Laptops

[lugnut360]

Hey just wondering for those of you who play Spring on laptops and are experiencing little to no lag, what are your specs?

I am trying to play it on a 1.83GHz proc, 4GB RAM, Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family vid card and I keep getting many short duration lags (2-3 sec) just facing an AI. Obviously my rig is subpar .

[oksnoop2]

I get playable frame rate with a 2ghz intel core 2, 4 gigs of ram, and an ati mobility radeon 3400 mobility chip. I think what might be killing your frames is your intel graphics.

[Mav]

Yep. You can't game on Intel graphics. There's an old thread floating around on the internet where a guy says "I'm playing CrySis on full settings on my integrated Intel notebook and it looks great! Yeah, the second frame is coming along now, I'll let you know how it looks when it's finished."

Anyways, I play on a Core Duo (not to be confused with a Core 2 Duo) Dell Latitude D820 (4.5 years old now) operating at 2.16 Ghz on an Nvidia Quadro NVS120M (basically a GeForce 7400Go). Yeah, that's a terrible card and it still handles spring OK. I do have to lower the settings to handle everything but unless the game reach uber-porc, I don't have framerate issues. Even then I've never been the guy who caps the game speed.

Anyways, I've got a fairly bad computer, and it handles spring OK.

[babbles]

Can't be bothered looking up my specs, but I use a laptop and after a while have to restart it otherwise I get horrible FPS. I think the fan is broken or something.

[oksnoop2]

Yeah the heat is what seems to kill my performance the most. I play with an icepack on top of my laptop when it starts to heat up.

[Neddie]

Heat used to be a problem for my mainstay computer I used from mid-2006 to early 2008. Damn thing blasted 106 F air out the side port onto the mousepad, clocked 110 F on the keyboard and would shut down when it hit ~135 F on the bottom. I had mild burns from using it on my lap. While able to play Sins Of A Solar Empire, it would always overheat long before completion of a game.

[babbles]

I think I'd overheat before the end of a big Sins of a Solar Empire game.

[Forboding Angel]

Antec 300 case, load it up with 80 cfm fans. Enjoy your long and intensive games

[Johannes]

Ive got a laptop with Intel 965, and it doesnt get any hangups like that. Most settings at minimum there's 30-40 fps at game start and it stays at that until its cpu cant keep up with that fps anymore.

So it's possible with Intel too

[Teutooni]

I played Spring with a 1,733GHz Core Duo laptop with some intel 950 series GMA iirc. Worked fine, but that was back in 2006...

[aegis]

i7 laptop with a 240m, spring is always playable :>

if lugnut360's laptop is a dual core, perhaps could try the multithreaded version of spring