Mini PC for ED

[VR micmacmoc]

I wonder if anyone out there has tried playing ED on a mini pc? I travel often and thought I might try a GPD ultra mobile pc. I have no idea if this would take ED, but its spec seems better than my current laptop which does. Its a cute little thing...tempted to buy one anyway!


apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

The various models that ive seen all have Intel HD Graphics 405 iGPU's which are not great.

If you double your money on one of these devices you could easily get a Gaming laptop which will run ED with ease.

 

[VR micmacmoc]

Thanks Vasco, I'm looking for something that will easily fit on the tray on an airliner and carriage seat on the railway. They all seem to be 15" and up. Hoping for something smaller, I wouldn't want to have crap performance and regret my purchase though. I do have a nice spec gaming laptop, MSi which runs my oculus...but its absolutely HUGE! I imagine the problem with a small laptop is you are trying to squeeze too much into the body.
Thanks again.

 

[GG7]

Considering ED is best experienced in Native 4k at 3840x2160, I would say there is little motivation to bother.

 

[AveCandido]

A friend, play with this laptop Elite Danggerous
https://www.mountain.es/portatiles/nickel/especificaciones: https://www.mountain.es/portatiles/onyx/especificaciones

 

[Pville_Piper]

I agree with Vasco, Mini PCs are mainly used for common tasks - writing text, spreadsheets, and presentations in office software, surfing the internet, watching videos, viewing photos, and accessing Web tools and applications. Buy the time you get one powerful enough to handle games you really aren't saving anything and you would most likely have to lower the down the graphics detail and resolution to 1366x768 to get decent frame rates out of it. The Intel Iris Pro Graphics or Iris Plus will be able to do some graphics.

If you are looking to get a mini for some reason then why not get one with a Iris graphics in it so that you can do some light gaming. If your primary purpose with be to game your money would be better spent on a laptop or desktop that can be built or order to your need. For instance, the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 NUC costs over $600 and won't include a monitor and only has a single HDMI port. For the same price you can get a budget gaming computer with a RX 550 in it that you can remove later on when you need more power and replace it with a better card and the RX 550 is over twice as fast as the Intel Graphics. The computer also comes with a keyboard and mouse.

For $200 more you can get a system with a GTX 1060 and now you a real gaming computer that can play most modern games at full 1080p resolution and high details. Or how about The Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming laptop that has a GTX 1060 for around $900? It would be inadvisable, in my opinion, to purchase a mini computer to use as a primary gaming device.

Considering ED is best experienced in Native 4k at 3840x2160, I would say there is little motivation to bother.

Well, there you have it... Tote that on your train!

 

[Shadowdancer]

The new Intel NUC things with AMD graphics should be able to run the game to some capacity assuming you get a model with enough RAM (I'd consider 8GB the absolute barest minimum since it's shared between CPU and GPU). Those suckers are Apple levels of expensive though.

 

[tanman]

I wonder if anyone out there has tried playing ED on a mini pc? I travel often and thought I might try a GPD ultra mobile pc. I have no idea if this would take ED, but its spec seems better than my current laptop which does. Its a cute little thing...tempted to buy one anyway!


apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

The GPD WIN is Eight hundred dollars for potato graphics, and is made in china quality. I rather twiddle my thumbs for twenty minutes.

 

[VR micmacmoc]

Hehheh heh!
Thanks commanders! I shall twiddle my thumbs and look at a slightly bigger job. I managed to get my work laptop, p1ss poor graphics with not much hope, working on a train from Penzance to London a while back, even the crap on board free wifi let me run ED online. I was surprised! It made the journey of about four hours last about ten minutes! Frameshift train!
Thanks!

 

[Crank Larson]

I've got a slightly older gaming laptop with an i7 and 860m; that runs E: D quite happily. However, I wouldn't even try to use it on a plane or a train - it's too big (17"). But also, I really wouldn't enjoy playing on a train or similar. I bought the laptop to take with me when I go abroad, though in practise I've only ever played E: D on it for about half an hour. There are always more interesting things to do when I am away.

 

[DeathStroke]

Not sure if this is an option for you but, why not nvidea shield or steam stream to a smaller device?

 

[Lecitron]

Maybe you could make a minipc using one fan 1070, Intel 8gen and miniitx mb factor

 

[Pville_Piper]

Maybe you could make a minipc using one fan 1070, Intel 8gen and miniitx mb factor

Yes, you could... And after you pay the mining tax you could have paid for a very nice laptop or pre-built desktop.

 

[Broon]

Considering ED is best experienced in Native 4k at 3840x2160, I would say there is little motivation to bother.

How the rest of us manage to play the game must be beyond you.

 

[VR micmacmoc]

Today my new laptop arrived, fathers day pressie. Already have a beefy MSi jobbie running my oculus set up. This one is my on the road set up. Its a LENOVO ideapad 320s, cost just £499 through John Lewis which means a decent post sales service too, which was necessary on my oculus as the headphones went u/s.
Just trying out the Lenovo, its adequate, which is all was hoping for. It runs very smoothly though. Its better than my old i3 powered jobbie. Very pleased, thanks to my wife and daughter for being good sorts.

 

[amigacooke]

Considering ED is best experienced in Native 4k at 3840x2160, I would say there is little motivation to bother.

A fine example of answering a different question to that asked.

 

[krylite]

Lenovos are great. The "X" series such as this X380, Yoga have small screens (13.3") (and are usually considered more for business on the go and pricier usually closer to $1k or over ), but has FHD 1920x1080 resolution and intel UHD 620 graphics which is more than enough still for ED. https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/lapto...ThinkPad-X380-Yoga/p/22TP2TXX380#galleryPhoto

(edit: or the Lenovo Y720, 15.6" /w GTX1060 for about the same 1k price)

 

[Cmdr Ultra]

Considering ED is best experienced in Native 4k at 3840x2160, I would say there is little motivation to bother.

Why aim so low?

Some of us are running three 4K monitors at 11520 x 2160 resolution. Casual

 

[the100thmonkey]

Hehheh heh!
Thanks commanders! I shall twiddle my thumbs and look at a slightly bigger job. I managed to get my work laptop, p1ss poor graphics with not much hope, working on a train from Penzance to London a while back, even the crap on board free wifi let me run ED online. I was surprised! It made the journey of about four hours last about ten minutes! Frameshift train!
Thanks!

An Alienware 13 with a 7300HQ and a GTX 1050Ti should run the game at ultra.

It's bloody expensive though!

 

[Old Duck]

OP, are you looking for this option because you want an utra-portal ED experience? For the price of that GPD, you could get a PS4 and a Vita, and then you can play ED using Sony's Remote Play. RP will actually work on any Windows or Mac device. I can play ED on my 2012 Macbook (which has crap Intel graphics) and it looks great. You do need good Internet for this work. I think people have even gotten remote play to work on phones!

I don't know if Microsoft has an equivalent to this for XBox. The biggest caveat is that you'd be running the console version, so no mods, EDDB uploading, etc.