www.game1.nl/video_count_jw.php" width='640' height='380'>

    Woohoo!
     
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    Baserk, Aug 21, 2008
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