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Inspiration
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Posted - 2005.12.22 19:55:00 -
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Hi folks,
Currently I am looking for a laptop and I like to be able to run a 2nd 'helper' EVE account on it. Nothing special, just for moving ore/goods around, while my main character will do other stuff.
I found one laptop (MSI S270B) that is in my price range, that looks good overall. But can it run EVE good enaugh for what I want to do with it? The laptop native resolution is 1280x800, which is a perfect format for almost everything :).
Any suggestions, information or just a list of ehcih laptops or graphical sub-systems I should definatly avoid?
Thanks in advance!
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SarGara
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Posted - 2005.12.22 19:58:00 -
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Hmmm how about a link to the laptop or at least listing its specifications so we can try to answer you question?
The laptops native resolution means nothing about it being able to play EvE or not.
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Grainsalt
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:02:00 -
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Edited by: Grainsalt on 22/12/2005 20:03:07
Well i got a Acer 8103 WLMI recently and that runs it like a dream... IF you are UK then DIGIUK sells it cheep. Has a X700 128mb gfx card on it and is very thin in comparison.
Even a 64mb gfx card should run eve, but I would recommend getting a laptop with a gfx card with dedicated RAM.
I would also avoid Intel GFX cards.
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Lord Dynastron
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:02:00 -
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 Originally by: Inspiration
Hi folks,
Currently I am looking for a laptop and I like to be able to run a 2nd 'helper' EVE account on it. Nothing special, just for moving ore/goods around, while my main character will do other stuff.
I found one laptop (MSI S270B) that is in my price range, that looks good overall. But can it run EVE good enaugh for what I want to do with it? The laptop native resolution is 1280x800, which is a perfect format for almost everything :).
Any suggestions, information or just a list of ehcih laptops or graphical sub-systems I should definatly avoid?
Thanks in advance!
I run two accounts at the same time on my Toshiba Satellite 2435. The sound can be a little flakey in heavy combat and I had to use the desktop video drivers (which work great btw), but for the most part I am pleased. Lets see,,, it has 512Ram, 32 VRAM, 2.1 Pentium.
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Jennai
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:04:00 -
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if it has a proper laptop video card it should work fine. if it has some integrated trash like Intel Extreme 3D it'll either not work or run very poorly.
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AdriaLima
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:12:00 -
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using an acer - amd 3000+ sempron with an ati radeon x700 pci and 512ddr ram ..runs eve smoothly ..but since RMR everytime i turn on the webifier things get screwed up with stuttering ..got no clue why.
Other then that its a good machine.
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Akorin
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:14:00 -
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Well my lappy's over 3 years old, it's got an old Radeon Mobility 3d card with 16mb vid ram I believe and it manages. It's not super fast but it works. I'm assuming a laptop with a more modern 3d accelerator should be more than capable of running EVE. It's a good looking game but the basic engine is already kind of old making it relatively easy to run. 
I'd be more concerned with the amt of ram it has.. EVE like most MMOs can be mem hungry.
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Chucky
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:14:00 -
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I know the some of the Toshiba Satelites do very well, friend could run 2 sccounts with no slow down.
As far as the on you listed, the relevant specs
Mobile AMD Turion 64 MT-30 25W (sweet)
ATi RS480M+SB400 (Claims Full DirectX 9.0 Support (Vertex Shader v2.0 and Pixel Shader v2.0))
512MB (512*1) DDR RAM (prolly enough, 1 gig did a improve my box though)
12" TFT WXGA (might be tuff to see font)
looks ok to me
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Justus Imperius
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:20:00 -
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http://esupport.sony.com/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=VGNFS660W
Sony Vaio FS660W
I can run 3 clients with no problems at all. I have them all windowed and usually have 2 minimized while 1 is up. But I can even cascade them on top of eachother and have no prob.
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LoboCA
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Posted - 2005.12.22 20:44:00 -
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I run a Dell Inspiron 9300 with GF6800Go with multiple clients and a few other games running.
IF you find a deal on it, it can run less than $1200 US. Get a Gig or more of Ram (and the truelife screen for better resolution), and you'll be set.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_9300?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
The Dell Inspiron XPS series is nice too, but more expensive.
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Jakk Graiseach
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Posted - 2005.12.22 21:10:00 -
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Any laptop with a decent Nvidia or Radeon GPU, 1GB memory and the fastest processor you can afford will do the job nicely.
Eve (and most other up to date games) want to use DX9 and Hardware T&L. My sad old laptop can only run ancient games, looking at buying a new one - although my wife thinks that me not being able to play games on it means I get more work done. She may have a point. 
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Thessen
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Posted - 2005.12.22 21:26:00 -
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Edited by: Thessen on 22/12/2005 21:28:51
I use a Dell Inspiron 9300 notebook, PM 1.73GHz Dothan, 1.5GB RAM, 60GB HD, 802.11b/g WiFi NIC, nVidia GeForce Go 6800 256MB vram, 17 inch widescreen WXGA LCD screen and MS windows XP home edition - It runs EVE with all eye-candy enabled without any problems... Other more recent games run fine too at either maximum or close settings.
Everything cost me around Ç1600 and if you're not a DK citizen a 25% VAT wont apply  .... I'm extremely satisfied with the PC though...
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Tar om
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:13:00 -
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Edited by: Tar om on 22/12/2005 22:14:39
My Inspiron 9300 has the Centrino chipset - PM 2.2Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 9800GO 256Mb and the 1920x1200 17" screen. It gets an easy 45FPS everywhere, and beats my P4 3.4 with 2Gb and 9800XT by a large margin (like 50%).
Pentium Mobile is a much better chip than P4, and EVE is far more dependant on CPU than graphics card anyway.
My laptop is nearly a year old now, and its superb :) Once I was a bit confused by some choppiness in EVE and looked at my taskbar to find that I'd left a copy of Rome: Total War running since DT!
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Whalesaver
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:14:00 -
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Runs fine on my laptop, and I only have 256meg of ram, does have dedicated graphics card though.
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Jacques Archambault
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:23:00 -
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I run EVE on a laptop as well (2 years old now). Dell Inspiron 8600, Pentium M 1.7, 1gb RAM, 128mb dedicated graphics card Ge-Force 6560 fx go (or something like that). EVE runs with no problems fullscreen or in windowed mode. Running two instances makes things a lil sluggish though - you'd probably have to play with the application priority levels in Windows Task Manager.
But in general, as long as you don't have a shared graphics card (at least 64mb dedicated), and at least 512mb RAM, you should be fine I think.
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Abvrasious
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:24:00 -
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My laptop is a IBM R521. 30 Gigs, 512MB RAM, 32MB ATi Vid card (ATi Mobility 9000 I believe) and EVE runs fine.
Runs better on my PC though, 512MB RAM, 64MB Vid Card (GeForce 4)
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Darth Chaney
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:26:00 -
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I run EVE just fine on a Dell Latitude D610 (Pentium M 1.60Ghz, 1GB RAM, and Mobile Intel 915GM Video card that shares 128MB system memory.)
I have to disable all effects if I actually want to fight while using it, but other than that it runs OK.
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Nikolai Nuvolari
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Posted - 2005.12.22 22:32:00 -
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For the last few days, I've been running EVE on my new ultralight/ultraportable laptop, it's a Dell Latitude X1. I didn't buy it for EVE (I have a desktop for that, but I'm on vacation), and it's specs are pretty low (1.1 GHz, 512 MB RAM), but it seems to run EVE pretty well.
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Inspiration
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:22:00 -
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Well, I made a decission.
Not gona take any risks and gona order the 'Dell Inspiron XPS M170 (N12XP1)' next week. Will only have 1 GB of ram and an 7200rpm 80GB HD as otherwise I would go far beyond my budged....
Upside: Best mobile graphics ever: GForce Go 7800
Upside: 17" widescreen sisplay, always nice to own :)
Upside: 2.19 Ghz Pentium M
Upside: DVD+/-RW burner
Decent audio to and all. I hope it will be a system that can satisfy my computer needs a few years. I expect it to be able to havdle Windows Vista to, which was somethign I wanted!
Thanks for all the feedback, it was helpful and I took my time to inspect each and every one of the suggestions made.
Check out my resistance calculator.
WARNING: It is not RMR ready, mail me the stacking penalty math so I can fix this! |
Jastra
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:24:00 -
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I can run two sessions on Dell Laptop, pretty much forget about combat though, great for running about on Courier missions whilst you watch TV though
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Halgari
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:28:00 -
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I have a HP/Compaq evo nc4000. It uses an integrated ATI 300M AGP card. Works Okay. Not great, but ore runs are fine. Even combat is not that bad. Framerate runs at about 10fps or so.
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Grainsalt
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:32:00 -
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Updated: Acer 8103 WLMI running EVE @ 1680 x 1050 (widescreen), 32bit color and 45 fps. (See links)
A good laptop:-
http://www.eve-files.com/media/12/daftres1.jpg
http://www.eve-files.com/media/12/daftres2.jpg
BabyBlue:- "I propose CCP make USB powered genital electrodes compulsory for pod pilots, activated when hull < 5%. " |
Mimio
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:34:00 -
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Using Acer bla-bla-bla. Centrino + damned Intel Extreme Graphics. Runs reasonably fast(512 RAM), but have some graphic glitches
- in dock - 10 pixel in the bottom garbled.
- portraits/ships picture are slightly garbled.
Not big deal for me. Because I have 100% silence at home(no fun noise) and mobility(WiFi).
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Coltar
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:36:00 -
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I have a compaq nc 8230 which runs eve very nicely - 50 plus fps
it comes with a ATI mobility radion X600, i have 1.5 gb ram 1.8 ghx intel m proc
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NP Hard
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Posted - 2005.12.23 16:40:00 -
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Originally by: Inspiration
Hi folks,
I found one laptop (MSI S270B) that is in my price range, that looks good overall. But can it run EVE good enaugh for what I want to do with it? The laptop native resolution is 1280x800, which is a perfect format for almost everything :).
Eve can run in 1280x800, full-screen. The only slightly tricky thing is that Eve's minimum resolution in windowed mode makes the client fill the vertical dimension on 1280x800 monitors. Everything is visible (just), but there's a little less room for manoeuvre than with a monitor with a normal aspect ratio.
In every other respect, a modern laptop with 512MB RAM and 64MB dedicated video memory will run fine with Eve, although it might run a bit hot if you have two clients going.
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