Nothing happens after selecting DirectX

[hopeless girl]

it doesnt matter as long as i can play games such as civ and still can do my studie. it doenst need to be a game laptop but a better one than i have now. i have already send my specs on this forum. it needs to be better than that one. the price doenst matter, i can search for the type.

 

[hopeless girl]

i think i have found one:
Optical driveCD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive

Amt of RAM: 512 MB (max 1024 MB)

Hard drive: 40 GB

Graphics hardware: NVIDIA GeForce4 488 Go

Amt of video RAM: 64MB

Processor: Pentium 4

Motherboard chipsetSiS 648

Processor speed 2.6GHz
Medion Laptop P4

 

[The_J]

Oh, nonono!

I see, this is now getting confusing. The problem here is, that this laptop is sooo old, that the graphic card names nearly begin to be the same like the new ones.

Short comparison:
old GeForce4 488
new GeForce 480

I know, it's not easy :/.

 

[hopeless girl]

oke..... maybe this is a good one:
Processor: intel CoreDuo T7200 @ 2 Ghz with 4 mb cache
Nvidia GeForce FX 2500M with 512 mb memory
working memory: 2048 MB
Harddisk: 160GB
this is a Dell M90 Precision.

 

[The_J]

That's a graphics card for graphic professionals, it will not work well in computer games, and as far as i can find with google it's also a bit under the minimum specs.

 

[hopeless girl]

what kind of laptop do you have? i cant find a laptop that is good enough

 

[timtofly]

what kind of laptop do you have? i cant find a laptop that is good enough

What is wrong with this one?

hi guys,
thanks for the answers. i found a laptop for 399 euro's but i dont know for sure if it is a good one. we have a site like ebay called marktplaats. i dont know if you know what that is but there are a couple on that site but i dont know!!!!! the laptop is HP Pavilion G7-1115ED. can you tell if it is a good one? this is the graphics card Radeon HD 6470M.

If you are on a tight budget and can afford this one and it is still available, that would be my recomendation. There is no "perfect" laptop.

@ tokala

I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop that was designed to play HD movies which is now the defunct standard which BD replaced as the winner. It has terrific graphics for it's day.

It has a Intel core2 T5500 1.66 GHz processor. 2 Gig memory. Direct X9 and a Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 and I think that it is 512 meg. It is below specs and I am a pretty patient person, so the lag does not effect me, that much. If someone is used to a faster desktop, then any laptop may drive them crazy. The biggest thing in a laptop is there are laptops that do have "dedicated" memory for the graphics and it is highly recommendend to purchase this type of laptop since "integrated" memory will more than likely not even get the game loaded.

 

[hopeless girl]

So the hp pavillion is good enough to play This game? Someone said That it waant good enough? I dont have enough money this week but next week i will. On my laptop THE game doesnt even start.

 

[tokala]

It has a Intel core2 T5500 1.66 GHz processor. 2 Gig memory. Direct X9 and a Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 and I think that it is 512 meg. It is below specs and I am a pretty patient person, so the lag does not effect me, that much.

OK, I see. "It runs on hardware half as fast on a huge map and high settings" means in DX9 mode and with a lot of patience
DX9 mode seems to stress primarily the CPU, so your under-spec GPU is a (almost) none-issue.

And for the purpose of Civ5 that AMD quadcore in the HP might not even be faster than your T5500.

Nowadays the latest integrated GPUs are as fast or even faster than entry level dedicated GPUs. E.g. any i3-2xxx with its HD3000 will probably outperform that AMD quadcore with the HD6470 in Civ5.


@hopeless girl:
yes it will work on that HP, but you might end up in a situation like now when the next "must have" game comes around in one or two years and it won't work on your shiny new laptop. On the other hand, that's probably as good as it gets for 400 EUR. For reference, ~500 EUR could get you almost twice the CPU performance and more than twice the GPU performance ...

 

[timtofly]

I am saying for the money, that the game should work. It will not work perfectly. As in the other thread having 8 (1.6) Ghz cores is not working either late game on huge maps. I would agree that having two (3.6) Ghz cores at this point on a laptop would be better, but not sure if they would be cost effective not to mention heat and availability.

I still think the largest bog down is "moving" and storing the data. My laptop maxes at 2 Gig. I am not really sure (until) it can be tested or someone makes a comment that windows 7 using 4 Gig does a better job than XP does with 2 Gig.

It is true that my dedicated Nvidea Go7600 can render the graphics just fine. The problem is still in "adressing" all the data involved in doing so. Which is related to the coding and the fact that any core under 2.0 Ghz. is probably not suited to do so (properly).

I have another unique point about my laptop that I have not even addressed yet and that is the fact that the game is housed on a 8gig thumb drive that is being "bussed" through a USB 2.0 port. I was trying to see if files would get "less" corrupted on this drive as opposed to the Hard Drive. I am sure this causes some lag also. I do know that HP did a great job when they put this laptop together 6 years ago, and hopefully this years model is just as capable.