I have the TrackIR that I sue for flying and racing sims.Its simple,light weight and not a pain to get going.I have not tried it in SC yet.I havent tried the last 2-3 updates on SC since they are always 20+gb downloads and I have a monthly bandwidth cap. Im hoping this french guy that just bought Suddenlink will change that...doubt it but I can hope.
Statistics: Posted by nervustwitch — Fri May 29, 2015 2:38 pm
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Who said Geezers can't have fun?
Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri May 29, 2015 10:36 am
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I understand the need for the laptop,I would definitely go with the ASUS from hearing how well they have run for fellow Geezers. Yeah he is lucky...my dad would have told me get a job....lol. Geez back in the 80's when I was 13,I had to mow yards all summer non stop just to get my first guitar.Not that my dad didnt want to but just moved to new town and he was starting his own business.
As for Star Citizen,I can run it but not as good as I would like.I get about 40frames in Arena Commander now.Its playable,but when my pc gets to where I cant run at least 60 frames...its time to upgrade.
Im also an original backer but I have stopped spending,I want to earn the rest. I had the aurora LN but traded up for the new Reliant released this week....cool looking ship.
Hope to be running with ya in the "Verse".
My system,just to let you know what might be needed to run this game better.
i5-2500 3.4ghz
EVGA 680 SSC video
8gb ram
1tb hd
3 750gb hd and a 320gb hd
120hx 24" monitor running at 1920x1080 and all I get max in SC is 40.
Statistics: Posted by nervustwitch — Fri May 29, 2015 2:08 am
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The reason I need a laptop is that my job requires me to travel - sometimes 10 months out of the year. I tried carrying around a desktop but that proved cumbersome. A laptop is much easier to travel with, especially when you are restrained to hotel rooms. I agree with the Asus laptops as well. For Christmas I bought my son a CyberPower laptop. It is a very nice 17.3" Fangbook system with 16 gigs, GTX 980M video card, i7-4710MQ Processor 2.50 GHz 6M Smart Cache, Max Turbo Freq. 3.50 GHz, 256 GB Solid state drive and a 1 TB Hybrid drive. It cost a little over $2000. Now I'm jealous. I'm looking at getting one for myself. He loves his and his frame rates are incredible. He's lucky he has a dad like me
Well, let's look to the future and consider playing Star Citizen with the rest of the guys that have pledged here. I look forward to it. I have 2 Constellation Andromeda's and one Aurora LX. I have 2 High Admiral accounts and am an original backer. Got my face to face Skype talk with Chris Roberts for almost an hour. He's a really nice person. My son talked with him too.
Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri May 29, 2015 1:29 am
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I know DSL in my area is up to 15 down but it will never hit it....lucky if it ever hits 5 down.But has alot of packet loss and that is very bad for games like BF4 or any FPS games.
Statistics: Posted by nervustwitch — Thu May 28, 2015 11:11 pm
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It is got a bit more umph than yours and all it does while playing a game as low quality compared to BF4 standards is stutter really bad,freezes for a second here and there and shows graphical artifacts until the laptop just shuts down.
When it was new it was fine,did great but the laptop housing is such a bad design it would run too hot and eventually that has damaged the processor to the point that what I said above happens with any game.We bought her laptop described as a "Gaming Laptop".
Lesson learned with Dell laptops.
Spent another $800 and built her new pc at the time
Case,MB,3.6ghz AMD CPU,8gb ram,1 tb had,560 GPU. plus all the other parts required for a desktop.Spent half the price and got a much better gaming pc.
Im not trying talk bad about your laptop so much as I know dell is just bad at the exterior designs,especially at the time when that 555m was considered current spec card.
Asus Gaming laptops are much better quality from what I have seen and heard,I know there at least 2 geezers that did run them in the past.
And yeah,I could see any laptop just melting trying to run Star Citizen...BIG CR fan here,I will be playing a lot myself.Some other geezers here also have pledged for it.
Me I have a Cutlass Black,Freelancer DUR,Drake Herald and the Reliant. Cant wait for PU to go live.
Statistics: Posted by nervustwitch — Thu May 28, 2015 11:08 pm
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http://www.cnet.com/products/dell-xps-17-3d/
This is the Dell 3D laptop that's not an ordinary laptop. I watch 3D movies with the Nvidia 3D glasses and also can play games in 3D. The graphics with the SandyBridge were tops a few years ago. Now they are replaced with the Maxwell architecture, like the GTX 980M for laptops that are sold now. My machine was made for graphics at the time to do the 3D stuff and it does it quite well. It will still play all the games like Black Ops - exception of Star Citizen by Chris Roberts that is coming out in 2016. (I am also a contributor to Star Citizen and will be playing when it comes out. I'll need a new system before then.)
I guess the real story lies in the fact that, like always, technology advances and games get more intense and need more processor power. This heap has done me well but if the games played with it are a low fps because of advancements in games, there goes my pocketbook again.
As I stated above, I have been using the AK-12 since I am just beginning to play BF4 Multiplayer. No attachments.
I have the highest speed DSL. My download speed we 12.57 Mbps.
Well maybe it's just two things. I need a new machine and I need to suck less.
Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu May 28, 2015 10:29 pm
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