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twesterm on 03 June 2008
Squilliam said:
twesterm said:
Squilliam said:
Whats your laptops specifications?

Honestly I always forget off the top of my head. I know from that above website it said I could run Oblivion fine (about halfway between the minimum and maximum) but I was a pretty decent ways below the minimum bar on Age of Conan.

It's a Dell XPS so it's made for gaming and it is a pretty awesome laptop because I could have whatever editor I was working in, Photoshop, 3DSMax, iTunes, and Firefox all open and working at the same time while having two monitors at pretty high resolution.

I suppose the most upsetting thing about this is the fact that knowing I can't run this I probably won't be able to run Starcraft II and I'm not going to buy a new computer or laptop for a single game. ;_;


Yeah I had a look at the requirements of both and I see your point. The requirements aren't huge but then again laptops aren't known for generous GPU alotments. If you knew the model number I would look it up for you.

You could A. Download the demo and see if it works acceptably, you look like you have more than the minimum.

If A doesn't work then you could consider B. Since you'd need to justify the expense reasonably, then perhaps you could consider a HTPC/Cheap gaming machine. If thats unaceptable you could do C.

C. Since its meant to come out on the Xbox360 anyway and you have one you could just wait.


 The laptop I have is a gaming laptop (and we actually used them for game development) so it was at one point plenty beefy.  The video card I know though was way under what AoC needs, I think I had a 6800 in there.  

and I won't play the game on the 360 because 1) I require mouse and keyboard and 2) then I would have to play on the TV for hours at a time and the fiance wouldn't like that much.  :-p



 

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Squilliam on 03 June 2008
twesterm said:
Squilliam said:
twesterm said:
Squilliam said:
Whats your laptops specifications?

Honestly I always forget off the top of my head. I know from that above website it said I could run Oblivion fine (about halfway between the minimum and maximum) but I was a pretty decent ways below the minimum bar on Age of Conan.

It's a Dell XPS so it's made for gaming and it is a pretty awesome laptop because I could have whatever editor I was working in, Photoshop, 3DSMax, iTunes, and Firefox all open and working at the same time while having two monitors at pretty high resolution.

I suppose the most upsetting thing about this is the fact that knowing I can't run this I probably won't be able to run Starcraft II and I'm not going to buy a new computer or laptop for a single game. ;_;


Yeah I had a look at the requirements of both and I see your point. The requirements aren't huge but then again laptops aren't known for generous GPU alotments. If you knew the model number I would look it up for you.

You could A. Download the demo and see if it works acceptably, you look like you have more than the minimum.

If A doesn't work then you could consider B. Since you'd need to justify the expense reasonably, then perhaps you could consider a HTPC/Cheap gaming machine. If thats unaceptable you could do C.

C. Since its meant to come out on the Xbox360 anyway and you have one you could just wait.


 The laptop I have is a gaming laptop (and we actually used them for game development) so it was at one point plenty beefy.  The video card I know though was way under what AoC needs, I think I had a 6800 in there.  

and I won't play the game on the 360 because 1) I require mouse and keyboard and 2) then I would have to play on the TV for hours at a time and the fiance wouldn't like that much.  :-p


Haha yea, but since the demo is free and you can trial it out, why not have a lookie? Sometimes those sites get it wrong.



Tease.

MrKillerbees on 03 June 2008

I don't think there is a mouse/keyboard required if you play it on 360..



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twesterm on 03 June 2008
MrKillerbees said:
I don't think there is a mouse/keyboard required if you play it on 360..

 

I assume the game doesn't but I require one. I refuse to play an MMO if I can't actually communicate with people (and I don't count voice chat because I'm not going to use it).  Otherwise what's the point of playing an MMO if you aren't communicating with other players?