FSX on a ...... LapTop ?

[chinookmark]

Unless you are aiming for a cost-be-darned top of the line gaming rig, I'll reiterate my suggestion to check out Gateway's FX series laptops. I got mine for 12 hundred bucks, and it has no problems with FSX/Accel. I just checked Gateway's website, and it looks like the FX laptops come with 1GB graphics cards now.

 

[Flundkvist]

Question about the Sager Laptop series.

Will these specifications for the Sager NP9150 run FSX on pretty high settings. I would love to get in the range of this guy named Ronald Griffin. He is my inspiration for getting a good computer right now but I am going to college so the laptop is my only hope. Help please.

1. Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory
2. 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3820QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.70GHz)
3. 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB
4. IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU

Thanks for the tips!!!

Fredrik ​

 

[Dimus]

At work I am using a Dell Precision M4500 laptop, actually Dell calls these mobile workstations. It has an Intel I5 processor at 2.67Ghz, 2 gigs of RAM and a NVidia QuadroFX 880M with 1Gig of VRam. This card is supposed to be a "buissiness" adaptation of the Geforce 9xxx series. I got this one year ago, and although I am not supposed to install non-work software on it, I could not resist the temptation to try FSX on it. I installed it up to SP2 (for some reason Accel could not install) and also loaded some addons. It run quite well at 1920x1080 (native) and sliders on the right side of middle. Unfortunately I could not apply any AA and AF tweaks in this card as I seem to not have control over such things on card level. I had to uninstall it pretty quickly though to avoid any trouble.

 

[Xilence]

A friend of mine got one of the Dell XPS machines a good 8-9 months ago, and a copy of FSX too, so down the street i ran, joystick in hand, I had to have a go. Got it all installed, all service packs, updates, blah blah blah, couple of hours later, i was zipping around at 30 FPS with at least 75% on all the sliders. I was hmm...shall i say..."impressed" (read:EFFing jealous). Here I am on a 4-5 year old HP junker that really, and i mean really struggles with FS9, im talking 20 fps max with sliders averaged to 50%. Hahaha and now the dvd drive dont work...maybe i'll get one on obamas tab.

I can confirm this. I am working with the latest XPS17 with 2670QM and GT555M. I can play FSX smooth (with the right tweaks ofcourse) on a 2560x1440 screen! =D

 

[aeronca1]

Not all HP's are "unserviceable" , i have three running ,the oldest for five years uninterrupted and the new ones for over a year without issue.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /--><o></o><o></o>

Lucky you! The HP I'm typing on now is on it's second screen. The case actually split on the left side and I was using tape for a while (OBIO, your racing stripe muffler tape suggestion did look awesome and just geeky enough for me to retain my rep) This is a known issue with HP laptops and I guess it was costing them too much to fix, so they stopped doing so... This is the only operating HP laptop I have out of 3. The others are serving as parts sources. Lucky for me, a local laptop repair service has a wall of HP laptops if I ever run out of parts. They won't even sell HP's in their retail outlet.....

Another known issue with these HP's is video going blank. This is the result of HP using some kind of foam filler between the graphics chip and it's heatsink. Often the two don't even touch. You can restore the systems to operation by heating the back of the board behind the GPU to reflow the solder then put a copper shim between the GPU and the heatsink. On my example there was no heat transfer paste at all between the CPU and the heatsink.

All in all, HP laptops are very poorly designed and put together.