Comments on: Supreme Commander and laptop gaming

By: Gaming Laptops

Gaming Laptops — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:34:23 +0000

suntiger is right. Gaming laptops really aren’t bad at all when you know where to look. Especially when you take into account that they come with a “monitor”, “speakers”, and a “keyboard. If you factor those into the price, then gaming laptops really aren’t that much more than a gaming desktop. And the added mobility is more than worth the extra cost in my opinion. That being said, to address the original post, if you’re going to be playing games like Supreme Commander, then you’re going to want a GeForce graphics card. The quadro will perform worse in games designed for DirectX. Quadro cards are designed for CAD. Perhaps you can upgrade to a 8600m GT? These are very well priced these days and should be available.

By: Trey

Trey — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:27:28 +0000

I was getting the “unable to create direct3d”. I found I need to have GPGnet open for Supreme Commander to run.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:24:59 +0000

I played supcom on my dell inspiron dual 1.73ghz 256mb ati graphics card and i upgraded to 2 GB of ram and i could play it on low 2 vs 2 AI all on a mod hard it was really enjoyable really never lagged bad but it did a little SADLY i cant play expansion because it lags so bad because THQ decided were gunna up the graphics lol. But luckily im selling it and im getting a monster computer amd 9950 black edition quad core 2.6 ghz 2x ati 512 4850 hd graphics cards 4 GB of RAM so ya im excited but supcom will still give u a good expiernece on mid-low range cpu but u cant max out anything

By: lauwe

lauwe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:05:46 +0000

yea i was wandering to if Supreme commander can run good on a geforce 7000M i tried comanpany of heroes with it and it runs not as great as op my desktop while the specs of the laptop are better than of the desktop

By: marklane2001

marklane2001 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:55:23 +0000

Hi - I am thinking of buying the following laptop and wondered if it would play supreme commander ok? Any thoughts?

Processor AMD Turion 64 x2 Processor TL 60
Processor Speed 1.9 GHz, 1600 MHZ FSB, 1 MB Cache
Operating system Genuine Windows Vista ® Home Premium
Memory 3 GB
Hard Drive 160 GB
Optical Drive DVD SuperMulti Drive
Memory Type DDR2
Screen Size 15.4” WXGA CrystalBrite
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Graphics Memory Up to 896 MB Shared
Sound Type High Definition
Infrared Port Included Yes
Battery Type Li-ion 6 cell
USB Connections 4
Wireless Enabled Yes
Thanks a lot

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:15:44 +0000

Andrew, that laptop doesnt have any videocard. You’ll have to find a way to reduce all settings as far as you possibly can, and even then it might not start.

on the Macbook pro from this July, 2.4ghz C2D, 2GB, and an nvidia 8600 256… I can host a game with two players at 500 units each and two AI at about 500 units each before the game starts lagging. last night w tried two people and four ai on the 40×40 map and it started running at half speed … :(

we didnt notice because the ingame timer was slowed down too,it was like it was set to a lower gamespeed, and as we killed lots of units it got a little better. I think it was cpu bound, as my laptop was burning hot etc.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:59:46 +0000

Hey, I tried running supcom on my macbook: 2 GHz core duo, 1 GB ram.

It doesn’t start up though, I get an error message saying “Unable to create Direct3D. Ensure system has updated drivers.”
Obviously this sounds like a video problem. I have Mobile Intel 945 express Chipset GMA 950. It has the most recent drivers I’m pretty sure. Anyone have suggestions?

By: aussidoc

aussidoc — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:05:51 +0000

Hi im thinking of getting the following

Metabox 735
512MB Nvidia 7950 GTX, Intel duo 2 core T7200 @2.00Ghz, 2GBDDR2 667,

will this run Supcom ok ?

or would the performance be much better with the duo AMD 64 with 2x 512 7950GTX (this costing like 1500more than the above)

By: suntiger

suntiger — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:06:28 +0000

Oh, and regarding CD drives: I have a second hard drive where my CD drive would normally be - nice feature of this model (if I wanted I could put an extra battery there, but I need the drive more). I just run everything off Alcohol 120.

By: suntiger

suntiger — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:04:34 +0000

Gaming laptops are expensive, yes - but if you know where to look, they’re not actually overpriced for what they give you. Sure, Alienware, Voodoo, WidowPC, Falcon NW et al are overpriced, but that’s just because they’re rebranding Sager/Clevo models and selling them for twice the price with a fancy paintjob. If you go directly to the source, it’s worth it. I’m on a Clevo M570U (Sager 5760 AKA Voodoo Envy 734) - Core Duo T2400, GeForce Go 7800GTX 256, 1920×1200 17″ display. Runs SupCom at full resolution pretty much flawlessly except for some minor CPU-induced lag when pathfinding with large groups of units, and cost me far, far less than what a “gaming laptop” boutique company would charge.

Sure, I don’t get the fancy paintjob, but who needs paint? *grins*