No Limits on Laptops

Hello, I wanted to buy a laptop and wanted to know what kind of laptop will be able to play no limits great. If anyone owns a laptop can they tell me what video card they have and what is the model I wanted to buy one at best buy today but need advise or anyone who plays no limits on laptop please advise how it runs since they won't let me test the demo on any of the laptops. please advise

lol, If you get a laptop thats been built in the last 3-4 years chances are it can run Nolimits, I just bought my first laptop, its an Acer Travelmate, and it came with a intel Grapic Acelerator, and Nolimits, RCT 3 run great on it! Took me awhile to get use to editing wuth the finger pad, instead of a mouse but I'm use to it now.

Thanks for the information, Do you know if SIS in Gateway would work as its only 399.99, or Geforce 6150 go or geforce 6100 go is better. or the new ati m200

I'm using NL on a laptop right now [:)]

there's no difference between running NL on a laptop and running it on a desktop. Its all in the graphics card. if a computer has a good graphics card, it'll run NL very well.

if you're gonna get a laptop, I'd suggest you get one with specs close to or above these
-(to make it future-proof) Intel Core Duo processor, anything dual processor, anything 64-bit
-if you can, at least 1gb of memory
-the lowest model graphics card I'd go for is an ATI Radeon 9700. However, you'll probly be able to find something newer and faster for the same price. something in the Radeon X or X1 series, or something in the (nVidia) GeForce 6 or 7 series.
-try to go for at least an 80gb hdd
-you probly won't see anything that doesn't have a dvd-burning capable optical drive.

there's a lot of factors, but if you get it right in getting the core stuff, you won't have any problems doing anything

Can you tell me the make and model of laptop you own

If I were you, wait a TINY bit more. Intel is releasing a set of VERY good Core 2 processors. Look for a laptop with a Core 2 Duo Merom (look for merom basically). It's a VERY good processor and shouldn't be too much more than, say, a yonah core duo of today. For your graphics, just find a laptop, figure out the graphics chip, and find reviews online of it. good places for reviews are:
anandtech.com
hothardware.com
bit-tech.net
and techpowerup.com
(my daily and holy set of 4)

anyone who plays no limits on the laptop give me make and model and tell me how it plays

That's a bit specific don't you think?

I'm sure any modern laptop can run NL easily now.

Try to aim for 512MB ram min, A decent graphics card, no on board graphics and a good processor and your pretty much set.

^^no, not all laptops, many still come with "intel accelerators" and that junk. in fact, finding a laptop with a decent graphics chip is harder than many people think simply because many are business or educational based, and it's actually sort of hard to find anything cheaper that has a good graphics chip.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with an updated graphics card (will get the specs later) and it runs NL great, and maybe even better than my desktop.

As SMer said, it is all in the graphics card. If you do not have any kind of 3d accelerator on there you are going to have issues, and of course any kind of crappy graphics card and you are toast. With that in mind, anything released in the last 2-3 years (newer, higher end models) will suffice just fine for NL and anything else you need to run. Best bet, spend the money on the new stuff, at least you will get a few more years out of it than trying to find something refurbished or older.

I guess i should have asked which of these following video cards will run no limits with the full capablity the best: GeForce Go 6100 or 6150 SIS Intergrated, ATI M200 for notebooks or Intel intergrated graphics, I wanted to know anyone who uses the following graphic cards with their notebooks and with No Limits as I'm out to buy one just for on the road travel but want to be able to play at least this simulator and be ready for the new update 1.6.

Originally posted by RaginFyre

Can you tell me the make and model of laptop you own

Mine is an old Toshiba Satellite Pro, its out dated. trust me, there's better stuff out there

which video card is in your toshiba and can you use the highest settings

Be careful with laptops, a bunch of the ones they have come with onboard graphics, which to say the least, will do very badly on NL and won't run most other games. (well if they do start up there will be serious framerate issues at low settings) Make sure the graphics chip is at least half decent. Basically, if it isn't ATI or Nvidia it's probably crap. (though some of the intel chips support hardware T&L but are probably quit slow) But don't think that there aren't old/outdated ATI or Nvidia chips either. Basically, if the chip supports shaders, it'll definately work with NL and will give you a good start with other games. (many other games don't run at all if the graphcis chip doesn't have the shader support)

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I have an old outdated IBM laptop with a Pentium M, 1gb of memory and a ATI Mobile 7500. But for some odd reason I get 100fps from it with all the settings maxed in No Limits. I think it has to do with me having it plugged into the power outlet. To just get a laptop to play No Limits on, nearly any laptop should work. If you want something that can play No Limits, the update 1.6, and No Limits 2, then wait a little longer for a Intel Core 2 Duo laptop, it's guarantied to cream any other CPU out there whether your playing No Limits or something else.

having the latest processor doesn't matter, the one thing that really matters is the graphics card. even if it is an onboard card, thats okay, it only depends on what the gpu is. if its something like a Radeon X1600, thats good, thats very good. however, if its somethin old and outdated like the GeForce 420 Go on my family's laptop, you're not gonna be able to get as much out of NL as you really can.

there are a lot of factors that go into this stuff which, frankly, I'm not very good at explaining because they're just stuff I know. So, RaginFyre, just because I said my laptop can run NL doesn't mean one you could buy at best buy thats different from mine wouldn't be able to.

I hate explaining stuff.

^^Having a good processor makes all the difference. A graphics card can bottleneck a CPU and vice cersa.

we're talking about what makes a better laptop for NL. and assuming you know something about computers and 3d graphics in general, a graphics card does most of the work in producing the stuff you actually see. a good processor does benefit to the overall computing experience in general, but for NL, it is not vital to have the latest.

Yeah, the CPU doesn't matter as long as it isn't a Pentium II, but you don't need a top of the line processor for a decent GPU, NL strains the GPU more than the CPU. To put it simply, if you have a top of the line processor and no decent graphics chip to render things properly, you have nothing.

As for RAM, I'd strongly recommend at least 1024mb (1gb), while it doesn't help for NL specifically, it helps with any situation where you have a lot of programs open and need to minimize around them and go around a lot of stuff. 512mb is simply very slow and not something you'd want. Not to mention, 1024mb helps your comp boot up faster. For some games, if you're not using at least 1024mb you're not going above 10fps. There may be a few exceptions to this, such as in the case of fast RAM but it's best not to take chances and get the proper amount in the first place.

^thanks for puttin it like i can't [approve]