Gaming on my new laptop

Where I briefly mention Demigod and Gameranger

Published on April 26, 2009 By Animesh Karna In PC Gaming

The other day, I purchased a new laptop. When deciding which-one-do-I-want, I did the "graphics adapter search", going down the shelf to see the cheapest one I could find that had a real graphics adapter. I wound up buying the Asus G50VT-X5, which has a Dual Core 2 and an Nvidia Geforce card.

(So far, my only problem with this laptop is that when I boot up, it connects to my wireless adapter for "local only": I need to reset the wireless adapter each time in order to get Internet access.)

So far, I've tried Dawn of War 2 and Demigod. Both of these games were picky about display adapters, so I wanted to make sure these worked. The good news is that they worked. I've actually played a couple of online Demigod matches on this thing, and they worked well.

I decided to try using Gameranger to connect to Demigod, but that didn't work out. It turns out that everyone on Gameranger, for some reason, seem to be using an earlier version of Demigod. I would connect to a game, it would fire up Demigod, and then pop up saying "sorry, can't do that: wrong version". Oh well: I expect this to change soon enough.

Comments

OleGregg

on Apr 27, 2009

Always good to have a new gaming laptop. I'm assuming the nVidia card is the mobile 9600?

verspunken

on Apr 27, 2009

Most of the people on Gameranger are pirates, so they only have the release version, as they can't patch the game.

astrath

on Apr 27, 2009

I find that laptops are unpredictable in terms of how well they can play games. Mine can play Sins at max, while struggles with ETW at low/medium. Not that this is much of a problem given that my old pc was such a pile of junk it lagged on low with Sins.

Animesh Karna

on Apr 27, 2009

PauseInTime: it's a 9800, I think.

Verspunken: THAT makes a lot of sense! I was wondering why everyone was playing .91 or .92!

Astrath: Say, what do you think of ETW? By the way, I used to have problems with Sins (including REALLY long load times), but that all turned out to be RAM. More RAM, and it worked beautifully . . . in other words, I sucked at it even faster than before!

NelsMonsterX

on Apr 28, 2009

Congrats on getting a laptop to work with games! I did the same about a year ago, and since I play mostly strategy games with modest requirements, it's worked out great for me.

In hindsight, I do wish I grabbed a faster proc, mine's only a 1.66Ghz Core 2 Duo. I think it matters much more than I thought it would.

Charvel1

on Apr 30, 2009

I also recently bought the ASUS G50VT-X5. I just have to say it is an awesome gaming laptop. It's fun to finally be able to play games at max settings. Sins, DoW2, Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3; all at max or near max settings. Can't recommend this one enough; especially for the price. The graphics card is an nVidia 9800M GS with 512MB.

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