What games will play on this Dell notebook?

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Wolfdog0

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I did decide to return the Toshiba and I got a better notebook than before and my mom helped me get it. Now my question is that what games will run on this system? This notebook costed $350 but normally it sells for $480 since I saw the normal price tag at OfficeMax was for $470. I think a lot of the money went to the touchscreen though.




Specs

AMD A4-6210 1.8gHz quad core

4GB DDR3 1600mHz up to 8GB

500GB hard drive

AMD Radeon R3

15.6" LED LCD touchscreen

Windows 8.1 64bit
 
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photonboy

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Download the Torchlight 1 or 2 Demo which isn't normally too demanding.

I found that playable on an HD6450 graphics card (barely).

As said, you'll want games that aren't very demanding. I'm not sure how these would perform but you can find them on Steam (some games have Demos):

Angry Birds
Command and Conquer 3
Red Alert 3
Defense Grid
Morrowind (older game)
Enclave
Fable The Lost Chapters (not the recent HD version)
Half Life
L4D2 (maybe)
Neverwinter Nights
Dungeon Siege (*I just started playing again. Very basic but fun. Needs a fix to enable widescreen and FPS cap you can Google)

CIV5 (on lower settings)
KOTOR (there's a widescreen fix but it's a bit complicated... see WSGF)
Titanquest
Tombraider Legend/Anniversary (maybe)
World in Conflict (maybe on lower settings. Has a great benchmark utility)
 
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photonboy

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Dungeon Siege:
For this older game which is still fun if basic, I had to add this to the INI file using Notepad (found in Documents->Dungeon Siege LOA-> "DungeonSiege.ini") in my case.

width = 1600
height = 900
bltonly = true
vsync = true
maxfps = 60

Width and Height would likely be 1366 and 768 on your laptop. I also forced Anti-Aliasing in the video control panel but I'm not sure how much of that you could do.

*You can monitor the frame rate of any game using FRAPS. If screen tearing isn't too bad then aim for 40FPS average with VSYNC OFF. I can't stand it so run most games at 60FPS but with a weak APU you might not have that capability.

You do NOT want to have VSYNC ON if you can't maintain 60FPS or you get a stutter effect. So here are your options:

1) VSYNC OFF (screen tearing)
2) VSYNC ON (stutter if below 60FPS output)
3) Dynamic VSYNC (force with RadeonPro. Will auto turn off VSYNC if you can't output 60FPS)
4) Half Dynamic VSYNC (same as Dynamic but based on 30FPS instead of 60FPS)

Dynamic "HALF" VSync can be useful for top-down games that don't need to be quick (unlike shooters) so you cap at 30FPS without any screen tearing. For example, if in Dungeon Siege you get below 60FPS (VSYNC OFF) and are getting a lot of tearing I'd force this on for Dungeon Siege in RadeonPro. If you can output above 30FPS it will cap at that.

Good luck.
 
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James Mason

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Well, you can browse www.GoG.com for games it can play.

You have to remember that "notebooks" are designed to play 0 games. They're only for 2D image usage, so web browsing, word processing, video watching, they all do fine, but any sort of 3d work doesn't work great on them.
 
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I thought 10 years or more ago notebooks were not good for games and today since notebooks are fast they are like desktops today and can play games someone said that to me 3 years ago.
 
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Actually laptops are now notebooks since they are thinner now. Back 10 years or more ago they were bulky but now they thinner and are called notebooks. Just some people still call them laptops since they are use to calling that.
 
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Actually I stand by my opinion, in real life many people still say notebooks instead of laptops or vice versa. There's no real difference b/t them.

By the definition offered by that site, Alienware's "notebooks" would be considered a laptop.

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James Mason

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The problem is both people and manufacturers are using the wrong terms.

I believe dell was one of the companies that got sued over a "laptop" being too hot and burning people's laps, so they had to call them notebooks.

Like SUVs are classified as a "light truck" so they can get away with their low gas mileages.
 
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Wolfdog0

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Well the way that site is talking about notebooks are like netbooks and netbook are different they are more smaller than notebooks and more portable and can't do much gaming. But I always known that since around 2007 laptops are now called notebooks since they are lighter and thinner than before. I mean if you really look at a laptop back around Win 98 days you will see it's very fat and bulky compared to notebooks today like my new Dell.
 
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