Finally, the Laptop Gaming Thread

[Kerouactivist]

I like I'm sure many other users Anandtechers want to buy laptops but, worry about gaming performance.

For those of you with laptops could you please list the laptop that you own it's graphics card etc (intel extreme, Radeon 9000, shared or not etc......) and list the games you play or have played on the laptop and whether or not you were satified with the way the machine peformed.

I think this thread could help alot of people in there decisions to buy laptops

Thanks

 

Finally the thread I've been searching for. I'm eagerly awaiting responces as I'm about to purchase a notebook pc and am worried I will buy one and not be able to game on it (For reference im looking mostly at the Toshiba 5200-00E or 5205-S705) Please end my worries someone

 

[crzylgs]

Laptop: Dell D800 Latitude
Gfx: Geforce 4 TI 4200 (not mx420)
Memory: 64megs DDR not shared (512 system memory)

games played:
BF 1942
UT2k3
Wolfenstein ET
GTA 3
GTA Vice city
C&C Generals
Warcraft 3
CS
Quake 3
Mafia

I have yet to get a game that brought the laptop to its knees.
Also, there are many rumors that this particular laptop is upgradable to the 9600 mobility when it gets to Dell.

 

[andrewjm]

toshiba 5205 - s705 -- best laptop right now in my opinion....

 

[Faldaani]

Same as crzylgs, except i got 1gb RAM...
Playing about the same games plus planetside and starwars galaxies..
Some GTA:VC.. all games play just fine

 

[crzylgs]

oh yeah i played some planetside on it as well, ran perfectly smooth without cutting back on the eye candy.

 

[ek9]

Dell 600m, 1.4ghz, Mobility 9000 64mb

Counterstrike
Battlefield 1942
Desert Combat
Vietcong
UT2003
Warcraft 3
Rise of Nations
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

roughly 7000 in 3dmark 2001, they're all fine, I'm not complaining, makes a decent lan party machine for me

 

[351Cleveland]

Compaq X1000 - 1.4 Pentium M, 640MB DDR 2100, ATI Radeon 9200 Mobility, 1680x1050 resolution

UT2003 (at 1680x1050)
Planetside
Dungeon Siege

All run very well.

 

[Gibson486]

Gateway 600X
2 Ghz
Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
128 MB RAM (I know, it is low)

Games:
GTA
UT2k3
GTA VIce City
Counter Strike
Wolfenstein
pretty much everything so far

 

[Wapp]

My IBM Thinkpad 760el:

Fallout
Alpha Centauri

 

[BeauJangles]

http://pctorque.com/pre-notebook.php

 

[ChaosX2]

Dell 600M
1.3 P-M
384 MB Ram
ATI 9000M 64MB
Windows XP Pro / VMWare 4 running Mandrake Linux 9.1

Civ 3
Neverwinter Nights and Expansion
BF 1942
Rise of Nations

No problems so far. Runs like a champ.

 

[rainypickles]

hp ze4300. amd 2200+, 320mb ddr, radeon mobility 7000 64mb (integrated).

i applied a software update for the video card and it runs seriouis sam, second edition, war3, and bf1942. all games are definitely playable (bf at lower settings) but the laptop will get hot.

 

[JammingJay]

Dell 2650 with 1.6ghz Celeron, 512mb DDR, 16mb Geforce 2 Go card. Scored approx 1600 on 3DMark2001SE and I play WC3. Game is acceptable on medium settings with some eye candy turned off. It seems WC3 is about the limit for this notebook in terms of gaming that would be acceptable for decent gameplay. I'd stay away from any laptop with these specs, or something similar for you'd definitely want something with more power.

 

[Foghorn]

Dell Inspiron 1100 with 64mb shared mem Intel "Extreme"(?) graphics.

Q3 Arena @800x600
UT GOTY @same

both work surprisingly well at these resolutions!

 

[Derango]

Dell Inspiron 600m
64MB Radeon mobillity 9000

ut2k3,
halflife (tfc) (yea, like this challenges ANY computer these days )
worms world party
rise of nations
GTA3

No problems at all.

 

[Phobic9]

Wow I've been all over the net looking for a thread like this. I'm just surprised I still knew my password . The only problem is that I won't be getting my laptop until February '04 but it's nice to see what kind of performance everyone is getting.

 

[AntisociaL]

Dell inspiron 8500
2ghz P4
Geforce 4 4200 go

Plays anything so far with the 1280x800 native resolution with ease.Getting 8900 3d marks.

 

[Vcize]

Anyone had success running star wars galaxies on their laptop?

 

[gwlam12]

Inspiron 1100
Intel Extreme
384MB Ram

Warcraft 3

 

[Tikerz]

Gateway 450XL
P-M 1.6GHz
512MB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 64MB

Medal of Honor: AA
C&C: Generals
Tiger Woods 2003
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

3DMark 2001: 7600 3DMarks

 

[sparkyclarky]

Dell Latitude C400
866MHz PIII-M
384MB PC133
i830 integrated gfx

It plays a bit of Age of Mythology and Unreal Tournament just fine for when I come home from school on some weekends. Otherwise I leave the big rig to the gaming action

 

[AmigaMan]

Dell Latitude C840
P4 1.8Ghz
15" UXGA LCD (1600x1280)
40GB 5400RPM HD
nVidia GeForce4 440 Go 64MB
768MB RAM

I've played:
Ghost Recon
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Baldurs Gate II
Medal of Honor w/Spearhead exp.

No problems playing any of them. I usually play at 1024x768 but with R6 multiplayer, I have to tone down the graphics detail a bit otherwise it's a little choppy. It'll play most games I think, but I'd definitely spring for a faster CPU/GPU if you're a gamer. I'm a software developer so this puppy works great.

 

[jimmyl930]

bump

 

[Arkitech]

has anyone attempted to run a game like Morrowind or Gothic on a laptop? What were the results?