I currently own this laptop : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/5176239.p;jsessionid=704C324F8C421DC7A059CE0EC9E23FCD.bbolsp-app03-65?id=1218621250769&skuId=5176239

And very unsure if it can run TSW. I really want to play it but I Don't wanna purchase till I know if im able to actually play it with a good FPS. Thanks for your help :D

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Originally posted by Duilyon
lol I looked at that stuff and it seemed to meet the requirements. So I am assuming I can run it fine then??

seems liek that laptop is pretty much updated... now it put my ol'laptop to shame hahaha... /headdesk

Be really carful OP. I've tried to run it on 2 laptops. I suggest getting the 3 day trail first to see if it works for you. I think some of the intergrated laptop cards just don't work.

That said if you do get it to work, get ready for an mmorpg with just about the most character customization and skill development on the market, second only to EVE. The setting and story/lore delivery is seen by most as the best in the bussiness. 

The only sore spot for TSW is the lack of a robust meaningful pvp system, something I have a feeling will change in the months ahead. 

Good luck OP.

Originally posted by bcbully

Be really carful OP. I've tried to run it on 2 laptops. I suggest getting the 3 day trail first to see if it works for you. I think some of the intergrated laptop cards just don't work.

What hardware did you have?  A GeForce GTX 660M is much faster than any integrated graphics ever made.  In fact, it will probably take another 3-5 years for integrated graphics to offer that level of performance.

Originally posted by Quizzical

Originally posted by bcbully

Be really carful OP. I've tried to run it on 2 laptops. I suggest getting the 3 day trail first to see if it works for you. I think some of the intergrated laptop cards just don't work.

What hardware did you have?  A GeForce GTX 660M is much faster than any integrated graphics ever made.  In fact, it will probably take another 3-5 years for integrated graphics to offer that level of performance.

My graphics card I think should be fine. Would you agree? Actually I have no idea what would be holding back my laptop. But I am not good with the tech stuff that is why I asked here. And I went CANYOURINIT.com or whatever and said it was barely above minimum requirements..

The nVidia GTX660M in this notebook is basically the same as the three year old desktop GTX460. 384 CUDA cores and 128bit interface.
It's nowhere comparable to a desktop GTX660 with 960 CUDA cores and 192bit interface.

It's good for running TSW on all settings at low, but don't expect to ramp up the graphics and still have an enjoyable framerate.

I just recently upgraded my GTX460 to an GTX660, so I know what I'm talking about :)

Damn it. I really hoped I could play at least medium settings with a good stable FPS. Well I'll test out a trial but I hate lag and itll be a nogo if I cannot pla with at least decent graphics an fps. 

Sad day for this guy :( 

Originally posted by Yalexy

The nVidia GTX660M in this notebook is basically the same as the three year old desktop GTX460. 384 CUDA cores and 128bit interface.
It's nowhere comparable to a desktop GTX660 with 960 CUDA cores and 192bit interface.

It's good for running TSW on all settings at low, but don't expect to ramp up the graphics and still have an enjoyable framerate.

I just recently upgraded my GTX460 to an GTX660, so I know what I'm talking about :)

Having replaced one card with a mild upgrade doesn't prove that you know what you're talking about; rather, that points in the opposite direction.

A GeForce GTX 660M is basically an underclocked GeForce GTX 650.  The latter offers performance about on par with a Radeon HD 7750, Radeon HD 5770/6770, or GeForce GTX 550 Ti.  Take 20% off of the clock speeds and you're closer to a Radeon HD 5750 or GeForce GTS 450, but that's still respectable gaming performance, at least for a laptop.

A GeForce GTX 460 is much faster than any of the cards in the previous paragraph.  In fact, all four of the different cards that Nvidia has branded as GeForce GTX 460 are much faster than any of the cards in the previous paragraph.  And that "four" is not counting the GeForce GTX 460M (roughly on par with a GTX 660M) or the custom SKUs that various board partners come up with.

Besides, you have the specs wrong.  A GeForce GTX 460 had either 336 or 288 shaders (calling them "CUDA cores" is just regurgitating stupid Nvidia marketing terms) and either a 192- or 256-bit memory interface, depending on which card it was.  Also, that was back when the Fermi architecture ran shaders at double the clock speed of the rest of the GPU.  AMD pretty conclusively showed that more shaders at lower clock speeds is superior to that approach, so Nvidia adopted it in Kepler, and one shader in a GeForce 600 series card (excluding 400/500 series rebrands) is much slower than one shader in a 400/500 series card.

Originally posted by Duilyon

Damn it. I really hoped I could play at least medium settings with a good stable FPS. Well I'll test out a trial but I hate lag and itll be a nogo if I cannot pla with at least decent graphics an fps. 

 

Sad day for this guy :( 

It probably will.  I doubt that you'll be able to max everything, but I'd expect you to be able to turn up settings quite a ways.  You'll probably need to tinker with it and figure out which graphical settings bring a huge performance hit (so you can turn them down) and which barely affect performance (and you can turn them as high as suits your taste).  I haven't played TSW, so I don't know what settings it has, but if it offers SSAO, depth of field, shadows, or SSAA, turning those off entirely would be a good start.

The only thing markedly bad about your hardware (other than it being a laptop in the first place) is the 5400 RPM hard drive.  That won't affect your frame rate apart from causing hitching in a relative handful of badly coded games such as Vanguard.  It will just mean that you have to sit and wait at loading screens a lot longer than necessary.

Originally posted by Duilyon

Originally posted by Quizzical

Originally posted by bcbully

Be really carful OP. I've tried to run it on 2 laptops. I suggest getting the 3 day trail first to see if it works for you. I think some of the intergrated laptop cards just don't work.

What hardware did you have?  A GeForce GTX 660M is much faster than any integrated graphics ever made.  In fact, it will probably take another 3-5 years for integrated graphics to offer that level of performance.

My graphics card I think should be fine. Would you agree? Actually I have no idea what would be holding back my laptop. But I am not good with the tech stuff that is why I asked here. And I went CANYOURINIT.com or whatever and said it was barely above minimum requirements..

I agree if the others say so :) I will happily defer to them.

The laptops I tried it on to be honest were not high performance probably not even mid.. What was said when I tried to launch though was "not supported." or something to that extent and it would not run. 

Looks like I will just have to try it and see! Super excited!

Is there only one server or multiple; if several then which one should I join?

Originally posted by Duilyon

I currently own this laptop : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/5176239.p;jsessionid=704C324F8C421DC7A059CE0EC9E23FCD.bbolsp-app03-65?id=1218621250769&skuId=5176239

 

And very unsure if it can run TSW. I really want to play it but I Don't wanna purchase till I know if im able to actually play it with a good FPS. Thanks for your help :D

I have this laptop and play TSW on it.

Do the following:

1. Run in DX11
2. Go to Settings -> Video Options and set the graphics preset to "Ultra"
3. Set AA to 'FXAAHQ'
4. Set Tesselation to 'none'
5. Set SSAO to 'none'
6. Go to advanced tab and set Advanced GFX Effects to '0' (it seems this setting only applies to Tesselation and SSAO, which are off)

I get 40-50 fps in most areas with that and it's beautiful. :-)

Moving the lighting slider in advanced can also can increase the fps. Play around with that too.

Hope this helps.

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Originally posted by Quizzical

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Originally posted by Yalexy The nVidia GTX660M in this notebook is basically the same as the three year old desktop GTX460. 384 CUDA cores and 128bit interface. It's nowhere comparable to a desktop GTX660 with 960 CUDA cores and 192bit interface. It's good for running TSW on all settings at low, but don't expect to ramp up the graphics and still have an enjoyable framerate. I just recently upgraded my GTX460 to an GTX660, so I know what I'm talking about :)

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Having replaced one card with a mild upgrade doesn't prove that you know what you're talking about; rather, that points in the opposite direction.

A GeForce GTX 660M is basically an underclocked GeForce GTX 650.  The latter offers performance about on par with a Radeon HD 7750, Radeon HD 5770/6770, or GeForce GTX 550 Ti.  Take 20% off of the clock speeds and you're closer to a Radeon HD 5750 or GeForce GTS 450, but that's still respectable gaming performance, at least for a laptop.

A GeForce GTX 460 is much faster than any of the cards in the previous paragraph.  In fact, all four of the different cards that Nvidia has branded as GeForce GTX 460 are much faster than any of the cards in the previous paragraph.  And that "four" is not counting the GeForce GTX 460M (roughly on par with a GTX 660M) or the custom SKUs that various board partners come up with.

Besides, you have the specs wrong.  A GeForce GTX 460 had either 336 or 288 shaders (calling them "CUDA cores" is just regurgitating stupid Nvidia marketing terms) and either a 192- or 256-bit memory interface, depending on which card it was.  Also, that was back when the Fermi architecture ran shaders at double the clock speed of the rest of the GPU.  AMD pretty conclusively showed that more shaders at lower clock speeds is superior to that approach, so Nvidia adopted it in Kepler, and one shader in a GeForce 600 series card (excluding 400/500 series rebrands) is much slower than one shader in a 400/500 series card.

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Yeah, you're right, the GTX460 has 336 CUDA-cores and 192-bit, but they're comparable to the 384 cores and 128bit of the GTX660M.

Anyways, technical nitpicking aside, the GTX660M is comparable in performance to the GTX460 and this performance allows to run TSW with all settings on low.

Originally posted by grimgryphon

Originally posted by Duilyon

I currently own this laptop : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/5176239.p;jsessionid=704C324F8C421DC7A059CE0EC9E23FCD.bbolsp-app03-65?id=1218621250769&skuId=5176239

 

And very unsure if it can run TSW. I really want to play it but I Don't wanna purchase till I know if im able to actually play it with a good FPS. Thanks for your help :D

I have this laptop and play TSW on it.

Do the following:

1. Run in DX11
2. Go to Settings -> Video Options and set the graphics preset to "Ultra"
3. Set AA to 'FXAAHQ'
4. Set Tesselation to 'none'
5. Set SSAO to 'none'
6. Go to advanced tab and set Advanced GFX Effects to '0' (it seems this setting only applies to Tesselation and SSAO, which are off)

I get 40-50 fps in most areas with that and it's beautiful. :-)

Moving the lighting slider in advanced can also can increase the fps. Play around with that too.

Hope this helps.

Thank you very much! What type of laptop do you use and is it comparable to my own?

Originally posted by Duilyon

Originally posted by grimgryphon

Originally posted by Duilyon

I currently own this laptop : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/5176239.p;jsessionid=704C324F8C421DC7A059CE0EC9E23FCD.bbolsp-app03-65?id=1218621250769&skuId=5176239

 

And very unsure if it can run TSW. I really want to play it but I Don't wanna purchase till I know if im able to actually play it with a good FPS. Thanks for your help :D

I have this laptop and play TSW on it.

Do the following:

1. Run in DX11
2. Go to Settings -> Video Options and set the graphics preset to "Ultra"
3. Set AA to 'FXAAHQ'
4. Set Tesselation to 'none'
5. Set SSAO to 'none'
6. Go to advanced tab and set Advanced GFX Effects to '0' (it seems this setting only applies to Tesselation and SSAO, which are off)

I get 40-50 fps in most areas with that and it's beautiful. :-)

Moving the lighting slider in advanced can also can increase the fps. Play around with that too.

Hope this helps.

 

 

Thank you very much! What type of laptop do you use and is it comparable to my own?

It's the exact same model you referenced in your link.