Who plays LOTRC on a laptop?

[Onde Aander]

I must have been feeling especially NICE yesterday (lol j/k) because I agreed to help Darkpally figure out whether a new laptop he's eyeing up is going to be able to run LOTRC. He's looking at this model:
www.dell.com/ca/p/alienware-m11x/pd?~ck=anav

Graphics sound surprisingly beast for a laptop (see spec below) but then it is marketed as a gaming laptop, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_geforce_gt_335m_uk.html

HOWEVER, the processor is a...
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
... only 1.3GHz dual-core. The LOTRC recommends at least 2.4GHz dual-core (though I've found that graphics are much more important than CPU speed).

If the game is nicely multithreaded, I suppose 1.3 GHz dual-core is going to be better than running the game on my 2.4GHz single-core (the "crappy" PC) but if it's NOT programmed efficiently, then it's gonna blow, assuming it really needs as much CPU power as it says on the box. I've never tried playing any games on a laptop - I don't know if they've just managed to get a lot of performance at a low clock speed (low power!), or if the slower CPUs are going to be a performance hit. I can't resolve the conflict of how they are marketing a 1.3GHz dual-core machine as a gaming PC.

Anybody here successfully running LOTRC on a modern 1.x GHz dual-core? What sort of specs does your PC have?

[BulgarianMenace]

I play on a laptop

lotrconquest.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tech&action=display&thread=513

[Onde Aander]

A beast of a laptop, too! Lol don't tell me you bought it with LOTRC in mind... not that I'm not guilty, too.

[[ROJOES]ronjons]

Sept 23, 2010 12:32:03 GMT -5 Onde Aander said:

I must have been feeling especially NICE yesterday (lol j/k) because I agreed to help Darkpally figure out whether a new laptop he's eyeing up is going to be able to run LOTRC. He's looking at this model:
www.dell.com/ca/p/alienware-m11x/pd?~ck=anav

Graphics sound surprisingly beast for a laptop (see spec below) but then it is marketed as a gaming laptop, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_geforce_gt_335m_uk.html

HOWEVER, the processor is a...
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
... only 1.3GHz dual-core. The LOTRC recommends at least 2.4GHz dual-core (though I've found that graphics are much more important than CPU speed).

If the game is nicely multithreaded, I suppose 1.3 GHz dual-core is going to be better than running the game on my 2.4GHz single-core (the "crappy" PC) but if it's NOT programmed efficiently, then it's gonna blow, assuming it really needs as much CPU power as it says on the box. I've never tried playing any games on a laptop - I don't know if they've just managed to get a lot of performance at a low clock speed (low power!), or if the slower CPUs are going to be a performance hit. I can't resolve the conflict of how they are marketing a 1.3GHz dual-core machine as a gaming PC.

Anybody here successfully running LOTRC on a modern 1.x GHz dual-core? What sort of specs does your PC have?

from what I can gather the SU7300 designed to be an energy miser, its clockspeed of 1.3 ghz deceptively low seems to score on performance benchmarks of 2ghz dual core intels. Chance of slowdown with lotrc despite handy graphics card. for a 1000 earth dollars seems a lot to risk.
An 11" screen, its a borderline netbook with knobs on.

[BulgarianMenace]

Sept 23, 2010 15:24:13 GMT -5 Onde Aander said:

A beast of a laptop, too! Lol don't tell me you bought it with LOTRC in mind... not that I'm not guilty, too.

Nah I've had it for a year now.

[Onde Aander]

Sept 23, 2010 15:38:36 GMT -5 [ROJOES]ronjons said:

from what I can gather the SU7300 designed to be an energy miser, its clockspeed of 1.3 ghz deceptively low seems to score on performance benchmarks of 2ghz dual core intels. Chance of slowdown with lotrc despite handy graphics card. for a 1000 earth dollars seems a lot to risk.
An 11" screen, its a borderline netbook with knobs on.

Yeah that was my impression, too. I suppose if you had an elite memory interface / cache you could get away with a slower clock (since you waste loads of CPU cycles waiting for memory) but if the technology has advanced that much, I think I would have heard about it. In general I like what they're doing though - most people only want to surf the net, read e-mail, write papers and watch youtube on their PCs and you don't need a beast PC for that. I guess they've finally figured out how to sell less performance for the same price.

[[ROJOES]ronjons]

found this chart of graphics cards (laptop & desktop versions listed)
www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gts-450-radeon-hd-4850-gpu,review-32001-7.html
Top of the list's rated best
the ones marked in the green row or above work well with conquest,
ones in red row & below'll probably be choppy.

GeForce	Radeon	Intel
	Discrete: HD 5970
Discrete: GTX 295, GTX 480	Discrete: HD 4870 X2
	Discrete: HD 4850 X2, HD 5870
Discrete: GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 470	Discrete: HD 5850
Discrete: 9800 GX2, GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 460, GTX 465	Discrete: HD 4870, HD 4890, HD 5770, HD 5830 Mobility: HD 5870
Discrete: 8800 Ultra, 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, GTS 250, GTS 45	Discrete: HD 3870 X2, HD 4850, HD 5750 Mobility: HD 4850, HD 5850
Discrete: 8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512 MB Go (mobile): GTX 280M, GTX 285M	Discrete: HD 4770 Mobility: HD 4860
Discrete: 8800 GT 512 MB, 9800 GT Go (mobile): 9800M GTX, GTX 260M (112), GTS 360M (GDDR5)	Discrete: HD 4830, HD HD 5670 Mobility: HD 5770, HD 5750
Discrete: 8800 GTS 640 MB, 9600 GT, GT 240 (GDDR5) Go (mobile): 9800M GTS, GTX 160M	Discrete: HD 2900 XT, HD 3870, HD 5570 (GDDR5)
Discrete: 8800 GS, 9600 GSO, GT 240 (DDR3) Go (mobile): GTX 260M (96), GTS 150M, GTS 360M (DDR3)	Discrete: HD 3850 512 MB, HD 4670, HD 5570 (DDR3) Mobility: HD 3870, HD 5730, HD 5650
Discrete: 8800 GT 256 MB, 8800 GTS 320 MB, GT 220 Go (mobile): 8800M	Discrete: HD 2900 PRO, HD 3850 256 MB, 5550 (GDDR5) Mobility: HD 3850
Discrete: 7950 GX2	]Discrete: X1950 XTX, HD 4650 (DDR3), 5550 (DDR3)
Discrete: 7800 GTX 512, 7900 GTO, 7900 GTX	Discrete: X1900 XT, X1950 XT, X1900 XTX
Discrete: 7800 GTX, 7900 GT, 7950 GT	Discrete: X1800 XT, X1900 AIW, X1900 GT, X1950 PRO, HD 2900 GT, HD 5550 (DDR2)
Discrete: 7800 GT, 7900 GS, 8600 GTS, 9500 GT (GDDR3)  Go (mobile): 7950 GTX	Discrete: X1800 XL, X1950 GT, HD 4650 (DDR2) Mobility X1800 XT, HD 4650, HD 5165
Discrete: 6800 Ultra, 7600 GT, 7800 GS, 8600 GS, 8600 GT (GDDR3), 9500 GT (DDR2)  Go (mobile): 7800 GTX, 7900 GTX	Discrete: X800 XT (& PE), X850 XT (& PE), X1650 XT, X1800 GTO, HD 2600 XT, HD 3650 (DDR3), HD 3670 Mobility: X1900, 3670
Discrete: 6800 GT, 6800 GS (PCIe), 8600 GT (DDR2)  Go (mobile): 7800, Go 7900 GS	Discrete: X800 XL, X800 GTO2/GTO16, HD 2600 PRO, HD 3650 (DDR2),  Mobility: X800 XT, HD 2600 XT, 3650
Discrete: 6800 GS (AGP) Go (mobile): 6800 Ultra, 7600 GT, 8600M GT, 8700M GT	Discrete: X800 GTO 256 MB, X800 PRO, X850 PRO, X1650 GT Mobility: HD 2600
Discrete: 6800, 7300 GT GDDR3, 7600 GS, 8600M GS  Go (mobile): 6800, 7700	Discrete: X800, X800 GTO 128 MB, X1600 XT, X1650 PRO Mobility: X1800, HD 5145, HD 5470 (GDDR5), HD 5450,
Discrete: 6600 GT, 6800LE, 6800 XT, 7300 GT (DDR2), 8500 GT, 9400 GT  Go (mobile): 7600 (128-bit)	Discrete: 9800 XT, X700 PRO, X800 GT, X800 SE, X1300 XT, X1600 PRO, HD 2400 XT, HD 4350, HD 4550, HD 5450 Mobility: X800, 3470, HD 5470 (DDR3), HD 5430 Integrated: HD 3300, HD 4290
Discrete: FX 5900, FX 5900 Ultra, FX 5950 Ultra, 6600 (128-bit) Go (mobile): 6800 (128-bit) Integrated: 9300, 9400	Discrete: 9700, 9700 PRO, 9800, 9800 PRO, X700, X1300 PRO, X1550, HD 2400 PRO Mobility: X1450, X1600, X1700, 2400 XT, X2500, 3450 Integrated: HD 3200, HD 4200, HD 4250
Discrete: FX 5800 Ultra, FX 5900 XT Go (mobile): 6600, Go 7600 (64-bit)	Discrete: 9500 PRO, 9600 XT, 9800 PRO (128-bit), X600 XT, X1050 (128-bit) Mobility: 9800, X700, X1350, X1400, X2300, HD 2400	Intel HD Graphics (Core i5-6x1)
Discrete: 4 Ti 4600, 4 Ti 4800, FX 5700 Ultra, 6200, 8300, 8400 G, G 210, G 310	Discrete: 9600 PRO, 9800 LE, X600 PRO, HD 2300 Mobility: 9700 (128-bit), X600, X1300 Integrated: Xpress 1250	Intel HD Graphics (Core i3 5x0, Core i5-6x0)
Discrete: 4 Ti4200, 4 Ti4400, 4 Ti4800 SE, FX 5600 Ultra, FX 5700, 6600 (64-bit), 7300 GS, 8400M GS, 9300M G, 9300M GS	Discrete: 9500, 9550, 9600, X300, X1050 (64-bit)  Mobility: 9600	Intel HD Graphics (Pentium G)
Discrete: 3 Ti500, FX 5200 Ultra, FX 5600, FX 5700 LE, 6200 TC, 6600 LE, 7200 GS, 7300 LE Go (mobile): 5700, 8200M, 9200M GS, 9100 Integrated: 8200, 8300	Discrete: 8500, 9100, 9000 PRO, 9600 LE, X300 SE, X1150 Mobility 9700 (64-bit)	GMA X4500
Discrete: 3, 3 Ti200, FX 5200 (128-bit), FX 5500,  Go (mobile): 5600, 6200, 6400, 7200, 7300, 7400 (64-bit)	Discrete: 9000, 9200, 9250 Mobility: 9600 (64-bit), X300
Discrete: FX 5200 (64 bit) Go (mobile): 7200, 7400 (32-bit) Integrated: 6100, 6150	Discrete: 9200 SE Integrated: Xpress 200M, Xpress 1000, Xpress 1150	GMA X3000, X3100, X3500
Discrete: 2 GTS, 4 MX 440, 2 Ultra, 2 Ti, 2 Ti 200	Discrete: 7500	GMA 3000, 3100
Discrete: 256, 2 MX 200, 4 MX 420, 2 MX 400	Discrete: SDR, LE, DDR, 7000, 7200	GMA 500, 900, 950
Discrete: Nvidia TNT	Discrete: Rage 128	Intel 740

[John_is_George]

You must have alot of time on your hands ronjons to put together this chart

[[ROJOES]ronjons]

Cut and pasted from original website

[Onde Aander]

Sept 27, 2010 3:25:49 GMT -5 John_is_George said:

You must have alot of time on your hands ronjons to put together this chart

LOL