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BlinK To ObliVioN · May 30, 2011, 09:26 PM // 21:26

Im new to forum not to guild wars just forum so i hope this is in the right place sorry if it isnt.... So basically my dad has offered to buy me a laptop if i do well in my exams anything under £480 needs to atleast play guildwars1 of it could cope with gw2 on very low settings decently that would be a bonus but not a major priority it will be used for school work aswell... If anyone could reccomend anything that would be excellent

Thankyou,

BlinK

GW2 might be a bit ambitious for that price!

rcox100 · May 30, 2011, 10:15 PM // 22:15

a 500 dollar laptop should be able to play guild wars on max settings, depending, my 500 dollar computer does, it can play black ops.

Bristlebane · May 30, 2011, 11:32 PM // 23:32

GW1 is very easy to please, I played it at 60fps on a built-in Radeon HD3200 on my old mainboard, and I believe most laptops today offer far better graphics performance than that.

GW2 on other other hands, that's really difficult to say. If gaming is your main reason then it's better you spend those £480 on a stationary computer giving you a far more better gaming experience.

Oh yeah, I even played GW1 on a 1.6GHz Atom computer, a small Netbook. It was fully playable!

S N E B Z O R · May 31, 2011, 02:39 AM // 02:39

Hi there

If I were you I would either take the money and save up more money for a higher quality lap top in preparation for GW2... OR get a desktop that will have an edge over the laptop for the same amount of cash.

Chrisworld · May 31, 2011, 02:41 AM // 02:41

I'm glad we're getting to the point now where Guild Wars can be played on "old machine" as we call them today. You should have no problem playing GW on a cheap laptop so long as it has anything above a Radeon x1000 series GPU chipset.

Quaker · May 31, 2011, 03:24 PM // 15:24

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Originally Posted by BlinK To ObliVioN

If anyone could recommend anything that would be excellent

Be sure that the laptop you get has a good balance between CPU and GPU. Most laptops are not designed with gaming in mind, so they tend to concentrate more on the CPU than on the graphics, often resulting in ones that have a good CPU but crappy integrated graphics.
I would suggest that you try to find a unit with a discrete video chip and discrete video RAM. If that's not possible (at that price) there should soon be some laptops featuring the newer AMD processors with integrated graphics worth looking into.

BlinK To ObliVioN · Jun 01, 2011, 11:42 AM // 11:42

Okay i probably wont be buying this till end of august time so ill hold out, thankyou!