Laptop Performance

[c130lover]

Hello,

I just ordered a laptop. I've been a desktop guy all my life, but I don't think it's practical to haul a desktop and monitor to and from school every break. The laptop I ordered is an HP ENVY 15t-j100. The specs are:

Windows 8.1 64 bit
Intel i5-4200M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
8 gigs of ram
1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive

I don't expect it to run as well as my desktop, but I'm curious as to what I should expect, ie what fps at max,high,medium, or low, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[garymbuska]

Hello,

I just ordered a laptop. I've been a desktop guy all my life, but I don't think it's practical to haul a desktop and monitor to and from school every break. The laptop I ordered is an HP ENVY 15t-j100. The specs are:

Windows 8.1 64 bit
Intel i5-4200M
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
8 gigs of ram
1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive

I don't expect it to run as well as my desktop, but I'm curious as to what I should expect, ie what fps at max,high,medium, or low, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Laptops as a rule or usually not designed to run games on. The biggest problem is the fact that they are so small you are limited as to what you can use for a video card, Plus you will have a problem keeping the card cool But with some work you should be able to get FSX up and running with sliders set from middle range backwards. You should get descent frame rates from 20 on down depending.
What you might not know is one of the factors that create a great gaming computer is the POWER SUPPLY as well as the video card and lets face it you can not put a large power supply in a laptop. The higher end power supply have dedicated power leads and are designed specifically for your top of the line video cards. You just can not do this with a laptop
The power supply on my system is rated at 1,000 watts and has a dedicated rail for the video cards I use

[Victory103]

Lover of Hercs,

Had to do the same since I always seem to be out of the country. Went with a full on gaming laptop, with a 17" screen from ASUS. I have similar specs as yours but running i7, GTX460M, 8G RAM, Win7-64. I can play FSX with most of my sliders right, keeping my frames locked at 30. Had it going on 3yrs now and it's recently started to act up, but I believe it was a driver issue as my ISP sucks. No issues running other sims (DCS,FBMS, Arma) at eye candy enough settings to get the immersion.

Haven't purchased any big boy PMDG stuff yet as I fly 99% military, but the VRS Super Bug runs smooth. Only issue if finding a bag/case to travel with, most are not made for larger laptops.

[pete]

Only issue if finding a bag/case to travel with

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[Russell Irwin]

I've been using a laptop for approaching two years. It's a Dell Inspiron 15R with (sadly) 2.1 GHz, 8Gb of RAM, and the default Intel video card that Dell insists on including. Overall, the performance has been decent after I made some changes.

After those changes, I can reasonably expect 25 fps on the ground at major airports and 15-22 at larger fields (ATL and LHR are especially taxing. So is JFK/LGA). The biggest advice I can give you, in addition to following the instructions in the next few links, is to give up on the "Detailed Clouds" setting in FSX. It kills frame rates like you would not believe. Same with AI traffic. Ditch it. Besides, who wants to sit in line for takeoff for 30 minutes?

NickN's magnum opus, the definitive guide to improving FSX performance

From the Simviation forums themselves, I found these gems that added 15 fps alone.

[Rocket_Bird]

It'll run decently with a bit of tweaking. I run off a laptop mostly because I am away from home, and my specs are much worst than yours. Can handle everything from a default aircraft to a PMDG decently.

You can max out your resolution, turn up your filters, keep the blooms on. If you tone down the water details, and keep scenery shadows out of the picture, you should be able to keep most sliders to the right with +20 fps. Just use the default max for traffic (anything more is unrealistic anyways), and I think you'll do just fine.