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Sith Vol

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Just wondering if anyone is running or planning on running Star Wars The Old Republic on their MBA? I have a 13in, lower model and was curious if it would successfully run or even install if I had Win 7 installed on my Air.

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I am currently running it on my Dell 15 Studio with i5 and 4gb of ram and that seems to be good enough for me. Just wondering if I could play it on my Air too.

Btw I'm playing due to early access.
 
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Sith Vol said:
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I am currently running it on my Dell 15 Studio with i5 and 4gb of ram and that seems to be good enough for me. Just wondering if I could play it on my Air too.

Btw I'm playing due to early access.
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core i5 and 4gb ram doesnt say much... WHICH i5 (how much ghz?) and what graphics card does your dell have?
 
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I think it's 2.4 ghz. Not sure on the graphics card. And it's Intel i5.
 
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I think it's 2.4 ghz. Not sure on the graphics card. And it's Intel i5.
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Well obviously the dell's processor is a lot better than the air's. The ram is the same , so the question is: Can it run on the intel HD3000 graphics chip?
Here's what SWTOR's site says:
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What are the system requirements for the game?
Processor:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or better
Operating System:
Windows XP or later
RAM:

Windows XP: 1.5GB RAM
Windows Vista and Windows 7: 2GB RAM
Note: PCs using a built-in graphical chipset are recommended to have 2GB of RAM.

Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 256MB of on-board RAM as well as support for Shader 3.0 or better. Examples include:

ATI X1800 or better
nVidia 7800 or better
Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better
DVD-ROM drive – 8x speed or better (required for installation from physical editions only) Internet connection required to play.

I think it will play it.
But I don't know what the intel 4100 is... I assume it's something the SWTOR people made up, since you search google for it and only SWTOR info comes up. What the hell are they talking about?
 
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Anybody with experience of running it yet? I am only planning to put W7 on the Air if it runs good and how much space I'll need to partition for it.
 
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I'm thinking someone messed up and it was suppose to say Intel 4500 which is the GPU from like 3 years ago.
 
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DoghouseMike

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It runs fine on a 2010 13inch MBP, for whatever that's worth. I reckon you'll be ok if you can sacrifice the space.
You might get away with a minimal windows install and then installing SWTOR on an external drive
 
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