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[stripeyfox]

Yeah mate that will do ... Here is comparison http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960M-vs-GeForce-GTX-950M. As you can see, the performance gain is pretty significant. Gtx 950m is still pretty good though, just make sure it is a GTX, not a GT . Some *50 Cards such as the Nvidia 750Ti are GT not GTX, that X makes a huge difference. What is the price difference between the one in your post and the one with a GTX950m. You dont really need the i7, if it a i5 instead with a resultant significant price drop it might be worth it to go with the GTX 950m.

Here is a comparison with the listed minimum Video card http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-950M-vs-GeForce-GTS-450.....So better than minimum but not great
Here is a comparison with the recommended Video Card http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960M-vs-GeForce-GTX-770.... pretty damn good...considering

Thanks for the help. I guess I'd get a lot more for my £800 with a desktop but I do travel with work quite a bit, plus we have weekends away in the caravan with the kids which makes it the ideal time to play for me, so the portability is a big plus really.

 

[georgjorge]

Sorry to ask here, but apparently I'm too dumb to understand GPU/CPU hierarchies (but still clever enough to play Civilization )

I'm thinking about buying a Laptop with

Intel Core i5-6200U 2.30GHz
Nvidia GeForce 940MX 2GB GDDR3

and the rest of the specs all covered. Good? Bad? Civ VI Unplayable? Help!

 

[stripeyfox]

Sorry to ask here, but apparently I'm too dumb to understand GPU/CPU hierarchies (but still clever enough to play Civilization )

I'm thinking about buying a Laptop with

Intel Core i5-6200U 2.30GHz
Nvidia GeForce 940MX 2GB GDDR3

and the rest of the specs all covered. Good? Bad? Civ VI Unplayable? Help!

Mate, I can't understand the GPU numbers! The cynic in me says they make them deliberately misleading!

 

[Acken]

Those two components are in the lower tier.
I don't know how civ6 will react but I'm not sure i'd buy a gaming laptop in 2016 with less than a 950M and a quad core (6200u is 2 cores).

 

[upi00r]

After ~5.5 years with GTX 560 Ti I am going to buy GTX 1070 - they kinda dropped in a price and there is a bonus code for Gears of Wars 4 (till October 30) so I can sell it for ~7-8% of the card price. Good deal for me.

 

[Panixs]

After ~5.5 years with GTX 560 Ti I am going to buy GTX 1070 - they kinda dropped in a price and there is a bonus code for Gears of Wars 4 (till October 30) so I can sell it for ~7-8% of the card price. Good deal for me.

I was in the same situation with a GTX 560 TI just about done me ok and should let me at least play civ vi but have just gone for a MSI GTX 1070 8GB alongside my i7-4770k and 16gb of ram I should be ok for a few years

 

[mnf]

Intel Core i5-6200U 2.30GHz
Nvidia GeForce 940MX 2GB GDDR3

CPUBenchmark list

• i5-6200U scroes 4,039
• Civ VI official recommended CPU amountsto a i5-4200M, which gets a score of 4,034

On the CPU side, you are practically at the recommended line, which is "good enough" to run without problems, but this isn't really much

Passmark's GPU benchmarks page

• 940MX scores 1,162
• Civ VI official recommended GPU of GTX 770 scores 6,137
• Civ VI official minimum GPU of GTS 450 scores 1,549

On the GPU side, it's almost certain that you will not be able to run this game adequately.

Overall, you might be able to run the game, but you might not. It's going to be a gamble. And even if you can, it will have to run at all the lowest possible graphical settings. Perhaps you may even end up finding that the game is only playable if you are in strategic view the whole time. So I wouldn't buy that laptop for Civ VI.

 

[stripeyfox]

Lenovo Y700 - any good for Civ VI?

• Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor
• 16GB DDR4 RAM
• 256GB SSD
• Dedicated GeForce GTX 960M 4GB Graphics

 

[georgjorge]

Wow, thanks a lot for all your feedback! Pity I won't be able to run it on this one. It's frustrating because I'm not much of a gamer - been playing Civ IV only over the last years, nothing else. And buying an expensive maching for just one game, I don't know...

 

[Eramas]

Wow, thanks a lot for all your feedback! Pity I won't be able to run it on this one.

According to minimum requirements you should be able to play it. Lower settings, less fps, longer turn times, but should be perfectly playable. My laptop is even worse and I am really optimistic since I was able to play games with much higher minimal requirements. You don't need 60 fps in Civ.

 

[alsie27]

Oh, I'm worried... I have Intel core i3 2.10 GHz and couldn't figure out what the graphics are like.
I have an HP Pavilion x360 laptop. I bought it at the end of last year and didn't really think I would have to pay attention to the gaming possibilities on this because Civilization is really the only game I play regularly. I have experimented with some other games but I never really got hooked on them. Most of the time I don't even have time to play anything, but I've gone through periods when I played Civ regularly.

I've owned and played every Civ game since Civ II, so I would be sad if I couldn't play this one. I even wanted to preorder but now I'll just wait for the demo. I am a bit surprised at how high the requirements are because I've never had a problem with them before with any other Civ games even though my computers have never been exactly great. This one wasn't even the cheapest option available but the only one that had the qualities I wanted (an HDD instead of a stupid SSD drive but still a small and light-weight computer ).

 

[stripeyfox]

Oh, I'm worried... I have Intel core i3 2.10 GHz and couldn't figure out what the graphics are like.
I have an HP Pavilion x360 laptop. I bought it at the end of last year and didn't really think I would have to pay attention to the gaming possibilities on this because Civilization is really the only game I play regularly. I have experimented with some other games but I never really got hooked on them. Most of the time I don't even have time to play anything, but I've gone through periods when I played Civ regularly.

I've owned and played every Civ game since Civ II, so I would be sad if I couldn't play this one. I even wanted to preorder but now I'll just wait for the demo. I am a bit surprised at how high the requirements are because I've never had a problem with them before with any other Civ games even though my computers have never been exactly great. This one wasn't even the cheapest option available but the only one that had the qualities I wanted (an HDD instead of a stupid SSD drive but still a small and light-weight computer ).

I know - it's mad really that you need to spend nearly £1000 on a computer to play this game! (Probably a bit less for a desktop)!

 

[joncnunn]

I know - it's mad really that you need to spend nearly £1000 on a computer to play this game! (Probably a bit less for a desktop)!

Are prices for computers higher in the UK than in the US? The mini tower I bought back in March at Best Buy prior to announcement is somewhere between Minimum & Recommended and cost $700, which per exchange rate on google would be somewhat less than 600 pounds.

 

[Gorbles]

My four-year old PC that tops out at about £670 (four years ago), barring the unnecessary monitors, is easily enough to handle it. Getting a PC to run a Civilisation game has never been a problem, though a Core i3 will have problems with basically anything that requires a decent CPU.

 

[Sic]

Has any of the streamers or people that have had early access to the game done any benchmarks, yet?

It would be interesting to see how accurate the system requirements are. They seem quite a bit steep, especially in terms of what kind of GPU you need.

 

[joncnunn]

Has any of the streamers or people that have had early access to the game done any benchmarks, yet?

It would be interesting to see how accurate the system requirements are. They seem quite a bit steep, especially in terms of what kind of GPU you need.

A while back there was someone who compared the early game FPS rate between graphic modes. I forgot which video it was and the spec.
But what I remember is that in early game holding the zoom constant Medium Graphics was 2X speed of High. Low Graphics was 2X speed of Medium. Strategic was something like 3X speed of Low.
And it didn't slow down that much which he zoomed out; indicating that memory of the graphic map was much more of a bottleneck than rendering the portion of the frame that was selected.

 

[stripeyfox]

Are prices for computers higher in the UK than in the US? The mini tower I bought back in March at Best Buy prior to announcement is somewhere between Minimum & Recommended and cost $700, which per exchange rate on google would be somewhat less than 600 pounds.

I think they generally are more expensive here. When looking on reddit for recommendations people link to sites like bestbuy and newegg for really high spec machines around 800 - 900 USD but then when you search for the same product on Amazon UK it's almost like the same price but in GBP! One of the advantages of living in the US. Prices here are creeping up because the GBP is weak against the EUR and USD post "Brexit".

I'll keep looking though. I'm hoping to sell my existing laptop for £250 - £300 which will be a good deposit for the new one.

 

[alsie27]

I know - it's mad really that you need to spend nearly £1000 on a computer to play this game! (Probably a bit less for a desktop)!

Yes - This laptop cost 700 euros (a bit less than 800 dollars) and it's not good enough. I don't think I can justify it to myself to get another computer just to play one game (even though I could afford one) because this computer is still so new.

 

[ddd123]

Are prices for computers higher in the UK than in the US? The mini tower I bought back in March at Best Buy prior to announcement is somewhere between Minimum & Recommended and cost $700, which per exchange rate on google would be somewhat less than 600 pounds.

yeah prices everywhere in the world are higher than in the US, you found it out NOW????
Most builders or sellers comes from the US, and most of all there is much more tech in US so much more competition, and last but not least big shops in us>>>>> any shop in the rest of the world, amazon is huge in US while it is not even big in most EU country cause it relies on small shops while in US there are newegg and co. , etc.

 

[Danzo_87]

I built my desktop specifically to play DOOM, XCOM 2 and maybe Battlefield 1, so I guess I've covered Civ 6 as well haha