Acer 1046 good enough to play?

dalf

dalf

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

W/R

Hi everyone!

My roomate and myself want to play Guild Wars.
But we are not sure it will be ok on my roomate's laptop.

The spec :
Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
RAM 512 Mo
ATI Mobility Radeon - AGP 4x - DDR SDRAM - 32 Mo

I read the minimal config for the game and it's OK.
But, is there anyone with "same" computer who can say if it's OK or no ?

Thank you

Dalf

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

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it will play, but just barely. the graphics card probably can't support the level of detail that GW puts out. you'll be able to run it at minimum detail, probably.

anyways, playing GW on a laptop is generally not a good idea, since laptops tend to overheat quickly.

Mushroom

Mushroom

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

Alabama

It will play, but do not try to turn on Anti-Aliasing or high level graphics.

The video on-board is decent, but it uses system RAM, which is always slower then video RAM (this is common on 90% of laptops). And you may run into some heat problems, so investing $20 into a cooling pad would be a good idea.

But the laptop is capable of playing the game itself just fine.

dalf

dalf

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

W/R

Nice! Thank you for your answers Moriz and Mushroom!
Probably, tomorrow we will buy the game