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Posted - Oct 10 2019 : 3:28PM
I just recently purchased Madden 19 for my laptop only to play the college football 19 mod. Well the mod works but it lags and it very slow. I didn't realize my laptop has 4GB of Ram and the game requires 8. I tried watching YouTube videos to try and change some settings and downloaded a game booster. Well if anything it made it worse cuz as I was trying to access playing a game it completely froze. At the least the other day I started playing a game but it was running on what seemed like a ten second delay. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get the game to function better or any tricks I can do on my laptop to help it function better would be greatly appreciated!
I assume this "game booster" is not specific to Madden 19, in which case I'd put money on it being general purpose and thus likely not to be optimized with your laptop and the game which can be detrimental as you have experienced.
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Posted - Oct 10 2019 : 11:32PM
No it is not specific to the game so I already uninstalled the program cuz it was no help.
I have an Acer Aspire E5-532 laptop, had it for a few years. I've never had any problems with it. It's Windows 10. The Processor is Intel(R) Celeron(R) 1.60 GHz Processor speed is 1600 MHz. 4 GB of Ram as I mentioned. I have 931 GB of storage...388 GB are used and 542 GB are free. If you need any other info let me know.
To be completely honest, you're going to have to set realistic (i.e. very low) expectations for modern games on a laptop of that spec. Freeing up storage space won't do much to help as its read/write speed is too slow to be used as memory - I'd imagine with that being a Celeron CPU, it's only a hard drive you have for storage rather than a faster and more expensive SSD.
League of Legends might run fine as it was designed for low-spec computers but something like Madden 19 will probably need a modern Core i5 with dedicated graphics (I doubt a Celeron in a laptop will be paired with anything other than integrated graphics) to run at HD resolution with a decent frame rate. You might get a better frame rate if you dial down the resolution and graphics quality to minimum but I wouldn't get my hopes up with that hardware specification.
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Posted - Oct 11 2019 : 1:25PM
^ Thank you for your help.
I honestly didn't realize my laptop had 4 GB of Ram, I thought it had 8. I realized when I looked at the specs of my laptop and looked at the game requirements of Madden. I wish I would have known before I bought it, well it was a digital download and I am not even wanting to play Madden (I have it on ps4) but for the College Football Mod which works but like I said the gameplay was not fluid and it takes forever to load.
Is it possible to install an upgrade of Ram in my laptop? Or that still won't do it cuz it seems like some of the features you mentioned still will hold me back.
Would I pretty much need a new laptop with better specs in order to have the game run how it should?
Honestly, the GPU in your laptop won't let you run Madden well even if you upgrade the RAM. You're going to need a laptop that has a GPU ingrained powerful enough to process all the shit going on on the field. Being older I guarantee the ingrained GPU isn't enough to handle the physics needed.
Ive been out of the PC game a while, so I can't really give you a good recommendation for a newer laptop for gaming. Other users could though I'm sure
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Posted - Oct 12 2019 : 12:02AM
^ Thank you for you input. I would be better off waiting for them to make a new NCAA football game for PlayStation rather than buying a super expensive laptop to just play a game. I knew I wasn't off to a good start when the game was loading for nearly ten minutes.
^ That depends on what you define as being "better off". If you have a Playstation already and you're on a tight budget then sure, it makes more financial sense but if you're a stickler for butter smooth high frame rates, the PC version is a no brainer.
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Posted - Oct 12 2019 : 1:37PM
^ Yeah I have a PS4 and I would not wanna pay so much money for a new laptop to basically play a game. My current laptop is fine cuz normally I never play PC games. Only reason I tried this was for the College Football Mod. I know how to do stuff on my laptop but didn't realize some of the things you mentioned about the means for the game to operate. Eventually they will have the game back on console and I will probably get PS5 eventually rather than a new laptop. I appreciate your knowledge and input, thank you.