Can anybody tell me for sure if laptop support is being discontinued for Season 2 and Horizons please?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Laptop suopport
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What do you mean laptop support? If you mean will it still run a laptop, of course it will as long as it near enough matches the minimum specs.
Cheers. Somebody just mentioned it on another thread is all and I was trying to get confirmation.
I think it will run but I don't know how well it will run. It was mid to high end less than a year ago so here's hoping. The sticking point might be the GPU though, it's a GT840m. I can't remember how much dedicated graphics RAM though.
I just have a nvidia 540m and horizons beta works alright on low settings for the planets etc but for general flying around in space high detail is smoother than it's ever been. When I first started playing ED from Beta it wasn't properly optimised which meant I had to play on low settings but as time went on and optimisation improved I could shift it up to high. I'm hoping it's like this for horizons but if not, I'm still getting about 25-30fps on planets on low to medium settings.
edit: I have 8g ram, 2gb ram for the 540m and a lowly i5 2.3ghz processor so you should be fine i'd imagine.
edit: I have 8g ram, 2gb ram for the 540m and a lowly i5 2.3ghz processor so you should be fine i'd imagine.
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Yay! Thankyou very much Commander that is very encouraging news.
IIRC, laptop GPUs were never officially supported - though maybe that changed with the Mac release as most Mac have M class graphics.
That said, it ran very well on my old laptop with a GTX675M (30FPS+ at high-ish settings)
When that overheated (which I blame on a combination of playing ED for too long with too much dust in the fans....) my MacBook Pro with GT750 played it *adequately* (30FPS at mediumish detail with strange resolution to fit the retina screen)
My *new* laptop, which has encouraged me to restart ED (after a few months off) just in time for Horizons, has a GT980M and plays maxed out at a GSYNCed 75FPS.
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That said, it ran very well on my old laptop with a GTX675M (30FPS+ at high-ish settings)
When that overheated (which I blame on a combination of playing ED for too long with too much dust in the fans....) my MacBook Pro with GT750 played it *adequately* (30FPS at mediumish detail with strange resolution to fit the retina screen)
My *new* laptop, which has encouraged me to restart ED (after a few months off) just in time for Horizons, has a GT980M and plays maxed out at a GSYNCed 75FPS.
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Oh yeah, did forget to say that I have an industrial strength laptop cooling tray underneath and I regularly clean the dust out to stop overheating, it really does make a difference!
What do you mean OP?
If you are worried if horizons runs on Laptops: I play ED on an about 3 year old Lenovo ideapad Y580 (quad-core, 8GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce 660M). Horizons beta runs fine on it. I get 60FPS in space and about 30 FPS on planets (medium graphics settings). Nothing to worry about.
If you are worried if horizons runs on Laptops: I play ED on an about 3 year old Lenovo ideapad Y580 (quad-core, 8GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce 660M). Horizons beta runs fine on it. I get 60FPS in space and about 30 FPS on planets (medium graphics settings). Nothing to worry about.
I have been playing ED fine since February I was just a bit worried about Horizons as I don't have beta access but other poster have put my mind at ease thanks.
I'm playing the horizons beta right now between low-med settings on my 4 year old alienware laptop just fine. I'm in the process of building a gaming desktop, though.