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can an ibm thinkpad r40 handle eve skill changing ?

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K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#1 - 2014-01-07 19:08:51 UTC
okay so i got this piece of crap laptop from my closet.. ibm thinkpad r40 by some holy force i was able to install windows 7 onto it.
it has a pentium M processor 1gb of ram, radeon 7500 i thinks and i just want to skill change or maybe chat with some corpies, forget missioning or roaming obviously, sadly if i try to get passed the launcher i get a BSOD in windows 7 ????? wow

please dont tell me to overclock it because the last machine i overclocked litterally blew up lol...

any advice or suggestions ?
please do not tell me to get a new machine because my funds are short until i can afford a a better one..
and just as well please forgive my bad english and bad grammar :/ i am a french Canadian (sorry for that too)

take care friends and fly dangerously ;)
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2014-01-07 19:13:56 UTC
K'na wrote:
please do not tell me to get a new machine...



Ok, but its gonna be really hard to show you in sign language through the forums....

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Sarah Flynt
Red Cross Mercenaries
Silent Infinity
#3 - 2014-01-07 19:27:20 UTC
No, because the GPU doesn't support Shader Model 3.0.

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ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#4 - 2014-01-07 19:36:00 UTC
System Requirements wrote:

with 256 MB VRAM or more
that supports Shader Model 3
that supports DirectX 9.0c


http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-7500.6941.0.html

256 MB VRAM? Nope, graphics card only has 64 MB.
DirectX 9? Nope, graphics card only supports DirectX 7.

Sorry, but I don't think your laptop has any chance to run the Eve client.

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Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#5 - 2014-01-07 19:56:54 UTC
You can look for it yourself or read it here but I don't get it. Either way you have to read.

Google it you lazy so and so.
K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#6 - 2014-01-07 20:20:28 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
K'na wrote:
please do not tell me to get a new machine...



Ok, but its gonna be really hard to show you in sign language through the forums....


HHAHAHAHAHAHA rofl
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#7 - 2014-01-07 22:57:27 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
K'na wrote:
please do not tell me to get a new machine...



Ok, but its gonna be really hard to show you in sign language through the forums....



You can probably hire that S. African sign language guy who was at Mandela's funeral. I hear he's out of a job and looking for work, and I'm sure he'd happily do a personal visit for cash.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-01-07 23:01:29 UTC
About the only way you will get into EVE with that machine is Remote Desktop into some other computer that actually can run EVE. It will be laggy as hell and you would be insane to undock, but you could get away with updating skill queues and market orders.

Otherwise you are stuck with running evemon and keeping an eye on things through the API. At least with Evemon yu will know when a skill is about to run out.
Aiwha
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2014-01-07 23:09:34 UTC
Splashtop remote desktop viewer. I can do skill changes from my kindle.

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K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#10 - 2014-01-08 00:40:44 UTC
i should point out that i did verify that this "pieceofcrap" that is actually its name
has directx 11 intalled....

im glad everyone agrees that eve CANT run on it.. im just hoping that there might be a WAY.. some time ago i did manage to have eve running on a netbook, mind you, undocking made the screen pms on a nuclear scale... but it did run enough to spin the ship....
i jut want to change skills while i am on the road (parked of course lol) because my new job consists of many nights driving across my great nation... so any helpful advice as to HOW would be greatly appreciated, thank you and merci
Jill Chastot
WE FORM BL0B Inc.
Goonswarm Federation
#11 - 2014-01-08 00:41:43 UTC
"can an ibm thinkpad r40 handle eve skill changing "

Guis, pliz read

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Jill Chastot
WE FORM BL0B Inc.
Goonswarm Federation
#12 - 2014-01-08 00:42:42 UTC
K'na wrote:
i should point out that i did verify that this "pieceofcrap" that is actually its name
has directx 11 intalled....

im glad everyone agrees that eve CANT run on it.. im just hoping that there might be a WAY.. some time ago i did manage to have eve running on a netbook, mind you, undocking made the screen pms on a nuclear scale... but it did run enough to spin the ship....
i jut want to change skills while i am on the road (parked of course lol) because my new job consists of many nights driving across my great nation... so any helpful advice as to HOW would be greatly appreciated, thank you and merci



Also, Wife/GF/BF/significant other.

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BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-01-08 00:48:42 UTC
As someone said previously you may be able to remote desktop into a machine that can actually run eve. This assumes that you leave your main computer on while on the road. Other than that, your only option is to sell the thing and buy a better laptop =/

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Air
The Initiative.
#14 - 2014-01-08 00:49:32 UTC
I play eve on a ten year old PC with intergrated graphics and Pentium D ... Its been called a toaster, amongs other things... Its not great but it runs eve (barely)...

Might as well attempt an install and find out Big smile

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K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#15 - 2014-01-08 01:04:26 UTC
it is installed and as i have stated before anything after launcher is bsod and complete system reboot (forgot to mention the reboot part)

i do have ubuntu installed on another partition.. might running eve in linux have a better chance of success ?
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#16 - 2014-01-08 01:10:31 UTC
Turn that machine back into a XP one and it just might work. Something in the launcher is probably just too much for that poor old thing.

Also, Poutine is obviously an OP food type.
K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#17 - 2014-01-08 01:19:01 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Turn that machine back into a XP one and it just might work. Something in the launcher is probably just too much for that poor old thing.

Also, Poutine is obviously an OP food type.


im sorry i do not know what op food type is

in win xp, wifi does not function, no idea why, only in ububtu and win7 (driver issue maybe ?)
Lizard Terelli
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2014-01-08 02:43:32 UTC
If you had 4gb of memory, you can run VMWare that will emulate the shader model hardware needed for eve.
TheMercenaryKing
Collapsed Out
Pandemic Legion
#19 - 2014-01-08 04:01:47 UTC
Lizard Terelli wrote:
If you had 4gb of memory, you can run VMWare that will emulate the shader model hardware needed for eve.


The CPU would need to be compatible. without the specifics of what version of Pentium M it is, it would be bad to guess.

Anyways, Original poster, what is the budget you plan on looking at for a new system. Do you want a PC or laptop, or does it not matter? With that information we can make a recommendation for you, either prebuilt with a warranty or a custom do-it-yourself.
K'na
Montreal Poutine Factory
#20 - 2014-01-08 13:47:21 UTC
at the moment my entire savings were spent on a Hino cube truck, so i am guessing i will have to spring for 1 of those 500$ notebooks from bestbuy or walmart lol.. i figure eve can at LEAST run on that
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