Laptop Gamers

CyberDemon said:
Things is, you got to manually adjust a laptop for gaming. Like you have to set how much processor power and if you are using wireless, you got to set that to maximum performance as well. The default settings should be the Energy star compliant stuff or manufacturer specific settings. You should change those settings if you want a good experience.
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Ye thats what I did, I changed to the high performance module on my Laptop then I still increased the CPU speed on the module since it wasn't max. I use a lan cable on the max setting it can go.

I still want to get a gigabit router/switch.
 
Merenwenrago said:
Ye thats what I did, I changed to the high performance module on my Laptop then I still increased the CPU speed on the module since it wasn't max. I use a lan cable on the max setting it can go.

I still want to get a gigabit router/switch.
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What would be cool is, if Windows 8 would allow you to choose your USE* before windows loads. Like if you select "gaming", then only the gaming stuff will be loaded and all other apps and services will be unloaded. Like you don't need printer app or some other software for word processing loaded, which will just hug system resources. And alternatively if you just want to do internet banking for instance, all you need is the stuff relevant to that to be loaded. And OFC a normal startup will probably just load everything as normal.

You can tell that I have thought about this for a while... :)
 
CyberDemon said:
What would be cool is, if Windows 8 would allow you to choose your USE* before windows loads. Like if you select "gaming", then only the gaming stuff will be loaded and all other apps and services will be unloaded. Like you don't need printer app or some other software for word processing loaded, which will just hug system resources. And alternatively if you just want to do internet banking for instance, all you need is the stuff relevant to that to be loaded. And OFC a normal startup will probably just load everything as normal.

You can tell that I have thought about this for a while... :)
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That's a really good idea. I remember a few years ago seen a laptop (maybe it was a PC, can't remember) that would bypass everything and just play the DVD (movie) if you selected that. Within 3 seconds the movie started.

What you're saying is pretty much the same, but more varied. I like.
 
CyberDemon said:
What would be cool is, if Windows 8 would allow you to choose your USE* before windows loads. Like if you select "gaming", then only the gaming stuff will be loaded and all other apps and services will be unloaded. Like you don't need printer app or some other software for word processing loaded, which will just hug system resources. And alternatively if you just want to do internet banking for instance, all you need is the stuff relevant to that to be loaded. And OFC a normal startup will probably just load everything as normal.

You can tell that I have thought about this for a while... :)
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That would be quite cool although you could just make a gaming user account on your laptop with everything loaded for gaming instead.
 
There are lots of stripped down operating systems out there. I remember TinyWindowsXP a couple of years back and many windows7 versions are out there (albeit they're mostly illegal torrent downloads)

However, this wouldnt really be all that necessary if Windows was just better at cleaning up after itself. Windows tends to leave a lot of stuff loaded in the RAM and in the virtualdisks. Windows 7 is much better than previous.
 
There are so many good older games that I generally play those on my laptop.

CyberDemon said:
Things is, you got to manually adjust a laptop for gaming. Like you have to set how much processor power and if you are using wireless, you got to set that to maximum performance as well. The default settings should be the Energy star compliant stuff or manufacturer specific settings. You should change those settings if you want a good experience.
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Mine scales the processors up as needed.
 
indie games. find world of goo, braid, limbo, plants vs zombies.

flash / mame games also works like da bomb.
 
I use my laptop for most games. The newest addition is an Acer, Phantom Black QuadCore, 6gb Ram, 1200g HDD, 1.5mb gfx card, 17.3" LED screen - and it runs pretty much everything.
 
I'va got a macbook and I'm also able to run sc2 on medium settings!
Warcraft on High settings and TF2 also on high.

No complaints this side!
 
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