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[FRAGTAST1C]

If so, what are the specs and do you play long hours?

I'm asking 'cause I installed MWO on my old laptop (Lenovo 510P i7 4700 8 core @ 2.4ghz, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia GT755m gpu) and while it runs ok, the heat after about 30mins worth of playing causes massive slow-downs for several seconds before the performance smoothens out again but this process repeats often over and over.

So, the thing is, I need to buy a new laptop but none of the reviews ever talk about heat issues under load. For e.g., there's an ASUS Tuf series laptop like this one... ASUS or Acer laptop like this one.... Acer which aren't great, I know, but functional, I think. I wonder how MWO would run on those systems and would they heat up badly.

[LT. HARDCASE]

I do. MSI GT73VR, i7-6820HK, GTX 1070, 16GB DDR4 yadda yadda yadda. Can play all day with no overheating.

I can tell you that ASUS has absolutely no issues with temperatures and has much better specs. I'd definitely choose that one. I looked through the laptops on the site and it seems to give the best CPU/GPU around that price.

[Tarl Cabot]

Is this a recent install?

For most laptops, especially older laptops is the lack of clearing the built up dust on the heatsinks/vent area. Can of compressed air, clear out he vents/heatsinks. Careful of spinning the fans. Or disassemble it to get better access to the fans/heatsinks.



Power Options, set to High Performance. Might also need to take more control of the fans.

Also, either use a customized user.cfg to lock FPS to a lower average speed and/or disable Turbo Boost. The link uses 99% but most who used it had to set it to 98% or 97%.

https://www.tautvida...el-turbo-boost/

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 12 March 2019 - 08:51 PM.

[InfinityBall]

I play on an I7 7700 with a 1050Ti. No issues

[FRAGTAST1C]

LT. HARDCASE, on 12 March 2019 - 07:45 PM, said:

I can tell you that ASUS has absolutely no issues with temperatures and has much better specs. I'd definitely choose that one. I looked through the laptops on the site and it seems to give the best CPU/GPU around that price.

That's good to hear.

Tarl Cabot, on 12 March 2019 - 08:29 PM, said:

Also, either use a customized user.cfg to lock FPS to a lower average speed and/or disable Turbo Boost. The link uses 99% but most who used it had to set it to 98% or 97%.

https://www.tautvida...el-turbo-boost/

I'll give that a whirl and see if it works. Thanks.

[w4ldO]

clean out dust, put new (better) thermal paste in, elevate your laptop so it can draw more air from underneath.

[Bud Crue]

Have always played on a laptop. Kept the old potato going only through the use of low settings, PGI's help via support giving me custom settings, and a laptop cooler. Current machine (Dell 7759 with no idea what anymore) has no problems in 2 years (geez...maybe three years). Run particles and shadows (edit) on lowest settings, all the rest are mix of medium and high. Get ~115-85 fps depending on map with drops of up to 20 fps in certain circumstances (that hologram statue thingy on Solaris City produces thee most noticeable dip, get some others as well when lots of action is occurring on Forest and in parts of Terra,otherwise pretty consistent), good enough for low level mechdad play afaiac.

Edited by Bud Crue, 13 March 2019 - 01:37 AM.

[crazytimes]

I7 something, 16gb, gtx1070. It gets warm, but stable. Ghost Recon violates.it, I could literally cook an egg in the exhaust, MWO doesn't get quite that hot.

Lapop is Resistance, which I believe.is a rebadged Clevo.

[D VA]

I do

[Kubernetes]

I used to use a laptop exclusively. It was old and on hot summer days it would throttle down so badly the game became a slideshow.

I use a desktop now, but on the road I'll occasionally play with my (newer) laptop and an eGPU (connected via Thunderbolt 3). It's a Kaby Lake i7 and runs very smoothly.

If you can get a newer processor, do it. If you're on an old machine that throttles, you may need to improve cooling. (back in the day I would put my laptop on icepacks if it was really hot outside.)

[Josh Seles]

I do, because for a while I only had a laptop. But I've been on a long break because post secondary.
My machine is an Asus N56-VJ with stock hardware and a raised, un-powered cooling pad.

When I am able to play MWO, I'm able to run the game as long as I want using mostly medium settings.
I can get get a somewhat consistent 20-30 FPS on all maps, with occasional drops to 12-15 FPS.

I do want to buy a new laptop in a few years, an Asus GL-702 or something along those lines. I'll vouch for Asus all day, far better than the crappy Acer I had before my current computer.

[Y E O N N E]

I use a laptop, specifically an MSI GS65 Stealth Thin with a GTX 1070 Max-Q, 16 GB RAM, i7-8750H, etc.

No problems running MWO, or almost anything else, full-tilt. Would definitely recommend the machine.

Edited by Y E O N N E, 15 March 2019 - 08:42 PM.

[RickySpanish]

I have played at 1440p on an MSI with an i7 and a gtx 960, it ran OK but the impression I got was that the game was close to making the card sweat. I would not be at all surprised if it were capable of causing a melt down when played for long periods. Solaris City for example seems quite capable of melting rigs that aren't running an equivalent of the gtx 1000 series cards.

[FRAGTAST1C]

I disable Turbo Boost like mentioned in that link above. Although the temperature build-up has reduced, I noticed that the game still chugs along at sub-20 FPS for several seconds before it goes to 60 FPS again. That's annoying. It happens after the first 30 minutes. Then, during every match, the frame rate dips to ~15 FPS for several seconds and then goes back to 60 FPS. It happens in every match. I need to let my laptop cool down a bit and then play again. But again, after the 30 minute mark, it repeats.

[Tarl Cabot]

The laptop is what, 4 years old?

The Turbo boost will not really help if there is dust buildup on the vents/heatsinks. Until this has been confirmed to have been resolved, may be even redo the thermal paste, anything we suggest is like putting one bandaid in a sword cut...

[SFC174]

I do. Alienware 17R3 4k screen. About 30 months old now. i6700 and 16GB with solid state drives.

Nothing makes the fans work like MWO, but it handles it just fine. I do use an elevated/ventilated underpad to assist in cooling though (haven't tried a coolpad) and protecting my important parts.

BTW, I think I'd be better with a bigger screen (and a mouse instead of a trackball), but I do pretty well for what it is.

[Athom83]

Tarl Cabot, on 13 March 2019 - 07:37 PM, said:

The laptop is what, 4 years old?

The Turbo boost will not really help if there is dust buildup on the vents/heatsinks. Until this has been confirmed to have been resolved, may be even redo the thermal paste, anything we suggest is like putting one bandaid in a sword cut...

^This^ Years ago my dad was complaining about his laptop was running slow and hot. He kept saying "No, I'll probably just get a new one eventually" whenever I asked him if he wanted me to take look at, yet kept complaining about it and never getting a new one. So eventually I just open it up while he's at work, and the inside is just coated in cat fur (we had 4 of them at the time, and all of them loved crowding his lap specifically) so I take a can of (non-static) compressed air and blow out every nook in it. Next time he starts it up I hear from the other room "Huh, that's weird. It started working again.".

As for what I play on; This is my laptop. It runs nice, got it a year and a half ago during a sale. Absolute max settings and can play for hours without getting hot (It'll still gets pretty warm, but that's about it).

[Sjorpha]

I've run it on a windows partition on my MacBook pro from 2013. I7 something and 750m, low graphics settings but it ran ok for a few hours at a time. Not a good machine for gaming really but that's what I had access to at the time and I managed to get by with it for 2 years of mwo.

[FRAGTAST1C]

Tarl Cabot, on 13 March 2019 - 07:37 PM, said:

The laptop is what, 4 years old?

The Turbo boost will not really help if there is dust buildup on the vents/heatsinks. Until this has been confirmed to have been resolved, may be even redo the thermal paste, anything we suggest is like putting one bandaid in a sword cut...

I played for a couple of hours last night and the heat buildup has reduced and the frame-rates didn't dip (or maybe they did while the matches were loading). I haven't done the dusting yet. I need to either buy that cannister or take it to a local service shop and have it done there. But so far, there has been some good progress. So, cheers.

[RelativeQuanta]

I also play on a laptop. In addition to what others have said, watch out for windows updates. I run windows 10 and it has a habit of switching my machine to power saver mode during updates (with no warning) which massively throttles my machine even when it's plugged in. MWO is then unplayable. Otherwise, it's perfectly fine.

This is on a GTX 1070 machine with an Intel 6700 cpu