Advice, please -
I travel around, and often have access to decent speed internet. Has anyone ever got EQ to run on a laptop, and if so any particular one? The sony site is, Im afraid, of little help, other than to discourage me.
I will even buy a new laptop if necessary (well, work will help...)
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A few of my guild mates do play on laptops, don't have the specs though.
Bear in mind that the most important things are RAM and video, over which you have control, and connection, over which you have limited to no control when traveling.
Bear in mind that the most important things are RAM and video, over which you have control, and connection, over which you have limited to no control when traveling.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 8200, which runs EQ and other games just fine. 2Ghz, 512mb ram, 64mb GeForce4. It's alot slower than the desktop, but I can run with all models on, without serious lag even in raid situations.
You could probably get away wih less, important elements are:
a) Video Card - you need a good, Dx9 capable card. (64MB+, ATI or Nvidia)
b) RAM - 512 is the minimum you want. Laptop hard drives are always slower than desktop ones, so more than ussual you want to aovid swapping. More ram the better, I'd suggest a Gig.
c) Decent Processor. (Much of EQ's display is done on the CPU, so the better processor, the faster EQ will run)
You could probably get away wih less, important elements are:
a) Video Card - you need a good, Dx9 capable card. (64MB+, ATI or Nvidia)
b) RAM - 512 is the minimum you want. Laptop hard drives are always slower than desktop ones, so more than ussual you want to aovid swapping. More ram the better, I'd suggest a Gig.
c) Decent Processor. (Much of EQ's display is done on the CPU, so the better processor, the faster EQ will run)
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Thanks for these ideas - at least it's not a forlorn hope! More and more places like hotels and airports have decent wireless access, so why not waste my time properly :)
The alienware laptops are great for gaming if you can afford one, and best of all, upgradable graphics cards! Someday, my thinkpad 770z will be replaced by one.
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Just to vent: I was playing on a Toshiba Tecra 9100, fat dumb and happy. Not anymore.
Can't support hardware acceleration under Dx9 and it's a business machine, not a game oriented one, so no updates on drivers that will fix it.
Sorry but I am quite irritated by the upgrade and very much in a "***** Verant and the horse they rode in on" mood about this. Tech support's email when I looked into the matter was very nice, direct, and included the observation that they don't support lappies because of the issues in upgrading display and other peripherals. I rather enjoyed playing for an hour or two after work this past year. Oh well, I finally quit smoking 7 months ago and I've been doing that for 30+ years. I can get over this addiction too.
The bastards.
Can't support hardware acceleration under Dx9 and it's a business machine, not a game oriented one, so no updates on drivers that will fix it.
Sorry but I am quite irritated by the upgrade and very much in a "***** Verant and the horse they rode in on" mood about this. Tech support's email when I looked into the matter was very nice, direct, and included the observation that they don't support lappies because of the issues in upgrading display and other peripherals. I rather enjoyed playing for an hour or two after work this past year. Oh well, I finally quit smoking 7 months ago and I've been doing that for 30+ years. I can get over this addiction too.
The bastards.
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