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Can Dor
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-02-16 00:21:01 UTC
I understand that eve is a very friendly game when it comes to requirements. I do understand that it needs to have a ati video card, but im not sure if this video card, even though ati, can support eve. I overall want to know want to know if it can play eve, mainly for use of fac war and mission running. Please respond.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AAIC5S2
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#2 - 2013-02-16 00:25:14 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
It doesn't have to be ATI.

edit: I wouldn't try to run any modern games on the...thing...you linked.

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Karl Hobb
Imperial Margarine
#3 - 2013-02-16 00:27:07 UTC
Look for a video card that supports Shader Model 3.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2013-02-16 00:27:54 UTC
GTX550ti. Love mine.

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Ehronn
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-02-16 06:03:55 UTC
my old pc was WinXP with an older EVGA Geforce GTX+ 9800 1 Gig and it ran Eve on max settings at 70-100 fps

but then I got a new gaming rig I had been saving up for a few months to go insane on

and went intel i7 / 16 gig ram / 120g SSD / 2TB wd Black data drive / 2 EVGA Nvidia 670 FTW edition sli and my framerate is now in the 700 frames per second :P

http://image.dude-suit.net/albums/userpics/10002/evedocked.jpg

over 300 fps flying around

http://image.dude-suit.net/albums/userpics/10002/evespace.jpg

with all settings maxed out

but that's extreme overkill on this game

So I run EVGA Precision X software and use Frame Rate Limiter on Eve set to 60 fps, no need in creating excess heat, framerate and power useage that I don't need.

but heck even my old Geforce 9800 1 gig video card in missions and Jita I still got 70-100+ fps with it. And you can pick those up cheap.

just make sure if looking at cheap that it supports shader model 3, I don't know much about ATI, I've never had one

I've been a Nvidia fanboi with my first Nvidia "gaming" graphics card was a Geforce 4 TI 4800 back in 2002ish playing Dark Age of Camelot and I actually used that card for sooooo long that my next upgrade after it was a Geforce 7600 then the 9800 now the 2 evga 670 ftw editions in SLI.


if you do go nvidia I highly recommend EVGA ive stuck with them since the old school geforce days and they have the best customer support, if you have to RMA they cross ship you new cards sooo easily. And they offer a buy back program to buy back your older evga card and give you a credit on a new card.


but yea. I would search around though cause I am very biased with evga brand and with nvidia.
I know ATI has some amazing stuff though, I've just never took the plunge and tried them out, so that makes a bit ignorant and 1 sided when comparing. But that's my opinion on things.
Joran Dravius
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-02-16 06:47:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Joran Dravius
Can Dor wrote:
I understand that eve is a very friendly game when it comes to requirements. I do understand that it needs to have a ati video card, but im not sure if this video card, even though ati, can support eve. I overall want to know want to know if it can play eve, mainly for use of fac war and mission running. Please respond.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AAIC5S2

With a game with requirements like Eve's generally speaking if you have to ask you can't run it, or any other game that isn't an NES ROM. Against my better judgement I'll have a look and get back to you though.

Edit: I looked for about one second, saw the word "netbook" and immediately closed the tab. Netbooks are basically smartphones with a keyboard and a bigger screen. They're for watching videos of cute cats on youtube, not gaming. You're going to have to get a high end regular laptop, or preferably an actual gaming laptop if you want to run any games that aren't made by Zynga. Razor makes one that's unusually slim and portable for a gaming laptop. It's by no means the most powerful, but It should be more than good enough to run Eve. You should check it out.
Klymer
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2013-02-16 06:49:43 UTC
Well according to this page it has this video card. I would be more suspect of the CPU than the video card. Those processors are designed around low power consumption and low cost instead of performance. Which is why they put graphics chips like that in those systems, they are better at decoding HD video than the CPU is. The hard drive is also an issue, it's a 5400 rpm unit which is designed to meet power and price points rather than performance. Sure you could install an SSD, but when you factor the cost of one into the notebook itself as well as the other issues with doing that, you would be better off spending a bit more money on a better notebook to begin with. The screen resolution is another issue, 1366x768 isn't a lot of screen area for EVE to work with, how good is your eye sight?

For a small, low cost computer for general use that looks to be a fine system, Windows 8 aside. However, I don't think you would be very happy trying to play EVE on it for very long.