EVE General Discussion

I wouldn't count on it.

It should run the game fine, but I have doubts about the 'flawlessly on high settings' part.

Laptops and gaming are never the perfect combination, I have found.

Even if you do find one capable of running any game flawlessly, it'll probably be the size of a suitcase and run hotter than the sun.

Graphics cards that come with pre-built machines can usually show grandma's photos, or watch ball-breaking bike riders on YouTube, but as a rule aren't good enough to game with. It's advisable to always expect to replace that, and with it more than likely the power supply as well, if you plan to use a pre-built machine to game. Otherwise, expect to slog along as best you can.

Eve really isn't that hard on graphics cards. My Dell 7520 has an i7 3612qm with a 7730m 2 GB graphics card. Runs eve at 1080p on highest settings with max AA at about 20 FPS when there's a heavy presence of ships and debris (Ice belt with a couple large fleets). Turn off AA and the fps jumps up to 30 FPS.

The 920m lags a little behind the 7730m in performance so you will have to turn down some details for a smooth experience at 1080p.


Don't listen to the epenis trolls. For whatever reason people get off on calling anything that isn't a GTX 980 crap.




He's quite obviously looking at a laptop which are always pre-built. Building your own laptop still uses prebuilt parts which severely limits your choices far more than a desktop.

Nothing will play anything flawlessly.

IT is when it has nothing to do with the question asked. He didn't ask to hear your opinions on gaming on a laptop. He wanted to know what the real world performance would be.

You have provided nothing positive to the discussion. Your posts could be removed and there would be no loss for the OP.


EDIT : On top of that you're completely wrong about the performance potential or the size of a gaming laptop. An ASUS ROG GL551JW-DS71 can be bought for around $1000. Is a 15.6 inch laptop that easily fits inside a small suitcase. Has an i7-4720HQ CPU with 16 GB of ddr3. Graphics is handled by gtx 960m with 2 GB of gddr5. Storage includes a 1 TB hard drive with a 128 GB SSD for the OS/games. Display resolution is 1920x1080 TN panel. Has features such as a backlit keyboard 720p webcam and the other standard laptop stuff.

You could also argue that gaming and desktops are not the perfect combination either. That's why people buy both. Your assumption that it's either desktop or laptop isn't helpful.

Now you're just trying to argue because you know you're wrong. He doesn't care about your OMG LAPTOPS ARE CRAP!!!. He cares about what can run eve according to a somewhat vague term. The only part of your post that was remotely relevant to the OP's question was the usage of the word "laptop".

You're providing nothing helpful or even remotely useful to this discussion. Please go take your trolling somewhere else where someone might be impressed by your running of two screens and two clients.

If you need a laptop anyway it's typically more cost effective to buy a gaming laptop instead of a decent productive laptop and a gaming desktop. And they can usually run EVE quite well.

Your CPU will make little to no difference to how well it runs depending on graphics settings. I run EVE on highest settings with an i3. AFAIK, the primary determining factor will be RAM and your graphics capability, and I use a 660ti with 16. I used to have only 8, and I've never run EVE on anything less than its very best (with only engine trails unchecked cuz I'm not a huge fan, but I used to have that checked too). I run it with dual-monitor, and have no framerate issues ever. The worst problems I get are lag problems, which are network related and nothing to do with my hardware.

EVE doesn't require the top-end gear to get the best experience from it. And to play it at all, on lower settings, it won't even need any of the modern low-end gear.