good gaming laptop to run planetside 2

[Wahooo]

Why does the question "gaming laptop" need clarification on WHY the guy wants a laptop? or, 'Dude buy a tower' is about the crappiest answer you can give.

[Goliith]

I would suggest taking a looksy at IBUYPOWER as well, and of course, ALWAYS keep an eye out on refurbished and 'Open Box' Laptops, as you can get an AMAZING deal.

I have an IBUYPOWER CZ-17 Laptop, i7 2.3-2.8ghz, 8GB DDR3, GTX 670m, 750gb HDD, Backlit KB, AMAZING Speakers, and more and I only paid 975$ USD for it.

Bought a 256gb SSD for 230$, put it in, installed a fresh Windows 7, and now it boots up in about 10 seconds.

Gets about 30-60 FPS on mixed settings in PS2.

Render Quality: 100%
Render Distance: Max
GPU Particle Quality: Off
Overall Quality: Custom
Graphics Quality: Max
Texture Quality: Max
Lighting Quality: Max
Shadow Quality: Off
Fog Shadows: Off
Effects Quality: Medium
Terrain Quality: Max
Flora Quality: Off
Model Quality: Max
Particles: Medium
Motion Blur: Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off

I have a desktop with a 4ghz AMD 1090T BE Hex-core CPU, 16gb DDR3 RAM, and 2x Radeon 7970s OCed to 1ghz. and I haven't turned it on since I bought this laptop back in november. Makes my desktop so sad.

[OctavianAXFive]

Originally Posted by maradine

I flew 150,000 miles in two years in my early consulting days. There are most certainly use cases for a gaming laptop. You just pay out the ying-yang to get equivalent performance in anything approaching a reasonable form factor.

Indeed, but he wants one to play PS2. How often did you find yourself with an internet connection that could handle a game like this? A gaming laptop is good if you're going place to place and want to play offline games. I owned one myself and while it lasted, it was a great machine.

Originally Posted by wahoo

Why does the question "gaming laptop" need clarification on WHY the guy wants a laptop? or, 'Dude buy a tower' is about the crappiest answer you can give.

Because he asked us to help him find the optimal set up. I would be remiss if I didn't help him consider ALL of the elements that go into owning a gaming laptop.

[maradine]

Originally Posted by OctavianAXFive

Indeed, but he wants one to play PS2. How often did you find yourself with an internet connection that could handle a game like this? A gaming laptop is good if you're going place to place and want to play offline games. I owned one myself and while it lasted, it was a great machine.

More often than not. I tend to stay where there's business-class internet available. Supplemental, you're overestimating PS2's bandwidth requirements. Hotel latency isn't always optimal, but always quite playable. And that's just me. I presume OP is also perfectly capable of deciding whether his roaming pattern supports FPS gaming.

[Kiten]

Originally Posted by maradine

More often than not. I tend to stay where there's business-class internet available. Supplemental, you're overestimating PS2's bandwidth requirements. Hotel latency isn't always optimal, but always quite playable. And that's just me. I presume OP is also perfectly capable of deciding whether his roaming pattern supports FPS gaming.

I have to agree. Internet Requirements in most countries are nowadays most often not necessary. It may vary by country however (when in Italy I always cringe at the internet connections provided most everywhere, though I still manage to play).

[Sodajet]

I run Planetside 2 at low~medium settings (which don't look that bad) and I usually get 30- 40 fps. I use a cheap laptop with following specs
i3- 3110m 2.4 ghz
4 gigs ddr3 ram
intel graphics 4000

[Plaqueis]

I have this one, i'm running PS2 on ultra-settings except for shadows that are on medium, and i get 30+ fps everywhere. I don't know about the cost though, i bought mine about a year ago and it was a litlle bit pricy...

[Traak]

Oh, and if you want to spend an extra 1300 dollars for the 3.0-3.9GHz processor, you an get the even faster MSI laptop:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834152430

3,999 dollars. That would mitigate concerns about CPU limitations.

And, yes it's expensive compared to a tower. So what? We're talking about laptops.

A similarly configured model from XoticPC.com costs a couple hundred less or so.

[Palerion]

As most have said so far, laptops will have trouble running this. The above post is right, if you want to run PS2 on high settings on a laptop, it will cost a crap-ton.

I used to be like you. Ended up sucking it up and buying a desktop, you can keep upgrading it so you don't have to buy a new computer as technology evolves. Also don't have to worry about parts very much, a good case with a lot of fans will ensure that you don't overheat and your parts take very little wear.

[MrYoshitome]

Some of those gaming laptops are very overpriced. Alienware and MSI must have huge profit margins.

Try this:
http://www.kitguru.net/laptops/zardo...-770xs-review/

17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

4x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1202 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N + BLUETOOTH 4.0

£1450, is about $2,225.30

Yes, I know I could have bought a hideously powerful tower, I just like being to game anywhere I want in the house though.

I just bought this, and am really looking forward to getting into Planetside 2. It should be arriving in a couple of weeks.

If anyone has any idea about kind of frame rates I might expect to get, that'd be awesome.