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SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 9:50:59 AM

Blueberry

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Ladies and Gents,

Want to purchase a laptop for ovious reasons of comfort and accessibility. Got the brand and system in mind but not sure about the GPU element. In this case, I am only interested in having my most favorite game Distant Worlds

run smooth on it, not just smooth enough to play. I am somewhat aware of how other games will perform with an SLI configuration but not DW.

Is anyone playing with SLI/crossfire? It is just that despite its time on the market, there are so many games that have quite awful support for it and new drivers just don't help much either but an option of having two/three cards handling your game in synch is, indeed, kind of neat. Any advice on GPU configuration would help. Thanks.

I may not not require it to play DW but will the system handle the game better? FPS factor when too much is going on. Game may be poorly optimised for SLI. Hence the question. Thanks again.

Maxy

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 10:12:55 AM

AminMaalouf

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quote:

SLI/crossfire

I am not sure if you need this for DW.

Before buying something for 1000$ upwards, you should ask yourself what you are going to do else with the thing besides playing.
A GPU with a 1GB cache is probably for most you can do with a notebook good enough.
Btw. I have a just graphic chip on my Asus notebook and DW runs fine.

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 11:13:46 AM

Raap

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I don't think the game uses the graphics card much at all, actually. For the smoothest experience I'd recommend a fast CPU, i.e. Intel Sandy Bridge.

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 11:21:46 AM

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I think DW is heavy on the CPU and RAM and not at all on the Graphics Card(s). This conversation has been had before and that's what we always arrive at in the end

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 4:08:16 PM

Erik Rutins

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DW still appreciates a good graphics card, but it is much more CPU dependent and also happy if you have 4GB of RAM. As long as you have a decent gaming video card (not an integrated graphics chipset) you should be fine. If DW is your main concern, I would spend the extra money on the best multi-core processor you can afford and at least 4GB of system memory.

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- Erik

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 4:31:34 PM

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DW in its current form will never experience a smooth fluid graphical experience� (im led to believe its a graphical excel spreadsheet). � But i know this and love it anyway in a perfect world it would be a little more like gratuitous space battles (combat) but meh love it love it.

Maybe turn based might be a decent spin off future?

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 7:08:33 PM

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Okay. Thank you all.

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RE: SLI/Single GPU - 12/17/2011 11:59:52 PM

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