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Far Cry 3

Game » consists of 10 releases. First released on Nov 29, 2012

The third installment in the series sees a reluctant victim battling nature, pirates, and the island's insanity-inducing jungle to rescue his friends and family from an island paradise gone horribly wrong.

Can my laptop handle this game?

#1 Posted by TatoBins (80 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

Hey all,

I'm struggling over whether I should get this for my PC or for consoles. The quick look made me pretty dubious towards the 360 version, and a bad frame rate is something that always bothers me. Obviously, the PC versions seems like the way to go if you've got a machine that can handle it, but the only computer I have is a bootcamped 2011 Macbook Pro. It's sporting a Radeon 6700m w/ 4gb of ram. I've been playing recent games like X-COM & Darksiders on it no problem, but this seems way more system intensive than those. The hardest I've pushed it was with the Witcher 2, which ran alright at mostly high specs, but it did have some framerate issues (especially during cutscenes).

So basically, my question is do you think my computer will run the game any better than on consoles, or am I going to get a choppy experience regardless, in which case I'd probably go PS3 so I can run it more easily through my TV?

#2 Edited by AlexW00d (5459 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

It doesn't look as good as the Witcher, and it's only just more resource intensive that it, so you should be fine if the Witcher was fine. It will most definitely run better than the console version anyway (as long as you're right on Witcher playing fine at mostly high)

#3 Posted by Colourful_Hippie (2811 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

More than likely the game will be choppy but it's hard to say at what settings the game will be fine at because I don't know too much about mobile gpu performances.

#4 Posted by johncallahan (286 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

I'm going to say no. Far Cry 3 is a bit more demanding than Witcher 2 from what I hear (though not sure on that). And even when I used to play games on my Macbook it was never ideal. I'd go with 360 or PS3 just to be safe.

#5 Posted by HelicopterSpy (73 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

I have an iMac with roughly the same specs (6770M, 2.7 gHz Core i5) and it falls within the recommended specs of the game. The only problem being that it says that these mobile versions of the graphics cards are listed as "Should work, but not supported." Generally, the mobile version of a card is just about the same as the previous series number, so a 6000M series is about the same as a 5000 full sized, so it's basically a 3 year old card at this point. However, video cards all the way back to the AMD 2900 are supported and that's 5 years old at this point. I'd say that it's probably not going to be ideal, but it'll run just fine.

#6 Posted by Nick (576 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

Is there a demo for the game????

#7 Posted by tunaburn (1832 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

www.canirunit.com

#8 Edited by Sanity (1540 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

@tunaburn said:

www.canirunit.com

That site is pretty crappy, and i feel like it lowballs everything to try and sell stupid people hardware. Its telling me my 6970 is right on the edge of recommended requirements in the little graphic lol.

#9 Posted by Colourful_Hippie (2811 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

@dudy80 said:

@tunaburn said:

www.canirunit.com

That site is pretty crappy, and i feel like it lowballs everything to try and sell stupid people hardware. Its telling me my 6970 is right on the edge of recommended requirements in the little graphic lol.

Seriously. Don't ever trust that site, it's completely inaccurate.

#10 Posted by tunaburn (1832 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

@dudy80: @Colourful_Hippie: its never steered me wrong when it says if i cant run a game. twice i thought for sure i could and disagreed with the site and yep, it was right. Not saying its perfect but it will tell you if you dont meet the minimum requirements posted for the game. If multiple of those dont meet you wont run it well at all.

#11 Posted by believer258 (8170 posts) - 6 months, 15 days ago

If you ran The Witcher 2 at mostly high, then I'd imagine that you could at least run this at medium.

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