Hai I'm new help me

[Xanafalgue]

So I never expected to play games on my newish laptop, in fact, the last PC game I played was the awesome Neverwinter Nights way back when. Dragon Age has me all excited and I really can't see myself playing it with a control pad.

However, I signed up for Steam for the first time and downloaded the BioShock demo to test if it was up to it. I used http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/ to see if I was just reaching for the stars, but apparently it can run it with ease. How accurate is that site? I was amazed that the thing could run Crysis almost to its recommended settings. I was also a little suspicious.

However, when I ran BioShock.. eurgh, about 10 frames a second. Everything was on high so I flicked it over to medium and got the exact same performance. Am I doing something wrong or is that site a load of crap? Perhaps I will have to stick to (awesome) Master System ROMs :(

Help meeeeeeee I am not good with computer. I hope this made sense :rolleyes:, its 5am :(

Perhaps I should just get it for 360. I DUNNO.

[Silverwolf]

Your main problem is you are using a laptop to try to play games on =P
Laptops (unless theyre 10kg $5000 beasts) are pretty much useless for gaming beyond stuff like The Sims.

If you can find out what kinda graphics chip your laptop has, along with the amount of RAM its got, that'll give a rough guess about what it can play.

[Italian Stallion]

That site can be accurate, but it depends on a lot of things.. for starters, how accurately it actually measures your hardware. For instance, it read my old PC as some ridiculous 12GHz beast. It also says my graphics card has 3.6GB of RAM.. which isn't very accurate.

Secondly, just because it says you can play it, doesn't mean you can assume anything about the detail level you can play it at.. it doesn't take monitor resolution etc into account - it could be perfectly playable at the lowest settings at 640*480!

As Silverwolf said, unless you've specifically bought a laptop with gaming in mind, chances are you'll get very poor gaming performance... most of them just come with shitty onboard graphics.

[Xanafalgue]

Thanks for clearing that up. No PC gaming for me *kicks 360* :mad:

[dinopoke]

Maybe try lowering the resolution? If your laptop is newish, it should handle some like Bioshock pretty well. What specs does it have?

[Lordage]

I don't generally play anything aside form WoW on my laptop but I get 90fps+ on high settings. I have tried CoD4 and Bio Shock out and on medium settings I get a good frame rate...

What are the specs of your laptop? Mine are:
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
Radeon 2600 - 512MB

If they're anything liek that you should be ok, I don't know about Crysis however.

[FX-GTZ]

Eboostr 3 for starters:
http://www.eboostr.com/download/

but i reccomend you use the beta version of Eboostr 4 if you dont plan on paying for the full thing, the beta gives you 60 days (2 months) of evaluation.

Basically what it does is it turns your usb sticks and flashcards, sd's, cf's whatever, into extra ram, and its somewhat faster than your internal ram. If you can get hold of some Kingston 16gb usb sticks, at least 3, you will notice a pretty big difference in your performance. Just dont try and multi-task multimedia music and gameplaying and in-game web surfing all at the same time, otherwise you might end up crashing and corrupting the usb sticks altogether.


ALSO, grab a usb hub with fast read/write speed, but only if you plan to use more than the standard 2/3 usb ports on your system.

[Silverwolf]

Eboostr 3 for starters:
http://www.eboostr.com/download/

but i reccomend you use the beta version of Eboostr 4 if you dont plan on paying for the full thing, the beta gives you 60 days (2 months) of evaluation.

Basically what it does is it turns your usb sticks and flashcards, sd's, cf's whatever, into extra ram, and its somewhat faster than your internal ram. If you can get hold of some Kingston 16gb usb sticks, at least 3, you will notice a pretty big difference in your performance. Just dont try and multi-task multimedia music and gameplaying and in-game web surfing all at the same time, otherwise you might end up crashing and corrupting the usb sticks altogether.


ALSO, grab a usb hub with fast read/write speed, but only if you plan to use more than the standard 2/3 usb ports on your system.

That's bullshit :P USB sticks will never be anywhere near as fast as RAM, RAM responds in nanoseconds. It's only really useful if you have a tiny amount of RAM, because the idea is that it is faster than your hard drive, not your RAM. It gives your computer an alternate source to load from that isn't your hard drive.
I imagine more than one 16gb stick would be a fairly big waste.

[Watchers]

I don't generally play anything aside form WoW on my laptop but I get 90fps+ on high settings. I have tried CoD4 and Bio Shock out and on medium settings I get a good frame rate...

What are the specs of your laptop? Mine are:
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
Radeon 2600 - 512MB

If they're anything liek that you should be ok, I don't know about Crysis however.

Crysis should run well at low-med res on that, I would think.

Also, I would advise ignoring FX's post.

[Italian Stallion]

That's bullshit :P USB sticks will never be anywhere near as fast as RAM, RAM responds in nanoseconds. It's only really useful if you have a tiny amount of RAM, because the idea is that it is faster than your hard drive, not your RAM. It gives your computer an alternate source to load from that isn't your hard drive.
I imagine more than one 16gb stick would be a fairly big waste.
Yeah. You'd probably be pushing for even 8gb to be useful. If you bought 3 of the fastest USB sticks on the market, you'd probably get a 5-8fps increase. Hardly worth the time, money or effort. By the time you've bought 3 good 8gb sticks, you're paying more than a 2GB stick of RAM is worth, which would ultimately yield the same or better results.

To top it off, that program's the same as Vista's built in ReadyBoost, so why would you pay for a program that does the same job of a built in feature?

Crysis should run well at low-med res on that, I would think.

Also, I would advise ignoring FX's post.
That card would run Crysis at 1024*768 on the lowest settings, no AA. I'd hardly call that 'well'. >_>

[FX-GTZ]

That's bullshit :P

Actually no it isnt. Have you actually tried it? Back when i was on 1gb of ram, it was absolute sh*t, so i tried eboostr and it somewhat made Wow run a bit smoother. And according to my system information (back then) i had jumped up from 1gb to 1.47gb, it isnt a great deal more, but it was better than the 1gb.

[Watchers]

That card would run Crysis at 1024*768 on the lowest settings, no AA. I'd hardly call that 'well'. >_>

I admit that I know nothing of laptop cards and made a guess based on the memory >_> (I figured if my 8800GTS can handle it decently then...) The rest of the laptop seems solid though.

[TAT]

Actually no it isnt. Have you actually tried it? Back when i was on 1gb of ram, it was absolute sh*t, so i tried eboostr and it somewhat made Wow run a bit smoother. And according to my system information (back then) i had jumped up from 1gb to 1.47gb, it isnt a great deal more, but it was better than the 1gb.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/Devest8r/1159879217797.jpg

[Watchers]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/Devest8r/1159879217797.jpg

Who needs nep?

[FX-GTZ]

Get out of my damn profile commentz.

[FrozenSoul80]

Actually no it isnt. Have you actually tried it? Back when i was on 1gb of ram, it was absolute sh*t, so i tried eboostr and it somewhat made Wow run a bit smoother. And according to my system information (back then) i had jumped up from 1gb to 1.47gb, it isnt a great deal more, but it was better than the 1gb.

Sounds more like you experienced a placebo effect.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/Devest8r/1159879217797.jpg

It can't be that bad, it's lacking the evil-universe goatee.

[FX-GTZ]

Sounds more like you experienced a placebo effect.

Im not even gonna bother with you until you start using simple terms.

[Slippery]

Basically he means because you thought it would work better, it seemed to you like it did.

[FX-GTZ]

Basically he means because you thought it would work better, it seemed to you like it did.
Well it did boost the performance, so yeah. It IS better. But now that im on 4gb of ram, screw that program.

[Pauly]

Oh how we love you FX!