Asus Laptop with GeForce GTX 850M / Bunch of questions need serious help

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Hello I hope that I can find someone here to more better explain stuff to me about my Asus Laptop I just purchased. I am a a girl so I guess that made all my questions at Best Buy seem a little dumb to them ... So my laptop has a NVIDIA GeForce GTX850M with 2GB/4GB DDR3 graphics card in it with a intel i7Intel Core i7 4700HQ Processor ( copy and pasted from Asus website ) So I am looking to get into some games that I seen on YouTube and I had mentioned the games to the guy in the Geek Squad and he pretty much laughed and said my machine wont run any of the games I am looking to play at a decent frame rate , the games that I have mentioned were Far Cry 3 / Battlefield , Crysis , Skyrim ... stuff like that. So this is where I am really confused , if I have to play the games at Low or Medium settings is that my only way I would be able to play these ? I really don't understand the differences between the settings / low / medium / high / very high / ultra ....If I have to play the games on low or medium settings am I missing a ton of detail or sharpness ? Would someone like myself who is just starting to play a few games would I even notice the different settings? When I bought the laptop I asked all these questions and the people at Best Buy just kinda danced around the answers ...Also if this laptop can play these games reasonably the Geek Squad guy also told me that my graphics card would be crap in two years and not able to play upcoming games. I am sorry for all the questions , but a few other things about my computer , I dont want a gaming laptop they are kinda big for me and gaming isnt my main point of purchase ....and I really like the laptop so I dont wanna exchange it. I always keep my expectations real so obviously I never thought I purchased this lean mean gaming machine , I just thought being able to play games a few times a week would be a bonus , but I am lost about the settings I should use! Any advice I would apreciate thanks so much.
 
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Hi, and welcome to PC gaming.
The 850M is not too bad, however laptops in general (no matter how they are branded) struggle with gaming as gaming generates a lot of heat, and this limits how much power you can put in a laptop.
If you game on lower settings then things will be as 'sharp', but perhaps not as detailed, shadows will be simpler approximations of shadows rather than more accurate ones, there'll be less 'litter' in the scene, shapes will be slightly simpler, that kind of thing.

Just find the video settings page in the game you are playing and turn settings down until you have an experience you like, smooth play but looking nice.

It is an unfortunate side effect of PC gaming in that the next generations of games will always...
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Hi, and welcome to PC gaming.
The 850M is not too bad, however laptops in general (no matter how they are branded) struggle with gaming as gaming generates a lot of heat, and this limits how much power you can put in a laptop.
If you game on lower settings then things will be as 'sharp', but perhaps not as detailed, shadows will be simpler approximations of shadows rather than more accurate ones, there'll be less 'litter' in the scene, shapes will be slightly simpler, that kind of thing.

Just find the video settings page in the game you are playing and turn settings down until you have an experience you like, smooth play but looking nice.

It is an unfortunate side effect of PC gaming in that the next generations of games will always stress this generation of hardware, and so an 850M in 2 years time will struggle, but you can turn those settings down and it'll look as good as a current generation game (generally).
 
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it'll be slow and unresponsive, when you turn 90degrees for instance it might not show much between where you start and where you finish (it's not technically lag, which is a delay in an action, the action will happen at the right time but will be like a film with half the frames missing)
 
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they are probably right, you probably can't play on those settings, but just tinker around until you find something you like. best thing to do.

you will be missing a lot of detail and sharpness from lower settings.

i'm not sure if you will notice, but for the most part you should.

it probably will be crap to be honest, and upgrades for a laptop isn't like a desktop.

even with a desktop you would still have to upgrade. so it's your choice. if you want, you can look into a desktop if it doesn't fit your needs.

also, i don't know what he's talking about, you can't just turn it down and get results, that's incorrect, you should notice if you are paying attention.

also, one more thing, you could look into a better laptop, but i wouldn't reccomend anyone buying a laptop every so often, that's just outrageous. so it's really your choice if you want to do research on what's good for your needs.

edit: if you tinker around, it's basically going to come down to more frames per second, which means faster play and less lag. or better graphics, (picture looks better) slower play and more lag.
 
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Lol, your going to shoot one game at me and say that? your obviously mad cause you are wrong. and... it said enjoyable frames. what is enjoyable? that's so vague. your not really getting the picture here. also, they said "managable levels". i mean, did you even read that article? cause your obviously making up your own theory. and quit copying my words.

also, it was a suggestion, it's her choice. so obviously your jumping to conclusions and not reading the whole information i posted, much like the one you posted on about tomshardware.

also, for gameplay at higher levels, it requires decent equipment, so obviously the game looks good already. that's why. but that doesn't explain other games. or still the fact, it's "enjoyable".

the only thing anyone has to learn here is being wrong, and that's you. you should learn to respect yourself before you shoot out those words, such as reading the information properly and not jumping too conclusions and fantasize your own world. you didn't even give yourself a chance here. but hey, learning can be a painful experience.
 
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1. the laptop is already brought, so i'm not going to advise a new gamer to buy a new laptop.

2. copying your words, stfu he-child.

3. a gtx460 can give good frame on skyrim (one of the OP's named games), so i'm pretty cetain a 850m can.

4. the single game was an example of what lower quality settings can look like.

5. crysis 3 can get a reasonable experience: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crysis-3-performance-benchmark-gaming,review-32644-4.html yes, not great fps, not great settings, but not bad, very playable for an entrance into pc gaming.

6. and far cry 3 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/far-cry-3-performance-benchmark,3379-5.html again very playable at lower settings on lower end kit and still looks ok, again very playable for an entrance into pc gaming.

7. as to enjoyable frames, read the graphs he-child.

8. this is all aimed at an individual who is starting to game, and will hopefully carry on, telling them that they can game will get them to carry on, telling them they need to drop another bucket of money on better kit won't. Hope you learn from this, learn how to support people and not just take them down, painful lesson, hopefully if he is smart enough (maybe, maybe not) then you'll only have to go through that pain once.
 
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Yeah generally speaking, if the graphic settings are set on high and the graphics card is struggling keep up, then you will experience some level of lag, depending on how overloaded the graphics card is.
 
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