How is the laptop performance?

[Str3lok]

So beta is over... Those of you who are more casual gamers and do not have a desktop rig, how is game perfrmong on laptop? Anyone with RTX 3050 4 GB version? I can stretch a budget for a new laptop to ones with RTX 3050 GPU but I wouldn't spend more money to just play this one game. I'd rather wait for it to get to Geforce Now service. But I wonder what is performance on laptop with RTX 3050 or RTX 2050 or something in that range. If anyone can share their experience I'd be grateful.

To clarify I am asking about FHD (1080p) resolution, no 4K or other B$. And FPS target of 30-60 FPS is perfectly fine (I do not need 120 FPS in this kind of game). Graphics settings should be medium at least.

[[AFK] SiZo]

My laptop with an RTX 3060 60W struggles with FHD and medium settings 10-40 FPS. I think VRAM is very important, and 6GB of VRAM is the lower end for that game. Look for a RTX 4050.

[Str3lok]

Originally posted by AFK SiZo:

My laptop with an RTX 3060 60W struggles with FHD and medium settings 10-40 FPS. I think VRAM is very important, and 6GB of VRAM is the lower end for that game. Look for a RTX 4050.

That is strange since devs said they worked bit on optimisation and made game work on weaker systems (it was in one of last devblogs). Even more strange since minimum requirements they stated are:

MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64bits
Processor: Quad core compatible 64bits
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 1050 3GB / RX 560
Storage: 60 GB available space

So graphics card with 3GB is minimum and RTX 3050 has 4GB and RTX 3060 has 6GB. Laptops with RTX 4050 are beyond my budget. I mean I cannot justify buying beast of machine for literally this one game. Hope they optimise game more or at least make it available on Geforce Now.

[gribelo]

They optimised it a bit for sure. From terrible to very bad ))
I guess BA is totally not laptop friendly game at this moment. Perhaps some high-end and very expensive laptops might do, but forget about 3050, your laptop will melt down in menu anyway.

MINIMUM settings usually means you can run executable without crash to desktop and watch the intro )))

[Str3lok]

Originally posted by gribelo:

They optimised it a bit for sure. From terrible to very bad ))
I guess BA is totally not laptop friendly game at this moment. Perhaps some high-end and very expensive laptops might do, but forget about 3050, your laptop will melt down in menu anyway.

MINIMUM settings usually means you can run executable without crash to desktop and watch the intro )))

God, I rarely experience such bitter laugh. :D It's funny, but man, if what you say is true than devs are doing something really bad. So basically, 3k+ $/€ monsters of laptops can run it? I recently seen how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 as game is brutally demanding, but at least I can see why, it has a lot of detail and very nice graphics. But for tactical/RTS? WTF? Last such demanding RTS game I remember was Ashes of Singularity. I hope you are joking, I wouldn't want to stretch my budget just to see my laptop melt. And buying NASA machine for this one single game is no-go.

P.S. It would be nice for devs to chime in on system requirements and optimization of their game. I wonder if our dear Edmon guy reads this forum at all or just roams on Discord. There are us older folks who don't use such stuff. Heck, I don't even have f*book.

[gribelo]

I have a desktop 3070, 32GB of DDR5, I7 13gen CPU, water cooling for CPU, not a high end type of PC but its still better than average I guess.

I used a mixture of medium, high and some ultra settings (SFX mostly). Sometimes its 60 FPS, most of the time it jerks in 30-60 FPS range, sometimes it dives to 20 FPS. PC case becomes hot, every sensor is close to red zone, and cooliing system sounds like a WW2 plane on takeoff )) Heat generation is the same as playing RDR2 on Ultra settings with MSAAx2 (where I have stable 60 FPS)

So go figure.. How laptop will deal with such heat, even high-end one? Maybe only on the short track, but prolonged and stable gameplay? Im not sure about it.

[Str3lok]

Originally posted by gribelo:

I have a desktop 3070, 32GB of DDR5, I7 13gen CPU, water cooling for CPU, not a high end type of PC but its still better than average I guess.

I used a mixture of medium, high and some ultra settings (SFX mostly). Sometimes its 60 FPS, most of the time it jerks in 30-60 FPS range, sometimes it dives to 20 FPS. PC case becomes hot, every sensor is close to red zone, and cooliing system sounds like a WW2 plane on takeoff )) Heat generation is the same as playing RDR2 on Ultra settings with MSAAx2 (where I have stable 60 FPS)

So go figure.. How laptop will deal with such heat, even high-end one? Maybe only on the short track, but prolonged and stable gameplay? Im not sure about it.

In 1080P (FHD) or 4K? It's already a niche game genre, devs are killing many potential players with such high demanding game. I watched gameplay videos, and graphics are good, but it's far from some photorealistic thing. It certainly shouldn't require machines like AAA titles with fancy graphics do...

[Schuey]

low settings, my 1660 ti tuff laptop with 32gb of ram plays at a solid 60fps since i'm often to busy to stop and look at close in detail it works great and is smooth for me. (balanced settings)

[gribelo]

Originally posted by Str3lok:

In 1080P (FHD) or 4K?.

FHD witn an extra ))

1920Х1200. Not a common resolution these days. Monitor was born in 2008.

[gribelo]

Originally posted by Schuey:

low settings, my 1660 ti tuff laptop with 32gb of ram plays at a solid 60fps since i'm often to busy to stop and look at close in detail it works great and is smooth for me. (balanced settings)

Low settings is not an option. SFXs provide extra tactical awareness in this game, at least this setting is should be on Ultra in my opinion.

And yeah, cards from 1XXX series provide more benefits it seems. 3XXX series underperforms judging by performance reports here..

[gribelo]

Originally posted by Schuey:

low settings, my 1660 ti tuff laptop with 32gb of ram plays at a solid 60fps since i'm often to busy to stop and look at close in detail it works great and is smooth for me. (balanced settings)

People with 1660Ti reported 30 FPS with pottato settings in previous versions, so they are certainly not lying about optimisation for older systems then!

[gribelo]

So sounds like you can beat your goal, medium settings with 30-60 FPS and there is a good chance it will be even better in future. It would be a good stress test for your laptop I promise! ))

[gribelo]

Originally posted by Str3lok:

In 1080P (FHD) or 4K?...

WUXGA ))

[Str3lok]

Originally posted by gribelo:

So sounds like you can beat your goal, medium settings with 30-60 FPS and there is a good chance it will be even better in future. It would be a good stress test for your laptop I promise! ))

Yeah, they really made a "stress test" game. Low settings with 1660ti, RTX3070 desktop with "plane take-off" sounds... I just hope they'll optimize it more, or else release it on GeforceNow. Tnx for replies, quite shocking tho.

[jonwhsjes]

friend (x2) used laptop and worked great.

[gribelo]

Originally posted by jonwhsjes:

friend (x2) used laptop and worked great.

"Worked great" is not an informative description. When laptop sized desktop videocard with serious cooling struggles to have an average performance its really hard to believe that some random laptop miraculously works great..