Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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tooob
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Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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Hello

Excuse my noobishness but can my laptop cope with this do we think?

Core 2 Duo P9700 2.8GHz
8GB Ram
Geforce 9300M GS with 256MB


Really really want to play this :)


Edit - just seen the link to the hw test.. dl'ing

Thanks
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Darklord
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Re: Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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Well your graphics card is below minimum spec, but I've read other with underspec machines have been ok. Does the Tech demo work alright?

Daniel.
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Re: Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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Hmm, yeah. It needs to be taken down to low settings for the creature to animate smoothly but.. I'll give it a go I think and report back

Ta
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Re: Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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I played happily with GeForce 8800 without lowering any default settings. Of course, 8800 is the top end of its generation and 9300 is the bottom [of the next one]... but I'm not sure it makes it so much worse. Should be ok, I guess.

...Oops, I forgot that my 8800 has 768 MB of video memory :)
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Re: Sony Vaio Z51WG - suitable?

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Well, its playing ok on low settings @ 1600x900
Win 7 x64 ultimate.

What would be handy - as this is where I am currently experiencing slow down - would be a specific toggle to reduce the quality of the teleport fields. IE the puzzle areas on level 4, there the number of fields make the game run slowly.
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You could try lowering your res as 1600x900 is quite high. That would make a big fps difference.

Daniel.
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