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STO on a Netbook, is it possible?

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I have enjoy the fact that I could use my netbook to "Play" DDO, LOTRO and CoH. I did not get a chance to test running STO in Beta.

What are the MINIMUM requirements for STO. and will a basic netbook work? I am only looking at using it to train up officers, checking the exchange, hitting Memory Alpha. I don't expect to have any setting but LOW anywhere.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    You don't say the specs and you can easily find out min requirements without asking.

    Simple answer is netbooks = no.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I'm inclined to say no since most netbooks have 1 gb of ram a 1.6ghz atom processor and no video cards to speak of...However I am sure there are some out there somewhere that might be able to run it who knows!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    minimum System Specifications
    OS: Windows XP SP2/ Windows Vista/Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit)
    CPU: Intel dual-core 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 + 3800
    Memory: 1GB RAM or Better
    Video:ATI Radeon X1800 or NVIDIA GeForce 7950 or better
    Sound: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Soundcard
    DirectX: Version 9.0c or Higher
    HDD: 5GB Free Disk Space
    Network: Broadband Required

    depends how you define a basic laptop but in my thinking a basic laptop can play misic videos and do the office work other than that basic laptops dont usualy come with a 3d acelerator that is capable of playing most games

    lotro is rather graphicaly heavy with huge textures and relies a lot on disk access and graphics memory and dosent demand a lot from the CPU or GPU
    STO on the other hand appears to be more light weight in textures but uses visual effects heavily and gives the GPU a good workout it also appears to utilise the CPU more

    if you can play CoH and lotro then you may beable to play STO but even though STO is built on the CoH game engine iirc people who play CoH still had problems with ground combat

    try running your PC through the tests here
    http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/
    this should give you a rough idea of weather you can play it you could also wait for the free trials to start and test your laptop
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I don't even think dual core atom with nvidia ion and more ram would be enough.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    minimum System Specifications
    OS: Windows XP SP2/ Windows Vista/Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit)
    CPU: Intel dual-core 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 + 3800
    Memory: 1GB RAM or Better
    Video:ATI Radeon X1800 or NVIDIA GeForce 7950 or better
    Sound: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Soundcard
    DirectX: Version 9.0c or Higher
    HDD: 5GB Free Disk Space
    Network: Broadband Required

    depends how you define a basic laptop but in my thinking a basic laptop can play misic videos and do the office work other than that basic laptops dont usualy come with a 3d acelerator that is capable of playing most games

    lotro is rather graphicaly heavy with huge textures and relies a lot on disk access and graphics memory and dosent demand a lot from the CPU or GPU
    STO on the other hand appears to be more light weight in textures but uses visual effects heavily and gives the GPU a good workout it also appears to utilise the CPU more

    if you can play CoH and lotro then you may beable to play STO but even though STO is built on the CoH game engine iirc people who play CoH still had problems with ground combat

    try running your PC through the tests here
    http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/
    this should give you a rough idea of weather you can play it you could also wait for the free trials to start and test your laptop

    I think you are misunderstanding the word "netbook" as opposed to "laptop" mate. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Galdere wrote: »
    I think you are misunderstanding the word "netbook" as opposed to "laptop" mate. :)

    :o
    errm yep as usual missed the critcal part

    being as the op was playing lotro kind of missed that part.. wouldnt even think lotro would run on a basic netbook
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    :o
    errm yep as usual missed the critcal part

    being as the op was playing lotro kind of missed that part.. wouldnt even think lotro would run on a basic netbook

    Agreed. He says "could use" for all the games.

    Over estimating a cheap piece of hardware meant for lesser purposes.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    The netbooks only have a 1.6ghz atom, but it is hyper-threaded so it appears as two processors.

    While the netbook plays DDO and LOTRO, the lack of draw range severely limits it use for combat. in major combat, it turns into a slide show, but you you have to rely on instincts to actually fight the actual game play is full speed. COH actually plays half way different, in simple missions, but near useless in a group. The netbook play is mainly when in living room watching the kids play and would like to check the exchange, check the status of my characters and so on. I would not expect to have any serious combat with it.

    Ther is minimum public specs for play, and there are minimum specs that the game will actually run, but unacceptably slow for most people, which is much lower. I fully expect the graphics to look like crud, but I am not there to admire the graphic as long as I can interface to get the UI panels up, I am good.

    Once the headstart is over, I may try running on the netbook to see what happens. 950GMA is not a bad little integrated graphics chip, it can do a lot, just very slowly.

    Edit: found a link, answer is YES! http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=1447680
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    latest minimum specs as listed here is a dual core 1.8ghz cpu
    http://www.startrekonline.com/download
    hyperthreading will not produce the same performance and will not be detected as 2 physical cpu's

    minimum specs in any software usualy means you may be able to install the software, start it up and run it but in most cases youll be lucky if the game runs at more than 1fps
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Even for the difference between playable and just about usable for anything in the game I'm not sure you are going to get anywhere.

    Hyper threading will make virtually no difference. An Atom 1.6ghz is no where near as good as a Core 2 single 1.6Ghz CPU. That Intel chipset can do very, very little with DX9.

    Shame cos it would be nice to use something so small for your purposes, but you'd have to pay for a decent small notebook for that.

    Do post your results though please. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    I have a dual core netbook (shows as 4 cores due to hyper threading) with nvidia ion and 2 gigs of ram, (asus 1201n) so I will give it a go tomorrow.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    sjn wrote:
    I have a dual core netbook (shows as 4 cores due to hyper threading) with nvidia ion and 2 gigs of ram, (asus 1201n) so I will give it a go tomorrow.
    That way outclassed my netbook It should actually run decent on that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2010
    Actually Sjn will be lucky if that netbook runs STO at all. It's faster than a typical netbook, yet, but that's like saying my beat up old Toyota is faster than a bicycle :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I have a new netbook that plays STO fine, I have to turn down the quality and up the speed of the graphics though. MY netbook is an ASUS N10JH-HV006E. It has a graphics card and a decent amount of RAM so manages to play STO really well considering that it is just a netbook.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Even if you can, my question would be "why"? I may be wrong (I am a lot :)), but you would have to play at low quality and it would probably cause everything else on the system to run slow or buggy, not to mention possibly frying it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    There is no NETBOOK on the planet that will run STO.

    The term NETBOOK, means a small laptop that is striped down to the bare essentials necessary to run an OS and access the internet. NETBOOKS have no graphics card, and very little RAM and CPU capability.

    There are plenty of laptops that can run STO, I play STO on my laptop all the time. But if your computer can run STO then it isn't a NETBOOK.


    NETBOOK Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t%253DNetbook%2526i%253D59074,00.asp

    "A subnotebook computer in the $200 to $400 U.S. dollar range (as of 2009). Very convenient on trips for e-mail and general Web surfing, netbooks have screens in the 8"-10" range and are not suited for intensive tasks such as editing video and large images. The term was coined by Intel in 2008 for machines that use its Atom microprocessor. Netbooks first took off in Europe, but became popular in the U.S. and elsewhere. For categories of portables"
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