Laptop Help (Gama, if you're out there o.O)

[Ikari Shinji Kun]

Okay, so recently i downloaded Amnesia: The Dark Descent, only to have it say Fatal Error: Renderer #0 Could Not Initialize. Upon searching teh interwebz, i found it was due to my laptop (a cheap one i got for writing) not having an intergrated graphics card. My question is. How much would it cost to get a graphics card, or would i be better off buying a new laptop? If so, which would you recommened.

Thank you muchly :3

[Wildstorm83]

Your Laptop GFX can't be upgraded. Sorry buddy, but that’s one of the biggest drawbacks of Laptops vs Desktops. Desktops can be upgraded and its quite cheap to do, as for laptops, the only way to effectively "upgrade" a laptop is to replace the guts. In which case it will work out cheaper just to buy a new one.
As for which laptop to buy... there are sooooo many choices.... I would say it depends on your budged and what you intend to do with the laptop. If you’re looking for a gaming rig... rather go Desktop.

Best regards

[Ikari Shinji Kun]

Your Laptop GFX can't be upgraded. Sorry buddy, but that’s one of the biggest drawbacks of Laptops vs Desktops. Desktops can be upgraded and its quite cheap to do, as for laptops, the only way to effectively "upgrade" a laptop is to replace the guts. In which case it will work out cheaper just to buy a new one.
As for which laptop to buy... there are sooooo many choices.... I would say it depends on your budged and what you intend to do with the laptop. If you’re looking for a gaming rig... rather go Desktop.

Best regards

Thanks. Budget isn't a problem and i wanted a laptop purely for the reason to be able to take it around with me. I work nights sometimes and it's nice to just relaxe with a game or 2.

[Oasis Nara]

Okay, so recently i downloaded Amnesia: The Dark Descent, only to have it say Fatal Error: Renderer #0 Could Not Initialize. Upon searching teh interwebz, i found it was due to my laptop (a cheap one i got for writing) not having an intergrated graphics card. My question is. How much would it cost to get a graphics card, or would i be better off buying a new laptop? If so, which would you recommened.

Thank you muchly :3

I will recommended that you buy a VGA card like minimum 256MB or hihger and may i suggest you buy Kingston

[Wildstorm83]

Thanks. Budget isn't a problem and i wanted a laptop purely for the reason to be able to take it around with me. I work nights sometimes and it's nice to just relaxe with a game or 2.

REALLY!! o_O
Budged isn't a problem hey - wish i could say the same... lol :D

Ok - If your not really a heavy gamer then this might not be the best bang for buck buy, but let me tell you - if i had the cash - i would go for one of these...

http://www.alienware.com/

I'd suggest maybe just looking at these as a "top of the line" range. Make notes of what you like and then go to your local shops and look for something with the same specs as that which your interested in, for a better price...
I've always been partial to Sony myself...

Hope that helps.

PM me if you have any other questions!

Best Regards,

[Wildstorm83]

I will recommended that you buy a VGA card like minimum 256MB or hihger and may i suggest you buy Kingston

Hell no - not for VGA cards.... Kingston RAM is the best IMO, but there VGA cards tend to last no more than 1 - 2 years. Besides - he can't upgrade a Laptop GFX. Read my 1st post.
If your going to buy a GFX card then im partial to the HIS (Radeon) cards or the XFX (Nvidia) cards.

[-Yard-]

Are you saying you want to upgrade your laptops graphics card? That's impossible as far as I know you can only do that with certain alienware laptops.

[Anduril]

get a new laptop and woahhhhaaaaa dude budget no problem????...
u are the first one looking for a gaming rig and saying that

[Ikari Shinji Kun]

Are you saying you want to upgrade your laptops graphics card? That's impossible as far as I know you can only do that with certain alienware laptops.

I'm useless with computers, so i didn't know you couldn't.

get a new laptop and woahhhhaaaaa dude budget no problem????...
u are the first one looking for a gaming rig and saying that

Haha what do you mean?

[Anduril]

I'm useless with computers, so i didn't know you couldn't.



Haha what do you mean?

I have yet to meet a person intending to buy a gaming rig without the cap....
i mean the rig u want takes the prices to heavens.....making it necessary to adjust in some places

[gamahiro]

Okay, so recently i downloaded Amnesia: The Dark Descent, only to have it say Fatal Error: Renderer #0 Could Not Initialize. Upon searching teh interwebz, i found it was due to my laptop (a cheap one i got for writing) not having an intergrated graphics card. My question is. How much would it cost to get a graphics card, or would i be better off buying a new laptop? If so, which would you recommened.

Thank you muchly :3

Before you buy anything, tell me the make and model of the laptop and your screen's resolution.
You can try updating the drivers for your graphics and possibly dropping your resolution.

[Ikari Shinji Kun]

Before you buy anything, tell me the make and model of the laptop and your screen's resolution.
You can try updating the drivers for your graphics and possibly dropping your resolution.

I tried updating the driver with no avail. But it's a Compaq and it's shit is all i know :L

[Heister]

Before buying post what you're looking at.

I recently bought an HPLaptop and I play a bunch of games on it in High Resolution. It's also very stable for my editing programs and recording software. It's got 6gb of ram, 1tb HDD, 1GB Dedicated Ram GFX card ATI 5650 (gfx card isn't great but it's good enough), blu-ray player, and an i7 processor. About 1k without my warranty.

I prefer desktops since they are easy to upgrade, but I wanted a laptop for college this year

Edit: just looked at previous post, compaq? Those things are annoying -_-, used to have one back in 05ish lol (was my first laptop)

[DOD_bld]

I tried updating the driver with no avail. But it's a Compaq and it's shit is all i know :L

Oh god... throw that thing at the nearest wall and buy a not piece of crap... lol

I just personally despise all compaq/HP garbage...

back to the topic more or less; like gama said, RE-check the drivers, you might need to install older drivers instead of the newest ones, especially with my experience with compaq the updates aren't always the right thing to do to those poor computers.