I was eyeing the Surface Pro 2 quite a bit before Microsoft dropped the bomb that is the Pro 3. Needless to say, I pre-ordered immediately - took advantage of my student discount to grab the 256GB i5. However, I've been thinking a fair bit about how I might end up using my SP3, and I have just one concern - light gaming.
You see, I'm a bit of a gamer. Not a huge one, but I do enjoy a good game, especially if it's multiplayer with some friends. Now, I fully realize the Surface Pro 3 is not a gaming machine, but I'm wondering the extent of light gaming that might be possible on it. The game that most concerns me is actually League of Legends - it's the only vaguely nice-looking game I might like to play sometimes. I've seen the Surface Pro 2 deal beautifully with this game (60 FPS on pretty decent settings), but the i5 Pro 3 has the same GPU with a lot more pixels to push around - and I'm a little too OCD to drop the resolution below native.
So, my question is, does anyone think (or perhaps know someone who could try/has tried) the i5 SP3 could handle League of Legends or similar games? I'm not expecting high settings, but I would like to run it at native resolution as I've said. Everything else I might consider playing is far too lightweight to be an issue I'd imagine (i.e. FTL, Papers Please, Prison Architect), so if LoL can run, they should too. I'd love to buy the i7 version to stay on the safe side with a better GPU, but I'm already putting down a small fortune for the 256GB i5 just to get the extra RAM - unless someone knows some magical $250 discount code, I don't really think that's an option
You see, I'm a bit of a gamer. Not a huge one, but I do enjoy a good game, especially if it's multiplayer with some friends. Now, I fully realize the Surface Pro 3 is not a gaming machine, but I'm wondering the extent of light gaming that might be possible on it. The game that most concerns me is actually League of Legends - it's the only vaguely nice-looking game I might like to play sometimes. I've seen the Surface Pro 2 deal beautifully with this game (60 FPS on pretty decent settings), but the i5 Pro 3 has the same GPU with a lot more pixels to push around - and I'm a little too OCD to drop the resolution below native.
So, my question is, does anyone think (or perhaps know someone who could try/has tried) the i5 SP3 could handle League of Legends or similar games? I'm not expecting high settings, but I would like to run it at native resolution as I've said. Everything else I might consider playing is far too lightweight to be an issue I'd imagine (i.e. FTL, Papers Please, Prison Architect), so if LoL can run, they should too. I'd love to buy the i7 version to stay on the safe side with a better GPU, but I'm already putting down a small fortune for the 256GB i5 just to get the extra RAM - unless someone knows some magical $250 discount code, I don't really think that's an option