Thread: Good laptop for gaming
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2013-08-14 , 20:32
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Originally Posted by AMD View Post
I don't really know what the card is, but my cousin has the same exact laptop and it runs Minecraft with realistic texture pack pretty smooth, GTA SA with ENB Series mod which is way better than the original GTA IV graphics extremely smooth, and it does run GTA IV pretty smooth, but not maxed out. So?
Minecraft mostly uses CPU just like dwarf fortress and any other lo-fi high-demand games (also any voxel games, graphic cards are useful for old texture-on-triangles approach to rendering, voxel stuff is not HW-accelerated yet by any GPU afaik). GTA IV is a 2008 game, any 'gaming' laptop from 2010+ should run it without problems (only problem might be if the texture pack you mention needs crazy amount of GB of GPU ram to load those = super high def resolution), but again, going for lower resolution should make it easy for GPU.