Steam is running Splinter Cell at like, 75% off, but can I run it on my rig?

I'm running an I7 2670QM with a GT 540m. I can overclock quite nicely and score around 5000 in Vantage with cool temps on my F23.

I'd like to get "Blacklist" and "Conviction", but not if they are going to crawl along at like 15 frames. Anyone know how intensive these titles are?

 

I was able to run Blacklist at max settings 1080p with a playable framerate (never checked fps, but it was playing smoothing), on a 7770 desktop gpu. That gpu is pretty low-end, so if I was able to run it at those settings, then the 540m should be able to run it medium settings if not higher.

 

I played conviction at pretty decent settings on my laptop in sig.

Sent from my phone.

 

The desktop 7770 is far, far better than the 540m. There's no comparison between the two - they're two different tiers.

OP, conviction should run on your GPU smoothly on medium-high or even high. Blacklist might run on medium or you'd have to tone a few settings down. When you said

, did you mean crawl regardless of settings or did you have some level of settings in mind?

 

Generally, I do like to play at 1080p, but I don't need AA, AF, and can deal with low quality shadows and such, as long as I can at least run some decent textures, medium perhaps. As I said, my card OC's extremely well, and my frames and benchmarks are a little better than a 640m SE, right around the where the 735m sits. I run a heavily modded Skyrim at 1080p with 2xAA, 4xAF, and med-high settings at an average of 28-30 frames, for instance.

 

If you turn off AA and AF, and reduce detail and shadows, you should be able to run blacklist at 1080.

 

According to notebookcheck, the 640m runs Blacklist at 36 fps on medium settings 720p, the 630m at 33 fps. I guess 540m should perform similarly.

 

They're totally different cards.

TC, here:

Tom Clancy's - Splinter Cell Blacklist on GeForce GT 540M - YouTube

 

My OC'd performance falls between those two cards. Thanks for the link. I saw that this morning actually, and what turned me off was that I saw that the game was running DX9.