Will most games be playable under Pangolin?

**echo314** · February 9th, 2009

I just don't want to be stuck with a laptop that I can't try out new games on. I'm perfectly happy running games on lower quality settings, but if I get SC2 and its choppy...I'm gunna kick myself for not just getting a video card with 512MB.

**thomasaaron** · February 9th, 2009

I believe you should be fine, but I'll defer to the many Pangolin owners out there?

Guys?

**compholio** · February 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by echo314

I just don't want to be stuck with a laptop that I can't try out new games on. I'm perfectly happy running games on lower quality settings, but if I get SC2 and its choppy...I'm gunna kick myself for not just getting a video card with 512MB.

There is no way to tell how well SC2 will be able to run this far in advance. We don't even know what kind of requirements it has on Windows, so estimating now how well it will work under Wine is a tad premature. There's always a chance that SC2 will be dramatically different internally from War3 and it will take some time to get the game running at all.

**echo314** · February 10th, 2009

SC2 is really out there, huh... I think the overall message I'm getting is that the Pangolin will be able to handle just about any game thrown at it though.

Thanks to thomasaaron for linking the dupe thread to this one.

**Derath** · February 10th, 2009

I've got a pangolin, and I think it should do fine for most games. Of course it does depend on if you're going to install Windows and play in there or use Wine, but from my perspective and experience I haven't had a problem. Only problems I have had is Wine compatibility (i.e. some of my games haven't worked under Wine yet)

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**Lee_Machine** · February 10th, 2009

For my Pangolin I have played mostly older games, Diablo 2, Starcraft, and a few Command and Conquer games.

The only high graphics game I have played on it is Elder Scroll 4. I can play the game on Medium settings with the resolution set at 1024 x 768.

It can play at a little higher settings but the FPS's are horrible. I also have to tune down the settings for out doors, ie grass and trees.

Plus I had to tweek the .ini file for multi core threading.

I haven't tried playing it with a dual booted windows. Would I get better results?

Pangolin Performance panp4n

My thoughts are if your a gamer get a serval.

**chez17** · February 10th, 2009

I don't know if I'm making this up, but my Pangolin has a 512MB graphics card, at least the NVidia control panel says so. If you are that worried about it, can't you upgrade?

**thomasaaron** · February 10th, 2009

Hey, Dave. I don't think that is all pure graphics memory. It is borrowing from your installed RAM.

**betrunkenaffe** · February 11th, 2009

Here's a short list of games I have playable using my Pangolin:

Deus Ex (need to disable a core to get it to work perfectly, which requires a reboot and a grub entry)
Team Fortress 2
Half Life 2 (Orig, Ep1, Ep2)
Portal
Counter Strike: Source
Spore
Eve Online
Guild Wars
World of Warcraft
Starcraft

I'm sure Warcraft 3 would work fine with maybe a little tweaking (WoW and War3 use same engines), I doubt there would be too many problems with Starcraft 2 considering word I've heard is they are using War3 engine with additional functionality.

I have updated my video card drivers to 180, it came with 177 within last couple weeks. Don't know if yours would have the 180 set or not. Those drivers have made things much more responsive (I'm sure it's because of better OpenGL support since Compiz flies now).