What Laptop? - Capture - Forum - Community Support

Derek Jones

Basic Member

Posts: 21

10/7/2016 1:17 AM

Hi all

I do most of my work on my old MacBook Air. Yes the graphics card is rubbish when the detail gets heavy in Atlas so I have everything turned off or switched to LOW until I get to the office and finish off the final job on the desktop PC.

I'd like to get a good laptop and have been looking at gaming laptops with a GTX970M dedicated graphics GPUs inside them and up from there. These score just under 4000 on the benchmarks.

Probably looking at a PC again as I'm not sure any of the MAC laptops are any good for this kind of app. The top end MacBook Pro is well over 2000 GBPs the equivalent if not better PC is just over 1000 GBPs.

Any recommendations? Gaming PC lappy a good move?

Del

John S Nichter

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Posts: 147

10/7/2016 5:39 AM

Hi Del,

A gaming computer is a good way to go for performance and image quality.

I'm using a 3 year old MSI (gaming laptop) and it's not bad!

Capture's rendering settings with screen Res @ 1280x800:

Atmospheric Res=Med
Beam Atmos detail=High
Beam Shadow res=High
Spill Lighting=Off <--big fps hit

With these settings, fps is around 30 with over 100 fixtures on at the same time, in full screen. Not bad when playing back cues for a console in my opinion.

Very satisfied with its performance.

There's my 2 cents.

Good hunting!

Derek Jones

Basic Member

Posts: 21

10/7/2016 10:37 AM

Hi John

Thanks for your 2 cents... Yes I was looking at the new MSIs and the Asus gaming lappy...

At the moment I'm just trying Capture out on small conferences and its been great, but really great. Soon i'll want to push it up to the larger shows but need a portable fast machine.

Thanks again for the help John.

Best regards

Del

hedlite56

Basic Member

Posts: 21

10/20/2016 8:40 AM

Check out Digital Storm. They primarily make gaming computers and, from my experience, are well built machines (I own two of their PCs and they kick butt with Atlas.)

http://www.digitalstorm.com/gaming-laptops.asp

Not cheap...but, IMHO, worth the $$$