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Do laptops have enuff under the hood for Rift?

RiftsoldierRiftsoldier Member Posts: 112
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I am seriously considering getting an Asus quadcore laptop 740QM. it has a 460M video card in it.

The thing is that for the same budget I was planning on upgrading my current rig to a Sandy Bridge but the motherboards are not back yet from the re-build and I am in neeed badly.

My current system is stuck around 4 FPS to 9 FPS on ultra and custom and at around 9 to 20 on low. I know I need to upgrade and even at these low FPS I like the game. It's down to crunch time. DO I keep seraching for a Sany Bridge Laptop in hopes of getting lucky or go with a laptop?

Just to let you know I am a 4 year upgrade kind of guy and I sometimes stetch some parts (like my current cpu motherboard) even longer.

I did kind of plan for this upgrade for my deskop and have a great case and power supply. will be mainly getting a 1 TB drive and a 128GB SSD and asus motherboard and i5 2500K processer and 2X4Gigs of 1600 ram along with a 570 Nvidia

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  • zappymanz5zappymanz5 Member UncommonPosts: 17

    Depends on the laptops spec.

     

    Intergrated Cards such as Intel, Low End AMD or Nvidia will not run rift "well" period.

  • RiftsoldierRiftsoldier Member Posts: 112

    Originally posted by zappymanz5

    Depends on the laptops spec.

     

    Intergrated Cards such as Intel, Low End AMD or Nvidia will not run rift "well" period.

    Sorry for the late spec updates...I clicked a button by accident but have added the info about specs in my first post now.

  • marinridermarinrider Member UncommonPosts: 1,556

    The specs on my laptop are:

    Intel core i5-450m

    4gig ddr 3

    and an Intel GMA HD vid card (built in)

    My laptop is made for business, cost 600 bucks and ran it close to low, I could tweak it a little above that though.

    So I'm sure any moderatly new laptop could play it, but a vid card would surely help, and makes the game look 1000x better.

    (Ran it on my laptop and gaming rig, Loved it on the rig more).

     

    For me personally, its a completly different game from the laptop with my specs to the desktop with a 260GTX.

  • zappymanz5zappymanz5 Member UncommonPosts: 17

    Originally posted by Riftsoldier

    I am seriously considering getting an Asus quadcore laptop 740QM. it has a 460M video card in it.

    The thing is that for the same budget I was planning on upgrading my current rig to a Sandy Bridge but the motherboards are not back yet from the re-build and I am in neeed badly.

    My current system is stuck around 4 FPS to 9 FPS on ultra and custom and at around 9 to 20 on low. I know I need to upgrade and even at these low FPS I like the game. It's down to crunch time. DO I keep seraching for a Sany Bridge Laptop in hopes of getting lucky or go with a laptop?

    Just to let you know I am a 4 year upgrade kind of guy and I sometimes stetch some parts (like my current cpu motherboard) even longer.

    I did kind of plan for this upgrade for my deskop and have a great case and power supply. will be mainly getting a 1 TB drive and a 128GB SSD and asus motherboard and i5 2500K processer and 2X4Gigs of 1600 ram along with a 570 Nvidia

     

    The Asus gaming laptops are pretty amazing to be honest, own one myself.  Its a very good buy.  The biggest thing with rift is graphics.

  • RiftsoldierRiftsoldier Member Posts: 112

    Originally posted by zappymanz5

    Originally posted by Riftsoldier

    I am seriously considering getting an Asus quadcore laptop 740QM. it has a 460M video card in it.

    The thing is that for the same budget I was planning on upgrading my current rig to a Sandy Bridge but the motherboards are not back yet from the re-build and I am in neeed badly.

    My current system is stuck around 4 FPS to 9 FPS on ultra and custom and at around 9 to 20 on low. I know I need to upgrade and even at these low FPS I like the game. It's down to crunch time. DO I keep seraching for a Sany Bridge Laptop in hopes of getting lucky or go with a laptop?

    Just to let you know I am a 4 year upgrade kind of guy and I sometimes stetch some parts (like my current cpu motherboard) even longer.

    I did kind of plan for this upgrade for my deskop and have a great case and power supply. will be mainly getting a 1 TB drive and a 128GB SSD and asus motherboard and i5 2500K processer and 2X4Gigs of 1600 ram along with a 570 Nvidia

     

    The Asus gaming laptops are pretty amazing to be honest, own one myself.  Its a very good buy.  The biggest thing with rift is graphics.

    Frames per second is what I am after. I want to be able to play this as close to television refresh rates as possible to lower my eye strain. television is 60FPS so I think I might be having to stick with the 570 graphics card for anywhere approaching that with ultra settings. But please do tell. What were your frames per second and on what settings with what model of Asus.

  • EtherlothEtherloth Member UncommonPosts: 47

    My Toshiba x505 runs it with everything at max without a glitch with the same videocard and processor.

     

    FYI, no problem at all.

     

    Eth.

  • Vicari0uslyVicari0usly Member Posts: 19

    i run a 32 bit vista toshiba laptop with an amd athlon dual core Ql-65 3 gigs of ram and a ati 3100 fx card and I run just fine. I am going to build a desktop to run better but I can do must things in the game unless its a major invasion and theres hundreds of people around.

  • wallet113wallet113 Member Posts: 231

    I have a custom ASUS G73JH I played the beta 7 with max settings ran really smooth and fast.

  • IkedaIkeda Member RarePosts: 2,751

    Hate to be the mean one here but this thread is a duplicate:

    http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4088318

     

    A simple search via this site or google with the term "laptop" would have found it.

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