magmameister Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 So in a couple of months, I may finally be able to get a laptop to play Fallout 4 on. However, my mother has said I have to be within a £500 budget. My searches have proven pretty bad at this point and I've only been able to find ones with the right specs at around £900-£1200, though I did find this one which is around £600 and looks like it may do it, but I need some good advice here. This is the one I found: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/173-msi-cx70-2qf-intel-core-i5-4210m-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-2gb-gt-940m-dvdrw-hdmi-usb-30-ac-wifi-win-10-64 But this particular one looks closer to minimum spec than recommended spec, and I ideally would want to go for something closer to recommended than minimum. Any and all help would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robhartman9 Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 It has a better video card than the one I put in my tower so it should work. My concern with a laptop for this game is the countless hours. Make sure its on a surface that allows it to cool itself properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magmameister Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 I usually have it propped up on some boxes on my bed (at least the one I'm using anyway XD) But I'll certainly take that into consideration when I finally get around to sorting this out. :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raycheetah Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 I've found laptop cooling pads for as little as $13US online. Might be worth a look for longterm play. Good luck! =^[.]^= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanity Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 (edited) FO4 is quite badly coded, and uses the ancient engine far worse than Skyrim, with a focus on a better graphical experience. I would suggest very very strongly that you stick to a laptop choice that others have said CAN play FO4 well enough. The game is popular enough, there should be Youtube vids of people FO4 gaming on a potential laptop purchase. If no-one talks about running games like this on the laptop you are considering- I'm afraid it will almost certainly be because that laptop is crap for gaming. Don't go by manufacturer specs- that's a road to giant dissapointment. So GOOGLE, GOOGLE, GOOGLE- and don't be self fooling. Prove a device hits your needed performance, or look elsewhere. The 940M seems to be about 50% of a 750TI (which is a bit faster than the PS4 console), but the mobile vesion of GPUs are thermally throttled well below their desktop equivalents, so I'd guess that means about 25% of a PS4 at best. On paper, the laptop looks like it could run FO4 (on sadly low settings) consistently in the mid-teens 720P (better when the scene is less taxing). The TWO core CPU doesn't help- FO4 likes a true 4-core CPU. But with a weak GPU, you probably aren't aiming at high frame rates anyway. These forums run pretty COLD- I'd try asking the same question on Steam forums or on Reddit. Edited May 29, 2016 by zanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamBacon Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 The 750ti works great for Fallout 4. I know a lot of people running the game at maxed out settings with mods, and not a single problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robhartman9 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Depends on what your expectations are. I'm old and have played a lot of low quality graphic games over the years. The original computer RPG's were text only. Lower quality setting don't bother me but the game does have to run more or less smoothly without crashing. I don't really know anything about the game engines but it does make a difference. My last computer ran Fallout 3 and NV well enough but couldn't handle Skyrim. I downloaded Skyrim to the new computer and it runs very smoothly compared to Fallout 4. I can finally set NV on the high settings and it is nice but I can live without having everything Edited May 30, 2016 by robhartman9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanity Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 The 750ti works great for Fallout 4. I know a lot of people running the game at maxed out settings with mods, and not a single problem.???- this discussion is about a LAPTOP, using a MOBILE GPU with 50% of the hardware of a 750TI (at best), which will be running the GPU well BELOW mains-powered desktop use due to thermal throttling. So how is your comment about the 750TI revelant at all? You might as well have added that a new Paxwell 1080 from Nvidia runs the game well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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