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Posted June 05, 2017
A friend of mine is selling an HP laptop, i7 5500, 8 gb ram, 1tb, nvidia 930m.

I have a PS4 at home for the evetual current gen blockbuster, so I'll be mainly playing GOG games on this laptop. Do you think it's good enough for most games? I take for granted that I won´t be able to play Witcher 3, but what about other current gen games, specially inidies? Anyone has experience with this kind of setup?

Thanks
Posted June 05, 2017
That graphics card is very weak so you would need to look hard and long at the requirements for the games you are interested in. The rest of the computer should be plenty fine.

Just do a search for 930M and you will find lots of data.
Post edited June 05, 2017 by Themken
Posted June 05, 2017
If your interest is traditional adventure games mostly without 3D graphics, then it's fine.
For (almost) anything 3D made in the past 5 years buy something else.
Posted June 05, 2017
2D indies maybe. But DOS games would be quite fine to run.
Posted June 05, 2017
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yonazzan73: A friend of mine is selling an HP laptop, i7 5500, 8 gb ram, 1tb, nvidia 930m.

I have a PS4 at home for the evetual current gen blockbuster, so I'll be mainly playing GOG games on this laptop. Do you think it's good enough for most games? I take for granted that I won´t be able to play Witcher 3, but what about other current gen games, specially inidies? Anyone has experience with this kind of setup?

Thanks
Could you name some of the games you want to play? If I own some of them I might be able to check - own similar setup (I5 instead of I7)
Posted June 05, 2017
This laptop is more than enough.

I have i5 4200, 4Gb RAM and Intel HD 4400 and most games work just fine.

Of course I won't run Witcher 3 and Shadow Tactics Blades of Shogun is reaaallly sluggish, but most other games in my (not-so-small) collection work just fine.
Posted June 05, 2017
It's better than my laptop and I can play anything up to Fallout 3 and Divinity Original Sin so I think you should be all right with that.
Posted June 05, 2017
Nice specs, if the price is low enough. In doubt, just search on youtube the game you would like to play with the laptop's GPU (ie GeForce 930M) to see how it fares. The CPU shouldn't be so much of an issue here...
Posted June 06, 2017
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IFW: If your interest is traditional adventure games mostly without 3D graphics, then it's fine.
For (almost) anything 3D made in the past 5 years buy something else.
Or upgrade the graphics card on you laptop.
Posted June 06, 2017
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IFW: If your interest is traditional adventure games mostly without 3D graphics, then it's fine.
For (almost) anything 3D made in the past 5 years buy something else.
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dudalb: Or upgrade the graphics card on you laptop.
Good luck replacing a usually surface mounted chip...
Posted June 06, 2017
I'm pretty sure that you could play 75% of GOG's catalogue.
Post edited June 06, 2017 by Kaesemeister
Posted June 07, 2017
Thanks everyone for the help. I finally took the plunge and bought it, for the price I couldn´t find anything with better specs.

I tried some of the newest games on my collection: fallout 3, dragon age, dead space... I can run them at high or very high settings at 720p, which is fine by me.

One thing that surprised me is how much I'm using the touchscreen on the laptop. I always thought it was kind on a silly idea, but it's great for surfing the net, reading pdfs, browsing netflix, etc...

Thanks again, cheers.
Posted June 07, 2017
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yonazzan73: Thanks everyone for the help. I finally took the plunge and bought it, for the price I couldn´t find anything with better specs.

I tried some of the newest games on my collection: fallout 3, dragon age, dead space... I can run them at high or very high settings at 720p, which is fine by me.

One thing that surprised me is how much I'm using the touchscreen on the laptop. I always thought it was kind on a silly idea, but it's great for surfing the net, reading pdfs, browsing netflix, etc...

Thanks again, cheers.
I just spent a week stuck playing GOG games on a laptop older than I am. You will be fine! :D
Posted June 07, 2017
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yonazzan73: I tried some of the newest games on my collection: fallout 3, dragon age, dead space... I can run them at high or very high settings at 720p, which is fine by me.
But can it run Crysis? :P
Post edited June 07, 2017 by HunchBluntley
Posted June 07, 2017
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Kaesemeister: I'm pretty sure that you could play 75% of GOG's catalogue.
Definitely this.
Heck, there are youtube videos of witcher 3 being able to run on a 930m on the lowest possible settings. If that game works, 90% of the gog catalogue which is mostly old games and indie stuff runs perfectly fun.
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