Laffertytig Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 im lookin to buy a laptop and i dont have a lot of cash to spend on it so i was wonderin how many CM2 players out there use lap tops and whats the lowest spec anyone is running the game at an acceptable speed? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankibanki Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 CMAK and CMBB don't run very well on my notebook. On my desktop (Athlon XP2400+, GeForce3) even huge scenarios run smoothly in full graphics. On my IBM Thinkpad (1400MHz, mobile Radeon) medium size scenarios are acceptable with terrain elements turned down. Bigger scenarios are playable, but I can't enjoy them. It takes up to one second from clicking on the map until a movement order appears. Im not sure if the problem is CPU power or the mobile radeon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Hi mate - I've used several laptops with CMBB and CMAK - ranging from a 1.1ghz Intel Centrino right up to a AMD FX57. You shouldnt have any major issues with the processor to be honest although please take into account you will not be able to play the largest battles comfortably if you opt for the cheapest processor. More importantly however is the RAM and the VGA (to a lesser extent). If possible opt for at least 1GB of memory, although you can play it with 512mb. Regards the gpu, I've used the most basic onboard VGA to a mobile 7900GTX - you'll need to check the minimum specs on the site, but you'll need a half decent card to play the battles at their highest settings. If you want to play with "fog" weather effects you'll need an Nvidia card - as the ATI cards do no support it at all. Hope this helps! *Edit - Just reading the above, you need to make sure you buy a newish laptop! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.R. Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Hmm... I tried to get CM going on my (way old) Dell but was not able to-- I blamed the onboard graphics. After reading the above I may have to try again! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 By way of comparison, All the CM series worked well enough on my old iMac, 350MHz processor, 512MB RAM and 16MB VRAM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laffertytig Posted June 1, 2006 Author Share Posted June 1, 2006 well that last post fills me with hope. im waitin on a laptop arrivin with a spec of Intel Mobile Pentium™ M 1.5 GHz 1MB L2 Cache Memory: 512 MB RAM 32mb video memory i really hope that BB will run on this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirx Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Those specs are very similar to my laptop. CMBB runs fine on it, even the "large" size scenarios. I think that only the hugest scenarios, in urban environments with lots of rubble and smoke, could potentially give you a problem with the graphics. That doesnt bother me because I don't have the time to play a huge-sized scenario! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KampfgruppeEasy Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I'm using a laptop Athlon 1800+, 512MB ram, 32MB onboard graphics. I can load and play 3-4MB PBEM files with no problem. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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