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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: m7feettall on July 05, 2010, 12:07:39 PM
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From reading another thread with one example of a tech support issue it looks like DP may run on either win 7 with like 3 gigs of ram, or xp with 2gigs of ram.
Anyone had experience running dp on a netbook without lag?
If so what are your specs?
I have a notebook and a desktop right now that we play DP on, but I am considering a netbook for the battery life and for an extra web browser for the kids. If it played DP that would be a bonus.
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http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-3150.23264.0.html
That's the most common netbook IGP and it seems to run Quake 3 with 53 fps on average. Nobody I know owns a netbook, so I can't say whether pb2 stutters or not. I hope this helps.
Edit: Oh, I missed the point entirely. "what stats would be needed?". I just saw you mentioning battery life and thought that was the main priority. Ion would run paintball perfectly, but with only 3-6 hours of battery life. I will look into it a little better tomorrow.
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Thanks for the specs.
I went to Best Buy and tried it out. On a Toshiba with the video card you linked to above, and the 1.66 Atom processor, with 1 gig of Ram on Windows 7 it played Midnight and PP1 at around 30-80 fps.
I don't know how it would do on other maps. Figured I was pushing my luck as it was installing a game and running two maps.
I also connected to the CC pub and had no issues with lag, etc.
I would imagine on an xp it would be better, but I would have to test it.
On the Win 7 performance tab the processor was the biggest limiter.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 11z (the one in the middle; http://www1.euro.dell.com/de/de/heimburo/Notebooks/inspiron-11z/pd.aspx?refid=inspiron-11z&s=dhs&cs=dedhs1&~ck=mn) and it works good with around 100fps.
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Can't you just limit the fps to have it perform the way you would like? I don't know a lot about these things but I limited mine to 30 fps just because I was trying to stop my crashes. Although this didn't help my crashes it has hooked me into playing it that way. Everything seems a little blurry but it plays awesome after a few beers.
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netbook not a notebook, viper.
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4500MHD, ION, ION II, radeon HD 3200, radeon HD 4225.
Those are the ones that would run paintball at-least decently. ION II being the best alternative because of its automatic gpu switching (it has two gpu's), but it's not here yet. You'd have to wait a month or two for it (and pay $400-$550).
I'd suggest that you forget about playing pb2 on a netbook though, unless you're ok with almost notebook-like battery life. Just try to look for something that feels right. I.e. Good keyboard, doesn't lag too much while browsing, right kind of screen and so on.
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Can't you just limit the fps to have it perform the way you would like? I don't know a lot about these things but I limited mine to 30 fps just because I was trying to stop my crashes. Although this didn't help my crashes it has hooked me into playing it that way. Everything seems a little blurry but it plays awesome after a few beers.
Just put vsync on, still not too much fps, but it's more comfortable to play.