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Can this laptop run it?
Chris_Fougere
Member Posts: 4
in Guild Wars 2
Looking for a game for my wife and I to play together. I know my desktop will run GW2 just fine. Her laptop not so much.
She has a Toshiba C650-00e. I'm not sure of the speed (though I want to say 2.1 GHz), but there's 8GB Ram. Can this even run GW2? Even at low settings?
Thanks for any help.
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The most important thing in a laptop is if it has a real graphics card in it or just an integrated intel chip card.
If it has a real graphics card, then you should be fine. I run GW2 on my laptop with no issues and very good fps at pretty good settings.
If it only has an integrated graphics card but has a decent processor you might be able to get away with running it on all of the lowest settings. The first time I loaded it up on my laptop it failed to auto switch to the good graphics card but I experimented with it and could play just fine with everything on low as far as PvE went. I'm not sure it would have held up to a 100 man battle in WvW though.
More specific specs would help. Try going to computer, properties, device manager and giving us a video card model or type. Some of the C650 models may run it on low, but the model you gave us specifically yielded no results on specs.
Just onboard graphics, she runs LOTRO fine on High with DX11. I'm not home right now so I can't check the processor speed etc.
I'll look as soon as I can though.
thanks
I would be surprised if it was really only integrated graphics if she can run Lotro on fine on DX11 (also would be surprised to find the integrated graphics would be new enough to even support DX11).
But if she can in fact run LotRO on high, then she should be fine.
If she can play LOTR she can play GW2
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=684&canMyGpuRunIt=Guild%20Wars%202
I was going to make my own thread, but i saw this. I gave my son my old laptop, and was wondering if it will play guild wars 2 or not. I was going to get him and everyone in the family a copy to play together for his birthday. Here's the systems report
www.canirunit.com
is a good site to try as well.
Don't agree.
My laptop is capable of playing comfortably Lotro on high details. Heck even very high is comfortable but have not played since it was glitchy (propably 256 vram was not enogh for VH since some textures were not loading completly on VH. on H was ok).
Still GW2 was giving me ~10 fps which is imho unplayable.
Have to play GW2 on desktop PC, my laptop cannot handle it.
@Gravarg
Imho I would not do it on this laptop. GW2 will run but will be very uncomfortable.
Sweet.
Thanks
To be clear, I only play it on a laptop and it runs very smoothly with zero issues.
That's all laptops now. They love to put on their own software that makes the system "better" but it bogs down the processes. A lot of people buy an HP for example and the first thing they do is wipe the system and start fresh.
I said specifically THIS laptop. This which Gravarg listed.
I am sure there are many laptops that will run GW2 comfortably. I am sure that there are even laptops that will run GW2 at full details at FullHD and with 60+ fps.
So I was not generalizing about laptops just saying my opinion about Gravarg son's laptop.
From what I can tell, this is her PC
AMD 350 1.6ghz, 8GB DDR3, Radeon HD 6310
We can live with low fps (like 20-25) if necessary
Run as opposed to make the computer spontaneously combust? Probably. Run at a playable frame rate? Doubtful. What you have is basically a relatively high end netbook.
While I haven't played GW2, there's a good chance that your graphics will be able to deliver a playable frame rate on hard minimum settings. The processor is a different matter, however. GW2 is very processor-intensive, and two Bobcat cores at 1.6 GHz isn't much of a processor. People with twice as many cores at twice the clock speed and higher IPC are complaining that GW2 doesn't run well enough on their processor.