So I've been playing on my Mac and it sucks. But UOR can run on really low specs right? I was thinking of investing in a trash laptop only to play UOR on, something thats just a couple hundred bucks at max. Was wondering if anyone had recommendations.
Like I was thinking of grabbing this: http://a.co/hhndi46 Anyone have experience running UO on a machine of similar specs? Sorry if this is the wrong forum. If so, pls move the thread for me. I thought of posting this in OTHER but I saw nobody reads that one.
just goto Best Buy and look for the cheap $200 laptop specials. I play on a Lenovo with like 1.75 GHz and 4 GB ram. bought this computer of a homeless dude I knew for $150 that link you put is pretty much the same kinda system this is. it'll do the job no problem.
only have 2 accounts but yeah, I run those fine. I don't do triple box tamer solo champs or any of that so I really can't comment. probably get some slowdown if I were to attempt that. but who knows what kind of life this laptop had with it's previous owner... brand new out of the box, who can say!
At the end of the day, UO is 20 years old, you'd be hard pressed to find a machine that can not run it. Windows 10 today takes more performance to run than any game back then would. You will be entirely fine with a lower end machine. maybe look out for some RAM (4-8GB) just to be safe so you can have a bunch of other programs running at the same time (browser windows, IRC, automap, and so on) and that's it. https://www.amazon.de/Notebook-Graphic-DVD-Brenner-Windows-Professional/dp/B072KKWWPT/ref=sr_1_5 https://www.amazon.de/Notebook-E2-7110-4x1-80-Radeon-shinobee/dp/B01N15F628/ref=sr_1_14 are 2 good notbooks including OS below 300€
There is practically nothing you can buy in the past 8 years that can't run 3 UO clients perfectly fine. I think downside you're going to have with the one you linked is the less than 1080p resolution. Given that razor force game resolution can show more of the map, but there is always that "block" of content actually updated by the server that you want to see, 1080p has been the minimum for me to be comfortable to see everything around the player that is actually being updated by the server using force screen resolution. The limiting factor is that 768 pixel height on your linked computer. If this isn't a problem for you, set your current resolution to 1366x768 and see how that feels to you, if it's fine then go for it. It would annoy me though not to be able to see all of the active game screen though considering everyone else potentially can. Any PC will run multiple UO's. If it is a problem, you might be tempted to use an external monitor, perhaps the one you use for your mac, but you will be disappointed to find out that UO will never allow a window size larger than the default display resolution, even if the external display can comfortably run at higher resolutions. Means for use-purposes, UO is limited to the device's max resolution. UO client will not use external graphics. You don't need one at all. It does not benefit from multi core processor and despite what "run mouse on different thread" sounds like, it does not utilize hyperthreading. So CPU really doesn't matter at all. I think any sort of 1080p laptop that can run windows xp+ is perfectly fine for just UO. If I just wanted something just for UO and maybe use the internet on for videos or IRC and such, I would just search for used or refurbish 1080p laptop. I'm not going to make a specific recommendation because you know amazon or ebay seller might be untrustworthy, or it might be a laptop model with a problem etc, but consider your linked PC has a cost of about usd $230, even ebay has some well reviewed refurbish laptops with at minimum 1080p that are much better like this one for example: link here
i run 3 clients on a lenovo i bought in 2012. i think it was around 300$. i can check the specs on it later.
I run mine on a $300 HP from Walmart I bought over a year ago. I regularly run 3 clients, IRC, Chrome, UOAM, and VLC (or Netflix) all at the same time with no issues.
Just curious here.. if anyone knows or has experience, would Windows 7 run smoother than Windows 10 on a same spec, low end machines? It seems to me Windows 10 would use far more resources than Windows 7.
You can get cheap and effective working laptops for around $300,- My prefered go-to brands were ASUS or Toshiba usually, since they dont have any special scheninigans on theyr laptops that costs extra. Id also look for laptops that will get delivered without an OS, if you have an old Microsoft version to use. The Graphic card is totally negligible, id look at least for an i3 or i5 processor and a halfway decent screen size however (pref 15"+ that makes playing UO / Multi clienting a lot more comftable) Peace, E
I just picked up a cheap Chromebook on sale for Amazon Prime Day for this exact purpose (and for my fiance to be able to use). About $300 after taxes thanks to the massive sale, and there's a good chance it'll go back on sale in the future. 1920x1080 resolution, and I already have experience dual booting Linux on that brand, so I know it should run UO no problem while still letting my fiance do whatever she wants to the other Chrome partition. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXYG77O/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I wish I'd seen this thread before the sale ended, otherwise I would've definitely suggested it! A touchscreen is a nice perk as well.
I agree. This post is great. My desktop pc is way over kill for uo so i may invest in a cheapo laptop for running it. Thanks @ham for creating this.
Bought a used laptop off craiglist a couple months ago. 1.67ghz, 4gig ram. $50. But it barely runs 3 clients.
I run 3 clients all on screen on a Core M laptop with zero issues (Win 10). You only need something that can run the OS it has on it and push the pixels the screen is set to smoothly as UO has such a low resource requirements. Turn off Aero and all the fancy GUI stuff in Windows like transparency and you'll be fine with pretty much anything. (I'm going to be running it on a 3 year old Atom soon and have zero concerns, i just make sure the underlying Windows install is lean and tuned for low graphics overheads)
