Seems like the requirements are to be kinda high for this game.
I haven't had any problems running any games on my computer ever, running BF3 on High settings with fluid fps rates, but since it's funcom my rig might need an upgrade:
Processor: Intel core 2 duo E6870 OC'd
Graphic card: ATI Radeon 6870 Direct-CU
Ram memory: 4 GB DDR2 ram Razor ram (not sure about the name, but pretty powerfull sticks)
Harddrive: 2 TB 7200 RPM, and an incomming SSD.
So what do you guys think? does this rig stand a chance for TSW? It has never let me down before on any game i've tried so far, was actually impressed to play BF3 on high setting with as said fluid FPS.
The threadstarters machine will probably run TSW, but on lowest and 1366x768 and at 15-30 fps. If that's playable is really depending on what type of gamer you are...
Oh I know that, my computer is starting to fall behind, there is 1 game I can't run now (The Witcher 2).
But I don't know, I can run every single mmo out atm and suddenly there's one that has reqs 10x above mine? I don't get it.
Edit : Oh and I don't trust System Reqs lab anymore, according to this thing I can't run Kingdom of Amalur, but I own the game and run it at higher than low without slowdowns (just remove shadows!).
Witcher 2 is the kind of modern game which might work as a benchmark for modern PC system. If you can't run Witcher 2, you probably won't be able to run TSW too well. 2.1 Duo CPU was outdated 4 years ago already.
Skyrim was build on 6 year old console technology, no wonder you can run it.
Edit : I can easily run AoC, as I said there's no mmo out there I cannot run.
This will run nothing.
If u want to play games and enjoy them buy a tower not a laptop.Laptops are only for internet surfing and nothing more.
M2c
Central Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (8 x CPUs)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Video Memory 2.00 GB
Screen Resolution 1600 x 900
This is my laptop it also has 8GB RAM, and with them specs its definately not just meant for internet surfing
definately not as good as my desktop ur right, but ur argument about laptops = invalid, love my asus and these are just the stock parts. i plan on upgrading in 3 months, my laptop anyway.
Edit : I can easily run AoC, as I said there's no mmo out there I cannot run.
Except that you didn't actually post any specs. If you don't know what you have, then copy and paste the first few sections of your DxDiag file.
he posted more then enough to tell his setup is shit.
I bought an i5 laptop used off craiglist for 200 bucks last month purely to watch movies.. Seriously you need to upgrade.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
Oh I know that, my computer is starting to fall behind, there is 1 game I can't run now (The Witcher 2).
But I don't know, I can run every single mmo out atm and suddenly there's one that has reqs 10x above mine? I don't get it.
Edit : Oh and I don't trust System Reqs lab anymore, according to this thing I can't run Kingdom of Amalur, but I own the game and run it at higher than low without slowdowns (just remove shadows!).
Witcher 2 is the kind of modern game which might work as a benchmark for modern PC system. If you can't run Witcher 2, you probably won't be able to run TSW too well. 2.1 Duo CPU was outdated 4 years ago already.
Skyrim was build on 6 year old console technology, no wonder you can run it.
There are no MMO that are as demanding as the witcher 2.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
You're not going to like to hear this. But I'd recommend that you either cancel the pre-order or buy a new computer--and one actually meant to handle games.
The official system requirements don't say a 2.6 GHz dual core. It specifies a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo. That matters, because if it said a 2.6 GHz Athlon 64 X2, you'd roughly meet it with your processor. IPC makes a huge difference, not just the clock speed. For example, a Core i7-2657M and an Atom N2600 are both 1.6 GHz dual cores, but the former will get you about quadruple the performance of the latter.
The video card, on the other hand, isn't anywhere near the minimum system requirements. The requirements list an Nvidia 8800 series or a Radeon HD 3850. There are a variety of GeForce 8800 cards, but they're all faster than the Radeon HD 3850, so let's focus on the latter.
A Radeon HD 3850 features
...
all running at 500-680 MHz,
and 1 memory channel at 700-800 MHz.
So unless the game is extremely heavily dependent on TMU performance, you've got roughly 20-25% of the graphical performance of the minimum system requirements. If the game is playable on that card, then Funcom should have listed something lower as the minimum requirements.
Also, you should try updating Windows. Windows 7 service pack 1 came out a long time ago, and you still don't have it.
I fear I have to agree with that. he could probably have run it on the CPU if the GFX card was far above recommended specs though but you don't change the GFX card on a laptop.
A new desktop for $800 (assuming OP build it himself) would solve the problem and run the game fine at far higher setting than min.
Sorry OP but even new cheaper laptops have problem running some games, yours is 3 years old. And Funcom are not famous for the lowest sys reqs either, and if anything like AO and Aoc happens it will b a year after launch until the engine is optimized.
A good try BTW is to download and run AoC, it at least have the same engine and if you can't run it there is no way whatsoever that you can run TSW. TSW probably will need some more juice though.
Oh I know that, my computer is starting to fall behind, there is 1 game I can't run now (The Witcher 2).
But I don't know, I can run every single mmo out atm and suddenly there's one that has reqs 10x above mine? I don't get it.
Edit : Oh and I don't trust System Reqs lab anymore, according to this thing I can't run Kingdom of Amalur, but I own the game and run it at higher than low without slowdowns (just remove shadows!).
Witcher 2 is the kind of modern game which might work as a benchmark for modern PC system. If you can't run Witcher 2, you probably won't be able to run TSW too well. 2.1 Duo CPU was outdated 4 years ago already.
Skyrim was build on 6 year old console technology, no wonder you can run it.
There are no MMO that are as demanding as the witcher 2.
For doing standard stuff and 90% out of mmorpg content like open world questing , crafting ,gathering , just playing around + instanced arena type PvP and for dungeons raids included.
Yes not single mmo is as demanding as withcher 2 while doing those things.
BUT
Doing MASS PVP like WvWvW on GW2 or even playing Ilum in Swtor when it is packed with people when your PC have to handle battle like 50 vs 50 players on high settings then it easily would need similar sort of power like Witcher 2 need.
Of course most people will mitigate those requirements by playing in those places on low or medium at best settings and rest of mmo content on high ,but It just shows that SOME parts of MMO's can be VERY demanding.
edit:
Similar thing will propably be for TSW warzones or whatever they are called that will allow dozens of players vs dozens of players battle for them.
When there will be enough players in there to max catapicity of those zone (is it 100 players max?) then in order to have smooth gameplay it will require MUCH more power than any other part of game.
So PC that will be able to handle TSW on high settings will not necessarily will be able to handle big PvP battle on high settings as well.
Just for example 50-80 players packed on small space all moving , fighting , using spells , guns , making all sort of animations and particle effects and casting shadows on the ground ,etc WILL be as taxing on your PC as Witcher 2 (with maybe example of ubersampling option which is ridiculosely demanding + kinda experimental).
You havent seen anything till you've attempted summoning 300+ npc's to a single spot in skyrim using console commands and then having them fight it out with 4+ alduins also being summoned flying around. ended up having to do a hard reboot lol.
Central Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (8 x CPUs)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Video Memory 2.00 GB
Screen Resolution 1600 x 900
This is my laptop it also has 8GB RAM, and with them specs its definately not just meant for internet surfing
definately not as good as my desktop ur right, but ur argument about laptops = invalid, love my asus and these are just the stock parts. i plan on upgrading in 3 months, my laptop anyway.
There are some gaming laptops and the really good ones are a lot better tyhan your even.
But the thing is that you can get a good gaming desktop for $1200 including screen, OS and everything. A laptop with similar performance are $2000. Of course half the reason for that is that desktops are easy to put together yourself while almost no-one build thir own laptop. But it is also due to heat and power consumption, there would be little point in a laptop with 30 minutes battery power...
Central Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (8 x CPUs)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Video Memory 2.00 GB
Screen Resolution 1600 x 900
This is my laptop it also has 8GB RAM, and with them specs its definately not just meant for internet surfing
definately not as good as my desktop ur right, but ur argument about laptops = invalid, love my asus and these are just the stock parts. i plan on upgrading in 3 months, my laptop anyway.
There are some gaming laptops and the really good ones are a lot better tyhan your even.
But the thing is that you can get a good gaming desktop for $1200 including screen, OS and everything. A laptop with similar performance are $2000. Of course half the reason for that is that desktops are easy to put together yourself while almost no-one build thir own laptop. But it is also due to heat and power consumption, there would be little point in a laptop with 30 minutes battery power...
A laptop isnt meant to last on battery life, its simply meant " In my perspective at least" to be easily movable with a laptop case and more so than not will always be plugged in. and yea i got this laptop for $1000 at best buy, its awesome being oly stock, but plan on replacing Processor / Video card with whatever is compatable 3 months from now at the highest end, maybe theyll have either a 590m or 600m by then i hope.
Edit: no1 would want to lug around my tower when its nearly as tall as the desk its next to as well as pretty wide. no mobility at all. thats why i love gaming laptops i can take em with me to friends and relatives houses.
Gah it kinda sucks, I'm still gonna try the CB and see for myself.
The Kingdom of Amalur minimum specs are almost exactly the same as TSW's and I can run this game flawlessly on mid-low full screen max resolution at 40+ FPS.
So I'm still hopeful.E
Edit : To the guy above, I run Skyrim at mid, just without shadows and grass. FPS above 30-40 at all time.
A laptop isnt meant to last on battery life, its simply meant " In my perspective at least" to be easily movable with a laptop case and more so than not will always be plugged in. and yea i got this laptop for $1000 at best buy, its awesome being oly stock, but plan on replacing Processor / Video card with whatever is compatable 3 months from now at the highest end, maybe theyll have either a 590m or 600m by then i hope.
Question is if you'll be able to replace GPU.
Very few laptops have an option to replace GPU. In most of laptops it is just not psychically possible to uppgrade it.
Well there are some that can have GPU replaced but thing is laptop GPU's for replacement are INSANELY expensive.
Still whatever floats your boat. If you like it then go for it.
I myself have an laptop exclusively atm and I AM playing on it ,but I am planning to build gaming desktop PC.
Gaming laptops in order to stay powerful enough to play on high setting comfortably just cost too much money for ME personally.
The CPU isn't the issue IMO. Try a 1 GB graphic card, that will make a huge difference. My system is almost as old, but I have a NVidia GTX 460 with 1 GB, and I could run AoC almost on highest settings easily.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
Gah it kinda sucks, I'm still gonna try the CB and see for myself.
The Kingdom of Amalur minimum specs are almost exactly the same as TSW's and I can run this game flawlessly on mid-low full screen max resolution at 40+ FPS.
So I'm still hopeful.E
Edit : To the guy above, I run Skyrim at mid, just without shadows and grass. FPS above 30-40 at all time.
KoA is a console port with simple graphics and is able to run smooth on very old systems (after all it is made for 6 year old consoles).
Imo you will propably able to run TSW on lowest setting.
Will gameplay be comfortable - I doubt it , but of course that is very subjective.
And I am using old laptop for gaming now as well, but technology & graphic are moving forward and well it is just time to get new PC for me personally. (planning decent but NOT high-end desktop for gaming & relatively cheap portable laptop for mobility as I have to have latop for my studies , work & stuff - I just won't buy gaming laptop again , they cost too much & became outdated for gaming way too fast imo).
A laptop isnt meant to last on battery life, its simply meant " In my perspective at least" to be easily movable with a laptop case and more so than not will always be plugged in. and yea i got this laptop for $1000 at best buy, its awesome being oly stock, but plan on replacing Processor / Video card with whatever is compatable 3 months from now at the highest end, maybe theyll have either a 590m or 600m by then i hope.
Question is if you'll be able to replace GPU.
Very few laptops have an option to replace GPU. In most of laptops it is just not psychically possible to uppgrade it.
Well there are some that can have GPU replaced but thing is laptop GPU's for replacement are INSANELY expensive.
Still whatever floats your boat. If you like it then go for it.
I myself have an laptop exclusively atm and I AM playing on it ,but I am planning to build gaming desktop PC.
Gaming laptops in order to stay powerful enough to play on high setting comfortably just cost too much money for ME personally.
Yea it can get expensive, but well worth it if ur say, anywhere between 6 months to a year behind, got this laptop about 4-5 months ago and ill have enough to upgrade 3 months from now been saving up a bit.
Next computer I'll get will most likely be a Desktop, but I had to get a Laptop for my Graphic Design studies and as a student I move alot so a desktop was inconvenient, I needed my computer in class anyway.
u can run it yes but lets say this i have GTX580 and i get 50 and below fps in some area in AoC so what you should get 20 and below to me thats not playable but to some people it is.
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Seems like the requirements are to be kinda high for this game.
I haven't had any problems running any games on my computer ever, running BF3 on High settings with fluid fps rates, but since it's funcom my rig might need an upgrade:
Processor: Intel core 2 duo E6870 OC'd
Graphic card: ATI Radeon 6870 Direct-CU
Ram memory: 4 GB DDR2 ram Razor ram (not sure about the name, but pretty powerfull sticks)
Harddrive: 2 TB 7200 RPM, and an incomming SSD.
So what do you guys think? does this rig stand a chance for TSW? It has never let me down before on any game i've tried so far, was actually impressed to play BF3 on high setting with as said fluid FPS.
This will run nothing.
If u want to play games and enjoy them buy a tower not a laptop.Laptops are only for internet surfing and nothing more.
M2c
The threadstarters machine will probably run TSW, but on lowest and 1366x768 and at 15-30 fps. If that's playable is really depending on what type of gamer you are...
Witcher 2 is the kind of modern game which might work as a benchmark for modern PC system. If you can't run Witcher 2, you probably won't be able to run TSW too well. 2.1 Duo CPU was outdated 4 years ago already.
Skyrim was build on 6 year old console technology, no wonder you can run it.
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Central Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (8 x CPUs)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Video Memory 2.00 GB
Screen Resolution 1600 x 900
This is my laptop it also has 8GB RAM, and with them specs its definately not just meant for internet surfing
definately not as good as my desktop ur right, but ur argument about laptops = invalid, love my asus and these are just the stock parts. i plan on upgrading in 3 months, my laptop anyway.
The OP realy made me lolz.......this is a perfect example of people just buying stuff without thinking or reading anything b4 they buy.
try to be less hyped about your games and read about then first b4 you buy m8.
he posted more then enough to tell his setup is shit.
I bought an i5 laptop used off craiglist for 200 bucks last month purely to watch movies.. Seriously you need to upgrade.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
WOW! No offense but I wouldn't be trying to play anything with those spec's today.
I just bought upgrades for my system lastnight and my current system is way beyond what you have now.
There are no MMO that are as demanding as the witcher 2.
Quotations Those Who make peaceful resolutions impossible, make violent resolutions inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Life... is the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come - Lester Freeman
Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the fuck are they you gotta lie to them? - Willy Nelson
I fear I have to agree with that. he could probably have run it on the CPU if the GFX card was far above recommended specs though but you don't change the GFX card on a laptop.
A new desktop for $800 (assuming OP build it himself) would solve the problem and run the game fine at far higher setting than min.
Sorry OP but even new cheaper laptops have problem running some games, yours is 3 years old. And Funcom are not famous for the lowest sys reqs either, and if anything like AO and Aoc happens it will b a year after launch until the engine is optimized.
A good try BTW is to download and run AoC, it at least have the same engine and if you can't run it there is no way whatsoever that you can run TSW. TSW probably will need some more juice though.
For doing standard stuff and 90% out of mmorpg content like open world questing , crafting ,gathering , just playing around + instanced arena type PvP and for dungeons raids included.
Yes not single mmo is as demanding as withcher 2 while doing those things.
BUT
Doing MASS PVP like WvWvW on GW2 or even playing Ilum in Swtor when it is packed with people when your PC have to handle battle like 50 vs 50 players on high settings then it easily would need similar sort of power like Witcher 2 need.
Of course most people will mitigate those requirements by playing in those places on low or medium at best settings and rest of mmo content on high ,but It just shows that SOME parts of MMO's can be VERY demanding.
edit:
Similar thing will propably be for TSW warzones or whatever they are called that will allow dozens of players vs dozens of players battle for them.
When there will be enough players in there to max catapicity of those zone (is it 100 players max?) then in order to have smooth gameplay it will require MUCH more power than any other part of game.
So PC that will be able to handle TSW on high settings will not necessarily will be able to handle big PvP battle on high settings as well.
Just for example 50-80 players packed on small space all moving , fighting , using spells , guns , making all sort of animations and particle effects and casting shadows on the ground ,etc WILL be as taxing on your PC as Witcher 2 (with maybe example of ubersampling option which is ridiculosely demanding + kinda experimental).
You havent seen anything till you've attempted summoning 300+ npc's to a single spot in skyrim using console commands and then having them fight it out with 4+ alduins also being summoned flying around. ended up having to do a hard reboot lol.
There are some gaming laptops and the really good ones are a lot better tyhan your even.
But the thing is that you can get a good gaming desktop for $1200 including screen, OS and everything. A laptop with similar performance are $2000. Of course half the reason for that is that desktops are easy to put together yourself while almost no-one build thir own laptop. But it is also due to heat and power consumption, there would be little point in a laptop with 30 minutes battery power...
Well old is not always worse..
MY old 8800 Nvidia card atill kicks some serious arse and i will mourn the day i have to switch it out.
This have been a good conversation
A laptop isnt meant to last on battery life, its simply meant " In my perspective at least" to be easily movable with a laptop case and more so than not will always be plugged in. and yea i got this laptop for $1000 at best buy, its awesome being oly stock, but plan on replacing Processor / Video card with whatever is compatable 3 months from now at the highest end, maybe theyll have either a 590m or 600m by then i hope.
Edit: no1 would want to lug around my tower when its nearly as tall as the desk its next to as well as pretty wide. no mobility at all. thats why i love gaming laptops i can take em with me to friends and relatives houses.
I dont for one min believe you can run AOC easily with those specs LOL, with everything set to the lowest maybe you can run it at shitty fps.
The same goes for Skyrim and infact any modern game.. if you can run them at all its lwo settings and very low fps.
Your laptop was not even a gaming spec laptop when it was released..
If you can manage to run aoc with low settings then i guess TSW would also run similar as it uses the same engine.
Sorry to say its time for an upgrade..
Gah it kinda sucks, I'm still gonna try the CB and see for myself.
The Kingdom of Amalur minimum specs are almost exactly the same as TSW's and I can run this game flawlessly on mid-low full screen max resolution at 40+ FPS.
So I'm still hopeful.E
Edit : To the guy above, I run Skyrim at mid, just without shadows and grass. FPS above 30-40 at all time.
Question is if you'll be able to replace GPU.
Very few laptops have an option to replace GPU. In most of laptops it is just not psychically possible to uppgrade it.
Well there are some that can have GPU replaced but thing is laptop GPU's for replacement are INSANELY expensive.
Still whatever floats your boat. If you like it then go for it.
I myself have an laptop exclusively atm and I AM playing on it ,but I am planning to build gaming desktop PC.
Gaming laptops in order to stay powerful enough to play on high setting comfortably just cost too much money for ME personally.
You should be fine funcom always asks for more than they actually need
The CPU isn't the issue IMO. Try a 1 GB graphic card, that will make a huge difference. My system is almost as old, but I have a NVidia GTX 460 with 1 GB, and I could run AoC almost on highest settings easily.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
KoA is a console port with simple graphics and is able to run smooth on very old systems (after all it is made for 6 year old consoles).
Imo you will propably able to run TSW on lowest setting.
Will gameplay be comfortable - I doubt it , but of course that is very subjective.
And I am using old laptop for gaming now as well, but technology & graphic are moving forward and well it is just time to get new PC for me personally. (planning decent but NOT high-end desktop for gaming & relatively cheap portable laptop for mobility as I have to have latop for my studies , work & stuff - I just won't buy gaming laptop again , they cost too much & became outdated for gaming way too fast imo).
Yea it can get expensive, but well worth it if ur say, anywhere between 6 months to a year behind, got this laptop about 4-5 months ago and ill have enough to upgrade 3 months from now been saving up a bit.
Next computer I'll get will most likely be a Desktop, but I had to get a Laptop for my Graphic Design studies and as a student I move alot so a desktop was inconvenient, I needed my computer in class anyway.
u can run it yes but lets say this i have GTX580 and i get 50 and below fps in some area in AoC so what you should get 20 and below to me thats not playable but to some people it is.
thats fine if you do run L4D on max settings but the question is what fps do you get? what program do you use to check that if you even do?