Advice in regards to Planet Zoo on a particular laptop

Ragnarokgamer

R
My apologies for asking this but I have absolutely no idea about laptops or games for that matter... my son would love to play Planet Zoo but our current laptop is not suitable for it...
he is only 11 so we don’t really want to spend a fortune on a new one...
Can someone please tell me if the following laptop would be ok for him?
thanks in advance for any advice or tips!

HP Notebook 15-G023AU
Processor
Quad Core Processor (up to 2.40GHz) AMD A8-6410
Memory
8GB RAM
Storage
1TB Hard Drive
Optical Drive
SuperMulti DVD Burner
Webcam
HP TrueVision HD Webcam (front facing) with integrated digital microphone
Graphics
AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
Audio
Dual stereo speakers
Memory Card Reader
Multi-format SD media card reader
Ports
1 USB 3.0
1 HDMI
1 RJ-45
1 headphone/microphone combo
Communication
Ethernet LAN
Wireless 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth 4.0
Power
Lithium-Ion battery
AC Adapter
Display
15.6" diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit Display (1366 x 768)
Physical Description
37.8 x 25.9 x 2.53 cm
2.23 kg
Operating System
Genuine Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
From the Frontier Store page for Planet Zoo product:

System Requirements
Minimum:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 7 (SP1+) / 8.1/10 64bit
  • Processor: Intel i5-2500 / AMD FX-6350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2GB) / AMD Radeon R9 270X (2GB)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 16 GB available space
 

ShadowLilly

ShadowLilly
with those specs the game would not run.. the cpu is way below the minimum requirements and it probably only has an integrated gpu, so that will not work either..
 

Conde

Conde
Hi, unless space is short, your son would get a much better experience playing the game with a basic gaming desktop PC. With laptops you pay a premium for the size advantage. I'm not sure where you are based, but for example the UK Ebay has this PC bundle which would run Planet Zoo pretty well. It's not going to break any records, but it's a lot more powerful than the laptop you quoted and would run most modern games at perhaps medium settings, although of course this varies depending on the game.

Naturally the more you spend you usually get a more powerful machine, but for your son I'm pretty sure this example would do the job for less than £400 which is pretty reasonable. Not forgetting of course you have a fully capable destop PC for all other uses. If you don't live in the UK then your local Ebay would have similar PCs.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gaming-P...rentrq:202ef8b11720aaeee62f667cffd385ae|iid:1
 

LN

LN
Try to get this number:

(up to 2.40GHz)

As high as possible. Single core speed is important.
 
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