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Will my laptop run the Orange Box?

post #1 of 24
10/18/07 at 8:41pm
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Hello all, I am interested in buying the Orange Box, and I am wondering if my laptop will run it. Here are the specs of my laptop.

Intel Centrino Duo T2400 @ 1.83 GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA 512MB GeForce Go 7300

Thanks,
JC
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post #2 of 24
10/18/07 at 8:46pm
Yes. I am running it on my laptop. (Specs in Sig)
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post #3 of 24
10/20/07 at 5:02pm
the GPU is your bottleneck, but mdium/low settings id imagine
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post #4 of 24
10/21/07 at 4:56am
It'll run on the M1710 right? I'm pretty sure it should run on the M970. Going to pick this up within the week. But I'm still pretty much addicted to Company of Heros Online.
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post #5 of 24
10/21/07 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by darkloki View Post
It'll run on the M1710 right? I'm pretty sure it should run on the M970. Going to pick this up within the week. But I'm still pretty much addicted to Company of Heros Online.
lol u gota be kidding me. 2 SLI GTX's lol.
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post #6 of 24
10/21/07 at 8:13pm
Yeah but I was just wonderin if it would run Optimally on just one. I know it'll run smooth on 2, I have no idea. It just seems like everyone that I game with in my former clan are all gaming with 8800's , except me . I'm the only laptop user
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post #7 of 24
10/21/07 at 10:27pm
lol yea dual GTX should let you do just about anything lol
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post #8 of 24
10/21/07 at 11:26pm
I bought Orange box and installed on my Inspiron 9300 that has : 2.0GHz Centrino , 2Gb DDR2 RAM and 6800 vanilla 256 Mb DDR2 GeForce Go. I put overclocked drivers from laptop video2Go website. Frequency of ram and GPU are in my signature.

Episode Two runs on all settings - HIGH and no lugs except it loads for about 12 sec between levels. I think it has to do with my overfragmented partition that I am too lazy to defrag ...
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post #9 of 24
10/24/07 at 10:40am
1st time half life 2 player.

Orange box has got to be a great bang for the buck but I have one thing that I can not understand. Why the hell does half life two have such a long ass load time? Its so long IMHO that it pisses me off when I wait for it load up I mean its it my system thats slowing the stupid load time or what?

Besides that I haven't finished HL2 yet and played only once of TF 2. Left that game quick because I swear the guys that where playing it on the server that I joined where trying to be super uber commando geek about it. But the game looks extremely fun and would love to get into it more once I'm done with HL2, HL2 EPi One/Two.
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post #10 of 24
10/24/07 at 2:50pm
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1st time half life 2 player. Orange box has got to be a great bang for the buck but I have one thing that I can not understand. Why the hell does half life two have such a long ass load time? Its so long IMHO that it pisses me off when I wait for it load up I mean its it my system thats slowing the stupid load time or what? Besides that I haven't finished HL2 yet and played only once of TF 2. Left that game quick because I swear the guys that where playing it on the server that I joined where trying to be super uber commando geek about it. But the game looks extremely fun and would love to get into it more once I'm done with HL2, HL2 EPi One/Two.
Mine doesn't really takes long .... couple of seconds maybe .. I think it depends on fragmentation of the HDD and on the video card you have .... Maybe I am wrong - i am not sure Episode Two is awesome ... Better graphics than in HL2, Episode 1
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post #11 of 24
10/24/07 at 3:16pm
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Originally Posted by Rei86 View Post
1st time half life 2 player. Orange box has got to be a great bang for the buck but I have one thing that I can not understand. Why the hell does half life two have such a long ass load time? Its so long IMHO that it pisses me off when I wait for it load up I mean its it my system thats slowing the stupid load time or what? Besides that I haven't finished HL2 yet and played only once of TF 2. Left that game quick because I swear the guys that where playing it on the server that I joined where trying to be super uber commando geek about it. But the game looks extremely fun and would love to get into it more once I'm done with HL2, HL2 EPi One/Two.
make sure you have no AV running
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post #12 of 24
10/24/07 at 10:42pm
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Originally Posted by ghazgull013 View Post
make sure you have no AV running
AV? Audio Visual? The only thing thats running is the Steam Launcher in the background. The Fragmentation of the HDD is clean, I'm running the OEM 2GB of RAM that shipped with my laptop and using a X1800 256MB GPU.
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post #13 of 24
10/24/07 at 11:40pm
av= anti-virus

an x1800 should have no problems running HL2 (source engine)
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post #14 of 24
10/25/07 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by ghazgull013 View Post
av= anti-virus an x1800 should have no problems running HL2 (source engine)
It has no anti-virus running on it...
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post #15 of 24
10/25/07 at 1:13am
have you looked for newer video drivers lately. Unfortunately I follow Nvidia drivers more than ATI drivers.

there were reported problems w/ loading/stuttering and they recc that you look for an updated vid driver if u havent done so already.
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post #16 of 24
10/25/07 at 1:31am
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Originally Posted by ghazgull013 View Post
have you looked for newer video drivers lately. Unfortunately I follow Nvidia drivers more than ATI drivers. there were reported problems w/ loading/stuttering and they recc that you look for an updated vid driver if u havent done so already.
Funny thing..My laptop says its running 7.10 but ATi says I'm not running it...nor can I install it video driver 7.10... And 7.10 is the newest ATi drivers ATM for mobile GPUs....Another reason why my next laptop will have nVIDIA GPU (same goes for my next desktop GPU an already worn out 6800GT going to replace with a 8800Ultra).
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post #17 of 24
10/25/07 at 1:54am
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Originally Posted by Rei86 View Post
Funny thing..My laptop says its running 7.10 but ATi says I'm not running it...nor can I install it video driver 7.10... And 7.10 is the newest ATi drivers ATM for mobile GPUs....Another reason why my next laptop will have nVIDIA GPU (same goes for my next desktop GPU an already worn out 6800GT going to replace with a 8800Ultra).
uninstall/reinstall driver run cc (crap cleaner just 2 b safe)
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post #18 of 24
10/25/07 at 2:38am
always run ccleaner/spybot.

Things are just fine and I tried reinstalling the ati drivers again today and it worked.. which is kind of very odd.

My laptop is heating up more then normal now so looks like I need to deep clean the system soon.
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post #19 of 24
10/26/07 at 9:09am
TF2 runs fine on my M1710 even at 1900 by 1200 resolution, I'm quite surprised.
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post #20 of 24
10/26/07 at 12:35pm
You shouldnt be that surprised since you are running a 7950GTX
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