Development

First, I see tons of these post of "Need laptop with X for gaming and game dev! PLOX HELP!>!>!?" and it leaves me deeply wondering if a laptop solution is even worth the time, sadly with my current job it would make the continuation of my indie development impossible if I did not have a laptop...

I was only going to buy 8GBs of RAM but then I thought Game Engines like Unreal 4 and Cryengine might be bottlenecked by 8GBs. Would these engines take advantage of 16gbs and is it necessary to have 16gbs?

Hoping to get into college this year and start learning programming/game development etc started messing with Unity 3D and other programs (Blender/Photoshop) wanting a laptop i can take to college and work on and then bring home and carry on rather then you USB sticks. Currently have a desktop...

Hello everyone and thanks for coming in! Unfortunately, my current laptop has slowly been slowly crashing over the past week and I am in search of a new Game Design & Development laptop. I know its not the perfect choice, but I'm always on the go. However, with so many options, I have no clue...

I don't intend on installing too many games on the laptop itself beyond the ones I am creating, as I'm trying to keep it strictly education-related. I have a fairly high-powered desktop rig for gaming, so I'll be using the laptop for college work and whatnot. I'm looking for a relatively...

No gaming, very little multimedia editing/encoding. Main load will be from Android development. Which cpu would be netter from the above? Any real world advantage of getting i3 4xxx over i3 3xxx , for the intended load?

I want to download a free game engine, and for now these two of them looks quite promising. So I want to know which one should of them i should download. Things I want to do- Create a game something similar to GTA San Andreas or above(if possible) Pre installed animations and charectors for...

i just finished a year in college doing games development and i need a laptop that can handle 3d max and unity to use in college after the summer. so far i have done advanced enough modelling (i think) and fair bit of animation in 3ds max. to be honest im not sure waht il be doing in 3d max...

Hello! I'm building a computer to work with the programs mentioned: 3Ds Max, Blender and Unity engine for the next 4 or 5 years. I have these two settings in mind. Which is more appropriate? (Remember: I want to play heavy games on PC too!) AMD: Processor: AMD FX 8320 Black Edition, 16MB...

Hello. I am searching for a new laptop. Here is a little about me. I have recently graduated from school for web development program and an android application program. I use the Adobe Creative Suite and Eclipse. I would like a touchscreen as well. I have a budget of 800 dollars. I was...

Hey everyone. I'm heading out to college this year and I don't know what I need to buy. I'm going in for computer science and business. I also want to learn and do some game development. I was thinking maybe a gaming labtop. I need one with good battery life like the razer edge. I read that it...

I have had a Mac Book 13' for the past five years to play video games and work on my game development stuff, but now I need and upgrade. I have been looking around on the internet at some of the laptops and I'm not sure what to get. What I need: 1. Something that will last for ever and never...

Is it worth it? It's an easy fun language from what I know.

Hi everyone, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT I9505) running Android 4.3. I recently wanted to install an .apk file onto my phone and looked up the several methods. I have tried many methods but all of them lead to the same problem. :( The .apk installs ok and launches fine but about 2 seconds...

Hey guys I am contemplating on developing a media player that will be able to play both audio and video within a single app and designing it partly around the vanilla KitKat experience. I was thinking I would list it anywhere between $1 to $3. What do yall think. Is it a good idea? Do you...

I'm going to a IT university soon and need a laptop for development, namely programming. I'll be doing lots of stuff for Windows, Windows Phone and Android. My budget currently is 500€, but I might be able to get bit more money to buy something even better (600-700€). But for now 500€ is the...

Every time I try to open up Eclipse it says: "A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations: C:\Eclipse\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe javaw.exe in your current PATH"...

1. What is your budget? $1,000- $1,500 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? anything 13" and bigger 3. What screen resolution do you want? highest possible 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? portable 5. How much battery...

For game development (with windows parallel) and for mac games development is it worth it?