Video Graphics nVidia GeForce GTX 560M 3GB vram GDDR5 DX11

[Scotty Fearsum]

I know Second Life is very particular about the cards it likes as my older Sony VAIO simply wont run S/L at all.

How does Second Life get along with this graphics card?

Do the two of them play nicely together? Do they fight? Do they simply refuse to play together?
I do not want to spend $2000 on an ASUS G74 laptop only to find issues.

I want to be able to enable best quality graphics and effects so I am thinking of the ROG ASUS as a replacement for my current laptop.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Darkie Minotaur]

The graphics card is upper ranger in the notebook sector - so you should be able to get pretty good results.

[Chic Aeon]

This is an answer that I just posted to someone who asked after you :

 

As someone who has spent a long time getting, losing and trying to get shadows again *wink*, I can tell you that the most important thing is the graphics card. A new NVIDIA is best in that Linden Labs "prefers" that card and designs for it.  I had shadows on my old computer but when I got a new faster and better but with a ATI Radeon, not so good. I haven't tried Kirsten's viewer in the last few builds and it may be better now, but if you are looking for GOOD shadows you might want to take a look at this post on the Kirsten Viewer awards. It is on the best cards **Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://secondlife.i.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif" border="0" alt=":smileyvery-happy:" title="Smiley Very Happy" />

http://www.kirstensviewer.com/Blog/177/__Kirstens_GPU_Awards_2011_!__.html

 

You could also write to the forums for Kirsten's viewer. Since most of the folks that are serious about great shadows, photography and such use this viewer, there will be people there that can answer your question. I "asked" the right questions before buying my new computer (my card is second in the Awards list but has had problems with shadows), but to the wrong people.

I haven't had a new notebook for awhile but if you can get one with a graphics card that you can replace, that would be great. The integrated ones are problematic, especially for shadows.

 

Hope that helps.