Guild Wars 2

My girlfriend has been looking for a laptop which can also play games, would this be enough to run guild wars 2? If not any other suggestions would be welcome.

TOSHIBA Satellite L755D-10J Laptop
Windows® 7 Home Premium
Processor- AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 (1.6 GHz, 1MB cache)
Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
RAM- 4GB DDR3
Graphics card- Integrated AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Graphics
Hard drive 640GB

Thanks in advance.

After reviewing that graphics card, I would say there is a slight possibility, but I would say your frame rate is going to be somewhere around the 30fps mark. The best way would be to go here and check: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

You have integrated graphics, which is non-upgradable unless you switch out the motherboard, which wouldn’t be feasible.

With laptops, unless you have a gaming rig (which this isn’t, even still I would follow this rule) make sure you have a good cooling pad underneath, turn your monitor brightness to about 75% and keep the in-game graphics on the lower end.

thanks for the reply, she has not yet bought the laptop so were going to keep looking for a different model. Any suggestions?

Oh, in that case, I would recommend a Dell Vostro or ASUS to start with a minimum of a 512MB Dedicated card (1GB Dedicated card would be the best route for the future) – Don’t use Integrated graphics. Check out the i5 processors. Give me an idea on a budget and I’ll see if I can get you some recommendations. For laptops, I would say your budget should be at least $700 to $900 when you’re getting in gaming.

well the budget is about £350 pounds which is around $550 dollars which i know isn’t going to cut it for a gaming laptop but she doesn’t really need a good one (she just wants to play on low settings without lag) she is basically buying a new one for university and she keeps playing GW2 on my laptop, so i will throw some extra cash in the pot if need be. Thanks again.

I’m not a fan of refurbished laptops by any means, as in the computer world, laptops are really only meant to last about 2 years on average, but you will have a difficult time finding something new that will be suitable within that price limit. The only thing I can recommend at this point is to make sure it has a dedicated card with at least a 512MB vRam.

hmm well say i would put the difference for the 700 dollars, would this open up a lot more options?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230236