Playing Games On A Notebook?
Posted by admin on 12/20/09 • Categorized as Questions
I’m torn between 2 laptops. Would a Inspiron 1525 Laptop: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2370 (1.73GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache) with Vista Home Premium It has 3 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz (2 DIMMs) and 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM) with a Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 video card. Be able to play a game whose recommended specs are Windows XP Prof an Intel® Pentium®4 processor with 256 MB Memory and an NVIDIA® GeForce FX™ series or GeForce 6 series Graphics card and
DirectX®8.1 compatible sound card without problem?
Hopefully the game you want to play is not all that graphically intense. Otherwise an onboard graphics card will most likely not be enough. Usually if a game requires a certain type of graphics card, you can’t deviate from that specification. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I’ve often found that playing most games on a laptop doesn’t work out too well. This is mainly because laptops have a lower power requirement and aren’t able to run the hardware required to run the game itself. What that means is that even if you were to find a laptop version of the GeForce FX or series 6 card it still probably wouldn’t work.
NEVER get an Intel Graphics card, especially if you want to play games. I was in the same situation as you 3 years ago with my first laptop. I bought a decent laptop that also has an Intel Graphics card. The result is that my laptop can fulfill all but one requirement and that is the video card. Sure it can handle DirectX 9.0 but the video card itself can not handle simple transformations and shadows. Because of that I couldn’t even play a simple game called Onimushu on my pc. So, when a game asks for a NIVIDIA video card, you should get one. NIVIDIA cards are pretty expensive but they are TOTALLY worth it especially for gaming.