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WoW TGB on a NetBook

by Martyn · in Torque Game Builder · 02/17/2009 (3:07 pm) · 6 replies

Thats Right! I have just brought a netbook, personally i did not think it would work as they are not the most powerful. Mine is 1.6ghz 160gb hard drive 1gb memory and only a cute little 8inch screen :)

But it runs TGB really well!

Anyone that is looking to use TGB while travelling get one! lol

I really think its increedible that such a powerful program can run on a low spec netbook!
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    Torque 3D Owner Chris Jorgensen
    Cascadia Games LLC
    #1
    02/17/2009 (3:11 pm)
    Doesn't surprise me. For almost 3 years, my only TGB dev computer was a little celeron 1.2 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. TGB also runs fine on my old P4 with 256 MB RAM.

    In fact, I'll probably be getting a netbook in the future. :)

    Torque Owner Eric Schuld
    #2
    02/17/2009 (5:00 pm)
    I am just more concerned with the obvious number of hours of WoW you have played or are playing. :) (You wrote WoW instead of Wow or WOW.) :)

    Either way - good to know - my job isn't 100% certain at the moment - and I have a work MacBook (the new aluminum one) that is a GREAT size to work and travel - but if I lose that - I may look at a smaller netbook knowing it'll work.

    Which one in particular do you have?

    Torque Owner Martyn
    #3
    02/19/2009 (2:08 pm)
    Sorry I have not replied for some time, I have had internet issues :)

    Yeah I do play WoW to much (well used to...never get the time now )

    Its a Acer Aspire One, its not bad - seems to do the job. My Girlfriend has just brought a Compaq one, not sure on the name but that is very good as well

    Torque Owner Heath Fallin
    #4
    02/19/2009 (2:54 pm)
    I run TGB on an old G4 Mac which runs well but I recently bought a EEE PC 1000HA from Asus so I could run Milkshape and Torsion, and they all run well enough on the little netbook that I have been using it as my only computer for the last month. When I load the Adventure Kit for TGB and try to run the game, it gets VERY slow and jerky, but for smaller projects or trying to learn TorqueScript, it works very well. I too was surprised how well a $350 computer would work with TGB.

    Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
    Torque Cheerleaders
    #5
    02/22/2009 (4:30 am)
    The 1000HA Eee is the current king of the crop, according to all I can find. All of these miniscule computers are based on the same general chipset, but display differences and upgradability differs. From what I can find, it seems the non-Asus netbooks are limited to 1.5GB. Might not be a huge problem if you're running the Linux versions, especially if you replace it with an even slimmer distro.

    Some of you should try to profile TGB+Adventure Kit and see what causes the slowdowns. Could it be the Windows OpenGL support, if you're running XP? I know it's GMA900 or thereabouts, but it shouldn't be *that* terrible. I've run AK just fine on a stock Mac mini.

    Torque 3D Owner XanthorXIII
    #6
    02/25/2009 (4:53 pm)
    I'd get a Netbook but I don't like the fact that the majority of them run 1024x600 for a screen resolution. What is up with that? Couldn't they have gone with 1024x768 at least?