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Offline Killjoy2

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« on: June 29, 2007, 11:32:27 AM »
What would you recommend for AH on laptop?

Would a Dell Inspiron do it?
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Offline Reschke

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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2007, 02:15:15 PM »
My Sony AR320E plays it very nicely.
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Re: Laptop AH Recommendations
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2007, 11:51:47 AM »
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What would you recommend for AH on laptop?

Would a Dell Inspiron do it?


I play on my Inspiron from 2004, and it works well. I just keep the settings all the way low.

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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2007, 11:27:41 PM »
I'm currently playing on a Panasonic CF-29 tough book. CPU 1.6, RAM 1024, Vid card 128... I play resolution at 1024 x 768 and have no trouble playing on this system.
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Offline scottydawg

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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2007, 05:10:45 AM »
I have a Thinkpad z60M widescreen with an ATI mobile card that plays AH2 well.
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2007, 11:44:56 AM »
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What would you recommend for AH on laptop?

Would a Dell Inspiron do it?


I am using a Dell Inspiron 9100 and it handles everything AH throws at it.
But... Heat is a problem. I have to point a table fan at the back of the laptop to keep the frame rate from suffering badly when flying Aces High.

I am Not too happy with that.

TIGERESS
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2007, 12:22:33 PM »
Well...

I took off the air vent things and found loads of lint clogging up the cooling fins. After removing all that stuff it is running cool with no external fan. I am happy again.

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Offline Fulmar

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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2007, 06:08:23 PM »
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Well...

I took off the air vent things and found loads of lint clogging up the cooling fins. After removing all that stuff it is running cool with no external fan. I am happy again.

TIGERESS


Yeah, had to do that you my girls almost 3 years old toshiba.  She told me it kept shutting down on her and I took a look at it.  It was and I also noticed the CPU fan was working really really hard.  So i removed part of the back and found load of dust clogging the exhaust.  

It's all better now.
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2007, 07:56:12 PM »
Hey Fulmar,

mmmm... wonder how many others are having the same problem using laptops to fly Aes High.

The Inspiron 9100 has three :eek:  cooling fans and they sequentially kick in as things get progressively intense such as low alt ground attack with Zoom View turned on and a lot of ack and defenders flying.

So fustrating to have the frame rate go squat just as you line up on a string of field guns and you're getting acked and cant get a shot in to stop it. grrrr

Hopefully now that I know what the problem was I can stay ahead of it.

It was like the laptop was on WEP too long. lol

Other than that heat problem, which is now fixed, I have really liked using this laptop to fly; its very powerful... has two seperate microprocessors and a very healthy video system. :aok

Glad this thread was here, it spurred me on to checking out the problem.

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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2007, 09:11:54 PM »
I think a good laptop would be the one that dissipates heat quickly efficiently so you can play longer.
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2007, 09:17:52 PM »
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Yeah, had to do that you my girls almost 3 years old toshiba.  She told me it kept shutting down on her and I took a look at it.  It was and I also noticed the CPU fan was working really really hard.  So i removed part of the back and found load of dust clogging the exhaust.  

It's all better now.


I was about to give up on my 4 year old Sony Vaio, it generated too much noise and heat while running.  

By luck, I found out that the fan was full of dusts.  My vaio ran like new after I removed the dusts:aok
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