Laptop Compatibility (Dell D610) ?

[Creeper]

I know that "laptops are not supported" but I'm considering purchasing and wondered if anyone here has success/failure with SH3 on a Dell D610 Laptop with 128MB Intel 915GM vid card. I have 2 Ghz Pentium M with 1GB of RAM. I guess its worth a try but just wondered of others experiences here. Thx.

[Wreford-Brown]

I've been using a laptop for a while due to my desktop being moved. SH3 works fine with these stats:
Intel Core Duo @ 1.66GHz 1.67GHz
2 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Your processor should be fine, you may find that you struggle with 1GB RAM (mine stutters a little at higher framerates) and unfortunately I can't comment on your video card.

Hopefully someone more technically minded will show up soon...

[NealT]

I use a N610 at work.

I would not recommend trying for a serious game of SH3 on one. Unless you have added a whole lot of memory and bigger than 40G hard drive...

The screen rate stinks as well...

[Kaleu_Mihoo]

I haven't got any issues trying out gwx 2.1 on my pentium M 1.5 laptop once, 2 GB ram (DDR1) and a radeon mobile 9700 vid with 64 MB. However the card is surely the bottleneck, you get framerates of 35+ and about 20+ when you hit more than 1 ship at once . NYGM or WAC lite supermods should be more laptop- friendly though. I don't know anything about your vid card (dedicated ram?), but the laptop itself handles the game fairly easy.
greets

[andym]

i am currently using this,i do believe it has a half decent spec.

• Processor 1
  • Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
  • Manufacturer: Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7600
  • Caption: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
  • Version: Model 15, Stepping 6
  • Current Clock Speed: 2327MHz
  • Address Width: 32Bits
  • Data Width: 32Bits
  • Socket Designation: CPU 1
• Processor 2
  • Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
  • Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
  • Caption: x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6
  • Version: Model 15, Stepping 6
  • Current Clock Speed: 2327MHz
  • Address Width: 32Bits
  • Data Width: 32Bits
  • Socket Designation: CPU 1
• Verified Hardware Device against Order: CPU-
  

System Memory

• Memory Module 1
  • Capacity: 2048MB
  • Bank Label: DIMM #1
  • Mem_Type: DDR2
  • Mem_Frequency: 664 MHz
  • Verified Hardware Device against Order: MEM-
• Memory Module 2
  • Capacity: 2048MB
  • Bank Label: DIMM #2
  • Mem_Type: DDR2
  • Mem_Frequency: 664 MHz
  • Verified Hardware Device against Order: MEM-

BIOS Information

• Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
• Name: Default System BIOS
• Version: W8350F04
• Version: ALWARE - 1000

Motherboard Information

• Manufacturer: alienware
• Product: Area-51 m9750
• Serial Number: To be filled by O.E.M.
• Version: To be filled by O.E.M.
• Verified Hardware Device against Order: MB

Video Adapter

• Caption: NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
• Adapter RAM: 512MB
• DriverVersion: 6.14.11.5675
• Verified Hardware Device against Order: MOBL-

Hard Drive(s)

• Volume0
  • Model: Volume0
  • Size: 320GB
  • Total Heads: 255
  • Total Cylinders: 38914
  • Total Tracks: 9923070
  • Tracks Per Cylinder: 255
  • Optical Drives / Other Storage

• TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N
• Verified Hardware Device against Order: MOBL-

Burn-In/Benchmarks

• 3DMark 2006
  • Customer Information:
  • 3DMark Score: 9,270.00 3DMarks
  • SM2.0 Score: 4,410.00
  • HDR/SM3.0 Score: 4,234.00
  • CPU Score: 2,055.00
  • Game Score: 0.00 Points
  • SM2.0 Graphics Tests
  • GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 35.87 FPS
  • GT2 - Firefly Forest: 37.62 FPS
  • CPU Tests
  • CPU1 - Red Valley: 0.65 FPS
  • CPU2 - Red Valley: 1.04 FPS
  • HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
  • HDR1 - Canyon Flight: 36.72 FPS
  • HDR2 - Deep Freeze: 47.96 FPS
• Doom 3
  • Doom 3: 158.3 fps