diana Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 I'm looking for a laptop that can run Houdini (8-9.5) pretty smoothly, and I'm looking at the Vaio FZ series. It has a fast processor, up to 4gb ram, and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT video card. Has anyone ran Houdini with a Sony Vaio with those specs before? I want to make sure that I am making the right choice because the last laptop I purchased to use Houdini for did not have the right video card. Or if anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. My budget is under $1000. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualAlex Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Hi Diana, I think Houdini should be able to run ok with 8400M... You may or may not be able to do heavy-duty project with it, but for learning or developing stuff, FZ is probably more than enough. On a side note, I installed Houdini on VMWare out of curiosity and to my surprise, it actually ran. Not great, but it ran and I can do something light with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 Thanks TheUsualAlex, would this spec for video card work? * Chipset : Intel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualAlex Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Hi there. I would opt for the GeForce 8400 there over the built-in graphics card x3100. 8400 should probably be enough for you to play around with Houdini and possibly do some personal project with it, I am guessing. I am so out of loop with most of the hardware sstuff, so I usually don't bother much with what the chipset is except that it doesn't impede me, I'd be okay. I guess depending on what chipset you're talking about. PM962 or GM965 are probably the chipsets that control various IOs/memory/audios and other controllers... like a pipeline to various part of the hardware component. Anyways, I havn't had to think much about chipset, what I just said could be totally wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrydeen Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 (edited) Hi diana ,I have a Sony FZ38M with NVidia 8400Gt and houdini9.5 works good. Build-in graphic card isn Edited August 3, 2008 by andrydeen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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