The M2TW hardware thread: please post all hardware queries here

[sapi]

Hang on....are you running a tablet pc?

They really aren't designed for gaming at all....

[Quirinus]

Yeah, I am. I used to use it for school, but not anymore.

Short of buying a new PC, is there anything that I could do?

[Laconic]

You may be able to upgrade a tablet, I'm really not sure if they upgrade like notebooks do, but it would a lot harder than just pulling cards out of a motherboard on a PC. I don't know what the going rate is on notebook components, but I'd imagine they're higher than you find on desktop parts; you'd be spending quite a bit of cash just on a graphics card before you could play the game, and you might still have to upgrade your memory or processor. In short: Good luck.

[sapi]

I don't think that you have many options with a tablet :(

[Quirinus]

Oh...... damn. Looks like I wasted my cash. I won't have any money to upgrade anything, let alone buy a new laptop, with my tight budget. Took me one month to save up enough to buy M2TW.

And yeah, my memory sucks like hell, only 40GB.

[sapi]

yeh - tablets aren't intended for anything but work - they don't have the memory, disc space, video or cpu for games

[Quirinus]

I have Praetorians, Deus Ex, Empire Earth, Condition Zero, Jedi Academy and RTW on my computer simultaneuosly....... it works okay...... I guess.

And my post got edited..... I hope I didn't get a warn for that.

[stranganath]

my laptop specs are below

Toshiba Satellite Pro A100
Intel Duo core T2500 @ 2.00GHz
1 GB DDRII @533 MHz RAM
nvidia geforce go 7300
Windows XP Pro

I am having troubles with battles even on "Low" settings the movement is very sluggish.

Any suggestions??

[zarker]

Not sure if this is the right thread for my question (its not a 'problem', more of a query)

Is it worth leaving BLOOM turned on in the game video options? I thought bloom was more of a light-source effect - like the sun, lamps, fires, stuff like that. As there's not much of this in the game (flaming arrows maybe), is it worth turning BLOOM off to get a big performance improvement?

Cheers

[455trt43trg]

I dont really know about graphic cards, and Im wondering if Geforce 6500 512Mb is good enought for this game?

[Scot's Pike General]

umm..quick question. Would this laptop be suffice for MII: TW?


I want this game REALLY bad and I'm on a 1100-1200 dollar budget.

[deadmeat36]

Can my laptop run this?

BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 1500 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 480MB RAM
Page File: 347MB used, 774MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

[josep]

Is it possible to make MW2 to work on a Windows Vista? Thanks.