Spring RTS Engine

I was thinking to buy a laptop and as the only game I really play is Spring I want to be sure it will play smoothly(else I wouldn't pay so much for the laptop).
Can you post your specs(graphic card + cpu) and say how it performs? Would really appreciate it

i7 quadcore 1.6ghz Q720
ATI HD 4670
@ Full HD

Is running spring good enough, but unfortunately the multithreading exe fails. This is my main computer, have no desktop.

If you really want to play spring smoothly I wouldnt advice going below these specs.


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Runs fine on my Asus G1S

2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
Geforce 9600M

running really well on my alienware m15x (i7 1.6ghz -> 2.8ghz), 460m, 8gb ram.

by extension it should work great on their newer m14x which is supposed to be a gaming laptop with decent battery life :)

I really like the metal chassis and the cooling system is better than all other gaming laptops I've seen

I've been running it quite nicely on my Asus N53SV - Core i7-2630QM + Nvidia GT540M at 1920x1080 res. Shadows are medium, AA is 2x and water is bump-mapped, everything else is high.

As a reference on the lower end: I play BA on my Sony VGN-SR39VN that has
Core2Duo 2,4 GHz (P8600)
ATI 3400 Mobility (256 MB)
4 GB DDR2 RAM
at home on 1920x1200. Runs very well - on low settings and in BA.

But: I cannot play 0k - if I enable LuaShaders gfx performance is really low.

as always with spring (OpenGL in general), the most important hardware recommendation is: get NV GFX!
the rest is totally primary.

Yes I am checking only on laptops with Nvidia cards. Won't make the same mistake again to buy ATI. As for buying an alienware I think it is an overkill to buy a supercomputer for just one game. Plus I will be taking the latop to university and job so it would be weird going around with a play-console
I think I will go for the Nvidia GT540M and Intel i5. The i7 is quadcore indeed but it is also going to burn down the laptop I guess. Is spring for linux multithreaded btw?

hello springrts community :)

I play sprinRTS Balanced Annihilation on my laptop:

AMD M320 2,1 GHz mobile cpu
4 GB RAM
Radeon HD4200 fglrx-driver

ciap
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Pithikos wrote:Is spring for linux multithreaded btw?

You can compile it as MT. AFAIK no distro does it by default.
MT works as good/bad as it does in Windows I guess (though I have never run it in Windows, but from what I've heard).

yeah, spring on windows, linux and apple uses pretty much the same code, except for some low level stuff that is different (like file-system access calls). The biggest difference when running on different systems are GFX driver differences.