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#1 AAAGoobie11

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I have been doing a lot of research and I know alienware the best for gaming and crap but I heard dealing with the company is a hassle. I have decided to go with an XPS m1210 because it fits my price range but I was wondering if it will be able to play any of these games.

~GTA San andreas

~Splintercell DA

~The new LOTR online game

~Oblivion

~Halo 2

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#2 AAAGoobie11

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anybody lol?

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#3 Aspyred

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Hey man,

I'm a fellow Dell XPS M1210 owner, so I can give you the low-down on some of your questions. Whereas the M1210 is a pretty capable machine for its size and weight, it can struggle with the newer games (yes, even with the Core 2 Duo, the 7400 and 2 GB of RAM).

Oblivion is a hard sell on the machine. Resolution and textures just have to be sacrificed to run it at 30+ FPS and it's dubious to say if it'll be enjoyable at that point. Personally, I'm fine with details jacked up, but I'm playing at like 640x480 here, so...

GTA:SA should run okay, but you'd seriously do best with limiting your games collection to ones released 2+ years ago. I'm talking like Half-Life 2, Far Cry, BF2, Max Payne 2, etc. Even FEAR can be tough to run (we're talking 800x600 - 1024x768 at medium detail). But as a system overall, I find it highly capable, it's just not in the upper tier of portable gaming, that's for sure.

If gaming is what you're definitively looking for, I can't guarantee satisfaction with the newest games, which says very little for upcoming titles.

If you have any more questions, ask away, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. PM me if you want a quicker reply. Good luck in finding a laptop man, it ain't a light purchase, that's for sure.

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#4 AAAGoobie11

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thanx man aprreciate it, ya i kind of had a feeling it wouldn't run newer games for that price but how easiliy will windows vista work on it(the untimate version with aeroglass) and if it can't run halo 2, what about halo 1...i know this might be off topic but does anyone even play halo 1 on pc multiplayer anymore?

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#5 PwningStick

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Hey man,Oblivion is a hard sell on the machine. Resolution and textures just have to be sacrificed to run it at 30+ FPSAspyred

Textures have no affect on framerates, just stutter from lack of memory. I guarentee you could set those the textures back to high without any performance loss.

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#6 Aspyred

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[QUOTE="PwningStick"][QUOTE="Aspyred"]Hey man,Oblivion is a hard sell on the machine. Resolution and textures just have to be sacrificed to run it at 30+ FPS

Textures have no affect on framerates, just stutter from lack of memory. I guarentee you could set those the textures back to high without any performance loss.

Yeah, they do suffer from a lack of memory. Video memory. Anyways, in regards to your Vista question Goobie, I'm currently running Windows Vista Business (with Aero Glass) on my machine, and it's smooth as butter. *looks at his pretty "Designed for Windows XP | Windows Vista Capable" sticker*

As Mark Twain might say, rumors of Vista's clunkiness have been greatly exaggerated, especially with the 2 GB RAM the M1210 offers. However, I will not lie to you, Vista does have some definite compatibility problems with some games, which will ultimately correct itself with time. So if gaming is absolutely central to your laptop use, I'd recommend abstaining from Vista, at least for now.

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