FS 9 on laptop with GeForce 310M ??

[snoopy51]

Hi, I have just decided to buy a laptop to use for my IT work, and I have found this one that fulfilled my needs, but futhermore it could be great if I could use it to fly FS 9 on it too.
Here is some data on the 15,6" laptop :
Lenovo G560 m273wmd
CPU is a i5-450M
4 GB DDR3 ram
and GPU is a Nvidia GeForce 310 M
I have a rather big FS 9 with a lot of addons (total it is about 31 GB), but I am hoping that I can stay on a frame rate about 20.
I will be happy to hear others experience with that GPU GeForce 310M i can

[skoker]

You could run fsx on that thing pretty well and fs9 very well

[snoopy51]

Okay thanks skoker for your quick reply

[snoopy51]

Hi again,
Yes I just look around a little bit after I in fact had decided to buy that Lenovo laptop and then I found this one:
SONY Vaio VPC-EB2S1E
is has a i3-350M CPU and still 4 GB RAM, but it has instead an ATI Radeon HD 5650 GPU (with 1 GB dedikated RAM). (it

[Rich H]

I don't really know about laptop graphics cards, so can't compare them. But the i3 processor in the Sony is weaker than the Lenovo, so you will get weaker performance through there.

[snoopy51]

Hi Rich
Thanks for your answer, yes I have the same thought and instead I have found (of course at a bigger price

[Groundbound1]

Remember that FS9 was developed to only use one cpu core. That being the case, you would be better off with the choice that offers the highest cpu clock speed.

Also, one of the ones with an HD 5650 would do quite well for FS9.

"In our benchmarks with the HD 5650, the GPU is performing on a level with the previous Mobility Radeon HD 4670 or the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M (with DDR3 graphics memory). This means the performance is sufficient for high details in nearly all DirectX 10 games (only Crysis and GTA4 are not fluently playable in high details - see gaming list below)."

As quoted here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobili ... 697.0.html

"The performance of the 310M is similar to the GeForce G 210M and therefore located in the entry level class. Modern 3D games like COD Modern Warfare 2 run only in low details and resolutions fluently. Some demanding games like NFS Shift or GTA4 wont run fluently at all. Less demanding games like SIMS 3 run in medium details and resolutions fluently. Therefore, the graphics card can not be recommended for gamers."

Quoted from:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeF ... 439.0.html

[snoopy51]

Well I ended up buying an "Acer Aspire 5820TG" and until now it seems to do both FS 9 and FSX great, FS9 without any problems (locked frames at 22 and with all settings put out to right site) and in FSX I have locked frame at 20 and with settings a little above medium.
the Acer has an i5-450M (2 core, but it shows in CPU performance 4 windows like it has 4 cores ??