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What's the best graphics card for this game on a laptop?

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by Faction54, Nov 3, 2016.

  1. Faction54

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    Hey, I have a Toshiba laptop and it runs BeamNG but not that well. I was wondering if you could suggest a laoptop graphics card/upgrade UP TO £120/$150/134 Euros that would run the game the best?
     
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    you do know that changing a graphics card on a laptp is quite some work and impossible if it hasnt got a dedicated card
     
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    You need to tell us the exact model number of your computer to get any reasonable answers. It is possible on some laptops but mostly not.
     
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    *external graphics card. Or processor. Something to improve the amount of AI players my laptop can handle. it is a Windows Ten Toshiba C50-A-1HR, about two years old.
     
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    I don't think it's worth spending £120 on a laptop where the slow Pentium will just cause a big bottleneck.
     
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    No such product exists. Your laptop lacks thunderbolt 3 which is the only way to add an external graphics card. Your laptop does not have upgradeable internal graphics card or CPU. You can do absolutely nothing except replace the whole thing.
     
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    Just get a new comp, don't waste your time trying to revive your current system. I think the only component you can upgrade is the RAM, and even that will provide marginal differences at most. Even if you had the ports to accomodate an external graphics dock, any desktop grade cards that can run beam will be bottle necked by your pentium
     
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    The docks cost more than his budget before you even get a gpu for em
     
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    Ok, is there any other way I can improve the speed of my machine? I have deleted all unused apps, defragmented, de-virused, wiped my hard drive of unnecesery files and all my graphics are turnd down loooooow. But Beam.NG still takes up 98% of my processing power, the graphics are terrible, and the largest number of AI cars I can run simultaniously is.... wait for it... one.
     
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    thats pretty much all you can do is turning off collision
     
  11. Faction54

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    wat's that?
     
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    Nope.. If it's a Pentium there's nothing you can do. It lacks processing power.
    GPU is probably the built-in HD Graphics, which is not suitable for any modern game (except Minecraft).
     
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    Not even minecraft. Minecraft does not run on intel 4000 graphics. Atleast it doesn't run smoothly. Trust me, I know.
     
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    Ok, so if I was going to get a good laptop for the game (plus others) what would you recommend me? (Windows 10, outside the £120 budget obviously, but wouldn't want to spend over £400.)
     
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    Keep your laptop (for school/work) and invest those 400 quid in a gaming pc :)
    Something with:
    - i3 6100
    - GTX 750 Ti or newer/faster
    - 8 GB RAM
    Don't know how the prices are where you live, but I think 400 pounds will buy you a pretty neat build.

    That thing is not capable of running BeamNG. Outdated CPU and bad GPU. Game needs like an i3 + R7 240 as bare minimum to be playable. I don't think any laptop of 400 pounds is capable for this game.
     
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    i would also say that a desktop would be a better idea but i wouldnt advise the 750ti anymore maybe the 1050 would be an idea
     
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    I would recommend saving some more and going for a 1050Ti at least. A full build will come in at less than $600.
     
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    My allowance is on £10 a week (I know, right?) but christmas is coming up so I might get some cash then:)
    I'm a total laptop noob, but what about this?
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-15...=100338&rk=17&rkt=26&mehot=pp&sd=131939479750
     
  20. Blijo

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    4gb ram, nope

    Try to get 8gb or More. I would also go for a nvidia card. Amd processors aren't bad, but for gaming I would suggest a Intel ix xxxx HQ chip, not a u chip though( that's a chio for battery life)
    I have a i7 6700hq, 8gb ram and a 950m 4gb, and this and other games run very well. My older laptop used a amd a6 with an 1gb amd GPU, wich wasn't bad, but not suited for beamng (played wot on mid high settings at 30fps)
     
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