Could This Handle Ultra Mode?

So, I've been laptop shopping and came across a nice little laptop which seems (to me) a good choice, but I've been wondering: can it run Ultra Mode?

If not, can you refer me to a better one?

Personally, I'd never consider a laptop for gaming. They're just not really designed for that sort of thing, and they ALL lack in some region or another.

Get yourself a good desktop instead if you want to game seriously.

Sometimes desktop is not an option, and not for a lack of money, but in my case my desktop is in the far left room of the house, exactly the oposite side of the house to where the living room is, so I had to choose playing completely alone or with my family... there was no real choice to do, after all

Admittedly, when I've played again in my desktop the quality is far better than my laptop, specially because when I tried to use in the laptop a higher mode than Minimum everything lags and frozes, while it works great either Performance or Recommended in the desktop one. But as I said, I had no choice.

Funny I play on my desktop because it is a long way from the family (and the dreaded TV)

Desktop it is then. Just another question now; is there any point in just installing a new graphics card to my PC? It runs the game fine on minimum, but it's easily five years old at this stage.

CoH is a memory hog (a lot of games are). The more memory you have, alongside the graphics card, the better, but at least 2GB which may be lacking in a 5 year old PC.

Hi Andrew!!!.

Processor Information

Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2)
CPUID F.2.9
Extended CPUID F.2
Brand ID 9
Core Stepping D1
Technology 0.13 um
Core Speed 3058.9 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 23.0 x 133.0 MHz
Rated Bus speed 532.0 MHz
Stock frequency 3066 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control no

Chipset

Northbridge Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 02
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Revision 3.0
AGP Transfer Rate 8x
AGP SBA supported, enabled
Memory Type DDR
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Channels Single
Memory Frequency 166.2 MHz (4:5)
CAS# latency (CL) 2.5
RAS# to CAS# delay (tRCD) 3
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 3
Cycle Time (tRAS) 7
Performance Mode enabled
MCHBAR I/O Base address 0x0FECF0000
MCHBAR I/O Size

Memory Speed
DIMM # 1
SMBus address 0x50
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) A-Data Technology (7F7F7F7FCB000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
Part number HYNGC1A16
Manufacturing date Week 06/Year 09
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
Nominal Voltage 2.50 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 2.5-3-3-7-0 @ 166 MHz
JEDEC #2 3.0-3-3-8-0 @ 200 MHz

DIMM # 2
SMBus address 0x51
Memory type DDR
Manufacturer (ID) A-Data Technology (7F7F7F7FCB000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
Part number HYNGC1A16
Manufacturing date Week 06/Year 09
Number of banks 2
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Registered no
Buffered no
Nominal Voltage 2.50 Volts
EPP no
XMP no
JEDEC timings table CL-tRCD-tRP-tRAS-tRC @ frequency
JEDEC #1 2.5-3-3-7-0 @ 166 MHz
JEDEC #2 3.0-3-3-8-0 @ 200 MHz

Display Adapters
Display name \\.\DISPLAY1
Name NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Revision A1
Codename NV44
Technology 0.11 um
Memory size 256 MB
Memory type DDR
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x10DE (0x3842)
Model ID 0x0221 (0xA341)
Performance Level 3D Applications
Core clock 350.0 MHz
Memory clock 532.0 MHz

Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c

Bumpidy-bump-bump.

So no help at all?

Looking at that, I would completely upgrade your base unit (the big box) ... is that an option for you?

Depending on what your budget is RP, you would probably be better off buying a cheapish dual core system rather than trying to stretch to a really pricey i3/5/7 system.

I know the S775 stuff is getting phased out but because of that, i'm finding prices of those components are dropping in price so they don't get stuck with them.

It might be "old" stuff now, but you would see a huge increase in performance for like £400 that would easily last for 2 years or so.

Only problem is, i'm guessing you don't know how to self build and i don't know if system builders will use S775 stuff any more. I'll have a look.