Laptops are not known for good performance, especially if you combined the word "laptop" with "shitty" and "5 year old". The good laptops costs quite a lot of money.
Yeah but to run Graal? A game that used to run on my old pentium 2 which hasn't significantly changed in appearance? Meh...even in 2006 I was running it on a 2.1ghz Athlon XP w/ 512MB of RAM and a Radeon 7500LE (PCI mind you, really horrid card) just fine.
Yeah but to run Graal? A game that used to run on my old pentium 2 which hasn't significantly changed in appearance? Meh...even in 2006 I was running it on a 2.1ghz Athlon XP w/ 512MB of RAM and a Radeon 7500LE (PCI mind you, really horrid card) just fine.
Indeed—I have a cheap (at the time) eight-year-old laptop which runs Graal fine. The performance problems experienced by lots of players are probably compatibility issues which Stefan really needs to fix.
Indeed—I have a cheap (at the time) eight-year-old laptop which runs Graal fine. The performance problems experienced by lots of players are probably compatibility issues which Stefan really needs to fix.
I think horrible hard drives also play a roll, or oversized Graal folders. I was losing performance on a normal 7200rpm drive because my folder was too big*.
My mom bought a pretty cheap laptop a few years ago (against recommendations) that can barely even run Facebook games. The low budget laptops are garbage.
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My mom bought a pretty cheap laptop a few years ago (against recommendations) that can barely even run Facebook games. The low budget laptops are garbage.
Surely it has more power than an iPhone 4, which can run Graal. Isn't the iOS version of Graal basically Graalv6 with a reduced drawing size? Unless it's one of those ultra-thin PUT-ALL-DAT-PRESSURE-ON-CPU type of solutions then I can understand, but he did say he spent $700 on it so who knows.
Surely it has more power than an iPhone 4, which can run Graal. Isn't the iOS version of Graal basically Graalv6 with a reduced drawing size? Unless it's one of those ultra-thin PUT-ALL-DAT-PRESSURE-ON-CPU type of solutions then I can understand, but he did say he spent $700 on it so who knows.
The OS X version of Graal (which the iPhone runs) runs extremely well compared to the Windows version on the same hardware. I think Stefan has done a lot of optimizing for iPhone—it helps that hardware compatibility is less of an issue, too.
iPhones performing better than Windows players on superior hardware is not unheard of.
06-13-2012, 01:16 PM
The low budget laptops are garbage.
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