laptop recommendations

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evagee21​  Do you specifically want a gaming laptop, or would you prefer not to have one?  I ask because the Victus is in an entirely different class than the other two in terms of performance.  The others should be roughly equivalent because they have the same processor and graphics chip, and the same amount of memory and storage, but the Victus is more than twice as fast in gaming.

However, this particular model Victus often has a problem running Sims 4 out of the box.  The issue can be worked around, but I don't want to tell you to buy it without a warning that you may need to do some work to get the game running.

I'd be happy to make other suggestions in either category; just let me know what you want.  I'm not going to be able to beat the price of the Acer Swift but should be able to do better on performance even in the non-gaming laptop category.

i would be happy to buy a gaming laptop especially if that meant games would run much smoother, i just worried that i would have little options in that category due to my price restrictions.

could i ask you to explain a little more about the problems with the victus? i am quite clueless when it comes to technical stuff with games and laptops so would probably not be great at troubleshooting if i ran into problems. 

evagee21​  When some players, I'm not sure how many, launch Sims 4 on one of the affected Victus or Omen laptops, the game flashes white or black and gets stuck on that screen.  Reinstalling the graphics driver doesn't help, nor does a new driver, nor does windowed mode or a clean boot or anything else I suggested.  What does help is one of several workarounds:

• HELP! The Sims 4 crashes during launch or in the main menu | EA Forums - 12048779
• Game won’t launch | EA Forums - 4992631
• Managed to fix my problem where it crashes during launch after update | EA Forums - 4998584
• Disable the Intel iGPU
• Put the laptop in night mode

The strangest thing, to me at least, is that none of these works for everyone.  So it's not as simple as saying "this particular function is broken or not cooperating and here's a way around that."

Anyway, my point was that I didn't want to tell you to buy a laptop that wouldn't run Sims 4 out of the box without passing on that warning.

But you can avoid the issue entirely and still stay under budget.  These are only marginally more expensive than the Victus and have the same graphics card and the same or an equivalent processor, plus 16 GB RAM and plenty of storage.

https://ao.com/product/fa506nchn003w-asus-laptop-black-99955-251.aspx
https://ao.com/product/83lk002tuk-lenovo-loq-15iax9e-laptop-grey-104897-251.aspx
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/gaming-and-games/g15-gaming-laptop/spd/g-series-15-5530-laptop

The Lenovo has the brightest screen, and the Asus will likely perform a bit better in processor-heavy tasks due to its RAM configuration (2x8 GB rather than 1x16).  But they're all similar enough that you could choose based on whatever mattered to you and not lose out on anything important.