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Doom3 on a Laptop

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What is a good laptop that can handle doom 3 at low or medium levels?
I was interested in the Toshiba A75-S206, which I can get for $1,200, but people said it won't be able to run it. Here are the specs:
P4 2.8 GHZ
RAM- 512 MB DDR SDRAM
Graphics processor- ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP -64 MB

Can someone reccomend me a laptop within the $1,000-$1,400 range with a better video card? I am happy with the other specs, its just the damn video card which isn't as good(stupid notebooks should be able to switch video cards)

Any help is greatly appreciated...Thanks
 
I just purchased a dell 9100 with a 9700 128meg.

I haven't tried doom3 yet, but it runs painkiller at max settings pretty good. The only time it skips is when I'm using the spinning knife weapon on more then 3 baddies.

I paid 1432 for it. If you're patient, you can usually find a nice 20% coupon and combine that with free upgrades.

good luck. I dont think the toshiba will play doom3, but who knows?
 
I would also get the Emachine laptop, good specs and very well priced, hell i wish i bought one, but didn't wanna lug around the extra weight.
 
I think that laptop will play Doom3 fine, if you actually compare benchies of the MX440 and
the mobility9000 you will be pleasantly surprised.
 
Doom plays okay on my 6805. There is a bit of tearing, and Far Cry has better performance. I've quit playing tonight, because it's dark and I'm getting scared. It's been a while since a game has got my heart rate up so high...
 
Man you're in the same boar as me I got the same specs except my p4 is a 2.8 Celery.....but still more than enough for any sort of game..but its the dame video card...but i got mine for 700 dollars...and its 15.4 too :)
 
tiebird321 said:
9000IGP is not going to cut it for running doom3 at 640x480 with the eye candy on at all
the 9000 is actualy slower than the 8500....
get a lappy with a 5200+
the nvidea card's tend to do better with doom3 than the ATI cards

go get one of these for $1280
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=34-115-116&DEPA=3

its going to do you a lot better than that toshiba
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That's a nice sytem for that price. I was suprised it came with a DVD burner also.
 
Save yourself some $, laptops and games don't mix like two dicks. I have alienware area51m with 3GHZ p4, 512 ram pc2700, ati mobility 9600 128ram. Guess what? Doom 3 crashes after 5-10 mins playing it at 800x600 medium settings. Upgrading drivers, directx did not resolve the issue. I maybe overreacting until new FIXED drivers come out, but right now i am very disappointed after spending almost 3 thousand dollars and not being able to play doom3. I wonder how it will handle hl2 .. if it will ever come out.

Cheers
 
logit said:
Save yourself some $, laptops and games don't mix like two dicks. I have alienware area51m with 3GHZ p4, 512 ram pc2700, ati mobility 9600 128ram. Guess what? Doom 3 crashes after 5-10 mins playing it at 800x600 medium settings. Upgrading drivers, directx did not resolve the issue. I maybe overreacting until new FIXED drivers come out, but right now i am very disappointed after spending almost 3 thousand dollars and not being able to play doom3. I wonder how it will handle hl2 .. if it will ever come out.

Cheers
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does it crash in d3 only? you may have over heating problem? can you check your temps? maybe another windows program corrupting something? can you afford fresh windows install?

however, although i dont have your same notebook or d3, but i have never had problems playing games on my notebook with radeon 9600 64mb, and seems tanbam either not having problem
 
new drivers aren't going to do you much good unless they underclock the video in your alienware so it doesn't overheat.

I've got a an e-machines that I'll be putting doom3 on, if only to tweak the noses of my mac-centric coworkers, lol. :eek:
 
Pent. 4 3ghz
64MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
512MB

i think it will run it on the low settings but i'm not really sure if the mobile graphics cards might be lacking anything that isneeded to run doom3 so i just wanted to know
 
Just got off the phone with Alienware. After apologizing numerous times I was informed that DOOM3 is not out yet :eek: and when it will be out - it will take another 2-3 weeks for them to test the drivers on their "DOOM3 - playing notebooks". *SIGH*
 
logit said:
Just got off the phone with Alienware. After apologizing numerous times I was informed that DOOM3 is not out yet :eek: and when it will be out - it will take another 2-3 weeks for them to test the drivers on their "DOOM3 - playing notebooks". *SIGH*
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BS.

did they sell the notebook or advertise it as it is doom3 playable notebook? if so, then how you could resist their answer that the game still not out and they need 2-3 weeks to test the drivers? on what they based their ad when selling the notebook as it is doom3 playable notebook since they didnt test it on the notebook you have purchased??

its sad when companies play such dirty games, glad we can build our desktop machines
 
I have been playing Doom 3 on my Dell 600m at low settings and it plays pretty nice. It has the Radeon 9600 mobility card I think. 64 meg version. 512 megs of ram. Nothing special but it works.
 
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