How well does this computer handle games like minecraft on high settings?
1795511
I can play Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout: New Vegas, Bioshock 1, 2, Infinite, and many other games just fine. You just have to make sure your laptop is fully up to date with Windows 8 and upgrade to Windows 8.1 if possible and make sure it is still up to date.
1795512
I've never played minecraft. But I have played civ 5 and it can be played on low/medium just fine but on high it lags.
1795513
It doesn't handle it at all. Due do some unknown program incompatibilities, it folds all game windows and returns to the desktop
1767069
Probably not. The CPU is really good, but the graphics card will probably need to be upgraded to play SWOR on High. For it's price, it's a good computer to play on Medium.
495381
It'll run Minecraft at MAXIMUM settings without lag. I'm not sure about other games, but I use X-Plane 10, a flight sim, and I get pretty good FPS when using it.
221784
My son plays minecraft on it all the time. It is a good computer for gaming.
719031
Yes I play leauge of legends and run other stuff at the same time with no lag. Should be able to handle mine craft and play music without lag
75774
I can't remember the exact fps and such but it can run Ultra without much trouble, it's funny because that's the whole reason I bought this pc, my laptop would crash while trying to arena for some odd reason so I picked this up in order to play the way I like. It works fine will run other games on high settings as well Borderlands etc..
1570121
I have not played minecraft, however, all games I have played have run very smoothly. The system is definitely set up for games. Other games that were laggy on my previous system run great now.
879217
you can but this will not run minecraft well. if you need help finding a better laptop, let me know. tomorrow they should have some good sales and you should be able to get a pretty good laptop at decent prices.
2025954
Absolutely. It is way past the "recommended" system requirements on Mojang site: https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/325948-minecraft-system-requirementsIf you look at the wiki page linked there, you'll see the GT 740M running it 1366×768 at 140fps, this laptop is slower by not more than 25% slower, so you should be in 60-80fps range easily, making it nice and smooth.
1495891
The onboard video will be fine for Minecraft, just make sure you have enough ram to share with it.
1853011
It runs WoW okay, but you have to keep the settings down low. Recently upgraded the memory to 8Gig which helped a bit for not too much cash. There are also okay video cards that will actually fit in this case. Low profile Radeon HD6000 series cards or NVIDIA 620GT cards are available for less than a hundred dollars and will greatly increase yourgame performance and graphics quality. Still not a top o' the line machine, but nothing to sneer at either.
88146
YES! i have 12 gigs of ram now, thinking of upgrading again to 16. Also should be able to run modern games. Has no problem running minecraft!
427253
The graphics are the onboard Intel HD Graphics 3000 which has 1.67GB of dedicated memory. Running Minecraft is rough with that, and because it's integrated into the mobo, it isn't upgradeable. I still highly recommend this machine as a former engineering major during college. Great machine with the i7 and 8GB of RAM, but weak graphics.
1988505
I would say low end gaming. I'm using it on a work computer to speed up a 3d mapping software. The only game I have run on that pc is Minecraft with some of the up end mods on it.
1864404
No. As I and others have said in previous comments/reviews, this is NOT a gaming laptop. Minecraft BASIC system requirements specify a separate video chipset (no integrated chipsets) and a faster processor than this computer has. This computer is perfect for normal, non-gaming, non-processor/graphics-intensive computing (office apps, browsing, email, basic media manipulation, streaming sound and video content, etc.), but it is NOT a gaming computer. If good performance in Minecraft is essential for you, up your game and spend the bucks necessary to get a computer with a faster processor, a decent, standalone (non-integrated) video chipset/controller and, although Minecraft specs say 4GB is OK (as long as processor is fast enough and video chipset has its own memory, etc.), I'd AT LEAST double that.
2223789
I've played all of the above with no problems, Can play minecraft on max settings with at least 60fps. tf2 ive played once or twice it was fine. skyrim was also fine
2261983
Unless you know how to instal a graphics card I wouldn't recommend it. You may get by with WOW or minecraft at low settings but not games like call of duty unless you modify it.