You can get a low end Acer gaming laptop cheap
Never heard of it. I’ll research it. I’m not looking for cheapy cheap but not top of the line either.
I’ve just hit the power button again for another hard reboot. But I walked away cuz I’m askeered. I’m hoping when I go back it’ll be ok.
Even the cheapest gaming laptop will be 10x capable of running uo
I have an old laptop too and saw that welcome message a lot after the last update. Your laptop is just just too old unless in real life you are an IT person and can figure out what’s going on. I only use mine for playing UO. It still has virus protection, but I still limit my use of it to just playing UO. I can’t read the white on black text in NL at all with it. It usually plays ok a day or so after the update.
I will use it for playing UO until it dies. I have to sit through what you are experiencing every once in awhile. Don’t recommend I get a new one, because that one just resides in the top draw of my dresser, and i do all my surfing on an IPad. That’s just the way I am. If I used the computer a lot, I would update it, but as is I am just willing to live with the welcome screen every once in awhile.
Anyway, think what you are experiencing is just normal for old computers. If you use your computer for other stuff, I would recommend getting a newer one, and asking here for which UO files to copy from the older computer. On the other hand if you are like me and know you are not going to change computers, just find something more interesting to watch than the welcome screen when it shows up.
I left windows 10 on mine. Microsoft does not update my old computer that much anymore because of it’s age so I was surprised to see the update a week or so ago. I think about 4 or 5 in the afternoon the update started. After watching the screen doing nothing in particular for about an hour, I just moved the computer over and let it update. Think it finished around 10 that night and really did not work normally till the next day.
My old computer still has Word 97 on it. My computer person told me if I got a new computer, they could not install Word 97 on the new one. Was not a problem since we have the newer version that allowed us to put the newer version on the computer in the drawer I don’t use much. Don’t know which version you are using, but if your using Word 97 you might ask about that if you decide to get a newer computer.
Good luck computer shopping.
Oh, I’m so glad you mentioned that. I’d not thought about that at all. Yeah, maybe I can get microsoft office suite included or at least discounted when I make a purchase. Thanks again, Arnold. *hugs*
Those laptop suggestions are the biggest overkill ever. You don't need a "gaming" laptop for UO. Most people carry enough power on their cell phones to run UO.
The absolute cheapest walmart laptop will run UO fine.
I bought my kid a high end alienware from Dell and it lasted almost a year before it overheated and took a crap. Replaced it with a tower from IbuyPower and have zero regrets. He's powergaming everything on the market.
It's like everything else, you get what you pay for.
Gaming laptops are a pain, my next computer will be a desktop. Traditionally mine has wanted to either run in some kind of turbo mode and roar like a furnace even while idling in a 10 year old game, or else try to be "eco friendly" and refuse to use the GPU at all. Browbeating it into making normal sensible use of its resources has been way more work than it ought to have been.
Like I said acer nitro I can play wow, balders gate, fallout etc and of course UO under 800$
I guess the better question is what modern games do you want to play?
