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    To everyone playing AoC on a laptop...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by pjizel00, May 22, 2008.

  1. pjizel00

    pjizel00 Notebook Guru

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    I'm looking into buying a laptop for college and gaming, with this being the main game I would play. Right now I could get an amazing deal on a Lenovo T61p, it would be over 40% off because my dad works at IBM. I was wondering what FPS you guys get while playing this game and what settings you play it on, if your laptop is similar to these specs:

    T9300 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo 6MB cache
    GeForce 8600m GT 256mb GDDR3 (The T61p has the equivalent card, FX570)
    4GB GDDR2 667MHz RAM
    Vista Home 64Bit
    320GB 5400RPM HD or 200GB 7200RPM HD

    Thanks everyone!
     
    pjizel00, May 22, 2008
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  2. synic

    synic Notebook Deity

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    hell, if i could get almost half off the price, i wouldn't hesitate :p
     
    synic, May 22, 2008
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  3. pjizel00

    pjizel00 Notebook Guru

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    haha yeah I know, but I'm just trying to decide whether I should get this laptop or the Gateway P6860FX, if this can run AoC decent on medium settings I will definately be getting it.
     
    pjizel00, May 22, 2008
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  4. Southpaw

    Southpaw Only a Little Crazy...

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    Depends on resolution you use.

    Frankly, I don't see why you couldn't get at least low settings on 1400X900.

    I got low settings with great FPS @ 1400x900 with stock drivers and no overclocking on the 8700M GT which is a very similar card.

    Can you overclock that card? If so and you are cool with it, I bet you could do it. Plus that is a great laptop for college.
     
    Southpaw, May 22, 2008
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  5. KernalPanic

    KernalPanic White Knight

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    40% off is a no-brainer.

    The gateway WILL play it better, but its gonna cost you $1200+.
    If you can get that professional level laptop at a reasonable chunk off of the gateway's price then I don't think you should worry about it.

    The Quadro IS the same hardware, but it is tuned differently and uses drivers that are tuned differently... so you will have to probably fool windows and install Geforce drivers instead of using the quadro ones for best effect.

    However, even without that I cannot see you having issues with playing conan at 1440x900 or 1280x800 on low (still beautiful) provided you turn off shadows and reflections.

    Tweak a bit and you may get to approach the 8700 users... you will still be a decent chunk under that gateway though.
     
    KernalPanic, May 22, 2008
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    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    i recall a gateway user stating it could max at 1440x900 with no shadows or reflections, so im thinking medium at most, most likely low then. or turn the res down. I dont have the game, just guesstimating
     
    narsnail, May 22, 2008
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