Laptops?

[otacon]

Trying to get Aces flying on a toshiba satellite laptop. Problem looks like a stronger graphics card is needed or not sure if the video chip just wont support it.  Just wondering if anybody else was dumb enough to try this.

[LBE182]

We where able to download Aces High and install it on the laptop. When Aces High is run on my friend’s laptop we get a white screen and can see the top of the clipboard (only the rings, and they are yellow). Tied changing the Video settings to the lowest possible but same thing happened. Do not know if this is a problem with the video card (or lack of one) or I don’t know. Will aces high even run on a laptop? The laptop is 2 yesrs old and is running XP. One more thing we did get Dx8 to install on the laptop as well.

Will a PCMCIA video card help? If so what one? If not what are the other options.

Thank you for any help.
Otacon has seen me play Aces High and is hooked.

[Dingbat]

Scuzzy I believe has posted laptops really are the best rigs to be playing games on, and as a hardware guru, i'd have to agree,  a lot of CPU cycles are wasted on sound and video processing.

[Nilsen]

I run AH on my IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop.
No problem at all, i get an average of 50fps and that is more than enough. The laptop has 16mb of video ram.l

I have the laptop connected to a Sony monitor and run the game at 1024x768 and 32bit colour.

Lots of folks laugh when i say that i play AH on a laptop but i never have any trouble and not to bad framerates....beats alot of older and not so old desktops.

If the laptop has a dedicated videocard with 8mb (16 vould be prefered) you should be ok (stay away from the laptops that has shared videomemory).

My previous laptop had a 450mhz and 8mb vid card.....it worked ok.

[Dictonius]

Yep, I have a 1.14Ghz/8-16-32Mb/256(- vidram) Hewlett Packard laptop with WinXP and have had no problems with AH, except: the sound issues makes me crazy. AH crashes quite easily especially when the voice is used and at the same time I lose my Jstick controls. After rebooting, everything works just fine, except the sounds are cracking and popping and the use of voice will crash the game. The cracking sound follows to the entire operations of this machine. After AH crashes in it, the entire machine will go a bit slower making sounds distort and so forth.

Only solution I have come up with, is to format the entire system and not to use the voice.

Dictonius (Dictofin).
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