Which is best for running Warhammer online?

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:41 pm

I HAVE RECENTLY PUT AN ORDER IN FOR WARHAMMER ONLINE BUT I ALSO HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY A NEW LAPTOP. I DID HAVE A DELL STUDIO IN FOR ORDER BUT BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF CUSTOMER CARE I CANCLED IT. SO I HAVE START LOOKING FOR A NEW BUT HAVE BECOME STUCK. I DO NOT KNOW WHICH ONE OF THESE THREE TO CHOOSE SO I HOING YOU GUYS COULD HELP ME PICK. SO HERE I THEY ARE:

THE FIRST
SAMSUNG R510-£599.99

INTEL CORE 2 DUO PROCCESSOR T5750
(2GHZ,667MHZ, 2 MB CACHE)

4GB MEMORY

160GB HARD DRIVE

INTEL GMA X4500

THE SECOND

TOSHIBA A300-16C-$499.99

AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile Processor
(2.0 GHz, 400 MHz FSB, 1 MB Cache)

3 GB Memory

250 GB Hard Drive

ATi Mobility Radeon HD 3200

THE THIRD

HP DV6855- £599.97

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8100
(2.1 GHz, 800MHz, 3 MB)

3 GB Memory

250 GB HARD DRIVE

NVIDIA. GeForce? 8400M GS

COULD YOU PLEASE TELL WHICH IS THE BEST TO RUN WAR PLEASE THANL YOU

ALL OF THESE LAPTOPS CAN BE FOUND ON PC WORLD

Javai · Post by **Javai** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:55 pm

Sorry I can't help you with the PC specs but could I suggest you go for one with a functional caps lock key

Post by **Fingoniel** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:22 pm

IN CAPS IS THE BEST WAY TO PLAY WARHAMMER

The first one seems to have a pretty nice spec but I'm not sure if an intel graphics card will run the game.

That said no mobile cards have been officially listed as supported so it's not possible to say for definite.

I think either of the second two should be able to run it, but it's not officially supported on any of those laptop graphics cards so it may not.

I'd suggest trying a post on Freddyshouse as there might be people in beta running on similar laptops already.

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:55 pm

sorry about the cap locks. But CAPS is the best way to play.

well the nvidia card is listed as one of the supported and all of these cards i believe from my freinds are 256mb and the minimum for the specs is 128mb.

Post by **Fingoniel** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:06 pm

no worries

happens to us all now and again.

Hmm yeah everything but the radeon is listed, although:

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly.

(from here)

Then it comes down to:

4GB ram + Intel card + T5750 processor
vs
3GB ram + Geforce + T8100 processor.

This seems to suggest the Geforce card is slightly better:
http://laptopcom.blogspot.com/2008/05/f ... ino-2.html

Though it mentions about drivers making it perform better...

I'd go with option 3 - the geforce one - as it's got a bigger hard drive

Rayzor · Post by **Rayzor** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:24 am

Javai wrote:Sorry I can't help you with the PC specs but could I suggest you go for one with a functional caps lock key

lmao!

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:57 am

Well the one which isnt even supported is based on the 2300 but in a laptop version and the 2300 is listed on there

Post by **Fingoniel** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:00 am

Maybe I'm going daft but I don't see the HD3200 on here at all? (or even the 3200, just 3650/3850/3870)

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warhe ... war?id=168

That said if it's a recent enough card it's probably fine, just no guarantees.

Both the other two should run it fine though.

Aadia · Post by **Aadia** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:23 pm

Javai wrote:Sorry I can't help you with the PC specs but could I suggest you go for one with a functional caps lock key

Hahaha this had me actually bursting laughing out loud at work !!!

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:13 pm

i have gone out today and bought a new laptop

its got

3gb ram
2ghz dual core
up to 358

the card is dedicated so i hop this shall run i on at least med settings

Post by **Fingoniel** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:50 pm

what card is it?

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:06 pm

i dont know its a laptop version of the "intel gma of some kind" but i ask the guy in shop if the GF or this was better he said the geforce was better but not by much so i ask which would be best for playing games and he said this one i got was and it was the cheaper of the two. he sed ill shoud be able to play the game of med settings with a little bit of lag when i go into new areas and stuff which havent been discovered so i think i made the right choice. but i can tell you that its a TOSHIBA SATELLITE with 384mb graphics they are not dedicated. but i also chose this one as well as it came if works for my education aswell. if the worst come to the worst ill just run war on low settings then i doubt ill have any lag at all. wouldnt bother me much though just wanna have a laugh on the game. BRING ON THE WAAARRRGGHH

Ghengis · Post by **Ghengis** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:09 pm

dont know if this helps but WAR runs well on low settings on my wife`s laptop which has a GF6010 gfx chip.
also has 2gb ram an amd64x2 2000 cpu and winxp.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

try that link on your new laptop and see what it says when you test for WAR.
the results from that site arent 100% right but you will get an idea of whether your machine is up to the job or not.

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:01 pm

yeah people have told me to go on to this website but however i cant find the war one so i did guild wars instead thia ia what it said but my video card still failed

minimum
Video RAM: Required - 32 MB , You have - 358 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes

recommended

Video RAM: Required - 64 MB , You have - 358 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 1.1 , You have - 3.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 1.3 , You have - 3.0

the other stuff however i past with flying colours i had full for everything help me please i dont understand

Post by **Fingoniel** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:45 pm

Should be fine I think it just checks if you're on the list there...

Jazzamad · Post by **Jazzamad** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:26 pm

well mine hasnt been rleased as laptop cards havent had any supported yet but its 128mb-384mb i got that should mean a i have enough video mem to work it

Naetharu · Post by **Naetharu** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:11 pm

The reason that the laptop versions of the cards are not supported is that they are not the same cards really.

Although they name them with similar numbers they run at a much slower speed and they have far less power to access (as they need to run off a battery and to be cool enough to not melt your small enclosure). Therefore to be aware that anything in a laptop will be A LOT slower than the respective desktop.

On the other hand, for these same reasons, next to no games these days officially support laptop cards yet most will run them ok. The Min specs for WAR are quite low (compaired to most FPS games for example) and so I should think you will be fine.

One last point, the 32 bit version of Windows VISTA (Which is the only version that will run WAR) can only handle 3.2GB of RAM, so the one with 4GB is a waste. Just something to keep in mind. (The 64bit version of VISTA can access up to 8GB of RAM however it has a lot of compatability issues).

Hope that helps

Naetharu

Post by **Fingoniel** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:31 pm

64bit version should be capable of 16 exabytes (17.2 billion Gigabytes

) but windows crippleware limits you to 8G for the basic edition of vista 64 anyway.

Dervish · Post by **Dervish** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:28 pm

Naetharu wrote:One last point, the 32 bit version of Windows VISTA (Which is the only version that will run WAR) can only handle 3.2GB of RAM, so the one with 4GB is a waste.

Wrong. 4GB of RAM arranged as 4 x 1GB sticks in the right motherboard will allow you to achieve the 3.2GB RAM in dual-channel mode. It's also a future proofing method should you decide to upgrade to a 64-bit OS in the future.