Will this work on my gaming laptop?

laffles · 11-29-2010, 10:17 AM

intel i5
radeon 5870 1gb DDR5
4GM ram ddr3

I've seen alot of people with newer systems having issues, wondering if that will be the case with me..

thanks!

LATTEH · 11-29-2010, 10:42 AM

it should work. the main problem most of the time is ATI's drivers they always seem to screw somthing up with the OpenGL

Sweetz · 11-29-2010, 10:42 AM

No one can give you a guarantee either way. The game is problematic on newer systems, especially on Radeon cards because of their often poor legacy OpenGL support. However, most people can get the game running if you spend the time tweaking and troubleshooting - but some don't want to invest that effort and will just complain that the game doesn't work.

Short answer: it might work, but you'll probably have to put in some tweaking effort to run it. That said, the game is $2.50, are you really going to be ticked off about losing $2.50 if it turns out you can get it to work?

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11-29-2010, 10:42 AM	#2
LATTEH Banned Join Date: Feb 2009 Reputation: 423 Posts: 1,439	it should work. the main problem most of the time is ATI's drivers they always seem to screw somthing up with the OpenGL

11-29-2010, 10:42 AM	#3
Sweetz Join Date: Nov 2008 Reputation: 333 Posts: 1,351	No one can give you a guarantee either way. The game is problematic on newer systems, especially on Radeon cards because of their often poor legacy OpenGL support. However, most people can get the game running if you spend the time tweaking and troubleshooting - but some don't want to invest that effort and will just complain that the game doesn't work. Short answer: it might work, but you'll probably have to put in some tweaking effort to run it. That said, the game is $2.50, are you really going to be ticked off about losing $2.50 if it turns out you can get it to work?