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   Posted by: JhayAnn
   Member

   Hello,

   I recently got an Acer Aspire 4730Z notebook with Vista Home Premium. It initially had an experience (?) rating of 3.3, until I installed MS Office 2007 & some Vista critical updates, so now the rating's down to 2.7.

   Anyways, my family would like to try and install/play some games on it but I don't know what this thing can/can't handle. I was hoping that if I named some of the games that are often played, one of you could tell me if it would lag like heck on this notebook...?

   - Oblivion
   - Assassin's Creed
   - Medieval Total War (Medieval 2 when it comes out)
   - Sims 2 (Sims 3 when it comes out)
   - Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

   I'm new to the notebook/laptop stuff, so it's hard for me to compare what my CPU and video card equates to vs the desktop version, and what it can handle, and if it's higher/lower than what's listed on a game's recommended system requirements, etc.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: morrislee
   Moderator

   Oblivion and Assassin's creed are virtually impossible to be "playable" on the GMA 4500MHD(the graphics "card" you have in your laptop model)

   Medieval Total War is very possible, it is an older game, as for Medieval Total War 2, you can probably "run" the game, but not so playable

   Sims 3 WILL run, and probably the most graphics intensive game you can run on that laptop.

   Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines will run, but I am not too sure how the performance will be.

   always good to check with http://www.srtest.com, if they say that it is above the minimum, you can definitely run it.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: Peter
   Moderator

   I personally would not be so optimitic about playing games on that laptop. Oblivion and AC are out of the question completely.

   As for the other games you're going to have to turn your screen resolution down and turn off all graphical extras to get most any game to run at a decent framerate. You need a dedicated video card to run games at acceptable levels.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: JhayAnn
   Member

   Thanks for the website, I forgot all about that srtest! LOL It was saved in my PC's bookmarks... and that thing has died on me, hence the reason for getting the laptop to tide me over so I don't have to drop out of school.

   According to that http://www.srtest.com, my CPU isn't good enough for Sims 3. A lot of the games supposedly failed due to the video in this thing. One of the games that failed was Civilization IV, yet I installed it yesterday and it seems to be running fine; no lagging. The laptop exceeds all of the video requirements except for the fact that it's not an nvidia or ATI or whatever I guess. It has enough video memory and stuff, so I can't figure it out. I don't know how what to think of that site now...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: morrislee
   Moderator

   The cpu is nothing to worry about too much on, my C2d 1.83 is said to be not enough for a lot of games, yet it runs fine.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: JhayAnn
   Member

   morrislee,

   I'd just hate to buy a game and find out that it doesn't work... Since most places won't let u do a return on PC stuff if it's been opened.

   FYI to any/everyone - I've installed a few more games since, even though the video card failed the SRtest, and those games are working well so far, even the game-hog Sims 2 & all expansions is running fine. It's usually a picky troublemaker, so I'm surprised it works.

   I know someone else had said that Oblivion won't run on this thing, & they're probably right... But I really really really want to be able to play it on the laptop instead of the dying-again xbox360.

   Anyways, I just wanted to let everyone know this info.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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