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| 1182006 | 2011-02-28 19:00:00 | Yeah I've got a Compaq Laptop with an ATi 545v 512MB dedicated RAM, and it plays LOTRO significantly better than the old 9400M in the Macbook. I get around 80fps at full-screen res, 1366x768. pbtech.co.nz Granted I have anti-aliasing at 2x, but the overall detail is at relatively high settings. No complaints here! :) If I can get that outta mine, you should get even better outta your with that GPU. I use EVEREST to monitor temperatures and things, it's now AIDA64 Extreme: http://www.aida64.com |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1182007 | 2011-02-28 19:08:00 | If i can play fallout 3 on my macbook air you better be able to play some pretty awesome games on that thing :P the macbook air has a 420m which is only one card down from the 425m. The only major difference is the gfx cards memory. 256 vs 1gb. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1182008 | 2011-02-28 19:26:00 | Oblivion is a killer. It won't run well at max settings on pretty much any hardware. But I used to play it 1gb + 256mb Geforce 6600GT and 7600GT. That notebook will definitely handle it well. Mind you oblivion is a 5 years old game... I would be more concerned if it will play Skyrim. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1182009 | 2011-02-28 20:16:00 | Oblivion is a killer. It won't run well at max settings on pretty much any hardware. But I used to play it 1gb + 256mb Geforce 6600GT and 7600GT. That notebook will definitely handle it well. Mind you oblivion is a 5 years old game... I would be more concerned if it will play Skyrim. Yeah, fair point, but this is actually my first foray into PC gaming - part of me just wants to go 'meh' and get a PS3+Oblivion, but I figure if I have a notebook that can play it ok, why not give it a crack. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1182010 | 2011-02-28 21:13:00 | Mods for oblivion from tesnexus.com make the console versions look terrible. They're fantastic games in themselves but the PC mods can make your setup look just brilliant. Or gameplay more interesting. etc etc. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1182011 | 2011-02-28 21:38:00 | Yeah, fair point, but this is actually my first foray into PC gaming - part of me just wants to go 'meh' and get a PS3+Oblivion, but I figure if I have a notebook that can play it ok, why not give it a crack. You will regret going the PS3 route if you want to play Oblivion and Fallout. Oblivion is buggy as hell, there are community mods that fix some of those bugs. The PS3 version has less bugs, but I'd still rather play it on the PC. The frame rate on the PC will be better too. PS3 Oblivion has too many slow downs. Fallout 3 was playable on PS3, Fallout: New Vegas is not. The amount of scripting issues are just unbelievable, even after two patches I couldn't get far along to finish the game, I just got fed up with the crashes and everything else. Bethesda write brilliant games, they just can't code for crap. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1182012 | 2011-02-28 21:57:00 | the macbook air has a 420m which is only one card down from the 425m. The only major difference is the gfx cards memory. 256 vs 1gb. 320m |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1182013 | 2011-03-01 01:06:00 | 425m w\ 96cores is about 9600GT, www.anandtech.com I dont think you will manage 19x10, however I play DX9 w\ 9600GT okay with crysis, so you should be okay...ish! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1182014 | 2011-03-01 01:11:00 | Here are some benchies of similar build! www.anandtech.com |
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