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[Viking God King]

Hi guys

This is my first post. I am a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge mechwarrior fan from back in the day and somehow only came across the latest installment now!!!!!!!!

Anyhow, I am planning on buying a gaming laptop and I want to make sure that it will be able to play mwo without hitch. problem is, my budget is balls deep dirt poor:(

Will any of these laptops be able to play mwo fine? https://laptopninja....er-500-dollars/

Hoping as the engine is a couple years old it should hold out OK. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks!

[jss78]

MWO is generally regarded as AMD unfriendly. I think anything which says "Core i5" (or i7) and GeForce will be a safer bet.

I'm looking at the Acer Aspire E5-573G-56RG in that article and it's kind of similar to the ThinkPad I'm playing on. I have a Core i7, but a weaker GPU (740M instead of 940M). I can confirm that MWO is perfectly playable on my computer, I get 40-60 FPS, depending on map, running at a mixture of Low and Medium graphics settings. HOWEVER, for that I have to play at a less-than-native resolution (1280x720). That Acer should be capable of the same or more.

I'm sure you have your reasons, but I have to ask: does it have to be a laptop?

The MWO engine is old, but it's also generally considered to not be a very good one.

[Fitzbattleaxe]

Viking God King, on 10 October 2015 - 03:29 AM, said:

Hi guys

This is my first post. I am a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge mechwarrior fan from back in the day and somehow only came across the latest installment now!!!!!!!!

Anyhow, I am planning on buying a gaming laptop and I want to make sure that it will be able to play mwo without hitch. problem is, my budget is balls deep dirt poor:(

Will any of these laptops be able to play mwo fine? https://laptopninja....er-500-dollars/

Hoping as the engine is a couple years old it should hold out OK. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks!

Until recently, I was playing MWO on a 5 year old Asus G51 with an NVidia 360M. Mind you, that was with the graphics settings turned down a bit, but it was still completely playable. You don't need a great beast of a laptop to handle MWO. Now I'm not an expert on graphics cards and how they compare, but if you can find benchmarks for the ones these machines are using somewhere, and they do as well or better than a 360M, you're going to be fine.

[Golrar]

Stay away from AMD on a laptop. Although it can play the game, your graphics settings will be so low you'd think you were back in Crescent Hawk's Inception.

Although the Cryengine is older, this incursion is very demanding of the CPU. So a lesser GPU with a powerful CPU would be the way to go.

Something like this would be able to play MWO with settings around medium if you put it on a cooling pad:

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834232782

[Ace Selin]

Out of the ones you listed the ACER ASPIRE E5-573G-56RG 15.6-INCH
should have no problem running the game. Until recently i used a laptop to play this game and it had a Quad Core 2GHZ processor, 8GB RAM & Geforce 650M and i played on low- medium setting to ensure playable frame rates on all maps.
The Acer laptop is slightly improved in graphics and a newer quicker CPU, though 2 less cores than my Quad, but that should not be an issue.

Fitzbattleaxe, on 10 October 2015 - 01:44 PM, said:

Until recently, I was playing MWO on a 5 year old Asus G51 with an NVidia 360M. Mind you, that was with the graphics settings turned down a bit, but it was still completely playable. You don't need a great beast of a laptop to handle MWO. Now I'm not an expert on graphics cards and how they compare, but if you can find benchmarks for the ones these machines are using somewhere, and they do as well or better than a 360M, you're going to be fine.

When you click on View Framerates in OPs link it gives a list of relative speeds of GPUs.
HP ENVY TOUCHSMART M6-N113DX has a quicker GPU than the 360M and rest specs are ok so should be fine according to this chap too.

Edited by Ace Selin, 13 October 2015 - 07:25 AM.

[Durant Carlyle]

"Cheap" and "Gaming Laptop" are words that just don't go together if you want good performance at good detail levels in today's top games. If you can stand gaming at Atari 2600 graphics levels, then go for it.

I don't like any of those laptops on that page. None of them are powerful enough. However, if those are the only choices and you forced me to choose, the only one I'd even think about recommending is the Acer Aspire E5-573G-56RG 15.6".

My official advice: Don't buy now. Save your pennies and buy a gaming laptop at the $1000 level. You will be much happier for much longer with the hardware that comes at the next step up in price.