Skyrim on a Laptop

[JimboUK]

Although my desktop should power through skyrim no problem (I did build it as a rendering workstation afterall), I have a cheap laptop I got on sale, which also happens to be the second best functional computer I have, and the best mobile computer I have, and I was mostly concerned about its graphics capability:

 

specs are:

i5 2410M @ 2.3Ghz (Its a dual core w/ hyperthreading, SB model i5)

6GB ram (~750MB reserved for GPU)

Intel HD3000 <-- that is what I'm worried about: I'll be happy if I can run skyrim on this computer on the lowest graphics settings even, I just want to be able to play it period, if say, I am on the train or waiting around or something. I think it helps I haven a dinky 1366x768 monitor on it.

plenty of HDD space

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0.html

 

If you scroll down a bit they've got a list of games and frame rates, that GPU really isn't up to much.

[WorldShaperDragon]

Although my desktop should power through skyrim no problem (I did build it as a rendering workstation afterall), I have a cheap laptop I got on sale, which also happens to be the second best functional computer I have, and the best mobile computer I have, and I was mostly concerned about its graphics capability:

 

specs are:

i5 2410M @ 2.3Ghz (Its a dual core w/ hyperthreading, SB model i5)

6GB ram (~750MB reserved for GPU)

Intel HD3000 <-- that is what I'm worried about: I'll be happy if I can run skyrim on this computer on the lowest graphics settings even, I just want to be able to play it period, if say, I am on the train or waiting around or something. I think it helps I haven a dinky 1366x768 monitor on it.

plenty of HDD space

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-3000.37948.0.html

 

If you scroll down a bit they've got a list of games and frame rates, that GPU really isn't up to much.

Yeah, I know its definitly on the low end. Though, I'm not that familiar with the vast majority of those games performance (ie, never played them), except supcom:FA. It can almost play oblivion on maxed settings though, so thats why I wasn't entirely counting it out of being able to compete in the lowest end on skyrim.