My old laptop is creaking under the pressure of NWN2 ( it's not even supposed to be capable of running it ) and I want to get a new one but really haven't got a clue what's what and don't want to but one that'll be more trouble than it's worth. I've been looking around and don't understand the graphics card numbers etc. One that looks alright has this..
AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual core 2.5Ghz
3GB Ram
Processor bus 3600Mhz
Processor cache 1MB
ATi Radeon HD5470 512Mb dedicated graphics
Windows 7 Home Premium
Question is will this work well with NWN2 and the toolset, Dragon Age and toolset and play Mass Effect or will I have to turn all the settings right down and suffer crashes ?
Is there something with regards to graphics cards that I should be going for ?
Is Windows 7 a problem (vista gave me some grief on my PC but is alright now ) ?
Is Nvidia and Intel stuff better for this type of thing ?
I tried looking up graphics cards and what they meant but was just met with sales nonsense wheree of course they're all brilliant ! So I thought I'd ask the experts who know what I want and need.
All help appreciated.. Thank you..
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, oct. 17 2010 06:26
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Posté 17 octobre 2010 - 06:49
SkywingvL
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Windows 7 will work just fine with NWN2. 3GB of RAM should work as well as long as you're okay with potentially having to close other things out beforehand -- I wouldn't go below 3GB on a new system nowadays though.
That video card appears to be on the lower end; it's what I would expect to be the most likely to bottleneck you here.
Synthetic benchmarks aren't always the best measure of real world performance in games like NWN2, but you might search around a bit on http://www.notebookcheck.net 's database of laptop video cards For reference, I've got a machine with a GeForce 335M that is playable (~30fps average perhaps, typically varying by +/-10fps depending on the complexity of an area) with all high details except for shadows at 1366x768 -- the Mobility Radeon 5470s look like they come up at around half or so the performance on a number of the benchmarks.
Based on that, my guess is that you'd be stuck at low resolution and reducing the details down somewhat on the 5470 to get things playable, but a response from someone who's tried it with a 5470 would trump that guess - dropping the performance significantly from the 335M (my closest reference point to your card) would necessitate quality reductions from highest levels.
What's the card that you have in your old laptop?
That video card appears to be on the lower end; it's what I would expect to be the most likely to bottleneck you here.
Synthetic benchmarks aren't always the best measure of real world performance in games like NWN2, but you might search around a bit on http://www.notebookcheck.net 's database of laptop video cards For reference, I've got a machine with a GeForce 335M that is playable (~30fps average perhaps, typically varying by +/-10fps depending on the complexity of an area) with all high details except for shadows at 1366x768 -- the Mobility Radeon 5470s look like they come up at around half or so the performance on a number of the benchmarks.
Based on that, my guess is that you'd be stuck at low resolution and reducing the details down somewhat on the 5470 to get things playable, but a response from someone who's tried it with a 5470 would trump that guess - dropping the performance significantly from the 335M (my closest reference point to your card) would necessitate quality reductions from highest levels.
What's the card that you have in your old laptop?
Modifié par SkywingvL, 17 octobre 2010 - 06:56 .
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Posté 17 octobre 2010 - 07:13
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That was fast !
My old faithful laptop has got an ATI mobility Radeon xpress200 graphics card ( 128Mb dedicated ) AMD Athlon 64 1.9Ghz processor and 1Gb of Ram. It has served me well but I think I've been slowly killing it ! It was only when I bought a PC that can handle NWN2 that I realised what I'd been missing, I managed to make a mod on the laptop and when I put it on the PC realised how many serious problems there were with stuff I could never see before.
Good to hear that windows 7 is fine and I don't have the ability to do more than one thing at once anyway so no problem just running the game.
Thanks for the help, I will have to investigate the notebook check website before parting with my hard earned cash and maybe I'll find out what all these figures mean !
My old faithful laptop has got an ATI mobility Radeon xpress200 graphics card ( 128Mb dedicated ) AMD Athlon 64 1.9Ghz processor and 1Gb of Ram. It has served me well but I think I've been slowly killing it ! It was only when I bought a PC that can handle NWN2 that I realised what I'd been missing, I managed to make a mod on the laptop and when I put it on the PC realised how many serious problems there were with stuff I could never see before.
Good to hear that windows 7 is fine and I don't have the ability to do more than one thing at once anyway so no problem just running the game.
Thanks for the help, I will have to investigate the notebook check website before parting with my hard earned cash and maybe I'll find out what all these figures mean !
Modifié par Tsongo, 17 octobre 2010 - 07:14 .
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Posté 17 octobre 2010 - 07:20
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I have a 5470 on my Dell, But mine has 1GB of GDDR3 so it's a bit above the listed stats. Regardless, it can handle both ME2 and DA:O at 1366x768 with shadows and AA turned off. Of course, "handle" and "play" are entirely different things. Dragon Age has crashed several times when the particle effects got too much in the over-the-shoulder camera mode, and Mass Effect 2 runs at about 25-35fps. I'm sure if I set the texture settings down a bit it would go higher, but I'm a stickler for my games looking good. all in all, that is a solid entry-level gaming laptop and you should be able to handle what you said fine, but don't expect to raise your graphics settings very high.
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Posté 17 octobre 2010 - 07:36
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SkywingvL.. That's a really good website it will not leave my computer, now I know where to cross reference computer statistics thanks again
cgrimm54.. Thanks, it's good to hear it would be capable so now I know roughly what I need and I'm not too bothered about turning graphics down it's only a small screen anyway. As for shadows I never bother but I do like a bit of water reflection now and then.
cgrimm54.. Thanks, it's good to hear it would be capable so now I know roughly what I need and I'm not too bothered about turning graphics down it's only a small screen anyway. As for shadows I never bother but I do like a bit of water reflection now and then.
