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Will this laptop work for Sins?

June 24, 2009 9:31:06 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hey,

I'm about to buy a laptop and my final question is if Sins will play ok on it. I don't have the money to buy a war machine, so that's basically the highest I can go. If this laptop cannot do it, I'll just buy a cheaper one and stick with its main purpose: school.

 

Here it goes:

Dell Studio 15 - with Vista Home Premium 64bits

4Gb Ram DDR2 800MHz

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache)

512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

 

That's about it. I presume I'll be ok since Sins (and GalCiv2 and Elemental) is a game made to work good even on old rigs, but I just want to be sure.

 

Thanks a lot!

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Reply #1 June 24, 2009 9:47:44 PM
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the only things that I can comment on are dell! and vista!!, but other than those two points YES!!!

harpo

 

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Reply #2 June 24, 2009 9:50:14 PM
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Abso-freakin-lutely. Sins will run great on that. You can probably turn up many of the settings too.

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Reply #3 June 24, 2009 9:58:55 PM
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Harpo: yeah... My problem is that I need to finance it at the moment. The only ways I have are: Dell and stores (like FutureShop). With stores, I searched a lot around my place and haven't found any laptop having a nice video card below 1500$. But this Dell model has a big discount presently, so that's kind of my only choice hehe. And it comes with Vista... But out of curiosity, what do you think of Dell and why?

thanks guys, I'll order it!

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Reply #4 June 24, 2009 10:06:31 PM
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after the warrenty they do not offer any service or support

harpo

 

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Reply #5 June 25, 2009 6:21:04 AM
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Have you thought about building your own desktop from the ground up and possibly overclocking? MUCH more bang for the buck that way.

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Reply #6 June 25, 2009 11:16:30 AM
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I have a question for the OP, did you not read the spec the games needs, or are you just asking this question because you were bored?!

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Reply #7 June 25, 2009 11:22:23 AM
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So, you don't have a Best Buy close by? Because there you can get an ASUS G50vt-X5 for $900. It's a gaming laptop with as good or better specs than that Dell. And ASUS > Dell any day.

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Reply #8 June 25, 2009 11:23:40 AM
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Well, I am sure that the person didn't want to pay the markup

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Reply #9 June 25, 2009 11:55:19 AM
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I have a question for the OP, did you not read the spec the games needs, or are you just asking this question because you were bored?!

To be fair, there are times when the minimum and recommended sys reqs mean jack-squat.

 

To the OP, here is my laptop specs;

Intel Core Duo T2350@1.86GHz

Intel GMA 950 Craptacular Card!

2GB DDR2 Ram

I can run Sins on medium settings with 4 (Higher than 4 and my laptop laughs at me)highest difficulty AIs (Mind you, it lags badly if they all attack at the same well, but 1on1 I'm fine) Though your mileage may vary.

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Reply #10 June 25, 2009 12:41:36 PM
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Your laptop should work, mine is a little better and I can run Entrenchment on max graphics in single player but in mp I have to turn them down to high.

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Reply #11 June 25, 2009 1:34:28 PM
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Actually the question is will my lappy work with it.

 

Dell D610

1.86gHz

1meg ram

915gm/gms/910gml video chipset.

 

And I could care less about the graphics, this is my work lappy and I'm about to have a three week business trip to China.

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Reply #12 June 25, 2009 1:41:07 PM
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Quoting SpacedCowboy,
reply 11
Actually the question is will my lappy work with it.

 

Dell D610

1.86gHz

1meg ram

915gm/gms/910gml video chipset.

 

And I could care less about the graphics, this is my work lappy and I'm about to have a three week business trip to China.

I've never played the game at low settings or played it on a system with your specs. But those specs do seem pretty low for this game. Try the demo at lowest settings first (unless you already own the game of course).

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Reply #13 June 25, 2009 4:28:33 PM
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Yeah, i own it and gal civ 2 as well, If I can get caught up enough, I'll take it home and put impulse on it.  I need to check my HD space though, hmmm, got it to 11 whole gigs free.

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Reply #14 June 25, 2009 4:40:06 PM
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Personally, I've found Dell laptops to be pretty damn reliable.  I've had this Inspiron for about 8 years without incident.  Family and friends with Dell laptops haven't had any major issues either, as far as I know.

Either way, you should do some research before making a decision.  I can only to speak to my own experience.  For all I know, we've just been lucky with Dell laptops (and extremely unlucky with other brands. yikes.)

 

Also, their desktop PCs are an entirely different story.

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Reply #15 June 25, 2009 9:58:11 PM
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Quoting Mooster,
reply 6
I have a question for the OP, did you not read the spec the games needs, or are you just asking this question because you were bored?!

constructive comments. I asked because I wanted to know and yes I read the specs. Please read reply #9 from VarekRaith. Plus, to my limited knowledge in all those new technologies, I always fear some kind of incompatibility may arise.

Quoting Charvel1,
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So, you don't have a Best Buy close by? Because there you can get an ASUS G50vt-X5 for $900. It's a gaming laptop with as good or better specs than that Dell. And ASUS > Dell any day.

I must admit I forgot about BestBuy. But to my consolation, I live at about 2 hours from the nearest.

Quoting Heinekus,
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Have you thought about building your own desktop from the ground up and possibly overclocking? MUCH more bang for the buck that way.

nah, I want a laptop. Actually, this is for my girlfriend school, I just wanted to boost it a little to get games going.

Thanks to all!

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Reply #16 June 26, 2009 3:28:37 PM
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I would recomend an HP laptop instead. I got mine with better specs than anything I could get on Dell for the same price. Plus they have lots of nice coupons. I found a $500-off coupon online for my laptop.

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