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Hi all my very first post here after a lot of lurking [:)]
I'm considering to buy a notebook as my main PC is inside a cockpit due to simracing [:D] and my wife is tired of the wheel in her face everytime she has to google something [8D]
I would like to be sure that BfTB will run nicely.
If someone is playing on a Notebook and would like to share the brand/model/specs it will be very helpful.
Thank You
Roberto - Italy

I haven't purchased BFTB yet, but I have the earlier game, Highway to the Reich, which runs like a charm on my HP EliteBook 8530p (Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz, 4 GB ram, Ati 3650 256 MB). I believe this model can still be had, but there are newer, better-equipped versions on the market currently. There is a thread on BFTB performance somewhere in this forum, so you might want to check it out to see how my machine fares. (I posted my results for HTTR, which you can compare with others to give you a general idea of how well my machine is going to run BFTB.)

Generally speaking, the benchmarking tests as devised by MarkShot show that Bulge is processor-intensive. The game will run like a charm on practically anything above the required specs, but while the game may be responsive, the simulation (the actual amount of in-game minutes in a real-world minute) may be slow. GPU does not seem to play a role in the performance at all, and neither does memory.

I fully intend to play Bulge on my laptop, and as the preliminary results show, even large battles will be manageable on it. Since you're buying your laptop today and not more than a year ago like I was, anything above 800 euros that sports the new Core processors (look for Core i5 preferably though) should be more than safe.

Perhaps others with more modern mobile machines can provide some feedback as well.

I have a two year old laptop. Sony Vaio VGN.NR11Z, Dual core, 2 GHz, 2 GB Ram and the game runs fine. (as does CotA) It will only be slow in unit-heavy scenarios. The smaller ones run reasonably fast though. And besides being slow, the game is still good, its responsive, you can change to other tasks with alt-tab etc...