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PVP performance on laptop
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bearskill
APC Technologies
#1 - 2016-04-01 07:44:29 UTC  |  Edited by: bearskill
So I am a returning player to eve and have only a laptop with 4gb ram, oldish intel processor and intergrated grahpics card. Obviously does not run the game all that great.

I want to upgrade but it has to be a laptop (no room for a desktop and need to be on the move in house) and my budget is limited due to having kids. So here is what i want to know....

I am currently into PVP and need something that can load grid and run smoothly when encountering a large fleet, I REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GRAHICS SIDE OF IT. So when looking for a new laptop baring in mind whati have just said, what is the most important and least out of RAM,Processor and Graphics card? Do i really need a good GC if turning all graphics down to minimal or is it the CPU or RAM that's most important to effectively load grid and run smoothly?

THanks for any help.

ps. live in uk
Sabriz Adoudel
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#2 - 2016-04-01 08:21:06 UTC
Low end is fine if you are running one client and have settings on minimum, except for exceptionally big fleet fights. There, even on minimum settings you will need at least a low end dedicated GPU.

RAM/Processor should be fine on a lowspec system.

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ergherhdfgh
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2016-04-01 16:00:57 UTC
SSD helps load a new system faster when jumping from system to system. Not sure if it helps load grid faster. If you are tight on RAM it will increase page filing and slow stuff down.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#4 - 2016-04-01 16:09:53 UTC
buy something with ssd, or buy an ssd for the current machine.

biggest noticeable improvement i have seen.

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Velarra
#5 - 2016-04-03 14:18:30 UTC
ergherhdfgh wrote:
SSD helps load a new system faster when jumping from system to system. Not sure if it helps load grid faster.


I'll confirm that the speed of the location/drive, that stores the resource cache has an impact on grid loading time and in particular loading all things on grid. (At a certain extreme point, you only wait for information from the server about what is on grid.)