Can We Get A "Sorry, but playing the SA on your laptop isn't going to be fun." Sticky?

[terminal_boy 860]

I see a lot of laptop owners posting in the "Can I run DayZ?" thread and 95% of them won't have a good experience trying to play the SA.

Unless BIS decide to post an honest minimum PC specification, I think we should try to help people from buying a game their laptop will never play.

[DemonGroover 8836]

Well i play on a laptop and get great FPS. 

 

People need to know the limitations of their machine and some specs would be a good idea.

[Vagnus 8]

I play only on my laptop, it's an standard laptop with an i5-2410 (at 2,3GHz), a GFORCE GT 540M and 4GB of RAM and I can play high demand games with it (Crysis Saga, Bioshock Infinite, etc) and I can play DayZ:SA too. There's obviously some performance issues but the game remains playable with decent graphics

Edited January 2, 2014 by Vagnus

[DemonGroover 8836]

Yep i have found that a decent CPU far outweighs the GPU

[Vagnus 8]

Anyway, the big issue with gaming on a laptop is that memory for the GPU is shared but all the games still playable with good quality on a medium laptop

[Korsbaek 1778]

I run it on a laptop too... It did cost me 2000 USD, but now I can run every single game you throw at me.

[Alestorm 0]

alienware mx14 r2  here, and everything is good in ultra :) ...

[boneboys 7988]

No.

[liquidje 38]

Anyway, the big issue with gaming on a laptop is that memory for the GPU is shared but all the games still playable with good quality on a medium laptop

This  is not true for all the laptops, same have their own memory. As we can probably conclude from the above: it depends on your specs. Same goes for desktops: not every desktop can run it decently, just like some laptops WILL run it decently (and which begs the question: define decent).

 

I am running on a q6600 and a 7970 by the way, I reckon there will be laptop players out there who get more fps than me.

[Color (DayZ) 132]

Yep i have found that a decent CPU far outweighs the GPU

In this game since it's dependent onto it, devs still need to fix the cores issue though.

[Matej (DayZ) 71]

I play on laptop and i dont have any issue with performance

[martink8190@gmail.com 149]

Good for you. Let us know which part you'll want to upgrade when they become obsolete in a year or two and have devalued to 1/4 of their RRP. In the mean time pray that the motherboard doesn't develop fault right past the guarantee.

[Chauz 166]

You can have a sorry from me. Sorry, I hope I helped. 

[terminal_boy 860]

It appears that the 5% than do get decent, playable frame rates have already spoken...

[liquidje 38]

Good for you. Let us know which part you'll want to upgrade when they become obsolete in a year or two and have devalued to 1/4 of their RRP. In the mean time pray that the motherboard doesn't develop fault right past the guarantee.

Well that was uncalled for :S

[deebz1234 243]

asus g73sf

 

$600 USD, has a dedicated gtx 460 and an i7 in it...none of that on board crap. Murders dayzSa relatively speaking...

 

 

but im confused at your topic op?

 

buyer beware? let people fend for themselves? too bad if you cant be fucked to research the simple fact that playing video games on laptops is iffy at best?

[hanahouhanah (DayZ) 36]

I can get the game at 2fps if I play on standard default settings, but that's because my laptop that's many years old is at bare minimum (Radeon 4200, AMD Turion II P540 Dual-Core 2.4GHz, 16gb RAM (what a waste lol)). Minimum doesn't mean playable frame rate, minimum means "this thing opens and doesn't crash," so they already posted the 'honest' specs to run the game, since at bare minimum, it opens.

After setting everything to the lowest possible settings, I can get 30~ fps, but at least it runs the game at a decent frame rate. If you want to play a game on good graphics settings when you have the minimum requirements with good fps, you're stupid crazy. I bought this alpha with the assumption that it'd run at probably less than 20fps (it didn't, good for me) at lowest settings and that there'd be a lot of frame hiccups (didn't happen either). If people think they can run at max settings with a laptop that barely meets the requirements, then it is their fault- especially now that there's so much ways to check your pc specs.

[terminal_boy 860]

asus g73sf

 

$600 USD, has a dedicated gtx 460 and an i7 in it...none of that on board crap. Murders dayzSa relatively speaking...

 

 

but im confused at your topic op?

 

buyer beware? let people fend for themselves? too bad if you cant be fucked to research the simple fact that playing video games on laptops is iffy at best?

 

It wouldn't hurt to make it a little more obvious. After all, this community is meant to help those that want to play DayZ.

[liquidje 38]

It wouldn't hurt to make it a little more obvious. After all, this community is meant to help those that want to play DayZ.

Then it would be better to look into a way to communicate to people how they can expect their game runs. Just saying that laptops will probably not run it properly is not specific enough.

[martink8190@gmail.com 149]

Then it would be better to look into a way to communicate to people how they can expect their game runs. Just saying that laptops will probably not run it properly is not specific enough.

 

How'd you propose we do that? 

 

The dayz page has already recommended specs ( which should be minimum really ) but HW & settings varies so greatly that I don't see how we could nail this.

[martink8190@gmail.com 149]

asus g73sf

 

$600 USD, has a dedicated gtx 460 and an i7 in it...none of that on board crap. Murders dayzSa relatively speaking...

 

 

but im confused at your topic op?

 

buyer beware? let people fend for themselves? too bad if you cant be fucked to research the simple fact that playing video games on laptops is iffy at best?

 

 

Not to mention that most laptop users can only play because their screen resolution is rather sad, 1366 x 768 

[ninjacalypse 551]

I see a lot of laptop owners posting in the "Can I run DayZ?" thread and 95% of them won't have a good experience trying to play the SA.

Unless BIS decide to post an honest minimum PC specification, I think we should try to help people from buying a game their laptop will never play.

 

That's because many laptop users have laptops with onboard GPUs with no dedicated memory that merely siphon off shared memory from their system ram, which is to say practically non-existent.

[liquidje 38]

How'd you propose we do that? 

 

The dayz page has already recommended specs ( which should be minimum really ) but HW & settings varies so greatly that I don't see how we could nail this.

There is no definite way to nail it 100%. However, I do prefer the good old recommended and minimum CPU/RAM/GPU requirements. People should be cautious when they are around the minimum specs. I think it is better than proposing "playing SA on your laptop is not possible", since that is entirely untrue, and still not solves anything for desktop users (saying "every desktop will run fine" is just as much BS).

[KoishA 0]

My cheap Packard Bell Laptop, bought 600€ (~800USD)
i5 2410M / AMD HD6650M 2GB / 4 GB DDR3 / 1600x900 Low Details

Playable. Not beautiful at all, but still, playable.

Edited January 2, 2014 by KoishA

[martink8190@gmail.com 149]

There is no definite way to nail it 100%. However, I do prefer the good old recommended and minimum CPU/RAM/GPU requirements. People should be cautious when they are around the minimum specs. I think it is better than proposing "playing SA on your laptop is not possible", since that is entirely untrue, and still not solves anything for desktop users (saying "every desktop will run fine" is just as much BS).

 

Agreed but then there should be two recommended specs IMO, for desktops AND laptops. I'd say the majority of aren't aware that same CPU/ GPU combo in laptop does not equal to the performance of similar specced desktop.