kamil121 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Here are the spec. Processor AMD Phenom™ II Quad-Core Mobile Processor P960 clock speed : 1.8 GHz (will be overclocked) Operating system Windows 7 Permium 64-bit Installed Memory (RAM) 3.00 gb Graphics AMD Radeon™ HD 6330M Graphics memory amount : 1,024 MB dedicated VRAM. Available graphics memory can be expanded using system memory, through HyperMemory™ technology: up to 2,811 MB with 4 GB system memory installed, and up to 4,859 MB with 8 GB system memory, (with pre-installed 64-bit operating system). memory type : DDR3 Video RAM (resp. Video RAM and system memory combined) connected bus : PCI Express® Other than that it has 300 gb HDD . Other toughts - Pretty decent laptop for a good price of 420 euro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 It should run, but it won't be that much of a pleasant experience. It won't be very smooth on anything other than absolute lowest settings; I think you'd actually be better off playing it on a console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrefromEstonia Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 You are gonna overclock a laptop? How are you gonna do that? I taught laptops can't be overclocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 You are gonna overclock a laptop? How are you gonna do that? I taught laptops can't be overclocked. Most can't. He's probably expecting to overclock but I doubt it will be possible due to a limited BIOS and/or insufficient cooling system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeesPwnMets Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 You are gonna overclock a laptop? How are you gonna do that? I taught laptops can't be overclocked. Some Alienwares can. I've seen pre overclocked i7 2920QM Extreme CPUs to 4Ghz on Alienware laptops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrefromEstonia Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 That OC-ing will fry his PC to crisp. Only thing that will allow him to OC is a cooling pad under the laptop. I actually now remember that my friend OCd his HP laptop a bit, only 0.2 ghz but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamil121 Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Thanks for the answer. I'd say im gonna try running it anyways. we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 (edited) That processor is below minimum for a Quad, as the minimum for Quads according to the game box is 2.4GHZ. Also, 3GB of RAM IS NOT enough for Windows 7 64-bit, as Windows 7 64-bit uses around 2.2GB of Ram for the OS itself, as seen here on my 7 Home Premium laptop 64-bit: Also, the AMD Phenom needs a higher clock speed(at least on laptops anyway), to run IV, as my mom's laptop has an AMD Phenom II Quad core @ 2.2GHZ and it runs the game at around 22fps max. Remember, laptops are lower power as compared to their desktop counterparts. Also, if you try to OC a laptop, you would more than likely cause it to over heat and either burn out the motherboard and/or the HD-a laptop motherboard can be $500+(I forget what site it was, but a local PC repair shop in the Gulfcoast area showed me the price ranges for laptop motherboards, and even back in 2007 they were high as crap)...Food for thought before risking it by OC'ing a laptop... So, since the 64-bit OS uses around 2.2GHZ of RAM, and you only have 3GB, that does not leave anywhere near the 2GB minimum for the game-nor does it leave hardly any for gaming at all.. So, @ 1.8GHZ-even at (2.0GHZ), don't expect more than 15fps at most, as even a 2.2GHZ Phenom II cannot really handle more than 22fps with IV...You CAN run III, VC, and SA maxed out, but NOT IV or EFLC... Edited August 16, 2011 by radioman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxon Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 That processor is below minimum for a Quad, as the minimum for Quads according to the game box is 2.4GHZ. A Quad at 2.4 GHz is the recommended Also, 3GB of RAM IS NOT enough for Windows 7 64-bit, as Windows 7 64-bit uses around 2.2GB of Ram for the OS itself, as seen here on my 7 Home Premium laptop 64-bit I've got 4 GB RAM of which 3 GB usable, and my OS (Vista Home Premium 32bit) uses about 1 GB itself, so are you sure it really uses 2.2 GB? It probably isn't 2.2 GB, have you seen how much processes you've got running there? 98!! I've removed most of my extra programs, I only use 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 ^^^^^^^ what he said. Nowhere near 2.2, Vista used about 700MB in vanilla, 7 is below that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 That processor is below minimum for a Quad, as the minimum for Quads according to the game box is 2.4GHZ. A Quad at 2.4 GHz is the recommended Also, 3GB of RAM IS NOT enough for Windows 7 64-bit, as Windows 7 64-bit uses around 2.2GB of Ram for the OS itself, as seen here on my 7 Home Premium laptop 64-bit I've got 4 GB RAM of which 3 GB usable, and my OS (Vista Home Premium 32bit) uses about 1 GB itself, so are you sure it really uses 2.2 GB? It probably isn't 2.2 GB, have you seen how much processes you've got running there? 98!! I've removed most of my extra programs, I only use 60 Like 90% of the performance issues are do to failed system management with GTA..in most FPS vids the morons have like 800+ CPU threads apart from the GTA ones and have an array of systray icons and tool windows open.. ~460 CPU threads on x64 win7 is proper, people who leave indexing and system restore on while playing also make me laugh..they're all convinced they're computer savvy too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I've got 4 GB RAM of which 3 GB usable, and my OS (Vista Home Premium 32bit) uses about 1 GB itself, so are you sure it really uses 2.2 GB?It probably isn't 2.2 GB, have you seen how much processes you've got running there? 98!! Well, since as you can see from that picture, the ONLY thing I had running was Internet Explorer(IE) and the Task Manager, so the rest must have been System files and AV? what he said. Nowhere near 2.2, Vista used about 700MB in vanilla, 7 is below that. I wasn't talking about how much ram games use, I was talking about how much PC's use by itself without hardly any programs running...For the record, IV uses around 52% of the PC Memory, as seen here from the in-game Benchmark(this is from before I installed the Patch 4).. CPU Usage: 47%System memory usage: 52% Video memory usage: 51% Hardware Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Video Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 Video Driver version: 8.14.1.6091 Audio Adapter: Speakers and Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC) Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz So, as you can see, even with 6GB of Ram, 52% is used for the game(in this case IV), and 51% of the VRAM is used(on average-not to scale). So, if I figured that right, that means that around 3GB is used by the game? Just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaveZer0 Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 you know i can see it now.... ten years from now when computers are 400 times more powerful some moron will still be asking can i run it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I wasn't talking about how much ram games use, I was talking about how much PC's use by itself without hardly any programs running... Yeah, I was talking about that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 @Radioman: Looks to me like you need to clear some crap off your PC, you probably have loads of bloatware running in the background or something. Here is how much mine is being used: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaveZer0 Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 not to jump on the beat on radiman bandwagon, but my system only uses 2 gb ram at idle, and i have a mega load of startup items running, starting up with only windows uses only .75 gb on my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 I wasn't talking about how much ram games use, I was talking about how much PC's use by itself without hardly any programs running... Yeah, I was talking about that as well. Not trying to doubt you or nothing, but..I just checked on my Vista desktop(32-bit), and it is about the same as Windows 7 as far as memory usuage as seen in these 2 pictures: and Notice that the only things I have running are Firefox, my Music recorder(Freecorder)-for recording the on-line radio, and the task manager(3 things)..I have 3GB DDR2 RAM(2.75GB Usable) on this PC...So, Vista and 7 are about the same as far as memory usage? @OTB, How did you get the System Ram usage that low on 4GB Ram? Just curious, i'd like to know your trick on that one... off-topic, one of the SA radiostations(KDST) is a real-life country station, as you can see from the picture above-lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) Close all your programs? Windows clearly isn't the only one using RAM in your screenshots. Firefox uses loads of RAM in itself. Edited August 20, 2011 by OverTheBelow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo440 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 you know i can see it now.... ten years from now when computers are 400 times more powerful some moron will still be asking can i run it? 'Will it run it' is also a stupid question. It should be -how well will it run- or something close to that. 64bit graphics with a quad core that will get shut down by the bios when it heats up, so it'll be 1024x768 at low settings, maybe a little better with a cooling pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkey82 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Install a fresh copy of windows 7, reboot it a few times, open up the task manager and look at the memory usage. It WILL be around 750MB. Case closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Install a fresh copy of windows 7, reboot it a few times, open up the task manager and look at the memory usage. It WILL be around 750MB. Case closed. I did that on my Vista laptop-it came with a Free upgrade to Windows 7, when Windows 7 was released-Windows 7 came on a seperate disc later on(as Windows 7 was not yet released at the time I bought that laptop, but HP had a thing where if you bought a PC running Vista, you can get Windows 7 free when it's released-it was released a few months later), which means I had Vista on it when I first bought it. When I installed Windows 7 on it(took a little over 3 hours to do the upgrade), and the memory usage was the same as before-around 900MB to 1.2GB-with NO programs running-except for the System ones that have to run for your computer to be stable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaveZer0 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 every system i have seen use that free upgrade has used more resources. in my shop when we sold systems with the upgrade, wed have the clients come back and we would do a clean install using the key and it cut usage down by more than 40%. so you didnt do a clean install, you upgraded over vistas junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Thanks for the heads up about the Free upgrade SlaveZero, that would explain the problem on that computer. But, on my Windows 7 laptop(the one that came with Windows 7-NOT Vista)-even with NO programs running, it still uses around 2.1GHZ RAM as seen here: This is with NO external programs running, except the System files that have to run so the computer is stable? As you can see, I have NO programs running-not even the Internet browser... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Root through the process tab and identify which processes are using the most amount of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exxon Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Radioman, I'm just curious, are those your children in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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