how likely is integrated graphics to be a problem?

[Tobius]

How likely is a laptop chipset/onboard graphics card/intergrated graphics card going to be a PROBLEM? My lappy before was most likly intergrated and i never noticed a problem, all the laptops in my price range seem to have intergrates. Its driving me mad my funds are really limited so I need to make a good pick, but i just want to play eq atm.

[mgellan]

For EQ any modern integrated chipset that supports DX9 will work very well, I use my laptop all the time for EQ with Intel graphics and it's very performant... it's not like it's a brand new game engine!

Regards,
Mg

[Droop]

My lappy top slows down if I turn everything up (and am raiding or in EC tunnels). If you can, try to get a discrete graphics card. If not, any modern integrated should suffice, just not be the best.

[Dominick]

MY laptop works better with EQ than my desktop did when I used it in 2000.

[jyaku]

yea when i first went to play EQ back in the day (when kunark came out) my PC could'nt run it. but now on my laptop it runs fine unless i look in the corner behind shady in the tunnel, that's the only place i get lag unless i have a website open in the BG with tons of animated and video ad's. anybody know whats over in that corner that might cause my lag?

[HKUSP40]

http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=6&id=181
check this out..

I have the 17" version of this laptop and let me tell ya.. for the $$ you wont find anything better.

decent graphics
4 gigs of ram
decent HDD space
HDMI
etc

I slapped Win7 x64 on mine the second i got it and have LOVED it.

I used to work for Dell before they closed our call center. You have to buy a $1500+ GXP system to get even close to what you get on this little guy.
The price is perfecto too. Best of all they come STANDARD with a 3 year warranty and US Based support (if you're in the US).

Edit: did I mention you can Overclock it too?...yeah!!

[kuahara]

If you're playing with anything less than a water cooled quad SLI setup with anything less than 480 stream processors per card, 16GB of DDR3 memory, a CPU not OC'd past 4GHz, or 15k rpm HDDs not setup in a rather fancy RAID array, then I'm afraid your system is just not going to be able to handle this game right now. Try and find something less recent than a game released in '99.

Wish I had better news, sorry.

[Eternal-Elf]

If you're playing with anything less than a water cooled quad SLI setup with anything less than 480 stream processors per card, 16GB of DDR3 memory, a CPU not OC'd past 4GHz, or 15k rpm HDDs not setup in a rather fancy RAID array, then I'm afraid your system is just not going to be able to handle this game right now. Try and find something less recent than a game released in '99.

Wish I had better news, sorry.

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