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Do you game on your laptop?
Generic Eric:
I was given a laptop for christmas. After I set up chrome and all of my bookmarks, the first thing I thought of was "can I play games on this?"
Is that normal? What are realistic expectations out of a laptop? How much do you have to spend to play games decently? I've been told the graphics chip is what is holding things back.
I have played Portal on it, Super Meat boy won't launch, MAME is next.
SavannahLion:
I go through cycles when it comes to what I game on. Right now I'm in my console and EVO phase so the answer to that would be, NO.
If you asked me that five years ago, the answer would have been yes.
I never really liked gaming on my laptop other than casual crap. The problem is that if I'm with my laptop, I'm not usually in a position to get comfortable for any reasonable gaming session or worse, I'm mobile and I don't want to chew the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of my (now dead) battery.
If it's any indication on how my current laptop performs. It can run Half-Life 2 reasonably well but it does stutter on some intense sequences and definitely chokes on the "video" portions. The sequences with the G-Man is the worst with the most stuttering and complete stalls. Enough that I get disgusted and quit playing.
MAME plays OK, but I don't generally use my laptop for playing MAME except for testing configurations.
Mikezilla:
I just recently got a laptop, and I fool around with it on my downtime at work. I installed Diablo 2, because I never got a chance to play it when it came out. I dont have wifi here(the building sucks) so Im limited to stuff that doesnt need the internet. Works fine for me. Im thinking about getting MAME on this thing when I get home, or some sort of emulator. SNES maybe, so I get in on some RPG action!
missioncontrol:
I replaced my desktop with a laptop last Christmas and game on it every Friday night. Our current flavor of games right now is Blur and Split/Second. Both of which play fine. The other games we play are older and not so graphic intensive.
knave:
--- Quote from: missioncontrol on December 21, 2010, 12:50:57 pm ---I replaced my desktop with a laptop last Christmas and game on it every Friday night. Our current flavor of games right now is Blur and Split/Second. Both of which play fine. The other games we play are older and not so graphic intensive.
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Me too. I was surprised how comfortable I am gaming on the couch or in bed. Got to use a wireless mouse but it's great. I play alot of the steam indie games and Left for dead ocassionally. Eufloria, Zombie driver, Torchlight, And recently Company of hero online.
Your Laptop should play most non hardcore games just fine. If you can play portal, Meat boy probably just needs a new flavor of direct x or some other plugin. I suppose that your Laptop's GPU doesn't support the shaders.
Super meat boy requirements.
System Requirements OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7
Processor: 1.2GHz processor
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: Graphics Card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 and Vertex Shader 2.0(Vertex Shader Support can be supported with software emulation)
DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c
Hard Drive: 300 MB
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