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Aurik Ulanti
Gallente Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2009.02.14 16:33:00 -
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I'm not very techy, so I wonder if my laptops nvidia gforce go 7600 (512mb dedicated ram) will cope. The laptop has c2d 2ghz prcessors and 2gig ram. Running vista though. I'm thinking of going back to xp as I think it needs less resources to work than vista. Also, does office 2007 work with xp?
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Khrillian
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.02.14 16:41:00 -
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Originally by: minerboob Just purchased a video card and a monitor as my laptop will soon not be able to run eve anymore. That means not going over to my friends house and being able to play. Also many people will not get to see the game so I will not be able to recruit more people into it as easy. Everytime I go somewhere with my laptop people ask me. "Whats that your playing." Most people have no idea about EvE. Anyway.. wish I didn't have to spend half my tax return to keep playing. At least it will look nice now.
Say you're running a chinese farmer business and then the laptop will be tax deductible!
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Rilwar
22nd Black Rise Defensive Unit
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Posted - 2009.02.14 16:43:00 -
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Edited by: Rilwar on 14/02/2009 16:44:24
Originally by: Aurik Ulanti I'm not very techy, so I wonder if my laptops nvidia gforce go 7600 (512mb dedicated ram) will cope. The laptop has c2d 2ghz prcessors and 2gig ram. Running vista though. I'm thinking of going back to xp as I think it needs less resources to work than vista. Also, does office 2007 work with xp?
GeForce GO 7600 is SM 3.0 compliant, it will be able to run the client. Running it well may be an issue though, but only tesitng it will answer that for you.
2nd question: http://tinyurl.com/dmh8e2 ---O-H--S-H-I-T---
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Magnus Orin
Minmatar Northern Storm
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Posted - 2009.02.14 17:14:00 -
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Welcome to the 21st century ________ On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone is reduced to zero. |
Lochmar Fiendhiem
Caldari Quicksilver Industries and Painful Effects Inc.
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Posted - 2009.02.14 17:52:00 -
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Edited by: Lochmar Fiendhiem on 14/02/2009 17:52:39 OP thinks the world is still flat and we were all created some 5000 years ago by a magical man in the sky who is broke and needs our money, oh and to buy american cars.
EDIT: this was also when kenny planned out all their plans.
Originally by: Halkin bob is dead, goons are great, cheese is cheesy, there we go no need for any more threads
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minerboob
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Posted - 2009.02.15 00:53:00 -
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The 300 I had to spend was for an upgraded video card for a small form factor desktop (which I got for free) with no monitor. So I needed to get a monitor. All i'm saying is it sucks you would need to spend a LOT of money on a laptop that can run EVE now.
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Manji Lee
Gallente Galactic Express Burning Horizons
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Posted - 2009.02.15 01:18:00 -
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I'm not much of a person that would upgrade a rig on a regular basis. Matter of fact I recently upgraded my computer about some 5 months ago. And that is after having it over 5 years. Around that time, power unit and the motherboard starting to cough up. Everything else was running just fine. But, after some 300 down. It was running far cry 2 on max at 40 fps. Anyway, it wasn't surprising to me, to hear about the drop of sm1. It was kinda expected to happen. You can't really keep same old engine running forever.
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Qordel
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.02.15 02:13:00 -
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Originally by: minerboob Just purchased a video card and a monitor as my laptop will soon not be able to run eve anymore. That means not going over to my friends house and being able to play. Also many people will not get to see the game so I will not be able to recruit more people into it as easy. Everytime I go somewhere with my laptop people ask me. "Whats that your playing." Most people have no idea about EvE. Anyway.. wish I didn't have to spend half my tax return to keep playing. At least it will look nice now.
A cheap (but reasonable) 19" LCD can be bought from newegg for about $160 to $180. Since you obviously already have a computer (since you're adding a videocard and not building a whole system), I'm going to presume you already had a monitor, too. Either way, that's not really attributable to EVE as an EVE-related expense.
So you probably spent $200 on a monitor and $100 on a card. A $40 card would have sufficed and a $100 card (unless you bought something way over the price it should be valued at) should last you quite a long time with EVE and give you far more than just the minimal performance.
I understand that not everyone has the same priorities or resources that I do and that building high end rigs every year to stay on top of things is something few people actually do, but some people are on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Having to upgrade a videocard is hardly a significant expense or ridiculous expectation. If you really want to get a lot out of a great game coming out in 2010, there's a great chance you'll need to upgrade your video card. That's just life.
And sorry if I don't feel too bad for anyone spending half their tax return on a videogame. Many of us won't get a return or will get much less than others do, because we are not considered important enough as a voting block to be included. So we get to subsidize the $400 and $800 rebates from the government to placate the mobs (and that's on top of subsidizing people for breeding via their child tax credits).
Don't get me wrong. I know that I make a great living and as such it is reasonable that I pay more taxes than someone who can barely afford to feed themselves, but I have a little bit of a problem subsidizing political kung-fu (to placate voters) for people who are not poor. People who make as much as $75,000 and will spend the money on a flat screen or car payments or a videogame. So... Yeah. I don't feel bad for you or anyone else on that front.
Seriously though, the amount you spent where EVE is concerned is far less than you represented it as. --
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Qordel
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.02.15 02:15:00 -
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Originally by: minerboob The 300 I had to spend was for an upgraded video card for a small form factor desktop (which I got for free) with no monitor. So I needed to get a monitor. All i'm saying is it sucks you would need to spend a LOT of money on a laptop that can run EVE now.
No you wouldn't. I'm pretty sure there are laptops around $600 brand new that would run EVE and there are definitely laptops under $1,000 that would do it. That's cheap for laptops and it's the price you have to pay anyway if you insist on gaming on a laptop. Or do you really think that developers should always have to target their requirements for the laptop crowd so we can all rock like it was 2002 and we hadn't all seen Britney's bloody crotch-shot already? --
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Lord WarATron
Amarr Black Nova Corp KenZoku
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Posted - 2009.02.15 02:22:00 -
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Edited by: Lord WarATron on 15/02/2009 02:22:43 I think the most cheapist out of date card or computer that you can buy today supports shader 2, and thus can run the next version. Even a year ago, budget laptops supported shader 4 so it should not be that hard.
Without it, I think there is a emulator for some ancient cards. Dunno if they work though. --
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Qordel
Caldari School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.02.15 02:34:00 -
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Originally by: Lord WarATron Edited by: Lord WarATron on 15/02/2009 02:22:43 I think the most cheapist out of date card or computer that you can buy today supports shader 2, and thus can run the next version. Even a year ago, budget laptops supported shader 4 so it should not be that hard.
Without it, I think there is a emulator for some ancient cards. Dunno if they work though.
And a $30-40 card today will actually support at least SM3, ensuring they'll run even if CCP were to remove support for SM1/2 like they wisely first chose to do (before bailing on the idea from the whineage). --
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