New Laptop Question

Egonieser

Hey guys!

Just bought a laptop (Acer Aspire v3-572PG) so my wife can join me in ESO.
I did extensive online searches and benchmarks and according to them all - it can run most games fairly well, even ESO was listed as solid performance (40-50FPS on medium/high)
Does anyone have a experience with this sort of setup with ESO? (specs below)

CPU: Intel i5 5200U (Broadwell 2.2Ghz, 2.7Ghz Turbo)
GPU: nVidia GT 840M (2GB)
RAM: 8GB DDR3
OS: Fresh Windows 10 x64 (removed all bloatware - YAY, thanks corportions - hate it -.- )
the rest is irrelevant.

Has someone with similar specced laptop played ESO and can confirm it runs well? I mean on paper and benchmarks it looks fairly well, but real life scenarios can wildly differ, especially with laptops. I've had many laptops in the past that look good on paper but struggle in games, even on highest power settings and tweaks.

I can't get to download and install it just yet as i won't be home for a few days, but i want to know in advance if it's even worth downloading the 35GB if it can't run it well and perhaps send it back.
Suppose i should have posted this before i bought it, but it was on sale for £370, so i snatched it up.

Thank you!

Atrek

In theory it should be good for playing with mixed settings, only downside I see other than laptop vs desktop is that it's a dual-core CPU so you'll want particles and such to be on the low end, even crank shadows to low or off since GPU performance always seems to suffer from shadows. Water reflections might need to be lowered as well now that I think about it, but you can probably keep Textures on High with Sampling on High or Medium for a good framerate.

One question worth asking is what is the native screen resolution of the laptop?

Egonieser

vek892_ESO wrote: »

In theory it should be good for playing with mixed settings, only downside I see other than laptop vs desktop is that it's a dual-core CPU so you'll want particles and such to be on the low end, even crank shadows to low or off since GPU performance always seems to suffer from shadows. Water reflections might need to be lowered as well now that I think about it, but you can probably keep Textures on High with Sampling on High or Medium for a good framerate.

One question worth asking is what is the native screen resolution of the laptop?

The native is 768p (awkward number I know) - can't remember exactly as it's not a standard 720p resolution but it's something like 13xx by 768 - and can be supersampled to 1080p (which I won't do).

And yeah, I agree about laptop vs desktop, I personally hate the things and run a custom built, watercooled beast as my main gaming rig, but my wife is disabled and can't sit by a desk for any length of time, nor use controllers for that matter, a laptop is perfect for her.

Atrek

Egonieser wrote: »

vek892_ESO wrote: »

In theory it should be good for playing with mixed settings, only downside I see other than laptop vs desktop is that it's a dual-core CPU so you'll want particles and such to be on the low end, even crank shadows to low or off since GPU performance always seems to suffer from shadows. Water reflections might need to be lowered as well now that I think about it, but you can probably keep Textures on High with Sampling on High or Medium for a good framerate.

One question worth asking is what is the native screen resolution of the laptop?

The native is 768p (awkward number I know) - can't remember exactly as it's not a standard 720p resolution but it's something like 13xx by 768 - and can be supersampled to 1080p (which I won't do).

And yeah, I agree about laptop vs desktop, I personally hate the things and run a custom built, watercooled beast as my main gaming rig, but my wife is disabled and can't sit by a desk for any length of time, nor use controllers for that matter, a laptop is perfect for her.

Ah it's a 1366x768 then ("standard" resolution for 15.6" laptops). I'd set it up to run at 720p (1280x720) or so since usually laptop monitor's aren't that big of screen size and 1080p vs 720p really doesn't look all too different. You'll also get a bit of room for upping the graphics from anything above 768p by going to 720p. As long as super/ultra graphics aren't a major concern the laptop should be fine, really it comes down to performance vs quality.

FYI: I had an Acer laptop with an Nvidia GT 520M and it had optimus (intel integrated & nvidia dedicated), make sure to use optimus or "force" the nvidia card for almost everything or else it'll use the integrated Intel Graphics 5500 GPU. Might also be worth trying OpenGL or D3D9 graphics mode for better performance (less stress on the GPU).