Will my Acer Aspire s7-392 run the game DayZ?

One of the most common questions I have encountered from people has to do with the search for a laptop they can use to play games. The unfortunate truth is that laptops are not a good choice for serious gaming. The reason is that serious gaming requires a powerful graphics adapter. Such an adapter requires a lot of power and generates a great deal of heat. Laptops don't usually have access to a great deal of power and have a hard time getting rid of heat.

Gaming laptops therefore require a great deal more engineering skill to do as much as possible with as little power as possible and to eliminate the resulting heat. This extra engineering costs money. It is a working premise that those who are looking for such hardware have significant discretionary income and a premium price is attached to such laptops. As a result, gaming laptops start at around $750 and go up quickly from there. A really decent gaming laptop is going to cost $1500 with the top ones running about $2500.

In addition to the very high cost up front for a gaming laptop, they have a very limited lifespan. In order to keep up with the increased performance demands of the games themselves, you are going to need to plan on replacing your gaming laptop every 18-24 months.

“Wait a minute, why can't you simply upgrade the laptop to work with the better games,” I hear you ask. The reason is that laptops simply cannot be upgraded in the ways necessary to allow for better performance. While it is sometimes possible to add a slightly more powerful CPU to a laptop it isn't possible to upgrade the graphcs processor or GPU. On those occasions where the GPU is not actually soldered to the motherboard, it is in the form of a discrete card which is uniquely structured for that laptop and is not a standard graphics card.

If you are determined to get a laptop for gaming purposes, you must know going into it that you cannot upgrade it down the road in order to play the new games.

Can I run this game …

Your first option is to go to a site like CanIRunIt.com, there are several. Enter the information of the system you are considering and it will tell you how the games you select will perform on that hardware. You should probably do a little research on which of the games you want to play is the most demanding.

Alternatively you can search for your most demanding game and “recommended hardware”.

Of the links that come up, use the one for game-debate.com. A little bit from the top will be the minimum, recommended, ideal hardware for that game. Now, go to www.futuremark.com/hardware/cpu

www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu

find whichever hardware you made note of at game debate's site and look at the 3dMark score. You want hardware which equals or beats that score

Back on game-debate's site, to see how the hardware you have will work, scroll down the page to where you can enter the hardware you have or are considering and it will tell you how your hardware will perform with that game.

The simple answer is no. The CPU and integrated graphics are not powerful enough to run a game that needs a lot of resources to run(DayZ). Value games, LOL and Sims should work ok, but overall your laptop is not meant for gaming.