Laptop/PC Question

[Colemeister116]

Hi All,

If i was to buy a new laptop/PC, what am i looking at to run FM quickly and the 3D engine smoothly. Is it to do with the RAM size and the graphics card?

Could anybody suggest what i would need to run it quickly and smoothly with a high number of leagues loaded.

 

[Luarez]

Hi All,

If i was to buy a new laptop/PC, what am i looking at to run FM quickly and the 3D engine smoothly. Is it to do with the RAM size and the graphics card?

Could anybody suggest what i would need to run it quickly and smoothly with a high number of leagues loaded.

It's CPU, RAM and Graphics Card, there the main things you should look at.
I work in IT, so if you give me a budget i can look for you

 

[Sean Taylor]

If you get a laptop, airflow is important too! My current laptop which i've had for 3 years kept overheating because i never gave it much airflow so my processor and graphics card used to get really hot when playing games and that can obviously cause detrimental damage to the components inside. So in the end I had to take apart my laptop, clean off the old thermal paste that was applied to my CPU and GPU and apply new and much better thermal paste and now it runs like a dream, barely gets to half the temperature it used to, so now my game runs even smoother without my CPU having to work overtime trying to cool itself down. Maybe look into a cooling pad, that should supply a cool airflow to your CPU.

But to answer your question, in my opinion CPU is the most important thing, the better the CPU the faster the game will process, 4GB ram would be sufficient and thats pretty much standard with the cheapest laptops these days. And the graphics card is pretty much self explanatory, better = better quality.

 

[dwellsnyc]

Lets say I wanted to spend between 250-500 dollars. Could I get a lap top to run it well?

 

[Colemeister116]

It's CPU, RAM and Graphics Card, there the main things you should look at.
I work in IT, so if you give me a budget i can look for you

I'm looking at between £300 - £700 so whatever is good in that range.

 

[Colemeister116]

What would this be like running it? Price is £599

Processor

6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-6200U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.80 GHz)

Display
17.3 inch LED Backlit Anti Glare Display with Truelife FHD resolution (1920 x 1080)

RAM
8GB 2 DIMM (2x4GB) DDR3L 1600Mhz

Hard Drive
1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive

Graphics Card
AMD Radeon™ R5 M335 4GB DDR3

 

[Jimmeh36]

You can get something like this on pcspecialist:

Chassis & Display Cosmos Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i5 Quad Core Processor 6300HQ (2.3GHz, 3.2GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM) 8GB Kingston SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M - 2.0GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 12
1st Hard Disk 500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
M.2 SSD Drive 120GB KINGSTON SSDNow M.2 2280, SATA 6Gb/s (550MB/R, 520MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-8260 M.2 (867Mbps, 802.11BGN) +BLUETOOTH
USB Options 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery Cosmos Series 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (48.84WH)Power Cable 1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language COSMOS SERIES UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & LicenceDVD Recovery Media Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 YearLabour)

Total Order Price £709.00 - could go down to £672 if you just have a single 1TB HDD (no SSD - I would recommend keeping the SSD though so that they can install the OS onto it) or £643 if you swap the GTX950 for the GTX 940 (if your only using the graphics for FMs 3D pitch and no other more intensive games)

This build would be much quicker than the one posted above - quad core processor, considerably stronger GPU (even the 940m), SSD (if you can budget for it)