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Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 7:12pm

Will it run?

I have a netbook Acer AOD 255 and i wasn't sure if RoM will run smoothly on this. I dont care if the graphics are horrible i just was a fairly constant frame rate, around 30fps would suffice.

atom 1.6
2gb RAM
"intel graphics media accelrator for mobile"


(im not sure how powerful the media accelerator is but it will obviously need to be running on max settings)

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Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 7:15pm

It might run, but will not be playable. I know of someone who installed RoM on netbook, but only to be able to use guild chat. Not very playable. (slow processor and on board graphics - double NO)

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Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 7:17pm

Hello otudacsnollid,

I am sorry to tell you this but your laptop will not be able to run Runes of Magic with an integrated graphics card.

Getting 30 FPS would require a lot more then an Atom Processor, 2gb RAM and a reasonable graphics card.

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Tuesday, March 20th 2012, 7:33pm

Quoted from "RoMage;518736"

It might run, but will not be playable. I know of someone who installed RoM on netbook, but only to be able to use guild chat. Not very playable. (slow processor and on board graphics - double NO)


To be fair, my netbook (I am that someone) is 1gb only. Considering that ROM can be a little memory hungry, that is a limiting factor. But, not limiting enough, I would say. Graphics and CPU will still drag you down.

Sorry.
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Wednesday, March 21st 2012, 11:51am

Quoted from "TunaShake;518738"



I am sorry to tell you this but your laptop will not be able to run Runes of Magic with an integrated graphics card.


Integrated graphics cards do work for RoM...they're just very laggy. It probably does depend on the age/model of the Intel chip (i.e. really old ones will be horrid for games), but with the one I have (~2 years old) it was doable. It's playable, but if someone's looking for a smooth experience, you won't find it with that type of setup. I spent a year and a half with an integrated graphics card in RoM--however, I do have 4GB of RAM as opposed to 2, which did help a bit, as memory-leaky as this game is. FPS was low for me even with view distance minimized, but I also know people with high end computer setups (top-end cards/mobo/CPUs meant for gaming) that didn't get more than 30 FPS ever--and I'm not talking about on high graphic settings, either.

That said, I'm on an actual laptop, not a netbook. For the sake of netbooks, they typically can't run RoM period, since they're not very powerful and really not meant for any type of heavy CPU usage. Maybe some newer ones can, but I haven't met someone with a netbook yet that can actually run RoM without lagging so badly they can't move--or just able to run it at all without it freezing up the computer.

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Wednesday, March 21st 2012, 5:54pm

Vfwiffo is running RoM on netbook, but it's not something I would recommend to anyone.

RoM devides processing power between processor and GPU, and in case of netbooks, those are lowest possible processors, because they are built for small energy consumption/long battery life.
I started playing RoM on my old gaming rig (Sony P4, 3GHz, SATA drives, but no RAID and 128MB old video card). Rom was playable at low settings and with low FPS. I am thinking to experiment with another desktop I got from friend, but with better video card (256MB or even bigger) so that I can switch my laptop back to Ubuntu. (Yes, I know I can run RoM in Ubuntu, but it does require a lot of work to set it up)