Low end laptop players here ?

[Tom Jacobs]

Been selling some audio gear and power tools and I was thinking about getting some kind of gaming laptop to play ED at 1080p smoothly, nothing fancy like ultra settings or AA enabled.
Anyone here got some experience running ED on older laptops?

I used to have a spare pc with q9650 and gtx550ti and it ran ok, haven't tried my very old pentium D with radeon hd 5450 but i guess that won't even boot.

 

[Martind Forlon]

Playing ED also on Dell Vostro 5471 with integrated card ... I added 8G RAM (had 8 originally) and it improved play considerably. It however still is only about lowest details with effects set at one lvl above minimum. Sometimes there happen message "Cannot lock buffer" and game crashes. I use this notebook mainly for work, so have here ED is just a bonus

 

[Captain Thea Kreutzer]

Youd be better off getting a console then a low end laptop.

 

[the100thmonkey]

For 1080p, you want nothing less than a GTX1050 2GB.

The integrated Intel chips won't cut it.

 

[babelfisch]

Stupid question, but does it need to be a laptop? I hate it when you ask a question and people answer with "Why do you want to do that?" rather than something helpful, but I also hate it when people want to use laptops for playing video games...

 

[Tom Jacobs]

Stupid question, but does it need to be a laptop? I hate it when you ask a question and people answer with "Why do you want to do that?" rather than something helpful, but I also hate it when people want to use laptops for playing video games...

i have a decent gaming pc i just want a sidekick.

For 1080p, you want nothing less than a GTX1050 2GB.

The integrated Intel chips won't cut it.

there are older alternatives with gtx980 or gtx680 alikes or hd 7950....

 

[Range Roger]

I do.
I travel quite a bit with my job, so I have a laptop.
What better to do after work in the evenings in the hotel, other than play ED.
Mine is an Asus N551JX 15.6 inch with a GTX 950M. It runs fine on the high graphics setting.
When I am at home I hook it up to a large monitor.

 

[2plex]

I'm so low-end-laptop, I dont even have one.

 

[Tom Jacobs]

I do.
I travel quite a bit with my job, so I have a laptop.
What better to do after work in the evenings in the hotel, other than play ED.
Mine is an Asus N551JX 15.6 inch with a GTX 950M. It runs fine on the high graphics setting.
When I am at home I hook it up to a large monitor.

$1200 is not what i call low end but ok.

 

[ZeroAi]

I do.
I travel quite a bit with my job, so I have a laptop.
What better to do after work in the evenings in the hotel, other than play ED.
Mine is an Asus N551JX 15.6 inch with a GTX 950M. It runs fine on the high graphics setting.
When I am at home I hook it up to a large monitor.

I agreed, a lower end laptop works fine.

I use to play on my an inexpensive Lenovo i3 laptop with integrated graphics and the game played fine.

That said, I wouldn't recommend Intel integrated graphics as it took awhile for the game to completely boot up.

 

[Lightspeed]

I only use a joystick and HP Alien laptop, and had it ever since the game started (so it's probably starting to get old).

Can't be bothered with all the immersive knobs, pads, foot pedals, giant screens etc. that just take up space.

Works well enough, but probably explains why I'm not so good at PvP.

 

[NCFCpaul]

I'm on a Lenovo Y700, has a GTX 960m graphics chip with 4gb and the game plays fine on this- although it is dialed down a little bit.

 

[the100thmonkey]

there are older alternatives with gtx980 or gtx680 alikes or hd 7950....

well, those are neither low-end nor cheap.

 

[BaddMongo]

Youd be better off getting a console then a low end laptop.

Or another option, get yourself a HTPC Case (I use Silverstone Grandia) and custom build yourself a DIY PC to hook up to your TV, which will slide in neatly under your TV stand like a console (but can do a whole lot more) and get yourself a decent wireless keyboard and controllers you can then play Elite from the comfort of your sofa on your big TV.

On high settings on a 50 inch 4k TV Elite is pretty epic.

 

[Bertrand Du Guesclin]

I used to run ED on a Lenovo mid-range laptop :
i5 3230
Nvidia GT 645M
8g of Ram

It was ok, I was getting ~60fps all the time at 1366x768 resolution

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

You'll be fine.

It'll look far better than my laptop does!
An Acer 5740G. Lol
Google the spec .. cuz' I don't remember it....

1366x768, on 0.5 super sampling, on lowest possible settings!

Rock on!

Here's what a planet looks like...

And text!

But I do get 55~fps!

Of course, I can raise the super sampling, but then I only get 10-20fps.
Or 6 in a starport. Lol

 

[Junagu]

:-D
Yes. I often wonder this very thing as I'm finding myself developing a sort of allergy to owning cumbersome items.


ATM I have a gaming PC - a huge heavy tower :-/ - Today the fans on the GPU died and at first I was gutted but thought I'd give the onboard graphics a try.



It looks like Rescue on Fractalus crossed with Captain Blood. Perfectly playable though and 60fps too. Almost prefer the extra abstraction in way. And also there are no hollow squares in the scanner.

 

[the100thmonkey]

^ You can replace GPU fans pretty easily. I've done it a few times now. You will probably find the appropriate fan (once you know the specific model) on eBay or even Amazon.

 

[Junagu]

^ You can replace GPU fans pretty easily. I've done it a few times now. You will probably find the appropriate fan (once you know the specific model) on eBay or even Amazon.

Alas no - or at least the only ones I could find were about £20 each and took 2 months to come from Hong Kong (tis a Sapphire R9 380). Went for an Arctic replacement heatsink/fans for £35. Should be quiet as a lamb with that.

 

[Dirtbird]

I do exactly that with a HP Probook 4740s, with i7-3612QM, 8GB RAM and a 2GB Radeon 7650 on board. 30-50 fps @ 1366x768 at low settings, down to 24fps if you turn shadows on. I find this playable, even connected to a mobile phone wireless hot spot. Not exactly smooth, and not at all 1080p but it works.