Gaming on the acer aspire 7551 3029?

While that may be sufficient for some games, especially older titles from the early 2000’s or previous, the GPU cannot run modern games at a sufficient enough level to be playable. Games from the 7th generation(2006-present)of gaming will not look or play good at all.

Laptops are just crummy all around for gaming. There are only a few manufacturers who make game capable laptops.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Yeah, I was just hoping I would have a half decent one to play simple stuff while relaxing in bed. The GPU in the T410s (which I m using now) is better anyways it seems.

The price you pay for convenience is poor gaming performance. If you want >20 FPS, get out of bed and boot up your desktop.

@jerv But that’s a whole 3 feet away!

(plus it’s always running)

Nobody said you had to get dressed.

@jerv But it involves… effort.

lol

Remote desktop ; )

@ARE_you_kidding_me Well, that would work; the 3D rendering would be done by the desktop system, leaving only the regular display of a 2D image to be transmitted. Since most laptops are fully capable of showing regular video reasonably well, it’s just a matter of bandwidth and latency on the home LAN.
Still, while it might be possible to get decent framerates that way, certain games are ping-dependent enough that it might be an issue. I know @XOIIO also plays World of Tanks, and trust me, there’s a huge difference between 40ms ping and 125ms ping, so the latency would still be a bit of a restriction. But for less twitchy games, I see it as a viable option.

Yeah I’d have to use VNC, steam remote streaming barely works and teamviewer is too slow.

Remote desktop only works decently with Direct-X games.