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gaming on laptop

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/gaming-on-laptop.62846/

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mandar5 Original post #1
Jul 13, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Hey guys my dad will be receiving a 50k laptop which would be vista based that implies it would have 1 gb ram.So can i play games like fear,doom3?thanks.
prasad_den
Jul 13, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Does it have a dedicated graphics card..?? Just having a 1GB RAM isn't sufficient to play a game.. :D
chesss
chesss #3
Jul 17, 2007 at 2:19 PM
If you want to game make sure you can install xp on it. Many vista laptops these days don't have drivers for xp.
W
Jul 17, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Many gaming companies advice against playing heavy duty games on laptop.
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mandar5 #5
Jul 17, 2007 at 4:28 PM
why is it so?
adithyagenius
Jul 17, 2007 at 7:26 PM
^^ heating
From my personal experience. After playing for 2 years on a laptop with good graphics card, it will be running at 1/4th the original framerate