Anyone try CoX on a NETBOOK? If so, which one?
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Posted on: 2009-04-26 09:13 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I don't have and haven't tried, but I'd thought I'd point you to this, a review of an Asus N10 netbook.
This is probably the closest thing to a CoX capable netbook, but I don't have high hopes for it.
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Personally I'll wait until the netbooks that use the nVidia 9400M chipset arrive as the Intel chipset that all netbooks currently use is sad for gaming. This configuration, Intel Atom with a 9400M, nVidia has dubbed the ION platform.
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Got an Asus EEE PC, 904HA. Just as an experiment I tried to run City of Heroes on it, not playable. Nonetheless a great laptop.
I can't find the thread that I posted a similar question like this before, but someone said they got a netbook to play it, although on the lowest settings and not very well. The Asus N-10 model with the dedicated card would work best, but its pretty big to be called a netbook. You'd probably be better off getting a regular size laptop (small) instead of the Asus N-10 since its as big as some of them.
If price isn't a problem, check out Sony's "newer" small laptop model. I think you can up its specs pretty high and it might play the game fairly well.
I have a Gateway FX laptop (desktop replacement; this thing is huge!) so if size isn't a problem, just go with something like that (only cost my $1000 and I got 4gb RAM, 9800 GTS 1gig card, and 320 gb HD with a expansion slot for another 320 gb)
I'll let you know in a couple of days how well it runs on my Acer Aspire One. I installed it the other day and it loaded up just fine in Safe Mode. I didn't stay on very long that first time, but I moved around a bit within a slightly crowded MA building and it wasn't too laggy.
I'm guessing it'll be worse in actual play, and mid- to large-sized teams are probably out of the question. But I'm going out of town tomorrow and want to try to be online at least at some point during the anniversary festivities (and for Posi's in-game address) so I'll try it out and let ya know.
Update: Just doubled the memory to 2GB on that Asus EEE 904HA
Results: Moderately playable, particularly in mission works fine although some textures pop in and out periodically. Outside quite laggy, especially in a busy zone.
My old Toshiba Qosimo F25-AV205 w/ 2gb memory and 64MB GeForce 6 Go6600 GPU handles COX much better. I agree with other posters if you wanna COX don't buy a current gen netbook.
I have used COX on a Samsung NC 10 upgraded to 2 GB. I had it attached to an external 19" flatscreen runnning at 1280 x 1024 and did not have much of an issue. It was very playable. But this was before the release of I14 and not in any laggy zones. I would not want to play it on a 10" monitor although it was doable. I was also on my own wireless network and have not tried it out being linked in via a public hotspot.
If you can wait I'd go with one of the Nvidia ION net/notebooks when they become available.
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Sounds like the ION is worth waiting for.. at least to find out if it's any better. Any idea on ETA?
I tried it out on my Asus 1000HA with an upgraded 2GB of ram. With the graphics settings on minimum, and in low-traffic areas, the performance was moderately acceptable for solo play. My biggest beef was that the screen resolution was too small. The power tray/nav bar/target bar/menu bar/chat bar etc. took up way too much room.
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Personally I'll wait until the netbooks that use the nVidia 9400M chipset arrive as the Intel chipset that all netbooks currently use is sad for gaming. This configuration, Intel Atom with a 9400M, nVidia has dubbed the ION platform.
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I agree with this. though the if your going Atom, go the dual core for CoH. But so far, testing with the nVidia chip, MUCH better frame rates.
I had the Acer Aspire for a few days, couldnt type on it any faster than my pda so i gave it up for a full sized laptop.
The Aspire one, had xp Sp3 2Gb ram, standard trash intel GMA gfx chip and the 1.6Ghz Intel Atom. 120Gb HDD.
COH ran... dont do anything other than safe mode if you actually want to do missions.
Mine actually included the heavy battery, and yes with wifi in, played CoH for an hour and listened to music while browsing the web for a couple of hours and still had 1/2 the battery left.
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Sadly however it appears that nVidia and Intel are negotiating , negotiating with lawyers that is as Intel wants to prevent nVidia from marketing the chip to Atom customers as well as letting nVidia create a chipset for the Core-i7 and nVidia's licensing their SLi for use in Intel chipsets.
If that stops Taiwan from putting the two together anyways, who knows. Currently there is a mini-mac style nettop that Acer has shown at CES a month ago. A many of the rumor sites indicate later this quarter for ION netbooks to reach the market from Asus, Acer and others. If not Atom then Via has a similar CPU called that Nano that may end up coupled to a 9400M is nicknamed the ION 2.
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Anyone try CoX on a NETBOOK? If so, which one?
My wife is begging for a new laptop, and I've been pondering getting her a netbook instead. I'm curious if CoX would work on it. Someone on here must have tried it by now... anyone?