Is it good for some of the more recent games? I mainly want it for games like Amnesia The Dark Descent & Resident Evil 6.
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Eh, games run okay. I wasn't impressed at all with the game play and speed. The biggest problem with this laptop (besides the size and weight) is the touchpad. It's not centered directlly on the board so your piece of your hand will slide across it and enforce commands on the computer. This is a major problem when you're playing a game. I ended up becoming so frustrated with this laptop that I gave it to my friend. I strongly urge you to stay away from this product. Acer makes decent desktops, but their laptop designs are terrible! It appears that the engineer never used a computer before, nor tested then in any manner. Cheers. Eh, games run okay. I wasn't impressed at all with the game play and speed. The biggest problem with this laptop (besides the size and weight) is the touchpad. It's not centered directlly on the board so your piece of your hand will slide across it and enforce commands on the computer. This is a major problem when you're playing a game. I ended up becoming so frustrated with this laptop that I gave it to my friend. I strongly urge you to stay away from this product. Acer makes decent desktops, but their laptop designs are terrible! It appears that the engineer never used a computer before,... » Read More Eh, games run okay. I wasn't impressed at all with the game play and speed. The biggest problem with this laptop (besides the size and weight) is the touchpad. It's not centered directlly on the board so your piece of your hand will slide across it and enforce commands on the computer. This is a major problem when you're playing a game. I ended up becoming so frustrated with this laptop that I gave it to my friend. I strongly urge you to stay away from this product. Acer makes decent desktops, but their laptop designs are terrible! It appears that the engineer never used a computer before, nor tested then in any manner. Cheers. « Show Less
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I don't know as we do not play games on it. We bought it for our church to use. We do Power Point for the sermons and songs.
1638062
You can get decent games on it. But it freezes a lot and takes a long time to turn on. It Isnt worth the money you pay for it
2096765
I have not run any heavy games. Zumas Revenge, Bejeweled 3, and other similar games run fine.
142384
It is a good starter CPU and as long as you play either older or less intensive games, it will do just fine until you need to upgrade. Alternatively, I have heard good things from Intel Processors, so it may be useful to look into some of those at the price ranges you are looking for.
578733
faster than what? But as far as gaming it still is up to the task for 99% of the games out there in fact with a good board and graphic card it still is able to max out every game I own! I have about every new game out totaling about 150 steam games and 20 Origin not to mention a few just DVD based. But if you are just looking to build a new unit then go newer LGA1155 is much cheaper
1374840
Sure , its almost overkill for movies use . Newer games will run but you will have to scale down the graphic settings . But for movies and videos its fine.
1059825
Yeah it should be great. I also play a lot of games and everything I've downloaded off Steam is runnable on this card. You might not be able to max settings in all games, but it was running smoothly for me on newer games like the new Metal Gear Solid and I get 120+ fps in Counter-Strike.
1866253
Runs it just fine. I use it for some old DOS games everything including sound works just fine.
1610154
I don't know. I've found the memory to be sufficient though. But I tried installing an ASUS silent 210 graphics card and it actually made the games worse! I'd buy from Amazon so you can return the memory if there is any problem. That's what I did with the graphics card.
212025
Only if you like emulation. It is great for a handheld N64 or Pokemon and Pokemon Romhacks, but beyond emulation? I probably wouldn't recommend it. Its shape isn't conducive to mundane things like Reddit, or Facebook, so that's right out. It's FOR gaming, and the gaming on it is lacking, unless you emulate.
245243
Yeah. I use it exclusively for gaming. Works pretty good. What do I play? BF3, 4, Hawken, CoDs, Crysis 2, 3 and some UT3. For something that's 20 bucks, it aint bad. If it breaks, I'll just go buy another one. I use a Logitech EX110 for work purposes. What's my game stuff? Intel i7 3770 cpu, Asus P8z77-V LK motherboard, WD 2.5 Velociraptor HDD, XFX HD7950 gpu, G.Skill 16gb 19200 ram, Corsair RM750 psu, Corsair H100i liquid cooler.
1890222
It will play most games. Some of the new games coming out will probably run too slow to really be playable, but for 99% of games it will be fine.
575661
Most games rely mainly on processor power and seeing that this laptop has an AMD 2.7 GHz it should run most modern games at high (maybe not extreme) settings. Not to mention the turbo boost which activates automatically when needed. 4 GB of ram is the average amount needed to run most games today so it should be fine, however I personally recommend upgrading it to 8 GB when you get it. You can do this yourself or bring it to a computer shop.
874867
Yes. But if you are looking to support the very latest games, at the highest speeds, then it may not be what you want. It will run them but not as well as the faster machines with very high giga hertz video cards. It is very very good but not the cutting edge now. I hope this helps
1615100
I am not sure if this is really the machine for this kind of applications. You can only load 2 gig of memory and that is not really enough to play any games.
1362289
I wouldn't buy this card for that game... This card is crap.. Try a cheap radeon, it will be way better even with less memory, I played black ops with a radeon HD 4500 with 512ram Now I have a radeon 7800 with 2 gigas ram instead of this one... The price says it all.. This one will do fine with picts and videos, but not for real gaming...
283535
I really hope this question and the two answers below are joking/trolling. This thing would never play any modern title with reasonable performance and simply is only useful for outputting video to monitors, not running anything graphically intensive.