Winter Azarov Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I'm thinking about buying a new laptop during the holiday sales, I have a main PC for bigger stuff, I just want something casual that let's be bein SL without being chained to my desk 24/7 and the one I am considering has the AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics card with up to 1461MB total graphics memory.Any suggestions whether or not this will be sufficient for running SL. I currently use both Viewer 3 and Firestorm (sometimes Dolphin).Any feedback would be appreciated :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggy Paperdoll Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 It may or may not work....depends on what you consider "works". It's a low end GPU with no dedicated memory meaning it will require memory from your system RAM. If your system RAM is not greater than about 4 gigs you'll have difficulty getting enough graphics memory from your operating system (which I assume will be Windows 7.......hopefully 64 bit so that you can install more than 3 gigs). The GPU is not designed for 3D graphics and you'll notice that right away.........low settings in your viewer is about the best you can hope for. If you're good with that, then the HD 6310 just might work well enough for you. But, it's still iffy whether or not it will even let you log in. It appears that the computer you are looking at is a netbook..........and that type of computer is really not enough for SL (some work, some don't). http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6310.40952.0.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveAngeL Lyre Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hello Winter. Same question here. Have a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Azarov Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 Thanks for the feedback so far, and to Peggy, no it is not a netbook, it's a full laptop and will of course have more than 4 gigs of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggy Paperdoll Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Then go for it..........the GPU may or may not work. If it does then you will be fine as long as you are okay with low settings and perhaps a great deal of texture lag. You asked if it's okay for SL..........and "okay" is subjective (I might not think it's okay but someone else might think the opposite). It's a low end graphics processor and will perform accordingly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Azarov Posted November 24, 2011 Author Share Posted November 24, 2011 *nods* As I said, I have a desktop that I use for high end stuff, I just added a beefy new graphics card to it so that's what I use for all of primary stuff like taking Photos or anything I need to run on High for. I just hate being tied to my desk all of the time and want somehing simple that will let me get in world in a nice comfy spot on the couch from time to time lol. I just want to make sure I can actually get in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggy Paperdoll Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 With that GPU I don't think anyone can tell you it's going to be okay for sure. It depends on many other factors. The GPU is marginal at best. And that's all I'm trying to say. Maybe, maybe not. If it doesn't work for you then it gets to be a problem....if it does then you got what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aveline Stein Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I looked it up at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card-gaming-performance,3042-7.html Seems to be an integrated chip that is equal to the Intel integrated graphics. Will the viewer start? Most likely. Will be be an ejnjoyable SL expierence, i doubt it. Personally i would stay away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indio Quinnell Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Seeing as how I recently went through this exercise myself, I have a suggestion, unless you've really, really got your heart set on that particular laptop... I'm getting reasonably good results from a Lenovo Ideapad Z575. It has 4Gb of RAM, and uses an AMD A6-3400M CPU/GPU combo chipset. (It also has WIndows 7, but nobody's perfect, I suppose. ) It's no barn-burner when it comes to frame rates, of course, especially in a crowded sim -- but I can generally keep the graphics settings in the midrange without things grinding to a halt. Even in a club with a dozen or so avatars (furry AVs, at that, which generally means a boatload of flexi and sculpt prims), I can usually stay around 10 frames/sec on average, which seems reasonable for a $500 general-purpose laptop that's not really optimized for that sort of thing... It'll never take the place of my full-fledged desktop machine with the good nVidia graphics card, of course, but it serves well enough to untether me from the computer room and let me relax on the couch once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Azarov Posted November 25, 2011 Author Share Posted November 25, 2011 UPDATE: Got it and it works just fine, running on high and even went to some of the more laggy sims I tend to frequent and it might not be quite as smooth as my desktop but it works great. I'm using firestorm at the moment, have not tested it with the SL viewer yet but will do so later and I don't anticipate any problems with that one either (aside from the typical problems that is the SL viewer lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYsmith Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Great post! The AMD E-350 w/ Radeon HD 6310 and E-450 w/Radeon HD 6320 are excellent low cost APUs that are extremely popular in value priced laptop computers now. I have seen friends run SL off of the Radeon HD 6320 with high graphic details with Firestorm and he, like yourself, is able to play. SL is a great game in that it is playable with excellent graphics even with modestly priced laptop computers today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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