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radishhead on 28 May 2012
pezus said:
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Anyway with those specs you should be able to play most games, though most will have to be played on low-medium settings. If you give us some examples of games you'll be playing we can tell you a rough estimate of the settings you'll play at :)

It'd be really nice if I could run GTA 4- think I'd have any luck?

GTA 4 is very demanding and badly optimized. You could try but don't expect anything more than the lowest settings.

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Andrespetmonkey on 28 May 2012
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
Anyway with those specs you should be able to play most games, though most will have to be played on low-medium settings. If you give us some examples of games you'll be playing we can tell you a rough estimate of the settings you'll play at :)

It'd be really nice if I could run GTA 4- think I'd have any luck?

You may be able to on low and get a good frame-rate. Possibly Medium though that's unlikely. The game is poorly optimized for PCs from what I've heard, so my best guess is low at a shaky 30 FPS. It's the GPU holding it back, laptops with AMD apus (like yours) usually come with a secondary GPU, if you have one you'll probably get GTAIV on medium.



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Andrespetmonkey on 28 May 2012
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
You should have dual GPUs, the HD 6620g is only one of them, try and find out what the other one is

I have no idea if I have duel GPUs, and if I do, how to find them xD

What's the name of the Laptop? E.g HP pavilion DV6 19sh4

Or better yet do you have a link to where you bought it from if you bought it online?



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Soleron on 28 May 2012

They don't all have dual GPUs.

I guess it's promising that you can now accidentally buy an AMD laptop. Means they might stay in business this year.



radishhead on 28 May 2012
Andrespetmonkey said:
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
You should have dual GPUs, the HD 6620g is only one of them, try and find out what the other one is

I have no idea if I have duel GPUs, and if I do, how to find them xD

What's the name of the Laptop? E.g HP pavilion DV6 19sh4

Or better yet do you have a link to where you bought it from if you bought it online?

It's this one, I think  http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Notebook/A6Y50UA!23ABA 



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radishhead on 28 May 2012
Soleron said:

They don't all have dual GPUs.

I guess it's promising that you can now accidentally buy an AMD laptop. Means they might stay in business this year.

Is AMD this laptop's equivilent of Nvidia? Sorry, I'm really quite clueless :p



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Andrespetmonkey on 28 May 2012

Yup, doesn't have dual. Most likely GTAIV on low I'm afraid :'(



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radishhead on 28 May 2012
Andrespetmonkey said:

Yup, doesn't have dual. Most likely GTAIV on low I'm afraid :'(

No worries- that was the absolute maximum for what I'd want to play anyway (btw, what do people mean when they say that GTA 4 is "poorly optimised" for PC?)



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radishhead on 28 May 2012
pezus said:
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:

Yup, doesn't have dual. Most likely GTAIV on low I'm afraid :'(

No worries- that was the absolute maximum for what I'd want to play anyway (btw, what do people mean when they say that GTA 4 is "poorly optimised" for PC?)

They mean that it runs way worse than it should, because the Rockstar devs who ported it were incompetent. Seriously, you need a better computer to run GTA IV well than Crysis.

Does that mean I might actually have more luck running better looking games on this thing than GTA 4? Interesting



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radishhead on 28 May 2012
pezus said:
radishhead said:
Andrespetmonkey said:

Yup, doesn't have dual. Most likely GTAIV on low I'm afraid :'(

No worries- that was the absolute maximum for what I'd want to play anyway (btw, what do people mean when they say that GTA 4 is "poorly optimised" for PC?)

They mean that it runs way worse than it should, because the Rockstar devs who ported it were incompetent. Seriously, you need a better computer to run GTA IV well than Crysis.

Does that mean I might actually have more luck running better looking games on this thing than GTA 4? Interesting



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