Who plays EQ2 on a laptop?

[Ookami-san]

<p>I've been thinking of getting a laptop for other reasons but would like to play EQ2 on it.</p><p>Who is playing EQ2 on a laptop?  Which laptop do you use?  How is the performance?  What graphics card does your laptop have?</p>

[Tebos]

<cite>Ookami-san wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I've been thinking of getting a laptop for other reasons but would like to play EQ2 on it.</p><p>Who is playing EQ2 on a laptop?  Which laptop do you use?  How is the performance?  What graphics card does your laptop have?</p></blockquote><p> What's the most you would be willing to spend on a notebook computer?</p>

[ratdeath]

Make sure it has 2gb of RAM and a decent graphicscard (for a laptop) with at least 256mb dedicated memory. My laptop has a 7600 with 512mb RAM and I use it to dualbox, seems to run EQ2 pretty ok, also bought it to be able to play if I am going away somewhere. It can't compete with my gamerstation though... but it was never meant to be doing that. Ah, don't forget to get a good CPU in it, EQ2 is CPU hungry if I am not mistaken <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> So stay away from centrilo or whatever its named... Don't expect to much batterytime playing games either, unless you buy some extreme laptop, guess you can have long battery time and good performance if willing to part with lots of money <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Orsham]

I currently only play EQ2 on my laptop. My desktop is too old to run it well. I have had no problems at all. I have a 1.83ghz processor and 2gb of ram. I have a Geforce 7500 with 128mb of vram. It runs very well. So I don't agree that you need 256 of vram.

[Pentolux]

<p>I play EQ2 sometimes on a MacBook Pro with 2GB RAM, a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU and an ATI Mobility X1600 GPU. The OS it is running on is Windows XP.</p><p>It works like a charm at High Quality and never crashed once. Considering the fact that Windows on Mac-Laptops isn't probably the most speedy and efficient set-up, I guess you'll be certainly fine with a native Windows-Laptop in the same spec-range.</p><p>As stated above, memory is key and make sure you'll have one of those mobile ATI or Nvidia GPUs and not some internal memory sharing Intel chipset solution. </p>

[Athri]

I play on a Pavillion dv9000t. 2gbs of RAM, a decent processor and 7600GO graphics card. I can run the game on high quality tweaked a little bit with pretty good FPS. It certainly runs better now than it did a year ago, too. The computer was $1600 last Christmas, no idea how much it would be now.

[g0thiC_iCe_cReaM]

<p>i use a dell inspiron 1505:</p><p><a href="http://www.chicagonote.com/misc/laptop.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagonote.com/misc/laptop.pdf</a></p><p>you should make sure your video card is not built into the motherboard but has it's own gpu...i also took media center off and put XP pro on it instead...</p><p>make sure you get a cooling pad, and at least 1.5 gigs of ram, try for at least a 7200 rpm hard drive and i definitely reccomend 256 mb of video ram if you want it to look good...</p><p>the laptop i purchased runs eq2 pretty well, and looks good doing it too...</p><p>check out dell's refurbished site: outlet.dell.com...and pick "previously ordered new" for the condition since that means the laptop was ordered but never shipped, that way you're basically getting a brand new laptop at a discounted price with warranty...(all their refurbished machines come with a warranty)</p><p>when you play on your laptop have it plugged in directly, don't run on batteries, you take a huge hit in performance running on batteries and your battery won't last very long either...</p>