MSTS and Laptop

[JohnOz]

I have a Toshiba M40-X laptop with a 1.8 Centrino single core with a 64Mb ATI Radeon video card and 768Mb RAM. It runs MSTS at 30-50fps in most places, coming down to high single figures in the tough spots. But it works well for me.

I'm just seting up a new Toshiba laptop with a 2.0 dual core Centrino, with 1Gb RAM and an 256Mb Nvidia 7300 video card, with a 120Gb hard drive. It will be interesting to see how it handles the tough spots.

I've used laptops for MSTS for the past 5 years - I travel a lot with my work - and I think that they work fine for me.

[wmalder]

I've also been using laptop/notebook computers for years. It's not so much a matter of notebook vs. desktop as what the specifications are. I believe what you need to concern yourself with is the amount of RAM, Harddrive size and speed and the type of display adapter and it's RAM. Most of these are selectable at the time of purchase but often difficult or impossible to alter after so choose carefully at first. The one thing that is almost always unchangable is the video display so you have to be careful as many laptops have used oddball displays or displays not at all optimised for graphics. If you get a laptop with graphics by ATI or NVidea with 128Mbytes RAM or better you will have the graphics capability to run MSTS very well and the room to grow to whatever the next generation of sims will be if not the generation after.

[ccsdc]

I built Dorset Coast and Thames-Mersey entirely on my laptop. Started at a 400 MHz 256 Mb RAM in 2003 and have since upgraded twice. I am currently on a dual core 2.0 GHz Dell with 1 Gb of Ram and I can get silly frame rates on Thames Mersey now - 30fps through Crewe with traffic!!

My 1st laptop, on which Crewe was built could only manage 2-4 fps with no traffic!!

Dave

[petethetim]

"30fps through Crewe with traffic"...........WOW!!! Thats Good Dave