Hoping the minimum specs include my laptop!

J.T.Kirk

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First of all, I do have a gaming PC, of course, but I really hope I can play Elite on my 5-year old laptop too.

I recently participated in TES Online beta and my laptop ran it smoothly. Or is TESO less demanding than E:D?
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
J.T.Kirk said:
First of all, I do have a gaming PC, of course, but I really hope I can play Elite on my 5-year old laptop too.

I recently participated in TES Online beta and my laptop ran it smoothly. Or is TESO less demanding than E:D?
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You may want to delete that. Zenimax have retained a huge pool of lawyers :(
 

J.T.Kirk

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Asp Explorer said:
You may want to delete that. Zenimax have retained a huge pool of lawyers :(
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I doubt they're reading Elite forums. :p Anyway, I'm saying nothing about TESO. Let's just say I'm not interested in it anymore. I'm just wondering if ED is more demanding than TESO. It shouldn't be, right?
 

J.T.Kirk

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Asp Explorer said:
Doesn't matter. You broke your NDA :(
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Zenimax doesn't forbid people from talking about the fact of participating in beta even on the official public Bethesda forums, so I doubt they'd mind I mention it here as a reference. Going into details is forbidden by Bethesda moderators, yes.
 

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
J.T.Kirk said:
First of all, I do have a gaming PC, of course, but I really hope I can play Elite on my 5-year old laptop too.

I recently participated in TES Online beta and my laptop ran it smoothly. Or is TESO less demanding than E:D?
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It easily could be. ESO is classic MMO, comparingly low server ping, don't use multithreading. don't calculate hitboxes, etc. Your graphics card might handle it, but you need to be sure you have 4 core CPU.
 

J.T.Kirk

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Pecisk said:
It easily could be. ESO is classic MMO, comparingly low server ping, don't use multithreading. don't calculate hitboxes, etc. Your graphics card might handle it, but you need to be sure you have 4 core CPU.
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Yeah, I thought so, thanks. My laptop is old and wasn't bought for gaming, so it doesn't have 4 CPUs, just an i3 with hyper-threading. I've been thinking about buying a new one for ages but didn't bother, since it can still run all games I play on my gaming PC(on lower settings, of course). It's probably time to buy a new laptop anyway.
 

Associat0r

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SAB380 said:
Nah, I'm happy to keep repeating it when people start threads wanting their question answer.

Its a myth that it can't play any game. Not a myth to say its really going to struggle and may get very hot.
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Not all ultrabooks are made the same and many people are happy to play at lower detail and resolution so it won't struggle.
 

Void Sun

Void Sun
I have updated the Surface Pro 2 thread with the Factions single player mission frame rates for a number of different resolutions fro both the high and low graphics presets.
 

ste

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What are the recommended specs for the alpha..

I probably should have checked this out before I bought the beta :)
 

Ervig

Ervig
ste said:
What are the recommended specs for the alpha..

I probably should have checked this out before I bought the beta :)
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Minimum specs:

Michael Brookes said:
I know there's been some discussion about the machine specs needed for the alpha test, as we're approaching the first build delivery I can share some of the development specs of where we are at the moment. Optimisation and performance are obviously ongoing tasks and as more features are added through the alpha and beta periods we'll need to keep revisiting it.

To play the first build released in December we're currently looking at the following:

Direct X 11
Quad Core CPU ( 4 x 2Ghz is a reasonable minimum)
2 GB System Ram (more is always better)
DX 10 hardware GPU, 1GB video RAM(my reasonably low end machine has a GTX 285 with 2GB)

As I say we're looking to try and reduce the spec if possible through detail options and optimisations, so the final min spec for the game should be lower than that stated above, but for the initial alpha tests you'll need to be in that range.

Edit: Minimum video ram spec updated to 1GB.

Michael
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I tested the game on a GX-740 laptop with dual core processor:
Intel Core i5 Processor
DDR3 1066MHz, 2 slots, Max: 8GB
ATI Radeon Mobility HD5870 Graphic Card
Graphics VRAM GDDR5 1GB

It runs the alpha on high detail with 30 fps, and about 15 fps on the factions scenario (the scenario with lots of ships). The game looks pretty smooth at 30 fps and is still quite playable on the factions scenario (however do note that I'm not used to playing on a high-end pc so might just not know what I'm missing).
 
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Ervig said:
Minimum specs:



I tested the game on a GX-740 laptop with dual core processor:
Intel Core i5 Processor
DDR3 1066MHz, 2 slots, Max: 8GB
ATI Radeon Mobility HD5870 Graphic Card
Graphics VRAM GDDR5 1GB

It runs the alpha on high detail with 30 fps, and about 15 fps on the factions scenario (the scenario with lots of ships). The game looks pretty smooth at 30 fps and is still quite playable on the factions scenario (however do note that I'm not used to playing on a high-end pc so might just not know what I'm missing).
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Me neither. I have never tested my PC out on a decent modern game yet and I have had it over a year, so I'm not sure how it handles newer games.

But I think alot people would not be happy about 30fps judging by how much stick console games get that run at 30.

I'm more used to 30fps being mostly console myself, so I dont think I would mind.

I pass the minimum so I should be ok.
 
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