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Will this laptop run SWTOR?
freakinben33
Member Posts: 3
in Hardware
I plan on getting a new laptop for christmas and was wondering how well this one would run star wars the old republic since it is right in my price range, here are the specs below.
Processor : AMD A8-3510mx Quad Core 1.8ghz speed with turbo core to 2.5ghz
RAM : 8GB DDR3
Graphics : AMD Radeon HD 6620g 1GB dedicated grahics
640 GB Hard Drive
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Radeon HD 6620G is integrated graphics, not a discrete card. AMD has been marketing Llano integrated graphics as "discrete-class", meaning, as good as a lower end discrete card. And they're not entirely wrong about that, either, though bad memory configurations can sometimes make it run poorly.
That should run the game pretty well at low graphical settings. If you want to max settings, you'll need something a lot more powerful, though.
What's the price tag on it? Also, see if you can find out the memory clock speed, as that makes a huge difference for Llano.
It probably will. My girls 3 year old Sony Vaio does and it has a C2D and a radeon 4570 XD.
Intel Core i7 2600k 4.8ghz
Asus P8P67 Pro
8GB Corsair 1600 DDR3
Diamond Radeon 7970 3GB
3x Dell U2412M 6048x1200
2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 [Raid 0]
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
its 600 dollars and thats really odd that you say it would only run well on low because i was watching my friend play the game on high settings with shadows off and he had no problems at all and he has an intel hd 3000 graphics card with an i3 processor is that better than the one im planning on buying?
I'll bet he had a lot more than just shadows turned off. AMD or Nvidia graphics on fairly low settings will sometimes get you better image quality than Intel graphics on "max" settings, because Intel graphics have to disable so much just to make a game run.
There's a difference between "good enough frame rates to be playable" and "game runs very smoothly with no noticeable hitching". There's also a difference between "game runs pretty well in fairly empty areas with not many people around" and "game runs pretty well everywhere".
Radeon HD 6620G integrated graphics should get you several times the performance of Intel HD 3000 graphics, at least if they're not bottlenecked by the laptop vendor doing something terminally stupid with the memory configuration that you're not sharp enough to fix yourself.
Yes, I ran beta beautifully on a HD 5470m. I think I was running on high.
Here is some info about your card http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6620G.54675.0.html, it says its on par with the grapihics card I got in my laptop which is the 5650, so if you wish you can watch some of my gameplay videos on my laptop, the first one is of SWTOR at http://www.youtube.com/notebookplayer.
Its an integrated card as you can read though, which means the graphics card it self has no memeory, it shares it. Your card scores roughly between 4500-5500 in 3dmark06, for compairson my card scored around 8100 overclocked and 7400 without OC. Thats about 1x more then your card and my card although it can run everything on max, its on the edge, I wouldnt want to go below what I got but im pritty competative also. Even so, in alot of the terrain amd areas the game is not optimised all that extreamlly well and your card with suffer for no reason, where FPS will drop when it should be holding strong, I think its just cause of the amount of players but it does occure and even pvp will be a big time struggle with that card.
If your looking to game on a laptop you need dedicated graphics so you can use overclocking software as needed especially if its not a strong card such as my medium class card, its strong for an enthusisast but its not as powerfull as a amd mobility 6990 or a Nvidia 580m card.
I would not recommend playing SWTOR on that graphics card, you will be able to play through the entire story but not on any level that game was made to be played but if thats all your looking to accomplish then yes it will play it.