AnOutaTuchModr Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Hi I am wondering if Fallout 3 can play on my new laptop I'm getting.SPECS of laptop below. Dell inspiron N5040 - Intel core i3 Quad - 500 GB HDD - 4 GB RAM - Win 7 64bit - CPU M380 - 2.53 GHz Service Tag: H2YKJR1 PLEASE HELP it's on sale and sale ends in 2 days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrindedStone Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 You need to be looking if it's using intergrated grapics or if it has a videocard GPU. Your performance target matters more than any game. Do you want to play games at 30 frames a second an below or a minimum of 40 frames per second, or 60 frames per second and above. Will the laptop run it yeah, but I'm guessing it will be skippy an sub 30 frames per second. You would have to find someone that has that laptop an tested it or look at benchmarks on the laptop to know for sure. From what I gather from your question a computer with a videocard GPU is what is used in mainstream gaming. Unless you're some rich kid then the best way to do that is in a gamer rig. Laptops cost more an more money to fix. 3-4 years any computer you buy will be fried, and a minimum of $150 for the part to fix it, which is now hard to find an 3-4 years old in technology. With a rig you're looking at 6-10 years, an when something breaks you replace it with whatever you want. Now the mods for these games are going to nearly double your performance requirement if not more. This is because most modders are going to have some insane desktop gaming computer along with rarely giving a thought to performance or compatability. You'll have problems on low & medium powered laptops. Then gaming laptops will fair a little better, but you are really talking about high end laptops then. From what I seen a few years ago Toshiba makes the best laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Will it run Skyrim? Probably - at lower graphics settings and a low fps on the vanilla game.Will it run Skyrim on ultra high graphics setting at 60 fps? No way. This laptop uses the Intel HD3000 GPU which is not recommended for graphics intensive games like Skyrim. If you ask a salesman who likely will make a commission for selling, of course he will lie about performance. And he likely doesn't have a clue anyway. Many laptops have reviews on the internet - google review and your model number to find them. Be sure to look for those reviews that specifically target gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOutaTuchModr Posted May 25, 2012 Author Share Posted May 25, 2012 Thanks, I guess I will look for a different one then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichikoUnknownFox Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 My advice, don't buy a laptop with the intention of gaming extensively on it (unless it's a gaming laptop of course, which is still not the best option if you ask me). You have to figure out what's more important to you: mobility or the ability to play games. Laptops are generally poor platforms for gaming. There are various issues, ranging from the small size of the display making it hard to appreciate your games, to the various drivers and hardware that need to be installed to use it properly for games (laptop built-in keyboards tend to have bad ghosting characteristics; my laptop here can't press the Spacebar + W + D, which is a common key combination for FPS games, and my palms tend to touch the touchpad area, so I inadvertently use it to control my mouse). And the fact that many of the background processes for laptops are actually necessary to keep it running, like those that monitor your battery, cutting into your processing power and making it less effective for games. For the same budget as you might spend on getting a laptop you can build a decent machine that can run all the modern games. If you need the laptop for work or school, though, then it's best not to really worry about getting games on it anyway. I'm not saying you can't game on a laptop, as I know a lot of people that successfully run Fallout 3 and even Skyrim on a laptop. However, I am advising against it anyway. For me, it's not a wise investment. If I were in your situation, I'd get the laptop for whatever I need it for (work or school), then save up money, even if it takes a while, to build a PC for games. That's basically what I did. I started off with a regular office-style PC, which I needed more for work, then saved my money until I could build an entirely new system that is good enough to run all the games I currently own on the highest possible settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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