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Post by b101 on Jul 7, 2019 9:26:51 GMT -5
Hi all,
Having spent hours designing on PS4, I wondered what the rough specs required for designing on laptops are. I have a current laptop that may/may not last much longer due to motherboard damage, so will have to upgrade relatively soon, but it's a good barometer for me in terms of price range. I would prefer a laptop to a PC at this stage - there's nowhere in the house to put a PC and I enjoy the portability of a laptop (being able to pretend to spend time watching a programme with my wife etc...). I can see the recommended specs, but I don't know to what extent those are useful guidelines for designing.
My current laptop specs:
Display size and resolution: 15.60-inch , 1920x1080 pixels
Processor : Core i7
RAM : 8GB
Hard disk : 1TB
SSD : No
Graphics : Geforce MX150
Would this be enough to run the designer fairly well? I don't need perfect, just something that will plant a bush in under 7 seconds... If not, what's the rough price range for a 'good' system (laptop or PC)? Thanks for any advice.
(Sorry if the wrong place, not sure quite where to put this)
Thanks, Ben
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 11:12:06 GMT -5
I think the MX150 would have a hard time with TGC. Some say 8GB can be a bottleneck but since I mainly design on a laptop with 16GB (and everything else about that laptop is more powerful than the one with 8GB) I can't confirm that. I have two laptops, one runs <20fps and takes 3-4s per click non-LiDAR and 10-12s per click LiDAR. It has a kabylake i5 (7500m I think?), 8GB RAM, a smallish SSD and only integrated graphics, plus horrible cooling. 13.3in screen as well (this laptop is a Dell Inspiron of some time, a budget / entry level model)
Graphics-wise the budget laptop lags behind my OG xbox one significantly, but its CPU speed in the menus is much faster. I still think it shows that you may need a more current, midlevel GPU if you want to be able to run the designer smoothly and quickly.
My more powerful laptop has a 6700HQ i7 processor, 16GB RAM, decent cooling and a mobile GTX 1060 GPU, the slightly less powerful 3GB variety. It was around $1200US new I think and runs the game very nicely. Using HDMI for an external monitor (55" TV) without configuring any settings it gets 35fps, and not plugged into it I get around 60fps with graphics on high but not max. It takes around 0.5-1 second per non-LiDAR click and 2.5-4 seconds per LiDAR click. 15.6in screen size (MSI GP62 VR Leopard Pro I think, more of a midlevel / lower high end laptop)
My 'good laptop' makes my xbox feel like a snail in every way. It's around 5x faster to load menus and such, although plugged into the TV the graphics performance isn't that much better
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Post by b101 on Jul 7, 2019 11:30:10 GMT -5
I think the MX150 would have a hard time with TGC. Some say 8GB can be a bottleneck but since I mainly design on a laptop with 16GB (and everything else about that laptop is more powerful than the one with 8GB) I can't confirm that. I have two laptops, one runs <20fps and takes 3-4s per click non-LiDAR and 10-12s per click LiDAR. It has a kabylake i5 (7500m I think?), 8GB RAM, a smallish SSD and only integrated graphics, plus horrible cooling. 13.3in screen as well (this laptop is a Dell Inspiron of some time, a budget / entry level model)
Graphics-wise the budget laptop lags behind my OG xbox one significantly, but its CPU speed in the menus is much faster. I still think it shows that you may need a more current, midlevel GPU if you want to be able to run the designer smoothly and quickly.
My more powerful laptop has a 6700HQ i7 processor, 16GB RAM, decent cooling and a mobile GTX 1060 GPU, the slightly less powerful 3GB variety. It was around $1200US new I think and runs the game very nicely. Using HDMI for an external monitor (55" TV) without configuring any settings it gets 35fps, and not plugged into it I get around 60fps with graphics on high but not max. It takes around 0.5-1 second per non-LiDAR click and 2.5-4 seconds per LiDAR click. 15.6in screen size (MSI GP62 VR Leopard Pro I think, more of a midlevel / lower high end laptop)
My 'good laptop' makes my xbox feel like a snail in every way. It's around 5x faster to load menus and such, although plugged into the TV the graphics performance isn't that much better
Really useful - thank you. Food for thought, if not the wallet...
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Post by linkslover on Jul 18, 2019 3:42:08 GMT -5
I design on PS4 too but I do have a Dell laptop for Football Manager which is data heavy and Motorsport Manager which is graphics heavy in 3D race view. I have an i7, 16Gb RAM and a GTX1060 which performs very well with those. If it copes well with those two games, I don't envisage a problem with TGC.
It cost me £1,250 around a year ago, so you can probably get it a little cheaper than that now.
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Post by paulus on Jul 18, 2019 10:53:03 GMT -5
Would definitely advise SSD - there's a lot of disk writing involved in using the designer - it'll also make the computer seem much snappier overall - SSD is the single biggest speed boost you can give to a computer these days. 16Gb RAM will definitely help hold all those objects in memory and speed things up - Lidar imports have lots of objects. Favour graphics card grunt over CPU grunt if you need to make a tradeoff due to financial constraints - CPU is not often the bottleneck on games.
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