Buying a Laptop, Will PoE Run?

I have a $500 budget for a decent laptop to run Path and a few other things, but mainly Path :)

Anyway, I did some shopping around and it looks like a refurbished Lenovo w510 is my best bet. It's one of the only laptops at this price that has a video card (Nvidia FX 880) and also an SSD hard drive which I have heard reduces load screen times greatly.

The reason I am posting this is because I want to make sure I haven't missed any options, I want the best laptop I can get for $500, and although path isn't all too hardcore on specs and it's my #1 game, I still want to be able to run it as pretty and smoothly as possible.

Here's the specs for the Lenovo w510:

15.6-inch multi-touch FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit 95% Gamut (matte finish)
Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
Intel Core i7-920XM (2GHz, 8MB Cache)
4GB DDR3 RAM
128GB SSD
Intel 6300 802.11AGN, Bluetooth, Gobi 2000 WWAN
NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M with 1GB DDR3

I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!

My 4 year old laptop is around that price & still runs poe. I don't think there is any laptop today with that price range that couldn't run poe. (unless it is not gaming related & designed around some bullshit)

The thing what bothers me here is that it would cost me 40€ to replace a fan & almost nobody has one of these anymore. I don't know if it is a good idea to buy a laptop at all.

What I find really strange is that I had almost never any problems with this laptop other than with the fan in these 4 years. Some of my other parts in my previous pc's died at 2 years or less & that's why I almost stopped gaming & bought the laptop just to fiddle around with the internet.

That laptop will run it, but not very well.

You probably want to upgrade the amount of RAM, since 4GB is the bare minimum for a Windows 7 system, and you only have 1GB discrete video memory.

The CPU is slow, but that shouldn't be much of a problem for PoE. Just don't expect great things when it comes to laptops and gaming.

That's what I figured! I just don't really have a huge budget right now, but since I'm on the move so much I pretty much have to get a laptop and I'm gonna have to settle for what I can get. Honestly I think this laptop will run it okay with no shadows and shaders turned down with no post processing. It wont look pretty but I mean, an i7 processor really isn't all that slow and the SSD hard drive is what sold me on it.

You say that the card only has 1GB of memory allocated but that's better then integrated graphics and I have surprisingly run path on a laptop with Intel integrated. It was shit, but at least I can rest assured that this will run it a little smoother.

Anyway thanks for the comments and if anyone else out there knows of any other good deals on laptops in a $500 range let me know!

I might just strap down and buy an actual gaming laptop for about twice the price, since I do so much traveling anyway.. who knows! Honestly I think I'd rather spend less on something that can run it smooth on low specs then throw money at people just so I can have a better looking game.

Cheers

As long as it doesnt come with an intel video card, most modern laptops should run POE. You will be fine.

The Quadro FX 880M (note that it's not a GeForce) is one of those "cards" that sound more powerful than they are. It offers you about a third of what a GeForce 650M gives you, and that one is just about good enough to play PoE at 1920x1080 with everything on low/medium. The Quadro FX 880M is fairly comparable (slightly worse) to the integrated HD4000 chipset, which isn't as terrible as older integrated systems, but it's pretty crap for gaming. PoE is really not well optimized, either, which doesn't help matters.

So, no, I wouldn't recommend that laptop for PoE as graphics-wise it's not better than a laptop with integrated video. $500 just isn't enough for a laptop that is suitable for gaming. Those start at around $850, and personally, I'd not go below a GTX770M right now, which you can find in laptops that cost around $1100 and up.

My suggestion would be to save up a bit more.

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tramshed a écrit :

As long as it doesnt come with an intel video card, most modern laptops should run POE. You will be fine.

LOL I play on an Intel HD (family) card in my laptop. It is uh...not optimal.

You should try to get something with 650M that runs the game pretty decent on medium settings around 30-45 fps. Should be about $500 used. You can look for Alienware M11x R2 I know those came with the 650m.

However for $500 you can buy a desktop and a $100 graphics card that will run POE much better than a laptop for $500. Do get a SSD drive tho it does help the load time greatly.

I wouldn't buy a laptop (especially at this price) to play poe. If you buy it for uni/work primarily, and would just also use it for poe, that's fine.

I play on an Asus ultrabook (i7 3517u) with an nvidia gt620m and it's playable (bought the laptop for uni/work). Solo is usually fine, but as soon as you start to play in parties fps goes down to single digits...

Tldr, yes it will run (HD4000 should suffice), but don't expect anything amazing.

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Gagelovett a écrit :

4GB DDR3 RAM

Bleerghh

8GB and I'd frown
12GB and I'd say okay
16GB and I'd nod

I remember -trying- to play PoE on 4GB. It's painful.