DDO on a Netbook?

[TheLordBear]

I was thinking of picking up a netbook this week for travel and was wondering if ddo is playable on a fairly low end machine. I'm looking at getting something around $300, so probably a N450 processor, 1GB ram, adaquate HD space, and 1024*600 resolution.

Has anyone tried playing on a similar netbook?

[thwart]

I was thinking of picking up a netbook this week for travel and was wondering if ddo is playable on a fairly low end machine. I'm looking at getting something around $300, so probably a N450 processor, 1GB ram, adaquate HD space, and 1024*600 resolution.

Has anyone tried playing on a similar netbook?

I play it on a netbook and have not had problems.

[BlackRage]

Will it run? Yes - just be prepared for the longest install ever

That said, the performance is extremely subpar and begs the question why? rather than can?

Good luck!

[bradleyforrest]

I have a netbook that I installed DDO on just as a test. I haven't tried to run a quest on it, but it runs well in the marketplace. This one might be a little higher end than what you're looking at, though. 1GB is going to be a problem for you.
AMD MV-40
2GB
Radeon 3200 sharing the system memory

I have a 1366x768 display, but I can't play at that res because the system is too weak. Don't expect to have a lot of hotbars active, either.

[TheLordBear]

I'm mostly just looking to put it on there to kill time when I'm waiting around in hotel rooms or whatever. I don't expect it to match my fairly high end desktop, but I was curious to know if I could do some low end soloing or AH stuff when on the road.

I'll probably throw on XCom or some other really old stuff that I know will run well too. But since DDO is my main game at the momemnt, I would love to have it on there.

[SaneDitto]

I sometimes play DDO on my MSI Wind U100. With the settings at the absolute lowest, performance is acceptable as long as there aren't too many things happening on the screen. If you're healing parties in a big fight, you might end up having to turn away from the scene so you can heal at a decent rate, because the FPS is just that horrible.

But for low-end soloing/duoing and AH trolling, I think a netbook will suit you just fine.

[Giantsbane]

I played the first two years on a Dell XPS notebook. I used an external mouse and keyboard. Never had any performance problems. The monitor was 17". Then one day I booted up the notebook and the @#$! video card fried on me.

You'll find your biggest problem being the hotel/motel internet connection. Expect low bandwidth, and epic lag.

[Goldeneye]

You're most likely going to get really low FPS.
The major factor in low-end laptops that impacts game performance is the lack of a video card. Most cheap comps come w/ an integrated card which chokes on games.

[Coldin]

I've done DDO on a netbook a few times. Actually had it running off an external USB hardrive.

Just be aware that performance is going to be really bad.

[bradleyforrest]

I played the first two years on a Dell XPS notebook. I used an external mouse and keyboard. Never had any performance problems. The monitor was 17". Then one day I booted up the notebook and the @#$! video card fried on me.

You'll find your biggest problem being the hotel/motel internet connection. Expect low bandwidth, and epic lag.

OP is talking about a netbook, not a gaming notebook.

[Chette]

Depends on the netbook.

I installed DDO on my EEE PC 1000HER and have used it only once or twice. It plays but is horribly choppy. It's fine if you're just piking, or doing something really simple, but if I need to be moving around and performing a lot of actions I can't do it. I mainly use it for logging on to manage inventory.

[Modinator0]

I can barely play tetris on my netbook..... goddamn GMA 500 piece of ****. Never again, acer. never again.

[donfilibuster]

I play on my vaio with 1GB ram and it can only be on the lowest graphics.
Some anti-lag measures like turning off combat feedback seems to help.
For area loading lag i use a readyboost usb stick to alleviate the lack of ram that cause much disk swapping.
It still goes slow on harbor and market at peak hours but otherwise plays well and the screen of 17'' suffice.

Apart of that i also tried on a mini laptop with atom processor and the thing that puts me off isn't performance but the smaller screen size which leaves no room for hotbars.
Thus never tested on laggy quests, but some argue that the low performance of laptops is due to the smaller bus speed on the motherboard.
This is what causes the atom to balk on full screen video when the same regular laptop don't have any problem.

[AcesWylde]

<quote>
Minimum System Requirements



OS: Windows® XP

Processor: P4 1.6 GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
Memory512 MB RAM
GraphicsCard 64 MB Hardware T&L -compatible video card
NetworkConnection 56.6 K modem
SoftwareWindows XP, DIrectX 9
DiscSpace 3GB, 5GB for high resolution

Recommended System Requirements



OS: Windows® XP/ Vista
Processor P4 3.0GHz or AMD equivalent with SSE
Memory 1GB RAM
Graphics Card GeForce FX or better with 128MB of memory
Network Connection Cable Modem or DSL connection
Software Windows XP, DirectX 9
Disc Space 3GB 5GB for high resolution


If you are running below any of these requirements, you may encounter graphical issues or poor overall performance which Turbine will be unable to troubleshoot. </quote>

I don't think you'll have too much trouble running an Atom even on just 1GB RAM, however you will need to check into your netbook's graphics options.

I have a friend that runs DDO on an MSI Wind with only 1GB, I tried on my wife's Aspire One with 2GB, and couldn't get it to work. Both have Intel GMA500, but come to find out the bios in my wife limits shared memory to 8MB!

Personally I'd spend a little extra cash to get a netbook that uses nvidia or ATI graphics, I think you'll be much happier.

[TheLordBear]

OP here. I bought my netbook last night (acer, same specs as above), and after downloading the client and installing (which took quite a while) I had 5 mins or so to play before bed.


The opening movie ran fairly smooth, so I got a little excited. Then I picked one of my lowbies, and after a very long load, I ended up in the harbor. It was barely playable. Nothing was very smooth. I needed sleep, so I didn't have a chance to test any quests. It would probably be fine for inventory and AH stuff, but pretty frustrating to quest with.

I didn't have time to adjust settings and I was having issues with my router, so things could improve.

[wooshell]

I tried DDO on my Vaio W10 (1,2ghz Atom Dualcore, 2GB RAM), and even on the lowest graphics setting it was awfully slow - not to mention unplayably ugly. The intel/Atom integrated graphics is just ****. Even if it claims it's DirectX9 able.. you don't want to use that unless you're looking for a decorated chat client instead of an MMO.
Things might be a bit better for a recent netbook on Nvidia Ion or Geforce Mobile chipset, but I think those might be outside your $300 price range.

Oh, and you definitely want to go for a 2GB RAM upgrade.. 1GB causes far too much swapping which will reduce performance even more. Starting at 2GB, DDO runs rather swap-free.

[hdogan]

Has anyone tried with ION2 netbook? I'm planning to buy Asus 1215N. It was dual core Intel Atom processor, build on ION. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=HrglRhH8D60Rmlv3

[Martdon]

I play on a netbook. Here are some things to know.

-Don't expect to raid. 12 party members +lots of mobs and damage = WAY too much for the machine
-Don't expect to heal full groups on quests that require constant attention. I find that once you get more than 3 people in the group, things start slowing down.
-Your graphics quality will be down to lowest it can get.
-Don't expect to lead kill counts even you you are the best dps, in full groups. I find in groups that I should be doing the best, often that initial entering of battle with new groups of mobs slows me down to the point, that many mobs run by and get killed by other before I can really start mowing things down.

If you generally just solo/solo w/hireling, you should be fine, but for things that really need groups, it gets kind of annoying.

[tenalafel]

While not a netbook per definition I used to be able to run DDO ( at the begining of DDO ) on a Vaio T2-XP/S
( that's a Pentium-M 1.2Ghz with 512Mb RAM and an Intel Graphic card sharing the Ram, and XP ) at the lowest setting.
It was playable... as a backup system when the main one wasn't available, but that's all.

I did try to install DDO:EU on it last year... and well, 3 years of windows patches, all the changes made in DDO made it unplayable, I barely managed to leave the beach and do the first quest... on a 4 year old laptop, that has lower perfs than a modern netbook.

Anyway, on weak systems like a netbook don't expect much, DDO is really graphic intensive, and generally laptops are not great on that side.