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Laptop Use for SWG??

whereswaldowhereswaldo Member Posts: 12
in Star Wars Galaxies
Ok I know that all of the people say that SWG does not support laptops but is there a way to get a laptop with a Radieon 9000 g-card on it to play SWG? I got the game intending to play it on the road cuz I travel all over and now I cant figure out how to do it.

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  • squeeesqueee Member Posts: 722
    I believe most laptops have a video card buil in to the motherboard, and I highly doubt they would have a decent video card.

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    My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
    Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"

    Customer: "How fast will my COM ports go?"
    Tech Support: "How hard can you throw your computer?"

  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    www.alienware.com

    If you're really serious about hardcore gaming on a laptop.  I believe they come with either a 9700 or the 5900 GeForce FX. :)

    Very nice laptops.

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    What will he do next?
  • RichhRichh Member Posts: 28
    I use a laptop with a intergrated vid card, with up to 128 shared video memory. I can play SWG on it, but I only get about 5-8 FPS, its bareable for crafting, but I dont think its well suited for combat or high populated areas (good thing SWG servers are dead now... I guess)
  • MX13MX13 Member Posts: 2,489

    Got a friend who has a friend at Apple. He got a Mac Book Pro (or what ever they are called, the high-end one) and they play CoD2, CS, WoW & SWG on it running XP. I have a gamer PC, and he gets FPS equal to me... He says the only issues are drivers, but that they seem to become available pretty quick.

    I may be getting one soon, they're graphic MONSTERS (I have PP Tower I use for Media). For $2k you can't beat it... although that $4k Alienware is SWEET... oh, and the  high-end XPS laptops can handle SWG easily...

    MAc Book Pro

    XPS

    Voodoo are nice, but expensive...

    *Side Note: Dell just bought Alienware, so expect XPS' to get better and Alienware to get worse, hehe.

    *Side Note: Just custom configured a SWEET 12.1' XPS (they're real small & lite) with a sweet medium gaming rig (you have to upgrade the HD, Sound & Vid Card) for under $1800... that surprised me.

    I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!

    In fact, forget the SWG!!!!

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  • RichhRichh Member Posts: 28

    Originally posted by Richh
    I use a laptop with a intergrated vid card, with up to 128 shared video memory. I can play SWG on it, but I only get about 5-8 FPS, its bareable for crafting, but I dont think its well suited for combat or high populated areas (good thing SWG servers are dead now... I guess)

    I forgot to add... My system crashed when I go to space... so I hope I never have to do anything in space
  • zoey121zoey121 Member Posts: 926

    I used 2 different lap tops for my gaming and both worked well for swg

    1st one compaq Presario 2500    2568cl

    2nd one is hp dv8210us  while second one was fanicer i ended up going back to my 1st one cause it was more portable and fit me better .

     Love lap top gaming and both systems worked just fine in eq 2, swg, wow, and daoc

     Those systems can be found at outlet stores tiger direct under a grand now a days

  • ClackamasClackamas Member Posts: 776

    Originally posted by squeee
    I believe most laptops have a video card buil in to the motherboard, and I highly doubt they would have a decent video card.

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    My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
    Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"

    Customer: "How fast will my COM ports go?"
    Tech Support: "How hard can you throw your computer?"

    Not true.  I bought a latop with an AMD 64 Athlon and ATI 9600 Mobility 2 years ago from E-Machines.  It ran SWG fairly well before I quit playing.  It would have played it better if I had upgraded to 1G of memory from 512M.

    Gateway now owns emachiens and sells a more current version for about $1400.

  • RekrulRekrul Member Posts: 2,961

    Originally posted by Clackamas



    Not true.  I bought a latop with an AMD 64 Athlon and ATI 9600 Mobility 2 years ago from E-Machines.  It ran SWG fairly well before I quit playing.  It would have played it better if I had upgraded to 1G of memory from 512M.

    Gateway now owns emachiens and sells a more current version for about $1400.


    SWG is heavy on TnL and shaders, and although gobbles up memory with textures, they don't impact performance much. Integrated graphics cards, especially intel based lack TnL, and emphasize texture pipelines, their shader support is most likely minimal (depends on versions).

    Due to mostly procedurally generated world, SWG always made heavy use of shaders. This puts decent load even on modern cards, and the non-instanced representation of characters means they use TnL heavily.

    Just about any standalone graphics card Radeon series, nVidia, with shader support 2.0+ will run SWG well.

    Most difference will come from having more than 1gig of ram. That's probably the greatest bottleneck.
  • InspGadgtInspGadgt Member Posts: 146

    Originally posted by Djin

    www.alienware.com
    If you're really serious about hardcore gaming on a laptop.  I believe they come with either a 9700 or the 5900 GeForce FX. :)
    Very nice laptops.

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    E.T. is alive...
    MMORPG.com - Gramp Staff
    Alienware is great...but you can get essentially the same thing for less at Sager since they make most of the specialized hardware for Alienware
  • jeffdndjeffdnd Member Posts: 12
    My laptop was my only computer since college and I've used it to play SWG since pre-CU. Only time I really lagged was going into cities, but I upgraded from 512MB to 1GB and solved that problem. Only other problem was overheating causing my to shut down, but I prop it up so it can breath and it ran fine.

    I support a rollback and keeping & balancing the old combat system.
    ...and making SWG a better place to be

  • pauli3456pauli3456 Member CommonPosts: 4

    WEll i was just wondering if a laptop with 2 gig ram intel duo core 1.73 giga hertz and a geforce 7600 go is a good comp

     

     

     

     

    here is the link if you wana check it out for yourself im gonna buy it mabe for gaming only but i want to know if the laptop wil run swg because thats what i usually play alot of

     

     

    pls reply thnks

  • pauli3456pauli3456 Member CommonPosts: 4

    sry here is the link

     

    http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200334+502506+4294966731+502363+4294966760&Ne=300818&product_code=344565&Pn=Pavilion_dv9330us_Notebook

  • mklinicmklinic Member RarePosts: 2,014

    for what it's worth, SWG runs fine on my Dell Latitude D620 using the builtin graphics (Intel 945GM). Otherwise, if you are using a Radeon and having any issues, try http://www.omegadrivers.net/. I have used those on machines in the past and been very satisfied with the results.

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  • ownedyou1ownedyou1 Member Posts: 364

    First of all, Alienware sucks. It's kinda for the rich kids who just have to much money to spend and would like a brand name.





    I've build a PC with 2x the power the under half the price.





    When playing SWG on a laptop , the main thing you gotta worry about is your built-in video-card, most laptops have build-in unless you wanna spend an insane amount of money (around $3000) getting somthing thats just a name.





    Tbh, You should be fine with 512mb ram, 1.6+ dc processor, and a build-it card, but play it on low settings,



    atm im running,





    2x 8800gtx

    2.6 DC overclocked to 4.1

    3GB RAM







    I can practically run anything smoothly, but it costs alot.

  • DvolDvol Member Posts: 273

    Originally posted by ownedyou1


    First of all, Alienware sucks. It's kinda for the rich kids who just have to much money to spend and would like a brand name.





    I've build a PC with 2x the power the under half the price.





    When playing SWG on a laptop , the main thing you gotta worry about is your built-in video-card, most laptops have build-in unless you wanna spend an insane amount of money (around $3000) getting somthing thats just a name.





    Tbh, You should be fine with 512mb ram, 1.6+ dc processor, and a build-it card, but play it on low settings,



    atm im running,





    2x 8800gtx

    2.6 DC overclocked to 4.1

    3GB RAM







    I can practically run anything smoothly, but it costs alot.
    WoW you made my day i didnt know being 37 and having a great job working my ass off makes me a rich kid!! WOOT!! Seriously i consider gaming a hobby and i went alienware because it came recomended as the BEST GAMING LAPTOPS.And with all hobbies i try to save for the best i can afford..So dont assume all gamers who buy Alienware computers are none hard working ungreatfull mombasement dwelling trolls..

    So far i can say yeah it does game well but their customer service is the suck unless you speak spanish.I had to send this one back 3 times and diagnose it myself cause their repair department sucks..but back to the topic...

    If your gonna spend the money at least get a dual core cpu, 256 ati/geforce card ,rams cheap now so at least 1 gig..Dell makes a decent one for around 1800.00 most decent alienwares are 3k and up..Voodoo is owned by HP now so not sure if their overpricing will change..Just research and make sure you build with games in mind..If not just build a desktop for half the price..I like the fact i can game anywere anytime

  • mas5949mas5949 Member Posts: 26

    I just purchased a Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz 800Mhz 4M Cache

    2GB DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm

    256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

    I am hoping that I can run SWG on max settings.

  • kelstarkelstar Member Posts: 23

    Originally posted by mas5949


    I just purchased a Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz 800Mhz 4M Cache
    2GB DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
    256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
    I am hoping that I can run SWG on max settings.

    Hiyas,

    Just curious as to how the game runs on a laptop with those specs?

  • mas5949mas5949 Member Posts: 26

    I don't know yet. I made the purchase online on July 27th, and it won't arrive till August 28th. Apparently there backordered. But seeing my Desktop is a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading 1Gb of Ram and the X600 Radeon video card and can run the game, I would think pretty good.

  • LT.DauteriveLT.Dauterive Member Posts: 48

    hey i use a laptop to play swg

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  • eyceleycel Member Posts: 1,334

    I bought an alienware few weeks before SWG hit the public.  It  was a area 51m 5500, 16.1 inch screen, 80gig hd, 128 bit video processor ati radeon mobility 9600.  It worked well in every part of the game as i played most of the professions throughout my subscription.  I cant seem to even recall a game time where it didnt run 100% to my satisfaction in game.  This was one of the first 128bit video processors to hit the market and it did very well too.  I was on the server Bloodfin witch was the second most populated server and ati seemed to chuged through it well. 

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  • bLoOdYm3bLoOdYm3 Member Posts: 10

    Originally posted by squeee

    I believe most laptops have a video card buil in to the motherboard, and I highly doubt they would have a decent video card.

     

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

    Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"

    Customer: "How fast will my COM ports go?"

    Tech Support: "How hard can you throw your computer?"

    dude what r u saying...laptops are according to what u payed for it...if u gave a lot of money u can play whatever game and with excellent graphice....

    btw...i play on laptop SWG nd it plane rocks....xD

    PS...i Wish i had a desktop...lol..

  • TeknoBugTeknoBug Member UncommonPosts: 2,156

    I try not to play games on my Dell Inspiron 1501 (yeah LOL), but I found the Omega driver helped for the built in ATI X1150 but only has 512M ram and I have been meaning to upgrade that, I was able to put Call of Duty 2 and City of Heroes on it with slightly noticable video lag but tolorable, and SWG is a bit less graphics intense so it should run smoothly.

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