Warhammer Online Laptop Performance.

Hi guys, been lurking around and thought I would finally post.

Is anyone here in the WAR beta and playing on a laptop? I am interested to know how the game runs on different laptops. I plan to buy a new lappy soon and the only game I plan on playing on it is WAR so any info about the games performance would be great.

Right now I am heavily considering this one

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...A?skuId=8913241&type=product&id=1213399955100

I know this Laptop meets the minimum requirements for Warhammer, but how do you think it would perform at mid to high settings? Is WAR more gpu or cpu intensive? What kind of frame rates should I expect with the HD 2600.

I feel like this Laptop is a really great deal at that price point but I don't know about the performance, would it be better to hold off and save for something better?

 

Hold off as long as you can and buy when you need, there will be better deals!

Edit: Warhammer will be similar to WoW, so GPU intensive most likely. Ide say 45 FPS high settings.

 

Definitely hold out on buying the laptop because there will be much better deals. I went with a friend to best buy a few weeks ago when he was looking for a laptop in the back to school rush and he decided against buying one at the time. The salesperson told us to come back in a few weeks. We went yesterday and all the laptops he was looking at were $100-200 cheaper, and I wouldn't be suprised to see them go down even more within the middle of September when they are going to just want to get rid of all the laptops. Like Chk said, hold off as long as possible.

As for gaming on the laptop, the most important thing will be the graphics card. Take a look at all the laptops you are interested in and use notebookcheck.net to compare the graphics cards to see which one will give you the highest performance. Taking a look at your current card ( http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-2600.3771.0.html), assuming WAR is going to be similar to WoW graphics-wise (on med/low settings), you'll probably be able to pull a steady 40~ fps, dipping a bit lower when there are 100+ people cramped in one area.

 

War is slightly more graphic intensive than WoW. I have almost 2 year old Sony Vaio FE790p with T7200 C2D 2.0GHz CPU and a 128mb Geforce 7600 go, and I can play fine with around 20 people in T1 battleground. It gets laggy when brightwizard doing their stupid AoE though in the stunties/greenskin T1, but I have everything on high and with all effects on with balance setting.

Personally, I will wait till end of the year to buy the laptop because I heard that the only way you won't lag out in a keep siege is with 8800GTX or above card, and the new plate form will definitely help...oh btw, I think the game loading is also very hard drive driven, so a 7200rpm hard drive is a must (I have the low one ...

 

I played CB on 2 different laptops.

1 with an 8600M GT running at 1440x900 res.

Another with sli 8800M GT running at 1920x1200 res.

In both cases, running at max settings they both ran flawlessly. The lesser of the 2 laptop was achieving 40-60fps. The beast was running at 90+ fps.

Warhammer is a nice looking game but it doesn't have insane gfx like AOC or something. I would say it's midway between WOW and AOC. Which if you ask me is the way it should be done if you plan to have 48v48 zergs. or 200v200 in open world pvp. GFX can't be crazy.

I really like what mythic has done here with WAR.

 

WAR Beta lags a little on my 8600M GT, but for the most part it runs fine Nice game, too. I like it better than WoW.

 

Gonna bump this since I'm very interested. I've seen threads on warhammer alliance saying that for big RvR battles you pretty much need a high end desktop to play on high settings