Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 (build 14393), 64-bit
What kind of games can my system handle? I have successfully played Skyrim and some older games, but Witcher 2 is unplayable. It seems like a mixed bag, and systemrequirementslab.com often skews it a bit.
Depends what you are into, but look for the amazing selection of 2D games:
Hotline Miami Undertale Door Crashers Super Meatboy Binding of Issac Rogue Legacy FTL
I'm not even a fan of some of those but maybe that is a good starting point for you.
Benjamin Butler
In all seriousness, 1000 dollars doesn't get you a good gaming device. But what is so bad about it? I understand the processor complaints. Why even have that many cores with such shitty clock time? Can you overclock that? Thanks man. I was more asking for a general idea of my system capabilities. Like what should I look out for? I know the store page doesn't go into all of this stuff for AMD laptops
Cooper Russell
1000 dollars is more than enough for a good gaming device, if you know how to spend money in a good way
Blake Sullivan
>522227 ▶ > (You) Maybe if you build it, but that's really just one thing I addressed
Lucas Diaz
Don't buy laptops for gaming, you should know this by now
Parker Scott
You know fag some times people gota to be on the go and often times away from a desk or in transit. So its nice to have shitty gaming laptop ,though not as powerful as a regular pc sure granted, since being able to at least decently play shit is always fucking nice to have.
Shit sucks when ones job has them mostly traveling from place to place but such convince is nice to have since portable gaymen console can only do so much.
Josiah Fisher
I didn't buy it for gaming. I bought a new laptop with moderate gaming capabilities when my old one broke. I think you're completely douching out right now. Take your meds
Thomas Howard
NONE OF THIS IS HELPING
Adrian Price
So what's the problem then? If you didn't buy it for gaming then the specs won't be that important. Choose the one with the most hard disk space
Blake Johnson
Regarding capability, I'm saying any 2D is probably a sure thing.
If you want to count Witcher 2 and Skyrim's performance as your litmus test you can count everything released before 2011 as playable.
Alternatively, a near performance tip is to lower the resolution of games down from the default you probably use for Windows. You can probably play the latest hottest shit at 800x600, a resolution for ants, then work your way up balancing graphics and playability.
How about avoiding new hotness and try out something like Ante-chamber and The Stanley Parable?
Both First Person Puzzlers with nice, but simple graphics.
Brandon Robinson
what's the problem? what? there is no problem damn. I'm just asking what I can play. Like, I'm not going to download something and have it sperg out on me The weird thing is that Skyrim worked and Witcher didnt. at all.
Gabriel Smith
I'm on an Ideapad Z500 right now, games I've played on it: Darkest Dungeon Overcooked (flipped over, plugged onto TV to stop overheating) 3rd person point and click adventure games (lost crown, barrow hill, black mirror, syberia, sam and max, gabriel knight, still life) Thief, Thief II X-COM Lara Croft Guardian of Light Tales from the Borderlands Armello Gwent
Ryan Richardson
So are we talking that Skyrim worked decently without fiddling?
And Witcher 2, was that a case of it never booting up or was it just really chuggy?
I don't have any anecdotal evidence that the PC version of Witcher would be more intensive than Skyrim for you sorry.
The only miracle cure to your problem is to strip your laptop down to essential only Windows processes and presumably Steam. You can turn off a lot of things that'll help your games get most out of your PC's resources.
You tech savvy or not really?
Zachary Johnson
>Door Crashers You mean Door Kickers or Castle Crashers?
Alexander Ross
newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834332754 $1000 gets you this nowadays
Ian Brown
I had two (2) laptops from 2008 and both went from being able to run Crysis and Civ V to brin unusable overheating messess.
I would stick iceblocks and shit under the cases becuase of how hot they'd get. Some might say that the water vapour wouldn't be good for the devices and maybe they were right because both units were junk by 2017.
I sold them for $5 for both, after trying to salvage one of them as a Steam Machine (too big, hot and painful compared to the $33 dollar device that filled my needs for streaming to TV)
David Sanchez
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Landon King
pretty decent shit man also a rare case Skyrim- medium Really chuggy Only slightly tech savvy I hear overclocking is a decent idea, but it's dangerous
Colton Brooks
In all seriousness, you could've gotten a pretty kickass PC by hand picking the parts yourself. There's maybe 8 components you have to worry about when doing it and it saves a shit ton of money and performance.
What are you going to do with a laptop, man? Play it in a cafe? Maybe if you fly often, but otherwise it's needless and hurts what your machine is capable of. My spoiled little brother insisted on getting a gaming laptop a long time ago and he says he regretted it since it ran like shit compared to my remarkably cheaper desktop PC.
This one will tell you a cool way to have a consequence free ad-block that'll stop you needing anti-virus. Basically there is a 'address book' of IP adresses on your PC, so maintaining a list of them, and redirecting them to harmless IP adresses is a clever way to stop unwanted connections.
Be in charge of your computer. If some program is like 'nuh-uh' delete that shit because you are in charge. You need less software than you think.
Ethan White
Hi-jacking this thread to ask a computer related question; if I am planning on building my own rig from scratch, but aren't planning on overclocking, could I get away with skipping buying a heatsink?
Gabriel Hill
Yeah, the stock heat-sinks that come with your processors wilk be fine. Four mates and four PCs built for them since 2011 and none have shit the bed.
