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Lilly Slavegirl
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Posted - 2010.12.14 21:05:00 -
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I have a dell inspiron 1501 with amd dual core 1.70 GHz, 2gb ram, ATI raedon Xpress 1105.
Eve stutters like crazy for me and I do not know if it is my system hardware or if the laptop just cannot run it. I am thinking less of the latter because my netbook (eee 9) ran it smoother than this fullsize does.
If anyone that has ever had/used this laptop with same/similar specs to play eve could you tell me how smooth it ran? If it is just me than my system is faulty.
Thank you anyone that can give me answers ><
Signed, Lost dual boxxer ;p
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Sieges
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Posted - 2010.12.15 03:21:00 -
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I play on a Dell Latitude D830 with an 3.5 GB RAM and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M video card on the Minimal settings and get 20 FPS. Have you tried turning the settings way down?
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Sturmwolke
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Posted - 2010.12.15 03:51:00 -
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Some Dell laptops have issues with CPU throttling, which will result in the stuttering you experience. Look it up with Tech Support or Google it.
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Sideof Fries
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Posted - 2010.12.15 04:13:00 -
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Edited by: Sideof Fries on 15/12/2010 04:14:12 My gut reaction is that the hardware in that laptop just isn't enough to cut it. I had a laptop running dual-core at 2 GHz, 4 GB ram and some sort of integrated video (I'm assuming Xpress -> Integrated) and it was janky at best. EVE generally has sharper graphics than any MMO I can think of, and this is the price you pay, even at the lower graphics levels. Heck, EVE on minimum is still better-looking than maxed WOW.
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Saju Somtaaw
Gallente Department of Defence Apotheosis of Virtue
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Posted - 2010.12.15 18:20:00 -
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Edited by: Saju Somtaaw on 15/12/2010 18:21:08 I have one, and it can run it...but I wouldn't do anything more than mining or moving around in high-sec with it.
edit:saw the bit about performance, and before the Trinity graphics were mandator it ran a lot smoother. ---- --- ---
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Captian00Harlock
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Posted - 2010.12.15 19:39:00 -
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"I have a dell...*stuffs*"
Well there's your problem right there. :D
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Herping yourDerp
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Posted - 2010.12.15 21:32:00 -
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never heard of the graphix card. the CPU is very slow, eve only uses 1 core, so 1.7ghz is what your getting ( i think it only uses one core)
2gb of ram is low if you have vista/win7
graphic card prolly sucks
try low detail and updating drivers, or get a new non-dell laptop
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Worgen Fratmon
Minmatar Instapop Industries
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Posted - 2010.12.15 21:48:00 -
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There are 3 major problems with your system for any sort of gaming.
1st, you only have 2GB of memory. Increase that to the max supported by your motherboard and you will see preformance increase.
2nd, your videocard is using shared memory (nearly a total default for laptops). Nothing you can do about this unless you can install a new videocard into the laptop (doubtful).
3rd, you are using a laptop. Laptops are great for many things, but gaming isn't usually one of them. The problem is they can't be upgraded much. Unless you spend $1500-$2500 (US) on a high end laptop, it won't ever be that good for gaming.
My last laptop (bought 4 years ago) was a fairly high end one that had 256MB of actual, dedicated video memory (plus could share up to 1GB more) with a decent (great for a laptop) ATI videocard (integrated). This thing cost me nearly $2000 US from HP.
I've not looked too hard lately, but I've not seen any new laptops that have actual VRAM.
Best advise, get a desktop. Even a crappy $399 (US) Wally-World special will be a better machine as you upgrade it.
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Salpad
Caldari Carebears with Attitude
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Posted - 2010.12.15 22:32:00 -
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Could it be that you're trying to play on battery power?
I've got a Lenovo SL400, bought almost a year and a half ago, and it plays EVE fine, rather to my surprise. I've flown a bunch of missions on it, even level 4 missions, with no problems.
I think by default my laptop is configured to reduce performance if it's on battery power, so that the charge can last longer, whereas it functions at full computational capability if it's plugged into a regular power outlet. I almost never use the battery, but my laptop can be set up to use full power, or nearly so, even when on battery, so if that is the issue, look into your computers' power management settings, see if you can find something.
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Jose Black
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Posted - 2010.12.16 17:32:00 -
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Originally by: Worgen Fratmon
1st, you only have 2GB of memory. Increase that to the max supported by your motherboard and you will see preformance increase.
2nd, your videocard is using shared memory (nearly a total default for laptops). Nothing you can do about this unless you can install a new videocard into the laptop (doubtful).
3rd, you are using a laptop. Laptops are great for many things, but gaming isn't usually one of them. The problem is they can't be upgraded much. Unless you spend $1500-$2500 (US) on a high end laptop, it won't ever be that good for gaming. They're not as good as a high end PC, that's for sure. But you don't need a high end PC to have run eve smoothly with low settings.
My last laptop (bought 4 years ago) was a fairly high end one that had 256MB of actual, dedicated video memory (plus could share up to 1GB more) with a decent (great for a laptop) ATI videocard (integrated). This thing cost me nearly $2000 US from HP.
I've not looked too hard lately, but I've not seen any new laptops that have actual VRAM.
Best advise, get a desktop. Even a crappy $399 (US) Wally-World special will be a better machine as you upgrade it.
Needed memory amount depends on OS. 2GB would work well with Win XP. Eve isn't _that_ memory hungry.
I bet you don't know the gfx card. You should do actual research 1st before coming up with years old facts. It's about the other way round. Even way below 1k notebooks come with 512M to 1G dedicated graphics memory. Some even if they're business rather than multimendia notebooks.
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