My brother is looking at buying a cheap laptop to play Oblivian. What would be the minum specs (or better yet an actual brand/model suggestion) to play it at a medium quality setting?
Minimum laptop specs to run Oblivion?
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BrunoPuntzJones
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Has to be a laptop?
What's he consider playable? Minimum pretty, max fps, or wants it lookin' good?
Just from the rigs I've seen it on, and my own, I'd say a 2.0Ghz, 1GB ram, 6800Go overclocked would be the minimum I'd want to play it on.
On my rig in sig, I run at 740x450 with 4xAA, bloom, no shadows, high textures, max draw distance. I wouldn't really have fun with it going any slower. Average about 25fps I'd say.
1440x900 (native) with HDR is absolutely stunning, just don't have the power to run it.
An XPS or better would run it best (duh). Specs above will run about say $1500 in an Asus 71
An Inspiron 9300 would be good, but no longer made, and the 9400s no longer have the 7800Go
What's he consider playable? Minimum pretty, max fps, or wants it lookin' good?
Just from the rigs I've seen it on, and my own, I'd say a 2.0Ghz, 1GB ram, 6800Go overclocked would be the minimum I'd want to play it on.
On my rig in sig, I run at 740x450 with 4xAA, bloom, no shadows, high textures, max draw distance. I wouldn't really have fun with it going any slower. Average about 25fps I'd say.
1440x900 (native) with HDR is absolutely stunning, just don't have the power to run it.
An XPS or better would run it best (duh). Specs above will run about say $1500 in an Asus 71
An Inspiron 9300 would be good, but no longer made, and the 9400s no longer have the 7800Go
You'll be able to play it with just about every mid end GPU. Examples are 6600, x800, x1400, x1600, 7800GTX and others. But even the current top of the line 7800GTX cant play it top notch. You'd probably be playing it at 1280x1024 with AA and AF high. or at a higher resolution with other things lowered. And still scored at least 40+ average fps
I'm playing it on my Inspiron 9200. 1.8Ghz, 128MB ATI Radeon 9700, 2GB RAM. It's a bit choppy at 1024x768 but still playable in most areas. I'm thinking about changing it to 800x600 to speed it up. I'd say what I have is the minimum you'd want to go.
Thiis "Minimum" requirements attitude seems prevelant in the laptop world. I see posts like this all the time for what is the least I can buy to run game XXX. This kind of buying attitude inveriabley leads to very unhappy laptop owners. Your brother and others need to open the window a little wider so there laptop ownership can be a litlle more pleasent experience down the road.
Problem with that is, higher laptops get VERY expensive, VERY quickly. Most of the time, the minimum laptop is more expensive than most people wanted to spend, let alone a $3000 laptop.
Have you shopped laptops recently? You would be surprised at how much more laptop you can get for $1000 vs. $800 when you shop smart and patiently.
Allow me to make my case and then I will slip away quietly into the night. I will use a Dell e1505 laptop as my example to support my statement.
A base Dell e1505 with standard equipment which has integrated intel graphics is $949 less $200 instant discount = $749 plus shipping and taxes. This would be a bare entry level laptop that may or may not play game XXX.
Now take that Dell e1505 upgrade it with a duo core T2300 processor and a ATI X1400 graphics adapter with all other equipment at base offering and it comes to $1178 less $300 (current internet coupon offer) = $878 plus shipping adn taxes. Now you have a laptop with considerable more capability at a mear increase in cost of $140. One that will probably keeps its owner happy for somewhat longer than had he decided on a only slightly lest costly option.
The concept of Very expensive, Very quickly just doesn't always hold water.
Yes the E1505 with X1400 is MUCH MUCH better than the integrated graphics. Problem is, he's trying to run oblivion which is one of the most demanding games out. The X1400 is barely better than the 2 year old X300 so although it has 256mb ram the E1505's top of the line graphic card leaves much to be desired in Oblivion. Either play it on the desktop of find a laptop with at least a 6800/X1800 class GPU. Most of those are $1500 on up. Too bad you can't get the e1705 with 7800Go anymore, only the crappy X1400.
I dont disagree with your statement on Oblivian...however...if you read my initial point it wasnt targeted specifically at oblivian. It was more generic in that its my fealing that too many laptop buyers are buying a minimum requirement laptop to play just one game and are way too soon unhappy with there purchase.
The X1400 can't think about comparing to the 6800 go, and it even has a hard time running at minimum settings. If I were buying a laptop to play Oblivion on, I'd get a 7xxx series mobile card with 1 gig of ram or better or just forget it. Anything less is just a bad idea.
Raduque
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I run it with medium-low settings (no HDR, 720x480, no AA, no shadows, some other stuff) on my laptop, a Dell 6000 w/ Pentium-m 2.26, 1gb ddr2-533, x300 128 (OCed to 430/300).
As to the minimum spec laptop thing, well, it was the only thing in my budget. I wish now I'd waited for the e1505 (dual core, x1400), but this laptop is leaps/bounds above my old laptop (HP ze4800, amd xpm 2800+, 1gb ddr, igp320m - this thing barely even ran the installer for most games) and I am quite happy with it. Nothing I would consider a "gaming laptop" is truely affordable, compared to the desktop you can get for the price. $2000 for a laptop that barely meets the specs of my desktop? No thanks. I guess it's true, though: you always pay more for convenienve.
As to the minimum spec laptop thing, well, it was the only thing in my budget. I wish now I'd waited for the e1505 (dual core, x1400), but this laptop is leaps/bounds above my old laptop (HP ze4800, amd xpm 2800+, 1gb ddr, igp320m - this thing barely even ran the installer for most games) and I am quite happy with it. Nothing I would consider a "gaming laptop" is truely affordable, compared to the desktop you can get for the price. $2000 for a laptop that barely meets the specs of my desktop? No thanks. I guess it's true, though: you always pay more for convenienve.
I just bout a refurbed 9300 from dell.
So you can still get them.
$1440 for the system
1.8 Centrino
Go 6800
1 Gig of Ram (Just upgraded to 2 gigs)
I'm thinking it will run this game good enough. The truelife screen lets you drop down the AA a bit it seems
So you can still get them.
$1440 for the system
1.8 Centrino
Go 6800
1 Gig of Ram (Just upgraded to 2 gigs)
I'm thinking it will run this game good enough. The truelife screen lets you drop down the AA a bit it seems
BrunoPuntzJones
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You can get them brand new for $714...If you are brave...
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?CS=19&kc=11111&oc=9300LQ1
7369HKH2NK0JD7
For $550 off.
Put in a 7800GTX (400)
7200RPM drive (125)
Pin mod a 1.7 or 1.8 400fsb cpu (50 net after selling the one that comes with it)
2GB of ram (125)
$1400 or so for one of the fastest laptops out there
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?CS=19&kc=11111&oc=9300LQ1
7369HKH2NK0JD7
For $550 off.
Put in a 7800GTX (400)
7200RPM drive (125)
Pin mod a 1.7 or 1.8 400fsb cpu (50 net after selling the one that comes with it)
2GB of ram (125)
$1400 or so for one of the fastest laptops out there
You can _play_ oblivion on a Mobility 9600, it's just going to suck.
For best Oblivion performance, wait for the next generation of mobile GPUs. The current generation is only good for previous generation games like Doom3/Quake4/HL2.
Anyone know if Oblivion will take advantage of dual cores? (Such as Intel Core Duo)
For best Oblivion performance, wait for the next generation of mobile GPUs. The current generation is only good for previous generation games like Doom3/Quake4/HL2.
Anyone know if Oblivion will take advantage of dual cores? (Such as Intel Core Duo)
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