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[Oswin Aurelius]

Hey guys, I was looking at the sheer number of threads with people making new machines to handle MW:O, and I started to get worried. My worries stem from the fact that I use a laptop for all my computing needs.

I own a Sony Viao F-Series laptop.
- 8GB RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (1GB VRAM)
- i7-2930QM CPU

I haven't had much trouble playing MW:LL, but I don't believe that uses CryEngine 3, but an older engine. I could be wrong, as I'm a bit rusty on most of my tech knowledge.

Should I be worried about how well Mechwarrior: Online is going to run on this thing? What would I need to improve if so (yes I know you can't upgrade a laptop, but for reference when building a new PC if needed)?

Edited by Oswin Aurelius, 04 April 2012 - 01:03 PM.

[Motionless]

System requirements haven't been released for MWO.

I don't think I'd be going out on a limb to say that machine will be able to run the game - although depending on some of the graphics settings it might not be at the highest settings with only a 540M.

[Barbaric Soul]

You'll be fine, that i7 won't have a problem and if the GT 540M can handle MW:LL, it'll handle MWO.

[Hayashi]

Motionless, on 04 April 2012 - 01:24 PM, said:

System requirements haven't been released for MWO.

I don't think I'd be going out on a limb to say that machine will be able to run the game - although depending on some of the graphics settings it might not be at the highest settings with only a 540M.

This. Expect smooth low-medium graphics performance since it's running on a Crysis engine. In all honesty though, the performance for MWO will be more likely limited by internet speed first, graphics speed second... unless the devs are really good at optimising.

[Gremlich Johns]

It IS a laptop remember...

but it should be able to run it well, My desktop is a 3.2 GHz x4 with 8 GB DDR2 RAM and an OC'd GTX460 and I run MWLL with no issues.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 01 May 2012 - 04:25 PM.

[Nasty9]

It'll run fine. If you don't already, check out getting a laptop cooling pad. They really help temps when gaming for extended periods of time on a laptop.

[Oswin Aurelius]

Nasty9, on 01 May 2012 - 08:24 PM, said:

It'll run fine. If you don't already, check out getting a laptop cooling pad. They really help temps when gaming for extended periods of time on a laptop.

I actually just ordered one a few days ago, should be here in a few days. I got a Thermaltake Massive23 LX Notebook Cooler, hopefully it'll be as good as the reviews I've looked at say! My laptop doesn't like to stay cool at all, that's for sure. >_<