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GTX 970m for eve?
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eocsnesemaj
Doomheim
#1 - 2016-02-24 15:16:55 UTC  |  Edited by: eocsnesemaj
Anyone out there playing on a laptop with a GTX 970m gpu?
Curious if i can max out eve settings or not if i buy one.

Thanks!

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Mercur Fighter
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2016-02-24 15:42:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Mercur Fighter
eocsnesemaj wrote:
Anyone out there playing on a laptop with a GTX 970m gpu?
Curious if i can max out eve settings or not if i buy one.

Thanks!

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One of my laptops has GTX 970M and 4700QM for processor - it can handle mid-sized engagements on max settings. But for larger engagements it starts to lag and you'll probably have to turn settings down.
Ibutho Inkosi
Doomheim
#3 - 2016-02-24 16:09:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Ibutho Inkosi
I know an optometrist who loves people who game on laptops.
He wants to buy a new YACHT!

As long as the tale of the hunt is told by the hunter, and not the lion, it will favor the hunter.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#4 - 2016-02-24 18:40:20 UTC
It's terrible, you can barely play at 640x480 with 256 colours...

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2016-02-24 19:46:13 UTC
Considering I can run Max settings even in Blob fights on a 860M I'd go out on a limb and say yes.

Eve barely needs the power of a pocket calculator to run on Max settings *most of the time*. And when the performance does break down, typically the GPU is not the limiting factor. Actually, the biggest bottleneck when it comes to performance in Eve is ... Eve.

You can have a dual Xeon E5-2698 v3 and 4 nVidia Titan X in your system, and it will still start stuttering in some situations. But in most cases, it will be silky smooth on some cheap-ass Core i3 and an Intel 4400 Chip. Eve is weird like that.
Varro Octavius
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2016-02-25 16:37:49 UTC
Short answer, yes. A 970m will be fine providing your sitting at around 4ghz on your CPU and playing at 1920x1080. But like all online gaming, your setup is only as stable as the server your playing on.
eocsnesemaj
Doomheim
#7 - 2016-02-25 17:25:53 UTC
Thanks for the answers. Looks like ill go with the 970m afterall.

As for gaming on a laptop, i travel alot with work so will be nice to not stare at my worklaptops 13.3 screen on lowest possible settimg all hunched over like some eve crack fiend. Twisted
Crystal Liche
ACME Mineral and Gas
#8 - 2016-02-25 18:06:23 UTC
IMHO the biggest performance increase I have seen is upgrading to SSD if you don't have one. I have two of the same computer, only one has SSD and it is night and day better than the other.