C2C System Requirements Guide: Laptops

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It is highly recommed to play C2C on a desktop, but if can play it on a laptop.


The Fastest Way to Determine if your laptop can play Caveman 2 Cosmos is by finding out if it meets mininum Passmark, CPU Mark, and G3D Mark score requiements.

Passmark = How Powerful Your Laptop Performance Is.
CPu Mark: How powerful your CPU Is.
G3D Mark: How powerful your Graphics Card Is.

While most modern Desktops with a 64 bit OS and decent high speed single core, high Ghz duo cores, and a modern graphics card can run C2C, laptops are generally AOT weaker for games.

1. If you are going to use a laptop to play C2C:

Mandatory 64 bit OS
At Least 4GB DDR3 RAM
At least Passmark Score of 600.

Desktops can get away with 32-bit, but a good majority of 32bit laptops are too weak to play C2C or/and get "out of memory" errors quite often. C2C is processor intensive, and most 32 bit laptops will struggle.You can try a PAE Switch to allow your 32 bit system to use up to 4GB.

2. G3D Mark?
It depends on the resolution you are going to play C2C at.

Most mobile discrete graphics card have at least 1000+ G3D Mark, with 2014 mobile discrete graphics card over 3000+ G3D Mark.

Most integrated cards are bewteen 300 to 1000 G3D Mark.

Generally,
1024 x 768 screen = G3D Mark of 275+
1280 x 800 screen - G3D Mark of 350+
1333 x 768 screen = G3D Mark of 500+
1600 x 900 screen = G3D Mark of 1000+
1980 x 1080 = G3D Mark of 1500+
2560 X 1440 Monitor = G3D Mark of 2000+
3840 × 2160 monitor = G3D Mark of 3000+
Resolutions depend on the specific card.


3.CPu Mark?
At least 3.0 Ghz Single Core
At least 2.4 Ghz Duo/Quad Core
At least 1.8 Ghz Duo/Quad Core that can AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 2.6 GhZ

C2C is ALOT more CPU intensive than GPU extensive.
C2C uses original BTS 32 bits monocore code.
C2C is not multi-threated so it cannot take advantage of more than 1 core.

1.8 GHZ Quad Core that can Turboboost one core to 2.8 GHZ

4. How Do I Find my Passmark Score?

1. Download the Free 30 Day Trial of Performance Test 8.0
http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

2. Run the Benchmark and it will tell your score at the end.

5. Memory?
Highly recommend that your memory is at least 1333 MHz, and DDR3 if your laptop can support it.
DDR2 is the mininum memory Standard, and 800 MHZ should be the lowest.

Storage?
Most laptops have 5400 RPM, but if you can upgrade to a 7200 RPM or an SSD Drive you will see improve load times.

Mininum Laptop System Requirements:
:king:System Passmark Score of 600+:king:

Code:
2008 and later Mobile Single Core of 3.2 Ghz+ [I]CPU Mark of 1200+[/I]

2011 and later Mobile 2.2 GHZ+ Dual Core 2and [I]CPU Mark of 1300+[/I] and AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 2.6 Ghz+

2011 and later  2.0 Ghz+ Quad Core [I]CPU Mark of 1500+[/I]  that can AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 2.6 GhZ+

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html

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Code:
512 MB Mobile [B]Integrated [/B]Directx 9.0c/ Directx 11 Graphics Card with [U]Average G3D Mark[/U] of 275+

OR

256  MB Mobile [B]Discrete [/B]Directx 9.0c/ Directx 11 Graphics Card with [U]Average G3D Mark[/U] of 275+

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275-290
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/midlow_range_gpus.html
291+
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/mid_range_gpus.html

GeForce GT 120M = 279
GeForce 510 =305
Intel HD 3000 = 308
Radeon HD 7450 =322
GeForce GT 230M = 339
Mobility Radeon HD 4650 = 386
Intel 4000 = 455

Code:
4 GB 800 Mhz DDR3 RAM
64 Bit Operating System
1024 x 768 Screen

Recommmend Laptop System Requirements:System Requirements:
:king:System Passmark Score of 875+:king:.
Code:
Mobile  2012/2013/2014 2.3 Ghz+ Dual Core  with [I]CPU Mark of 2500+[/I] and AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 2.8 Ghz+

Mobile 2012/2013/2014 2.2 Ghz+  Quad Core with  [I]CPU Mark of 2800+[/I] that can AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 2.7 GhZ+

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html

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Code:
1 GB  2013/2014 Mobile [B]Integrated [/B]Directx 9.0c/ Directx 11 Graphics Card with [U]Average G3D Mark[/U] of 550+

OR

512 MB  /2011/2012/ 2013/2014 Mobile [B]Discrete [/B]Directx 9.0c/ Directx 11 Graphics Card with [U]Average G3D Mark[/U] of 600+

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http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/mid_range_gpus.html
Intel HD 4400 = 554
GeForce 710M = 604
GeForce GTX 285M = 757
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 =1179

Code:
6 GB 1600 Mhz Mhz DDR3 RAM
64 Bit Operating System
1333 x 768+  Screen


1080p Laptop System Requirements:
:king:System Passmark Score of 1200+:king:

Code:
Mobile  2013/2014  2.5 Ghz Dual Core with CPU Mark of 3400+ and AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 3.2 Ghz+

Mobile  2013/2014 2.6  Ghz Quad Core with  CPU Mark of 4500+ that can AMD TurboCore /Intel Turboboost to 3.1 GhZ+

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html


Code:
1 GB Mobile [B]2013/ 2014 Discrete Gaming[/B] Directx 11 Graphics Card with [U]Average G3D Mark[/U] of 1600+
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

2560 X 1440 Monitor = G3D Mark of 3000+
3840 × 2160 Monitor = G3D Mark of 4000+

Code:
16 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM
64 Bit Operating System
1920 x 1080 24 inch+  Monitor
Wired/Wireless Keyboard
Wired/Wireless Mouse

My Tested Laptops


New :MSI CX61 Laptop (2014) $699
Estimated Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance 10 :hammers: + /10 (Estimated)
Code:
Intel 4th Haswell Core i5-4210M (2.6GHz – 3.2GHz) Processor (CPU Mark: 4347)
15.6″ HD (1366 x 768) Anti Glare LED Display
 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory,
750GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive,
 NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M 2GB GDDR3 Discrete Graphics Card (2014)
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64 bit 
USB 3.0, HDMI 4.1
CPU upgradable up to i7 4910MQ
Estimated (Hasn't Arrived, Expect 1950-2000 Passmark with the Geforce 820m)
My Brother's Score


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Dell 17R N7110 (2013)
Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance: 8.75 :hammers: /10
Code:
Intel Core i5-2450M @ 2.50GHz -  2.99 Ghz (CPu Mark: 3403)
8 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 RAM 
Intel HD 3000
1366 x 768
Windows 8.1


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Thinkpad X220 (2012)
Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance: 9 :hammers: /10
Code:
Intel Core i7-2640M @ 2.80 - 3.2 GHz (CPu Mark: 3976)
1366 x 768
Intel HD Graphics 3000
8 GB DDR3  1333MHz  RAM
320 GB


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Hp Pavillion dv6 (2011)
Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance: 7 :hammers: /10
Code:
AMD Athlon II 2.0 Dual-Core M300 (CPU Mark: 1346)
4 GB 800 DDR2  Mhz Ram
Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series
320 GB
1366 x 768
Windows 8.1 64bit
Code:




Older:Compaq Presario CQ61 (2010)
Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance: 5 :hammers: /10
Code:
AMD Sempron Processor 2.1GHz (CPU Mark: 682)
15.6″ HD (1366 x 768) LED Display
4GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM
250GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
15.6-Inch Screen, 384 MB ATI Radeon HD 4200 Integrated IGP (2009)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit


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Oldest :Acer 5100 Laptop (2007)
Caveman 2 Cosmos Perfomance: 4 :hammers: /10 (64-bit) 2 :hammers: /10 (32 bit)
Code:
Amd Turion 64 x2 TL-56 1.8ghz ( CPU Mark : 1,139)
15.6" 1280 x800 
4GB DDR2 533 MHz memory 
160 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive 
Radeon Xpress 1100 256 MB Integrated IGP (2005)
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit 
Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit

Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit


Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit 32 Bit


 
Good article, to get a sense of scale here on my discrete Radeon HD 6850 I get a G3D score of 2382 and I play pretty much without issues on windowed mode 3360x1410
 
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