2003MINI on 4/3/2005 at 18:02
Has anyone successfully run the editor on a laptop yet? If so, what kinda specs do you have. I have lots of time during my commute where I sit on a train, and it would be GREAT if I could use this time to make a mission or two. Is it possible to do some development on laptop and then dump to desktop PC to test out rather than running on laptop?
Stardog on 4/3/2005 at 18:57
Laptops aren't so different from PCs. Mainly things like graphics cards are different due to the size.
I can run the editor and other games fine on my laptop (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Thief III, World of Warcraft, Everquest II, and loads of other latest games).
My specs are:
Pentium 4, 2.6 Ghz
512Mb RAM
Mobility Radeon 9600 (The Sims 2 needed Catalyst drivers to be installed, and mobilitys don't support these, so I used a catalyst>mobility installer, I wouldn't recommend doing this on a new laptop though, since there can be graphical bugs when it's running on the battery alone)
ccstudent2004 on 4/3/2005 at 18:59
I thought Thief3 was incompatible with laptops? Says on the box "laptops are not supported." Maybe i missed something :confused:
Stardog on 4/3/2005 at 19:06
Quote Posted by ccstudent2004
I thought Thief3 was incompatible with laptops? Says on the box "laptops are not supported." Maybe i missed something :confused:
Why are laptops any different from normal PCs?
Also, 2003MINI, I wouldn't expect to be able to use the editor for very long, the 3D flesh view preview in the editor will drain yor battery quickly.
Navyhacker006 on 4/3/2005 at 19:07
Unsupported != uncompatible.
Unsupported means, 'We won't make any promises. Just don't come asking for help if there's a problem, because we aren't supporting it".
Uncompatible, obviously, means it won't work, period.
Help, much?
:wq Navyhacker
Harwin on 4/3/2005 at 19:37
Quote Posted by 2003MINI
Has anyone successfully run the editor on a laptop yet? If so, what kinda specs do you have. I have lots of time during my commute where I sit on a train, and it would be GREAT if I could use this time to make a mission or two. Is it possible to do some development on laptop and then dump to desktop PC to test out rather than running on laptop?
Yes. For much of the beta evaluation I was out of town and using a laptop when I did editor testing. It was a fairly high-end laptop, but that's all I recall (it was a company laptop, so I no longer have it nor remember the specs)
2003MINI on 4/3/2005 at 19:54
Great, thanks for the info. I'm faced with getting a new Dell laptop, and I'm not sure how beefy to make it. I have to pay for it and don't want to have to spend $2400 on a laptop that is top-of-the-line. The lower end laptops have the ATI mobility series. The higher end have the NVidia 6800 mobile chips. I'd love to have the NVidia, but they are on the high-end laptops. But the ATI only ahve 64MB RAM.
I'll probably just end up flipping a coin :p
