Horizons and the Asus Eee

[Takora Drakan]

I bet even a C64 can run WoW =P

[Ahael]

Yeah, but still

700 Series Eee's are the slowest, some used underclocked Celeron Mobile CPUs, while the bigger / newer models use Intel Atom (single core, with hyperthreading). 1000 Series models have a real HDD instead of very small SDD (Flash) hard disks. All VGA chips are integrated Intel ones. Also, 900/1000 Series models have 1GB RAM standard, most 700 series have only 512MB.

I will try Hz on my Acer One soon. If it can run Hz, then 900 and 1000 Series Eee's probably can, too. My Acer's XP installation is the standard manufacturer one, I haven't optimized it in any way yet though.

[Spirit]

Yeah, but still

700 Series Eee's are the slowest, some used underclocked Celeron Mobile CPUs, while the bigger / newer models use Intel Atom (single core, with hyperthreading). 1000 Series models have a real HDD instead of very small SDD (Flash) hard disks. All VGA chips are integrated Intel ones. Also, 900/1000 Series models have 1GB RAM standard, most 700 series have only 512MB.

I will try Hz on my Acer One soon. If it can run Hz, then 900 and 1000 Series Eee's probably can, too. My Acer's XP installation is the standard manufacturer one, I haven't optimized it in any way yet though.

On an Xp system with a proper hdd, not the flash drive, I think it could work. The Intel graphics solutions are not actually that bad. The latest ones support lots of features, and would certainly support those required by Horizons. Remember the min spec for this game was an 800mhz cpu, and I knew at least one high level player (Byrant on Wind) who played on a min-spec system. I ran it on a 16mb graphics laptop with 512mb ram, and it was managable.

First one to get it running on one of these new compact laptops gets a free gnome pie!! (btw I know Samsung has just released their own mini-laptop that is better value imho ... can't seem to find the link d'oh!)

Rakku

[TheGolden Dragon]

Hello there everybody,

I am proud and happy owner of Samsung NC10 Blue which is a best piece of netbook Hardware I had a chance to try.

It scored the most points in performance and its very optimized.
Now the one I have, is upgraded to 2GB Kingston DDR 2 667MHZ ram in single socket, running 120GB Western Digital HDD on 5400 RPM and classic Intel Atom 1.6Ghz HT enabled.

Testing -

• Sims 2: Playable, however the screen moving has visible lags
• World of Warcraft : Playable only as single player grinding/Questing, Raiding frame rate drop down to 1fps.
• Starcraft: Brood War - Fluent
• Wacraft 3 - Fluent

All in all, I have to say, there is almost no chance of this type of netbook to run Horizons. This is same netbook, but a bit better in performance than the Asus 1000, Acer One, Toshiba Wind or similiar.

Both HDD and RAM are up to the task however CPU and Graphic card will not sustain such animation. Perhaps with Environment turned off however I do not have idea how to do so.

Kind regards,
TGD/Melgarh/Daniel

[Steelclaw]

I've played HZ on an Acer Aspire One. Solid 5fps.

Great for crafting and chatting, and that's about it. Forget about battles.

[TheGolden Dragon]

Amazing! Would not have expected that Istaria would run on netbook.. well if it works on yours, I might give it a shot since my netbook got a tad bit higher performance results than Acer One.

Will get to it asap!

-Kind regards,
TGD/Melgarh

[Istaria CS]

You might actually get better performance running under Linux - if your netbook has that. In the past, some users have reported much better frame rates under Linux than under Windows.

For Wine info / link back to forum post:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=2696