someone on mastodon gave me a very nice guide about what i would want to look for because i mentioned kind of wanting a laptop that could run things like ouchies better since my laptop now like. its barely running overwatch. so they gave me a nice guide on what i should look for for something that'd work but boy. i don't know what any of these words mean
@knifethievingcrow ok to be fair to you i am Oan The Nyquil and words are Complicated LOL
i can explain a bit instead of tossing just endless got dam jargon at your head if you'd like lol!
@wigglytuffitout u are so valid
i understood like. half of it. i dont know anything about anything. but. i do feel like it helped a bit because i have a much better idea of kinda want i want than i did before you helped me out lmao
@knifethievingcrow honestly it can be intimidating as fuq trying to figure this shit out because it's jargon, like, all the way down LOL, so i can totally explain some of what i actually mean when i say stuff like "you want a dedicated gpu" if you'd like! you can also poke around people's reviews and usually at least one will talk about stuff like "i can run x game on y settings" to kinda give you an idea of where it's at tbh
@wigglytuffitout like maybe i'm not very smart but im thinkin. it's the only game i've got on my laptop that doesn't work very well on my laptop rn. everything else is fine. even though i play like. the same 3 things. so in theory. if said new laptop ran overwatch better than my current one wouldn't it run the other 3 things i like just the same/better as it would on my current laptop
@wigglytuffitout i literally am just winging this lmao but. it kind of makes sense to me. and it's made it. a little bit easier.
@knifethievingcrow honestly that's a completely valid way to look at it!
and if you have a laptop that plays overwatch really nicely, you'll *still* have something with enough beef and brawn to play a lot of other games too.
there ain't no shame at all in knowing what you want and buying what you want instead of like... over-buying, yknow? it's like you're looking at a sensible sedan for your daily commute in suburbia instead of a four wheel drive behemoth LOL
@knifethievingcrow honestly that's a good way to do it!
fortunately blizzard is pretty good at making games that you can run on, like, a toaster. and overwatch is also a game a whole lot of people play, so you'll be able to google and find where people on forums are like "i know these are the MINIMUM requirements, but what should i look for to ACTUALLY run the game and have it look nice?" and people taco bout that very thing and give input on it
@wigglytuffitout mmmm that is pretty smart i didnt rly consider looking at forums i was just lookin at min/recommended
@knifethievingcrow yeah! i'm sure that people have been hashing out that kinda thing and debating it endlessly. so no need for you to post yourself when you can just google something like "overwatch high graphics requirements" and probably pull up five billion results of nerds having slap-fights about it L M A O, then you can just skim those and go "hm, it seems like most people agree that you really want x and y to do this. i'll look for x and y!"
@wigglytuffitout tbh i've kinda been winging it and i've just been lookin at overwatch's requirements and then also looking at what my current laptop is like and im just trying to find something that's like a middle ground or something that at least works for overwatch