TFCer dying to come back \ laptop questions

[ryan_aaxxx]

Originally Posted by Circuitous

Yes.

Are you sure you've been lurking since '03?

Maybe not 03', and definitely not OFTEN, but since I pretty much gave up TFC which was around freshman\sophmore year of college 04\05.

I remember when the media was only concept art, barely anything at that.

I remember the first screenies and jizzing over them, same with the first sound effect demos in media.

I was definitely around and in the tfc community, and fully aware of FF.

Weee, glad to see congestus is around

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So my laptop question comes down to this (I may post in tech too if that is ok?)

I'm wondering whether or not I should splurge a little more for a better graphics card.

I'll most likely only be playing source games until I have enough money to buy a desktop that will run new stuff.

Whats the best low-end integrated card

x3100? radeon hd 3200 780M? nvidia go 7150? Those are all viable options on store purchased laptops

The ebay bids I'm watching are around the same price-range, all have warranties, but the HD and RAM are smaller, HOWEVER offering the Nvidia 8400\8600 line.

Is there a significant enough difference between all those cards? I'm not looking for max settings, 1024 x 780 with a constant 60-80 fps would be great!

[mervaka]

Originally Posted by ryan_aaxxx

Good to know, I've found a pretty fly laptop on ebay, but it doesn't have 3gb, only 2. But I can upgrade, so I might go for it.

you really, really dont need that much ram to play FF (or run cubase for that)

[eternity94]

Originally Posted by ryan_aaxxx

Maybe not 03', and definitely not OFTEN, but since I pretty much gave up TFC which was around freshman\sophmore year of college 04\05.

I remember when the media was only concept art, barely anything at that.

I remember the first screenies and jizzing over them, same with the first sound effect demos in media.

I was definitely around and in the tfc community, and fully aware of FF.

Weee, glad to see congestus is around

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So my laptop question comes down to this (I may post in tech too if that is ok?)

I'm wondering whether or not I should splurge a little more for a better graphics card.

I'll most likely only be playing source games until I have enough money to buy a desktop that will run new stuff.

Whats the best low-end integrated card

x3100? radeon hd 3200 780M? nvidia go 7150? Those are all viable options on store purchased laptops

The ebay bids I'm watching are around the same price-range, all have warranties, but the HD and RAM are smaller, HOWEVER offering the Nvidia 8400\8600 line.

Is there a significant enough difference between all those cards? I'm not looking for max settings, 1024 x 780 with a constant 60-80 fps would be great!

Well actually you can get a Desktop that can play Crysis for less then what your paying for the laptop.

[BoltR]

Yeah, I made a desktop half a year ago that is capable of playing Crysis on very high for $600. Though I had a monitor already.

[Private_Joker]

two cvars:

mat_bumpmap 0
mat_specular 0

Along with tuning your in-game vid settings, will solve all of your FPS woes.

The war is never over!

-Joker

[Iggy]

Originally Posted by ryan_aaxxx

I was definitely around and in the tfc community, and fully aware of FF.

Weee, glad to see congestus is around

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I was feeling generous.... so I made a short clip of ff_congestus for you:

ff_congestus

Please note, this was made with 2.0, not 2.1... so no sneak peek there.

[ryan_aaxxx]

Originally Posted by Iggy

I was feeling generous.... so I made a short clip of ff_congestus for you:

ff_congestus

Please note, this was made with 2.0, not 2.1... so no sneak peek there.

Looks great to me! What are your settings in that video btw?

[Iggy]

That was just a WeGame recording. It automatically encodes the recording for upload to their site.

I used WeGame to record the footage for the following video clip, but didn't use WeGame to encode it. It seems to lose a LOT of resolution using WeGame, but it gets the point across.

ff_2fort