The great Acer Aspire One/Netbook challenge.

[dartanion22]

Now the real question is how do we go even faster? Overclock the cpu?

What ya need is the Benford 1500 netbook graphics and cpu super booster.Hoah hoah hoah ..............

[Digital_Utopia]

took advantage of a Black Friday deal to pick up a netbook for my wife. They had $150 off a Gateway LT3107H netbook.

It's kind of big given it has an 11.6" screen. It wasn't that long ago that 12.1" screen was pretty standard for a laptop!

The reason i went with the Gateway LT3107H, was the ATI Radeon X1270 it comes with. I've got my fingers crossed that it will be able to handle LotRO well enough. I did some googling and can't seem to find any mentions of LotRO and the Radeon X1270.

Guess I'll just have to wait until December 25th to find out.

It should be fairly decent. Probably medium to high settings for the most part. Before I upgraded that was pretty much the specs on my desktop (2gb RAM, 128MB vRAM).

[Bavol]

Hello guys,

I decided to join the club. Acer Aspire One D250 here. I did upgrade the memory to 2 gig. Kudos to Turbine for making the game run and not restricting the hardware.

Works great for crafting, checking action house, chatting with friends. Even the crafting instances are possible with some care.

Here is a picture of me inside Grams. I am getting a whopping 17 fps.



Cute little machine for sure. I did install Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights. They run perfectly.

Thanks again for making this thread, I would have never bought this otherwise.

I highly recommend it for anyone who has older games.

LOL my forum sig is stuck at R8 forever.

Happy new year.

[Comstrike]

Nice! Welcome to the club! (hat and jacket are in the mail)

[EthonaStarEVA]

haha i tried this very same thing about half year back on my acer one. 8.9 screen, 1 gig ram, win xp, some atom 1.6ghz cpu ... everything on low i was getting 18fps out in the wild ... didn't take the game into the city though but i see the one guy getting 8.0 fps ... seems about right. i find it some what funny because my other laptop which has dual core 2.0 ghz, 3 gig ram, ati 4500 gfx chip, win 7 only get's about 30 fps in the wild and 20-25 in towns with all low settings. not that much more really than that super slow acer one. well with that said i tend to play the game on my more updated system

[Comstrike]

I ran the Turbine DAT defragger and am having much faster results than I expected. Things still load slow, it is a dinky system. But the smoothness is much greater, mapping quicker.

[DougHillman]

Today's Woot is a Gateway 10.1" with a 6-cell battery and a 250GB drive for $239.

Woot seems to have a decent netbook deal about once a month these days.

[Earedhel]

I picked up the ASUS 1201N a few weeks ago and LOTRO works wonderfully. I will edit this post with my peformance levels and windows rating when I get home.

[Majesto]

I picked up the ASUS 1201N a few weeks ago and LOTRO works wonderfully. I will edit this post with my peformance levels and windows rating when I get home.

Very glad to hear that. I've been keeping an eye on the 1215 and 1218 as potential purchases. Would very much like to see how well the 1201N performs for you.

[Earedhel]

WEI SCORES
Processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz: 3.3
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB: 4.6
Graphics NVIDIA ION: 4.4
Gaming graphics 895 MB Total available graphics memory: 5.3
Primary hard disk 55GB Free (100GB Total): 5.9
Windows 7 Home Premium

System
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model: 1201N
Total amount of system memory: 2.00 GB RAM
System type: 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores: 2
64-bit capable: Yes
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s): 223 GB
Disk partition: C: 55 GB Free (100 GB Total)
Disk partition: D: 123 GB Free (123 GB Total)
Graphics
Display adapter type: NVIDIA ION
Total available graphics memory: 895 MB
Dedicated graphics memory: 256 MB
Dedicated system memory: 64 MB
Shared system memory: 575 MB
Display adapter driver version: 8.15.11.8664
Primary monitor resolution: 1366x768
DirectX version: DirectX 10

Ill have LOTRO graphics settings and FPS in a little while...doin the family thing =-)

PS anyone see any obvious tweaks i can make to improve performance?

[Earedhel]

One thing that i noticed is that the load screens are long, not unbearable but its enough time to go get a soda or something lol

Detect Optimal settings put the graphics at high, which is somewhat generous:

21st Hall: standing 15fps
Moving 10 fps

MD: Standing 17fps
moving: 12 fps

esteldin: Standing 20 fps
moving: 16 fps

skirmish: 18 standing
moving 15

15 fps fighting one mob
10 fps fighting multiple mobs

Now by running high setting with the following unchecked:
3d portrait
post processing effects
high quality lighting
distant imposters

performance improves significantly. On "low" i pretty much have no issues at all...looks kind eh, but whatever...all in all im really happy with this netbook. Just don't think you're gonna raid with it =-)

[Earedhel]

shameless bump...i want someone to look at my 1201N specs and tell me how i can improve performance!

[Majesto]

The only real improvement you can make at this point is switching to a SSD. You'll get amazing load times and everything will be snappier. The downside is they're not that cheap (though they are getting better). I don't know what the 1201N offers in the way of CPU/RAM overclocking. There's a program called EeeCtl (http://cpp.in/dev/eeectl/) that might work. Tom's hardware stated it worked with the Atom N270, so it'll probably work for the 330 in the 1201N. The extra battery drain might not be worth the slight performance boost, but that's up to you to decide. If you can add more RAM, you might want to give that a shot too.

[Comstrike]

I actually was able to PvMP with my self same Netbook last night, testing the creep-side.

I died, a lot. Not really smooth, but it worked.

None of the recent updates have posed any issues either. Question in my mind is what kind of Netbook to buy next, and how much better can I get the game to run on those, compared to my two year old system.

[Ascus2]

I actually was able to PvMP with my self same Netbook last night, testing the creep-side.

I died, a lot. Not really smooth, but it worked.

None of the recent updates have posed any issues either. Question in my mind is what kind of Netbook to buy next, and how much better can I get the game to run on those, compared to my two year old system.

Next up, LOTRO on a tablet.

[Nymphonic]

Next up, LOTRO on a tablet.

I wonder how hard that would be on touch screen.

[Darej]

I wonder how hard that would be on touch screen.

would lotro even run on android?

or watever that overpriced apple tab uses?

[PervinciaMusso]

I do hope this doesn't count as digging up an old thread, but, is getting my HP tablet tc4200 to run LOTRO on all medium graphics an impressive feat? (It had 1.5 GB RAM and a 36GB hard drive.)

[Comstrike]

Donno. But the questions becomes if we should further alter the title of the thread to include the coming line of "Ultrabooks" since they are akin to what we are chatting about here.

[Orcasm]

Hi,
i just noticed this thread for the first time or else i would have posted a while back.

12 months ago i bought myself an Acer Aspire One, mainly for playing X-Beyond the Frontier and Stronghold on the toilet but since buying it i realised how much fun these Netbooks can be and i had really underestimated their usefulness.

Anyway, i had already checked LotRO's specs to see if it would run on it and from what i seen i decided not to bother trying. Now after reading the title of this topic my hope has lifted a little so can anyone please let me know if i have any chance of playing this game on my Netbook because it would just be so great if i could, although i still don't believe it will work.

As i said i have the Acer Aspire One. It's the 531 model and ive installed 2 gig of ram in it already.
*EDIT: And it has Win7 Starter installed.

Cheers,

[Comstrike]

Latest update as I work on LOTROcon 2013 plans.

LOTRO still runs perfectly well on my nearly five year old Acer Aspire 1.

Now has anybody gotten it to work on a Microsoft Surface?

[Comstrike]

After nearly five years I can report the self same Acer Aspire One still runs LOTRO. But I am curious if anybody has tried it on a Microsoft Surface or HotWired a Cromebook to do it.

[Nymphonic]

After nearly five years I can report the self same Acer Aspire One still runs LOTRO. But I am curious if anybody has tried it on a Microsoft Surface or HotWired a Cromebook to do it.

I have to say, that's pretty darn cool.

[richtheminstrel]

After nearly five years I can report the self same Acer Aspire One still runs LOTRO. But I am curious if anybody has tried it on a Microsoft Surface or HotWired a Cromebook to do it.

Nice! I try lotro often on my netbook... An HP Mini 110-1025DX with a 2GB ram card and lotro running from a 16GB Micro SD card.

I get around anywhere from 4 - 15 FPS depending on where I am in the game but it isnt worth running it on the netbook because its so slow and it heats up quite a bit.

From what I have read on this thread, you guys were getting a bit better performance with similar netbooks from Acer. I dont use any programs like gamebooster or anything.

What would you suggest I do to get the most out of it?

thanks.

~ Richard Fireskull.

[Comstrike]

I don't actually use any software, just the client.