Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
veilchen:
Ohh, that's true. I forgot about that, I wrote them down somewhere. Thanks for reminding me, Neriana.
KatEnigma:
You can't really compare duo's to non duo's by just looking at what frequency they run at (the Htz part) This never was a good way of denoting power, and even Intel has finally dropped it. AMD's always had a lower frequency than their Intel "equivalents" for example, and most gaming companies acknowledged that (not for TS2, mind you... ) A modern processor is going to run as fast as a P4, most likely, despite the lower Ghz. The problem is, now that Intel has dropped that, there's no easy way to just know what is better than what. That it's a laptop makes it even harder. However, I found a Cnet Asia review of a very similarly spec'd out Dell, and it got an Excellent rating. The processor is one of the new Core 2 Extremes, even. I don't know about Oblivion, but you should be able to play most other games. ATI, unfortunately, has all but gone out of the mobile processor business. :-\ To play TS2 on any new laptop, you're going to have to try the workarounds.
veilchen:
Thanks Kat. I wonder why ATI is doing that, what with notebooks becoming more and more popular. I guess a REAL gamer doesn't do laptops :)
Oh bother on the TS2 part. I already ordered it, because I was able to get most of the explanations I needed thanks to friends here, there, everywhere. Oblivion should have no problem (even though Bethesda says it's not mobile supported), as long as the T&S is present. Now I have to wonder if TS2 will play. Oh hell...
KatEnigma:
Oh, TS2 will PLAY. You just won't be able to see the fish and might have some other graphical errors. There are lots of posts here at Maty about the workarounds for that. EAxis isn't supporting laptops, either. ::)
veilchen:
EAxis isn't even properly supporting their products, so that's not a surprise. After all, non-support is what they're best at.
I've been searching and reading on the laptop issue, luckily the search for "laptop" only brought up 3 pages, so it's not all that much. I'll be expanding it if necessary, but that's enough for now.
Meh, at least it will play it, that's good enough for now. The fine-tuning will just have to be done upon installing TS2 and its EP's.
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