TankDawg Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Hi Guys, COntinuing our previous discussion, I have narrowed it down to TWO notebooks. One has 32mb Seperate Video Memory One has 64mb Shared Video Memory Both are ATI Mobility. I want to play CMAK and some new first person shooters that demand good graphics. Advice??? THanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 If CM performance is a major issue in your laptop purchase, then get the one with the 32Mb separate/dedicated video memory. Shared memory tends to drag quite a bit in performance, especially 3D games. Plus they also tend to degrade the system performance a bit too since the integrated video is taking up a bit of system's memory bandwidth and a little more CPU time compared to a dedicated video setup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 just don't expect to get anything resembling decent performance in any recent fps game and in all liklihood some stutter at the very least in cmbb and/or cmak my advice, don't buy a notebook as your primary game playing machine [ December 26, 2003, 11:13 PM: Message edited by: easytarget ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 I've got a Tosh Satellite (2ghz mobile P4) with a Geforce Go 32mb card and 256mb ram, and it's fine in CMAK and some first person shooters, like H&DII. Obviously you have to run with the minimum settings unless you want a slide show but I like the fact that I can then run it at the highest settings on my desktop. I get the best of both worlds. I tend to run only the smaller scenarios in CMAK on the Tosh for obvious reasons, but it's not as slow as you would expect. A 500 pointer QB runs perfectly well with the settings maxed out at 1600x1200! But as Easytarget says, a laptop is no substitute for a desktop machine in any circumstances! A 1000 point QB takes 5 seconds to crunch on my desktop and up to 50 seconds on my laptop. [ December 27, 2003, 06:03 AM: Message edited by: phil stanbridge ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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