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Can my new laptop handle lotro
Gamer_17
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Hello, recently I bought a new laptop and really want to get back in the game - but do not know if my laptop can handle the graphics, also do not want to invest to fix up my pc
Processor NEW 2010 Intel® Core™ i5-450M 2.4GHz (2.66GHz Turbo Mode, 3M Cache)
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
HD Display 15.6” High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLife™ and Camera
Memory 6GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
Hard Drive 500GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Graphics Card Intel® HD Graphics
Optical Drive 8X Slot Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
Battery Options 56 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
Wireless Card Dell 1501 Wireless-N
Keyboard Standard Keyboard
Sound Options High Definition Audio 2.2
My last computer (pc) i blew the graphics card from playing this game and would like to use this laptop for at least 3 years (just need it to last for other then the game internet, watching movies, and word documents)
So is it viable to play lotro on this laptop, and if so what graphics should i expect, and how long before i blow my system?
Thanks in advance
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looks good man. enjoy!
i have.....
AMD 965 II quad core
4 gig ddr2 800
ATI 4670 1 gig
i run the game in very high with everything turned on with a steady 62 FPS.
you should be fine, the intel hd graphics card they have built in, isnt great but it is no where near as bad as the old "basic" ones. I think it has around 1gb of graphics power. but I would advise you to not put everything on max or even attempt to use directx 11, because even though the card has quite a lot of memory, its clock speed and other functions are substandard. it should handle dx9 with mediumish graphics easily though. give it a try but I think you'll be fine.
Also. I would recommend you get a notebook cooler as well. Im using my laptop as my main now (i7 920M with 4gm memory and a 1gb graphics card), and the thing felt like it was going to melt whenever I used its power fully. But since I got a cooler. I forked out £40 for one of the slightly better ones. avoid the really cheap ones. and it keeps it very cool to touch, and helps it perform better whilst prolonging the life of your laptop.
I have got it to run on a lot less than have before. You should be fine.
No, actually it looks quite horrible.
Intel HD graphic? Whats that supposed to mean? Anyway if you want to play graphic intense games you either have a ATI chipset or a Nvidia chipset, anything else won't do.
From a quick google: Intel HD graphics
The performance of the new Graphics Media Accelerator HD graphics card is noticable better than the old GMA 4500MHD (due to the increased number of shaders and in some cases also clock rate). In some games, the GMA HD is even as fast as a GeForce 9400M / ION chipset. On average it should be as fast as the HD 3200 / 4200 by ATI and therefore allow the user to play older and less demanding games in low settings. The driver support is still not as good as for Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. Furthermore, Low Voltage and Ultra Low Voltage Core CPUs contain lower clocked GMA HD graphics and are therefore slower.
Furthermore, the OpenGL performance is still not very good. E.g. the old Doom 3 and Quake 4 games wont run fluently.
And thats not even mentioning that your card isn't even supported by the game(or any 3D heavy game really), though barring any driver problems or incomplete specifications you would probably be able to run the game, at rather low settings. Which is a real pity considering the rest of your system which is far above what you would need to play the game at very high settings.
The raw power just isn't there, there is a reason why intel doesn't even try to market their chips as pci-e cards or somesuch, their only claim to fame is that as a onboard chip included in the CPU they provide decent performance for nongaming while having a rather low power consumption.
Well, as others have said; it's a pretty nice system - minus the graphics card.
I guess there was a particular reason to go for this configuration (work computer?) - otherwise I would have held out for a laptop with a better graphics card and/or dumped 2 Gigs of RAM if need be to fit the budget.
Will it run LoTRO? Maybe, on low settings. The CPU is more than sufficient, but the graphics card will severely bottleneck your system for gaming.
Why ask here if you can run the game? All you will get are randomly bias answers. Go to yougamers(dot)com and there you can check your system to see if it will actually run the game. Afterwards you can always come back here and let us know the results.
I don't think that site is any good in this case. They just take the specs that where recommended at launch and compare them to your system. My crappy Radeon HD 3800 looks really good on that site, exceeding the recommended specs by like a factor of 2x. Yet what do i get ingame? Crappy FPS and turned of AA. His system will completely fail that game on the site because it does not meet the official minimum specs, which is a Radeon or Nvidia card. Its not like the site runs a real benchmark of your system and checks which graphic functions a game calls and then compares them to your drivers abilities ...
you guys are blowing this way out of porportion.....you'll be fine man I didn't say you'll be running at ultra-high with everything turned on....but you'll be able to play the game on i'd say low-medium with 30-40 FPS as my dad has almost the exact same setup and gets that.
Yep, you should be fine with baseline performance. LOTRO is not "that" intensive and you can tweak it pretty good.