laptop specs
It will run the game but I suspect you’ll be toning down shadows, lighting and details etc. Also, you may get slow map loading due to the low spindle speed of your HDD. if I would change one thing it would be to replace it with an SSD; an M2 device if you can rin to it.
i75820K@4.4ghz Noctua NHU14S GTX980TiSC
SoundblasterZ AsusX99Pro 512GBM2SSD 1TBSSD
3TBHDD 16gbRAM Corsair900D Win10Pro Corsair rmi1000w ethernet 100 down, 6 up
SoundblasterZ AsusX99Pro 512GBM2SSD 1TBSSD
3TBHDD 16gbRAM Corsair900D Win10Pro Corsair rmi1000w ethernet 100 down, 6 up
That would perform very poorly. Likely 20-25 fps maximum if on the lowest settings.
Get one with a quad processor as a minimum.
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Every time I read a thread like this me smile…
TheHeretic’s quote of “20-25 Fps on the lowest settings” made me smile even more…
So… I’m playing GW2 on a four year old Asus N550 15.6 laptop… It has a i5 4200u cpu and a gt745m nvidia graphics card… It does run 16gb of dual channel ram and a 256gb Samsung 840 ssd.. and I use “Reshade”…
So… again… what Fps do I get…. 40 to 60 all day long… I have more problem with server lag than Fps…
Settings i hear you cry… mostly med or high…
Character model limit/quality set to medium as high/highest does affect Fps in blob/boss fights and no antialising as “Reshade” takes care of that and handles reflections and shadows (so they are set to none) better than in game settings… bonus)
So upgrade your ram to max/12gb use “reshade” or similar and ignore the “I have the baddest gaming rig EVER” brigade and you will do just fine…
On a side note check you isp settings etc are set for gaming… do a quick search on this…
I think the game will run reasonably smoothly on the described machine, and look nice doing it. I ran GW2 on a 8-year old AMD A6 laptop I with integrated graphics I bought retail, and it ran a stable 30fps almost everywhere on medium settings. My keyboard got hot to the touch though, although AMD laptop gamers are used to that.
However, I’d personally not recommend getting an i7 that ends in “U”. As someone in another thread pointed out to me when I asked several months ago, the “U” designation is their low-power mobile computing version of their cpus. For the money, getting an i7 that ends with “HQ” is a better buy.
However, unless you custom-order your laptop, chances are you will only be able to get those “U” suffix chips. I just received my custom built laptop last week, and it is definitely the best purchase I have made in a decade… and I was pretty happy with the deal I got on my new car a few years back lol. If it’s an option, I recommend custom.
Yep, despite the i7 designation, it is only a dual core. The u type saves power, good for browsing, not as much for gaming. The i5 7300hq despite being an i5 is a quad core. You will be much better off with a quad core for this game.
Now, if that is all the budget allows, it will handle the game ok but you may want to shop more. 6 gb of ram is cutting it close.
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no in a short answer . long answer others already pointed them things out. and I would not get the extra hard drive . given the fact you can buy 250 gig s/s/d drives off amazon and new egg for $89.00
no new system upgrades coming