New Laptop

[Lau]

Hi I want to buy a new laptop, Can this pc play cities smoothly? No major fps drops, no lags etc:

ASUS N551JK-CN272H-BE

Intel Core i7-4710HQ (Quad Core) 2.5 Ghz turbo: 3.5Ghz
Ram: 16Gb DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX850M 2048 MB

[Costarring]

No one can guarantee what kind of performance a system will give.
If you set it up wrong, you could possibly come back here, complaining about lacking performance.

I get a slow down @30k cims (with a 1090TBE + 8GB 1600MHz + R9 270 + W8.1)

I would never recommend a laptop as a gaming rig though.

[Snail]

All components are "good enough" for the game.

But stuffed in a laptop with limited cooling, it will happen though that after a while things run that hot that CPU and GPU go into protection mode and run as slow as temperature dictates to them – the game will be unplayable then.

This may be frustrating if you bought the laptop for this specific game. but if you buy it anyway for other purpose, and just run the game as an addition, i'd say give it a try and see what happens.

I can't play the game for long on a Thinkpad W540 that has similar configuration, so i bought a new graphics card for my workstation i7Quad desktop computer (which had no dedicated GPU before). things get warm there, but it runs smoothly forever.

[City Builder]

It *should* run the game okay, but remember that even the most robust PC's out there today eventually start to slow down once the population grows large enough so don't think that just because it's a new computer that you'll be able to run a 1,000,000 population on X3 speed.

I run this on my Asus laptop frequently, it's only a 2.2 GHz (3.0GHz in Turbo) i7 with 16GB RAM and an Nvidia GTX 560M with 2GB VRAM and it can handle the game fine to about 150k population then X3 speed is like X1 speed but for me about 150k population is about when I'm bored with my current cities and move on to start a new one.

Some Asus laptops have excellent cooling, my G74 is one of them, so I never have any issues with it overheating while playing any game, however I am not knowledgable with the model you listed. Looking at it on the Asus website, I'd haver to conclude that it's not one of the Asus Gaming Laptops (like mine) that has the superior cooling system, but maybe with newer technology it doesn't require as much cooling as my 2 year old did.

[Lau]

Originally posted by City Builder:

It *should* run the game okay, but remember that even the most robust PC's out there today eventually start to slow down once the population grows large enough so don't think that just because it's a new computer that you'll be able to run a 1,000,000 population on X3 speed.

I run this on my Asus laptop frequently, it's only a 2.2 GHz (3.0GHz in Turbo) i7 with 16GB RAM and an Nvidia GTX 560M with 2GB VRAM and it can handle the game fine to about 150k population then X3 speed is like X1 speed but for me about 150k population is about when I'm bored with my current cities and move on to start a new one.

Some Asus laptops have excellent cooling, my G74 is one of them, so I never have any issues with it overheating while playing any game, however I am not knowledgable with the model you listed. Looking at it on the Asus website, I'd haver to conclude that it's not one of the Asus Gaming Laptops (like mine) that has the superior cooling system, but maybe with newer technology it doesn't require as much cooling as my 2 year old did.

Thanks! Good feedback! do you know that gtx 850m is sufficient for pop about 150k?

[City Builder]

I don't know for certain, however my GTX560m is far inferior to the 850m but one must also take into account screen resolution, other programs that might be running at the same time and anything else that might be using up resources, driver versions etc. etc.

[Lau]

Originally posted by City Builder:

I don't know for certain, however my GTX560m is far inferior to the 850m but one must also take into account screen resolution, other programs that might be running at the same time and anything else that might be using up resources, driver versions etc. etc.

Thanks!
Great help

[AZNMamba]

My laptop is slightly better than what you're getting (860m) and I get slow downs at 80k population (no speed up from x3). FPS is fine but my laptop gets pretty hot (83C and even up to 90C) Game runs fine still up to 150k pop, but at that point, I don't like how my laptops temp rises so I stop at that pop.