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Akinta -> RE: gaming question... (5/11/2008 12:44:24 AM)
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Are you just looking to play the ORIGINAL EQ? or EQ2? I can tell you 100% for sure your laptop would die on EQ2, while EQ1 would run *decently* at best.
In regards to question, how big is the actual hard drive? 5 years ago they didn't have terrabyte drives, sure. but they had good sized ones. Laptop standard was like 30 gigs if I remember right. You SHOULD be able to free up some space by removing unneccesary files and the like from your machine without needing to purchase more. The best thing to do is run through control pannel -> add/remove programs, and simply take all the filler crap you don't use. If there's nothing you can ditch, deleting old data you don't need works as well. However, if you can't get rid of anything, then a flash drive won't be an acceptable option. The speed is way too slow, and there's about a 90% chance the game would laugh and refuse to run from it (though it makes me want to try.. hah!) An external drive will still be slow, but is much easier than getting a new internal hard drive, considering you'd have to move all your old data over after reinstalling Windows. You'd be much better off getting a newer machine, like everyone is suggesting. Something in the range of 600-900 dollars runs games decently, especially if you bag a last year's model on deep discount. Things to look for there are "discrete graphics" which means it has a seperate video card from the motherboard. This means it has dedicated memory and doesn't share, as well as a much better graphics processing unit. If you are going for EQ2, you'll probably need to look in the 1200+ range if you want anything showing you a decent representation of what the game should be like =D
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