Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
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GraniteTheWolf
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Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
Its amazing what Vanguard will play on these days. Seriously!
I recently bought a 11" HP Stream to use as a netbook. Its a FANLESS passively cooled 2.something dual core celeron with 2gb DDR3 ram, 32gb SSD, intel HD GPU.
For laughs I put the vanguard client on the fastest USB 2.0 jumpdrive I had and decided to see what would happen. Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvxqIvPyJ08
Keep in mind this is also running off the battery, not wall power. Wall power would obviously let the laptop run at full power capacity. I have it set to a battery saving mode that lets it average 8-10 hours.
Forgive the stuttering- that is the flash drive loading. I'm sure many of you are familiar with this when you played the game on a computer with a slower loading hard drive. To remedy this I plan to buy a fast 64gb Class 10 UHS-1 SD card for my HP Stream.
That aside it runs really really well. Graphics are at about medium settings with AA turned off. View Distance set to about 1500 meters. No volumetric clouds.
Who would of thought, Vanguard on a fanless netbook. Not I!
I recently bought a 11" HP Stream to use as a netbook. Its a FANLESS passively cooled 2.something dual core celeron with 2gb DDR3 ram, 32gb SSD, intel HD GPU.
For laughs I put the vanguard client on the fastest USB 2.0 jumpdrive I had and decided to see what would happen. Have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvxqIvPyJ08
Keep in mind this is also running off the battery, not wall power. Wall power would obviously let the laptop run at full power capacity. I have it set to a battery saving mode that lets it average 8-10 hours.
Forgive the stuttering- that is the flash drive loading. I'm sure many of you are familiar with this when you played the game on a computer with a slower loading hard drive. To remedy this I plan to buy a fast 64gb Class 10 UHS-1 SD card for my HP Stream.
That aside it runs really really well. Graphics are at about medium settings with AA turned off. View Distance set to about 1500 meters. No volumetric clouds.
Who would of thought, Vanguard on a fanless netbook. Not I!
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Re: Vanguard on a $200 HP Streambook
LOL nice i like it.
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GraniteTheWolf
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Re: Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
I just ordered a Wintec Class 10 UHS-1 elite 64gb sd card with a read of 95MB/s and write of 50MB/s that even has an ECC (error correcting code) engine built into it. This should make the game run much better then it does on my slow usb 2.0 jumpdrive. Should almost be like using it on a cheap ssd :p
I use a similar 64gb sd card in my video DSLR just not an "elite" version that's slightly slower. Wintec makes some good memory that people give good reviews.
I use a similar 64gb sd card in my video DSLR just not an "elite" version that's slightly slower. Wintec makes some good memory that people give good reviews.
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Chrisworld
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Re: Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
Vanguard does run surprisingly well on many machines. In my experience with EverQuest II the story is quite different but with VG I have never ever ran into performance issues.
I used to play VG on a 2006 iMac with a Radeon x1600 256 MB, 2 GB of ram and a 2.33 GHz core 2 duo at 1680x1050, averaging about 45 FPS on the highest settings possible. Same holds true for my aging gaming PC from 2008.
My MacBook air would run VG maxed when booted into windows but in Parallels while running in OS X I had to fine tune the settings a bit but the game still looked amazing. Keep in mind this is first of all ...emulated with only 2.5 GB of ram and a shared CPU between the operating systems.
Ever since the sunset though I let my gaming pc handle the boot up and running of the VG client.
Skyrim is also surprisingly optimized enough to run maxed out with heavy graphical mods on my gaming PC @ 60 FPS, 1080p.
I used to play VG on a 2006 iMac with a Radeon x1600 256 MB, 2 GB of ram and a 2.33 GHz core 2 duo at 1680x1050, averaging about 45 FPS on the highest settings possible. Same holds true for my aging gaming PC from 2008.
My MacBook air would run VG maxed when booted into windows but in Parallels while running in OS X I had to fine tune the settings a bit but the game still looked amazing. Keep in mind this is first of all ...emulated with only 2.5 GB of ram and a shared CPU between the operating systems.
Ever since the sunset though I let my gaming pc handle the boot up and running of the VG client.
Skyrim is also surprisingly optimized enough to run maxed out with heavy graphical mods on my gaming PC @ 60 FPS, 1080p.
Re: Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
Toying with Vanguard on a HP Stream 7 tablet and it is pretty decent, I never thought I would see multi core x86 tablets be so cheap. It also runs Half-Life 2 decently.
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TigerTiger
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Re: Vanguard on a $200 HP Stream
I even got Vanguard running on my VirtualBox virtual machine (host is Windows 7, guest is Windows 10).