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Will Transport Fever be compatible on this laptop?
Hi Everyone, apologises but I don't know a thing about pc components. I am looking to purchase a new laptop, please could someone tell me as to whether Transport Fever will run normally on it (as it isn't compatible with my laptop at the moment).

New laptop details:
HP PAVILION 15
AMD A8-4555M APU with Radeon HD Graphics
4GB Memory Ram
320 GB HDD
Windows 10

Many thanks in advance,
Connor :steamhappy:
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Thork 2018年2月16日 4時45分 
Short answer: No.
Maybe you can get it to start up, but it surely won't run well.
Okay thanks, what makes you say no by anychance? Also, can you recommend a laptop that will allow the game to run?
Thork 2018年2月16日 6時28分 
The game performance is mostly limited by CPU, but 4GB memory and the integrated graphics could also be a problem.
A performance patch is in the works, but it will probably not make much of a difference in this case either.

I generally advice against using laptops for gaming, at least for power hungry games.
I would personally recommend to either use a (custom built) desktop, or play less power hungry games.
Ofc. there are laptops that can run this game just fine (to a certain degree), but these are rather expensive and maintaining/upgrading can be even more expensive.

As said, a powerful (single-thread) CPU is the most important aspect for this game, at this moment. You should also have at least 8GB RAM (+VRAM) and a dedicated graphics card (does not need to be fancy). Anything below these specs might have trouble.

The minimum requirements are listed at the store page, but those are really borderline minimum...
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"a dedicated graphics card"
Preferably not one of them AMD meme cards with theoretic but inoperable OpenGL support.
A guy here runs the game on an Intel laptop with Intel integrated graphics under linux. The other dude with the AMD thing has problems.
Tarka 2018年2月16日 10時14分 
?

I can play this game on a Pavilion G6 and it only starts to slow down on a large, heavily developed map with default town and industry density in late game.

In the case of this game, it is possible that the developers were much more conservative than usual about the minimum requirements, basing it on 'minimum needed to play the game without serious problems' rather than 'minimum needed to get the game to start' like most developers indeed do.
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Thork 2018年2月16日 17時44分 
I'm not an expert on specific laptops, but rather based my opinion on given hardware information. There seem to be different configuration options for these HP laptops. You do not even give your specifications, but I'd guess that you at least have an Intel CPU.

In his specific case, the CPU has a lower single-thread/core performance than the minimum required Core 2 Duo. Even if the integrated graphics would be enough, the 4 GB RAM will be stressed to supply both V/RAM, especially if there is not a SSD for swapfile/s.

As said, TpF might run (for a while), but I really would not recommend to buy this laptop just for this game. If he already owned it, he could ofc. just test the game first.
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Tarka 2018年2月17日 11時08分 
My apologies. I did not take proper account of the fact that the OP is intending to buy a computer, not asking whether one they already have will likely be able to run the game. The two situations are of course very different.

AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Speed: 1896 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors

Windows 8.1 (64 bit)

Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7640G

DirectX Card: AMD Radeon HD 7640G

Primary VRAM: 512 MB

RAM: 7650 Mb

Note: I have not altered the game's graphics or other settings. So unless it can auto-adjust without telling me, the settings are default.
Thork 2018年2月17日 17時41分 
Nice to hear it runs fine on your setup.
I think the campaign is done rather well to not be too performance hungry and you can always limit yourself in free-play. However, there are obvious problems with having few hard limits.
I know that I have to limit myself with custom settings quite a lot to not run into trouble, even on my overclocked 4.3GHz I5, although I don't personally mind it much.
Maybe the performance patch will help for slower/multicore processors.
TBH when you posted those specs i thought "oh boy, another 10 year old laptop thread".

Don't buy that in 2018!

Don't buy a Laptop for gaming unless you have A LOT of extra money to burn. Getting good performance on a laptop is not gonna be cheap, and judging from the thing you picked, your budget is very, very low.

So buy a desktop and let someone build it for you if you are unsure. So many people did the research needed and you will surely have at least one friend that knows how. Don't waste money on prebuild systems and avoid laptops unless you are not budget restricted. You can get a kickass gaming rig for half the price of a crappy laptop.

Only buy laptops for mobile work or if you are really one of those rare people that claim to never be at home and be on the move 3-4 weeks a month. In that case, you will need 3k or more for a decent gaming laptop tho ;-)
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Don't buy a Laptop for gaming unless you have A LOT of extra money to burn. Getting good performance on a laptop is not gonna be cheap, and judging from the thing you picked, your budget is very, very low.

Depends what you mean by 'cheap' - I only use laptops because I have to have mobility options.
Thork 2018年2月17日 19時08分 
"Cheap" is indeed relative. Being born with a golden spoon up your butt, having a nice education/income, or generally living in a wealthy world region, makes a lot of difference...
However, even then I'd rather invest some time thinking instead of throwing money around. There are often better uses.
Even guys like Bill Gates came to that conclusion in the end. ;)

I've upgraded my old Desktop PC for about 15 years, often on a tight budget, while keeping old parts. E.g., I kept the same case ( CS 601 ) for all these years and only switched power supply twice.
My "recent" case switch to a Corsair Obsidian 250D was mostly for form factor, which I also plan to keep for a long time.
That recent complete rebuild "only" cost me ~1000€ total, including water-cooling, SSDs, mechanical keyboard, new monitor etc. and will probably outperform a 2000€ laptop in most cases, which won't usually use all its performance when overheating anyway.
A decent basic gaming desktop built could be as cheap as ~500€ or even cheaper (there are lots of great old/second hand components available). Anyway, you simply can't beat desktop performance with laptop performance for the same price, even though it might have gotten a little better in the last years.

Many people will just throw away a laptop when a single part fails, sometimes as simple as a key-cap. I will keep most of my components for at least another 5 years.
I always go for quality over quantity in everything I buy, if I have the money. It's usually even cheaper in the end.

Ofc., If you need a lot of mobility and desperately want to play power hungry games, there is not much alternative to a powerful laptop.
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canophone の投稿を引用:
Rattenmann の投稿を引用:
Don't buy a Laptop for gaming unless you have A LOT of extra money to burn. Getting good performance on a laptop is not gonna be cheap, and judging from the thing you picked, your budget is very, very low.

Depends what you mean by 'cheap' - I only use laptops because I have to have mobility options.

People that really "need" mobility can just buy a laptop for the mobile work they do and buy a desktop for gaming at home. Even buying both you will end up cheaper than a laptop that can do both. And you will have two superior products as well.
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canophone の投稿を引用:

Depends what you mean by 'cheap' - I only use laptops because I have to have mobility options.

People that really "need" mobility can just buy a laptop for the mobile work they do and buy a desktop for gaming at home. Even buying both you will end up cheaper than a laptop that can do both. And you will have two superior products as well.

No, a "desktop" isn't even an option for me. That's way too much equipment to move around.
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Dan 2018年2月18日 23時39分 
Yeah, if you're on a budget, and don't specifically need a laptop for travelling, you will always get considerably better "bang-for-your-buck" with a desktop, even factoring in the cost of a cheap monitor. Then when you come to upgrade at some point, you already have the monitor, so it's even cheaper the second time.
canophone の投稿を引用:
Rattenmann の投稿を引用:

People that really "need" mobility can just buy a laptop for the mobile work they do and buy a desktop for gaming at home. Even buying both you will end up cheaper than a laptop that can do both. And you will have two superior products as well.

No, a "desktop" isn't even an option for me. That's way too much equipment to move around.

That is why i said: "Buy both". if you buy two specialized products, you are still cheaper off then buying a mobile gaming laptop. I doubt there are many people that really travel enough to warrant even thinking about a gaming laptop.

To be quite frank here: I have 4 people in my circle of friends that are just like that. They claim it has to be a gaming laptop, just because they travel for 2 weeks, once a year. And they have like 1 hour a day time to actually game in that time frame. For that they bought machines between 3000 and 9000 bucks, but don't own a simple desktop for the remaining 50 weeks of the year. That is so wrong,... so much wrong in all of that.

Don't buy a mobile machine for gaming unless you are filthy rich and also don't care about the experience being fun.
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