Is asus GL552 (GTX 960M 2G) supporting good gaming experience in AC?

Dear all:

I have limited budget and prefer portable. Is asus GL552 a good choice for playing AC? Thanks a lot!

Specifications:

NVIDIA GTX960M 2GB GDDR5

1024 GB Solid State Drive

16 GB DDR4-SDRAM

2.6 GHz Intel Core i7

 

From these specs it's absolutely sufficient! My notebook also has an i7 (4xxx) and a GTX850M (luckily the one with GDDR5) and it runs AC at steady 60 with medium graphics. The 960M should be able to run it at high details (maybe no or only moderate PP) at steady 60.

 

Thank you very much, could you give a detail about the medium graphics you are using? For example, "World detail", "Anti-A..", "Post-process", etc.. Thank you a lot!

 

Yeah but from the top of my head, only:

- Full HD
- Anisotropic Filter 16x
- AA 4x
- World detail high or maximum
- Shadow Detail medium
- Smoke generation low
- Smoke in mirrors: yes
- Mirror resolution medium
- Reflection rendering frequency: static
- Post processing: off.

These settings give me 60 fps in each scenario, even on the starting grid of a 24 MP race. If I was cool with 40 - 50 FPS I could activate PP.

I suggest for you to look at benchmarks 850M and 960M and try to scale what settings you could achieve in AC. The GPU is both one performance step up and one generation younger than mine. It should really play AC very well and going to the 970M is a silly step up in terms of price. The 960M is a really good choice IMO.

 

Thank you a lot! It really gives me a good reference about the graphics gtx 960m could achieve. I think for single monitor, gtx 960m is good enough to play. I'm wondering whether it's possible to have tripple-monitor, lowering every graphics to minimum, keeping 1080p, and still get around 35 fps? Thank you.

 

35 fps is too low. Aim for 60+ at all time, better yet, 100+.

Triples would be too much for your setup, the CPU and GPU aren't the best for that (I don't even know if that card supports triples to begin with, because laptop). So go with LeDude's settings and fine tune from there, but I would forget about triples for now.

 

OK, thanks a lot!

 

I agree. Even though these cards in gaming notebooks support multiple displays (mine has a sticker on it with a triple setup, lol) I wouldn't buy a notebook for triples - you'll end up in way too high price ranges or with way too low FPS. So for the home installation I'd say a nice large Full HD screen is your friend ;-)

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I think a TrackIr will be nice to work with a large screen.