Will Silent Hunter 5 run on a Laptop?

[TDK1044]

I'm going to be purchasing a new Laptop at the end of the year. Has anybody had any success running SH4 on a Laptop? I'd like to buy a really nice one if SH5 will run on it, but I don't want to spend a lot of money upgading the processor, the RAM and the video card if I load SH5 and it won't run.

[Letum]

It depends on the specifications of the laptop and the required specifications of SH5.

Until we know the latter, no one can tell you.

[holtzbr]

I recently purchased a new high-end pc that treats my games (& SH4) like a step dad treats his red-headed step child (apologies to any red-headed step children on this forum). Quad Core, 1GB Nvidia, yadda yadda yadda...

Before I purchased the desktop, though, I toyed with the idea of getting a top-shelf gaming laptop instead. In the end, the $$$ was too much of a road block.

It was simply too much money for me. Anyhoo, I know the Alienware stuff seemed to be highly recommended...

[Edit] - This is what I have seen regarding early takes on system req's:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...6&postcount=30

Originally Posted by maerean_m

My projected configuration to run the game very well (with all graphic options enabled, in 1280*1024) is:
dual core at 3 GHz (quad core is appreciated but not mandatory)
2 gb of ram
nVidia 8800 GT 512mb (ATi 4850 512mb)

512mb on the video card is a minimum to play the game with every option checked. We're trying to make the game to fit into 256 mb of video memory (with the lowest settings).



Assassin's Creed was created by a completely different studio with a completely different engine. Those requirements are caused by the fact that their main target is the Xbox 360.

Silent Hunter has nothing to do with the Xbox 360.

The game will run on Windows 7, even the 64bit edition.

[Arrakis]

Hi guys,

I'm playing SH3 and SH4 only on a laptop. I've got a MSI laptop with 2,26 Ghz, a Nvidia 9600M GT with 512 Mo and 4Go RAM, and although I installed SH4 with TMO everything runs smoothly.

I now hope SH5 can be handled with that config, what do you think?

Cheers

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

I'm going to be purchasing a new Laptop at the end of the year. Has anybody had any success running SH4 on a Laptop? I'd like to buy a really nice one if SH5 will run on it, but I don't want to spend a lot of money upgading the processor, the RAM and the video card if I load SH5 and it won't run.

Depends on the Specs, Graphics is THE most important thing here - and sadly its what Laptops skimp on the most.
If you go for an Intel Extreme GPU - you'll be lucky to get 15 frames per second out of SH3 let alone SH5 .

Ram is easy to upgrade, but AFAIK, CPU and Graphics Chipsets cannot easily be upgraded on 99% of Laptops and for the 1% that you can - the cost to do so is HUGE.

Laptop GPUs are usually built into the main board and the mobile Nvida/ATI chipsets tend to be about one generation behind the latest desktop cards, so dont expect to be able to play SH5 on max settings unless you got a big budget.

In short, yes there will be laptops out there that can play SH5 well, but they wont be cheap.

[TDK1044]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Depends on the Specs, Graphics is THE most important thing here - and sadly its what Laptops skimp on the most.
If you go for an Intel Extreme GPU - you'll be lucky to get 15 frames per second out of SH3 let alone SH5 .

Ram is easy to upgrade, but AFAIK, CPU and Graphics Chipsets cannot easily be upgraded on 99% of Laptops and for the 1% that you can - the cost to do so is HUGE.

Laptop GPUs are usually built into the main board and the mobile Nvida/ATI chipsets tend to be about one generation behind the latest desktop cards, so dont expect to be able to play SH5 on max settings unless you got a big budget.

In short, yes there will be laptops out there that can play SH5 well, but they wont be cheap.

I hear you. I'm hoping there will be some decent systems around with pre loaded Windows 7 in early November.

The kind of system I've been checking out recently has an Intel 2 duo core 2.8Ghz processor with 4 GIGs of RAM and a Radeon 4670 1 GIG video card.

[Andyman23]

i was gonna get a laptop too (hopefully). I was looking at the Alienware M17X, did you take a look at that one TDK?? it looks pretty badass. The thing im wondering is, why is this game going to be so graphically demanding? i mean its a sim right? i mean, maybe ive been away from the graphics cards/processor 'scene' for awhile (been at school), but man, it seems like you need a top level machine to be able to play this game. maybe this has been said many times already, but it really concerns me

any thoughts?

[Arclight]

From the laptop POV, yeah, you need a top-notch machine. Laptops just can't handle games well, so if you want to play the latest games, it's always going to struggle.

From desktop perspective it's not that bad: recommended is a 8800GT. Not exactly top notch by todays standards, and cheap to boot. For half the money you spend on a top-notch laptop that can barely run it, you can build a desktop that smokes it.

Imho there's no such thing as a "gaming" laptop. Anything that lacks a dedicated graphics card (#1 priority for gaming) is not suited for gaming.

[Andyman23]

what about 2 Nvidia GTX 260M's?