**A Hands-On Review of Death Stranding: Laptop Edition**

As I sat down to test out the laptop edition of Death Stranding, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. With Norman Reedus at its helm, this game promised to be an immersive experience like no other. But as I delved deeper into the gameplay, I began to notice some issues that left me feeling underwhelmed.

At first glance, the gameplay itself looked stunning. The open-world landscape stretched out before me, a vast expanse of barren wasteland that seemed to stretch on forever. Norman Reedus's character, Sam Porter Bridges, stood at its center, his determined expression a testament to the game's promise of action and adventure. But as I explored this beautiful world, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was missing. The gameplay itself felt repetitive, with long stretches of walking and driving punctuated by brief periods of combat. It was all so... normative.

The cutscenes, too, seemed to be a major focus for Hideo Kojima and his team. With elaborate storylines and cinematic presentation, these interludes promised to deliver some truly unforgettable moments. But as I sat through each one, I couldn't help but feel like I was being held captive by the sheer length of it all. Were we really going to have to sit through this much? The cinematics were locked at 60fps, which seemed a shame given the game's otherwise impressive visuals.

Despite my initial reservations, I decided to put Death Stranding to the test in a more meaningful way: by streaming it online. With a laptop and some basic hardware, I set up a stream on Twitch and started playing through the game. The results were surprisingly good – at 1920x1080 resolution and 60fps, the stream looked crisp and clear, with minimal dropouts or artifacts.

But what really stood out was how well the laptop performed under load. With the Nvidia NVENC encoder taking care of video encoding duties, I didn't see any significant slowdowns even when streaming at high bitrates. It was a testament to the power of this little laptop, which seemed capable of handling demanding tasks with ease.

As I continued to stream and play through Death Stranding, I started to appreciate just how good it felt to actually be playing the game. The controls were responsive, if a bit unpolished at times, and the visuals were stunning. But what really made this experience special was the sense of community that came with streaming live. Chat was active from the very start, with viewers offering encouragement and support as I navigated the treacherous world of the game.

All in all, my time with Death Stranding on laptop edition was a resounding success. From its stunning visuals to its responsive gameplay, this little laptop proved itself to be more than capable of handling even the most demanding tasks. And when combined with the power of Twitch streaming, it truly came alive – a testament to what can be achieved with the right hardware and a bit of creative thinking.

**Stream Quality and Performance**

One of the standout features of Death Stranding on laptop edition was its impressive stream quality. At 1920x1080 resolution and 60fps, the visuals were crisp and clear, with minimal dropouts or artifacts. The Nvidia NVENC encoder took care of video encoding duties, producing a stable and consistent feed that didn't require any further processing power.

In terms of performance, the laptop seemed to handle even the most demanding tasks with ease. Streaming at high bitrates without showing any significant slowdowns was impressive – a testament to the laptop's processing power and efficiency. When compared to older systems or less powerful hardware, this little laptop proved itself to be a powerhouse in every way.

**A Well-Suited Work and Play Laptop**

One of the most pleasant surprises of my experience with Death Stranding on laptop edition was just how well-suited it was for both work and play. With its compact size and lightweight design, this little laptop seemed perfect for tossing into a bag or carrying around campus.

Of course, that doesn't mean it's not suitable for more demanding tasks – far from it. But what I found particularly impressive was just how easily the laptop could be taken offline and used for basic work or productivity tasks like word processing or browsing. The keyboard and display were comfortable to use, even with the laptop open in a bag, making this little machine an excellent choice for students or professionals on-the-go.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, my experience with Death Stranding on laptop edition was a resounding success. From its stunning visuals to its responsive gameplay, this little laptop proved itself to be more than capable of handling even the most demanding tasks. And when combined with the power of Twitch streaming, it truly came alive – a testament to what can be achieved with the right hardware and a bit of creative thinking. Whether you're a gamer looking for a portable option or just someone who wants a reliable laptop for work or play, this little machine is definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso origen and corsair were like hey you want to do this video with us i was like oh yeah sure okay basically the video is setting up a mobile workstation battle station for students you're in school you're a student you're getting an edumacation then you probably need a computer of some sort you could just get a desktop but for schooling if you're going to go to class you probably want something a bit more portable something you can throw in a backpack set up and take down really easily but wait kyle school's not even in session for a lot of people physical classes have been cancelled due to covet 19. everything's online now that's true but this video is still relevant because what happens when class reopens are you gonna bring a big old desktop to class actually if that's you if you bring a full-blown desktop and monitor class that is a power move and your life should be celebrated but for the rest of us who are a little more practical and our logical minds get in the way of things a laptop is probably the way to go but not just any laptop no this is the evo 17s from origin well this is a wooden box but inside is the evo 17s from origin and i mean there's something to be said about boxes that require a crate or a power drill to open it just it just gets me in the mood so this is a one and done solution right this is the whole enchilada you put this in the backpack you head to class done deal but once you get home you want to spice things up a bit when you're ready to game don't you you don't want to be gaming you don't want to be playing csgo on a trackpad so we've got a couple other accessories and other peripherals here from corsair and elgato to help us out when we're at home the corsair k95 rgb platinum xt this is corsair's flagship mechanical keyboard this one in particular comes with cherry mx belay switches personally i'm actually really glad they sent us one of these because we recently lost one of our k95s i don't know how you lose a massive mechanical keyboard but we did and we only had five of them at that point let me tell you life was hard those are those are dark times but now we have six again so that's great for a mouse we have corsair's dark core rgb pro sc fantastic beautiful mouse super comfortable great shape it's actually one of the few mice that's made it onto the wall of fame right there in the middle oh yeah that's how you know it's good if it's on the wall of fame it's good we don't put crap on this wall all right only good good on that wall so rgb wireless rc a headset uh yeah i've actually never used this before so uh we'll see how it is it's very shiny it's very shiny headset looks pretty snazzy it looks pretty snazzy right there okay so we'll check that out and see how that goes we've got a gaming mouse pad you know that makes you 10 times better of gamer mm-300 i think this is an extended one yes it is measuring 930 by 300 millimeters and then we've got some elgato products to help us become full-time professional streamers because let's face it mom and dad while you suckers are paying 50 grand a year for me to go to med school so i can become a heart surgeon i could probably make more money playing fortnite i know the truth hurts but we do have a nice ensemble of streaming hardware here the wave 3 which is a fairly new product from elgato has gotten really high marks actually is my first time working with it got some nice features zero latency monitoring anti-clipping technology that's actually really useful so you don't define your entire chat when you scream after winning your first battle royale it also supports high resolution audio up to 24 bit 96 kilohertz very excited to check that out gambling 4k obviously with a laptop you can't really use an internal capture card so here we have a usb type a capture device that does 4k i've actually never used this product before either i do have an elgato 4k60 pro inside of the streaming pc over there which has been a fantastic product so if this comes anywhere close to that in terms of performance and quality then we are in very good shape and lastly we got a couple key lights lighting is very important talk to any cinematographer or dp they will tell you that lighting is everything and can make or break a shot in movies and film and tv the same goes for your stupid face believe it or not your chat wants to see you in full clarity unless you're really ugly links links links links to all this stuff can be found in the description below now let's put it all together all right it's all good we got it set up and uh it's looking it's looking pretty legit there's a lot going on here a lot of functionality it's a pretty killer setup to be honest but uh there are a couple things to note for starters you might have noticed that i am using a large and cumbersome c-stand for my elgato key light i'm not using the actual stock stand that comes included with it because the c-clamp doesn't actually fit behind my wall-mounted desks so i couldn't really use it fortunately most people don't have wall mounted desks like i do so it shouldn't be a problem for them but i got to see stan so that's what i'm using also i had to elevate the uh well i wanted to elevate the laptop just a bit to give me a bit better ergonomics so i'm looking more eye level and not looking down at the panel so i actually just put it on my little plastic toolbox that i keep my power drill in and uh it's it's working out pretty good it's probably not the best permanent solution but for the sake of the video it works just fine also there's a lot of connected devices here and only three usb type a ports on the laptop so fortunately i had a usb hub that i was able to connect to which gave us two additional usb ports but that still was one short of how many we needed fortunately the dark core se has the option to either go 2.4 gigahertz wireless or bluetooth and obviously bluetooth doesn't require a usb port or an adapter if you've got it built in so we're using bluetooth right now which is kind of a bummer i wanted to use 2.4 gigahertz because that's the lower latency option of the two but at least we get everything connected this way it still feels really responsive also i added my own personal stream deck to the mix because it works perfectly for this environment and what we're trying to do it's kind of one of those must-have items if you're serious about streaming the keyboard's great i use a k95 at home so it's nothing new to me but there's a reason why i use it there's a reason why i have five of them um because they're damn good keyboards the headset the virtuoso headset my first time wearing it very comfortable as well and it feels very solid i love the uh the ear cups how they're hinged onto the uh the headband very sturdy it's like all metal and solid if you shake it you know you know like some headsets you just shake them and then you see the you see the uh the ear cups just kind of rag doll just like flopping around these ones have like some resistance to them memory foam ear cups very comfortable nice faux leather uh headband pretty sure this is faux leather the microphone i have not used and i'm not going to use it i'm actually recording the audio that you're hearing right now with the wave 3 microphone from elgato and i tested it earlier it sounds pretty darn good i actually elevated it i've got it standing on top of a ryzen 9 retail box right now just to get it a little bit closer to my mouth for better clarity and it uh it sounded really good i really like this thing i like how just intuitive it is it's simple simple and clean nice capacitive mute button at the top very easy to use if you don't want to use the included stand you can just unscrew it and add your own boom pole or whatever i i'm using my phone right now i kind of propped it up against the laptop that's my chat that's how i'm gonna be viewing um twitch chat because i am gonna stream i'm gonna stream for realsies in this video okay you won't be able to join because by the time you see this the stream will be over obviously but um that's gonna be this is gonna be my my chat window all right oh yeah the video that you're watching right now is a lumix gh4 from panasonic it's kind of my glorified webcam for today and it is being connected to the laptop via the cam link the 4k cam link from elgato and it's looking and working pretty good we're only recording and streaming at 1080p 60fps but knowing that we can go to 4k if we want to is a nice option to have the laptop itself is looking pretty solid the screen is a 17.3 inch i don't know the resolution yet in fact i don't really know much of anything about this laptop because there's multiple ways you can configure it you can tailor it to your own needs and budget of course so i'm not exactly sure what kit origin sent me i don't know if this is like the maxed out high-end version we'll go into that in just a moment but as far as the outside of the laptop it looks really clean kind of a minimalistic approach in the design the the keyboard is actually really nice for chiclet style keys they have some decent travel distance they're very snappy very tactile they're not clicky at all which i actually prefer and very nice rgb backlighting on them if i didn't have the k95 right now i would have zero problems gaming or typing on the keyboard that the laptop has the trackpad is super smooth very fluid it doesn't depress instead you've got two buttons just beneath it two physical buttons for your right and left mouse click and those feel good as well so there's an overview of the setup there's a lot going on here like i said uh but it's looking really promising so far of course we got to test it out for realsies but first before we do any of that let's take a closer look at this evo 17s all right because i have again i have no idea what the specs are apart from 17.3 inch screen and it's ips i know it's ips as well but just just from moving the mouse around this is super fluid this is 120 or 144 hertz at least so let's let's take a look at that first 240 hertz holy toledo okay no wonder i'm just cutting through the screen with my mouse cursor it feels really fluid guys and 1920 by 1080 that's a good pairing right because that's an easier amount of pixels to drive than 4k or even 1440p so at 240 hertz if you really want to utilize that refresh rate then 1080p is kind of where you want to be at even if we do have a beefy gpu in here speaking of drum roll please okay they gave us an rtx 2080 super yeah it is a max q yeah i think they i think they kitted us out pretty good guys the processor is an intel core i7 10875h wow that's just a really long cpu sku intel 2.3 gigahertz that's the base frequency and 16 gigs so 16 gigs of ddr4 memory i think you can go up to 32 gigs ddr4 um if you wanted to configure it to that but pretty decent i would say this is definitely on the high end in terms of how you can configure the evo 17s but uh let's jump and do a game all right we're going to kick it off with some cs go i feel like this is a pretty good title to showcase running on this laptop because it's a fast-paced shooter a competitive esports title that really benefits from having a higher refresh rate display probably also goes without saying that this laptop can do video conferencing it's more than equipped to handle all of your zoom meetings someone's 420 blazing it up in here guys not it not at work okay have some respect gotcha no oh man all right so far this setup can clearly game without issue let's try a different title continue let's play some death stranding this is my first time playing it i played like the first five minutes which was basically just me watching cinematics let's take a look at our settings sure you're all curious so 1920 by 1080 v6 off and looks like we're at very high pretty much maxed out settings here we do have nvidia dlss set to performance we could go quality i'm gonna do performance all right so right off the bat looks like we're getting anywhere between 70 and 80 fps and visuals look great this game looks fantastic on pc oh even when norman reedus he looks good while doing it cool wait out the red over there could skip the cinematic over there yes thank you for letting me skip that skip skip skip let me play the game thank you all right let's go over there ow am i like a delivery man or a newborn because it seems like i can't walk jump jump jump climb norman climb man this game looks good it looks good and it's performing well paddle norman paddle he is a toddler this is just like toddler simulator meg yeah i'm in the water i don't want to take a bath i'm only five minutes in it's already the weirdest game i've ever played this game is pretty it is pretty i like the music too i'm digging the vibe yo now i've seen some gameplay footage and it all looks the same all the gameplay that i've seen so far it just looks like this it's norman reedus in the middle of nowhere which is beautiful but i haven't seen a whole lot of diversity so i'm not sure how much our frame rate's really gonna change with uh with this little demo here oh damn it's a damn ooh smart drugs see drugs make you smart told you mom all right can we skip this i don't care if anything cool happened can we skip this too so much thought and time and energy went into these cut scenes and i just want to skip them all kojima you're obsessed with the story and the narrative which i admire but it's a video game let me play why don't you just quit the gaming industry and make a movie oh my god what's what's the point of skipping a cut scene if it's just going to jump to another cutscene this is not interesting they're all 68 it's long all the cinematics are locked at 60fps there's really nothing to show another cutscene all right i'm bailing sorry kojima this is this is just too much but uh from what we saw this laptop runs death stranding perfectly fine at a smooth and salem 70-80 fps not too shabby and now for our final test an actual stream i'm gonna actually stream to my twitch account and we'll see how that goes okay we are now streaming hey everybody hey empty chat room i don't have a lot of people that follow me on twitch so not expecting a huge audience but maybe a few folks will trickle in by the way it's worth noting that i'm actually processing the stream right now with nvidia's nb inc or nb encoder which is a dedicated part of the rtx gpu that's used specifically for video encoding so this encoder has actually quickly become a go-to for streamers because it produces great image quality that's more or less equal to if you're using a cpu at x264 medium settings it's also just really efficient it basically delivers the same image quality using up to 15 less bit rate than last gen pascal gpus when streaming in h.264 the other nice benefit of nvinc is that since it uses fewer system resources and takes pretty much all the load off the cpu when it comes to streaming cpu intensive titles can actually see some serious fps gains i really like envy inc i've been using it personally for a while now and it's definitely cool to see it on board the laptop let's just start playing let me make sure that i'm actually streaming oh hey cool people are popping up in chat yo yo yo yo yo yo actually you guys uh you guys will be the perfect perfect way to benchmark this how do i sound and look apart from glamorous as always uh i'm talking about the stream quality guys my eyes are up here okay stream looks good sounds good too sounds good pretty crispy all right sweet hey you no oh god oh geez it's fine i'll just carry the team at four health no big deal bros sorry headphone users so right now in case you guys are curious i am streaming at 1920 by 1080 60 frames per second with a bit rate of 65 6500 kilobits kilobits per second oh so smokey oh did i kill you i'm sorry oh shoot hello am i dead did i go to heaven oh that was just a flashbang so guys if you want to uh maybe help me with my video here give me a rating one through ten how's the stream quality look how does it sound wow actually a lot of a lot of nines and tens a couple 8.5s but overall i think the consensus is pretty positive guys thank you so much for tuning into this really random and super quick stream you've been very helpful actually in helping me determine the quality of the stream itself which seems to have been really good so thank you guys for all the feedback so there you go guys there's the whole setup in action we've seen it game we've seen it stream we've seen it those are pretty much the only two things we did but those are very intensive tasks and it performed both of them with flying colors which means that it can definitely handle anything less intensive than that like schoolwork or word processing or any of that stuff that's less exciting so uh a nice work and play setup if i do say so myself and when you're ready to go to class just unplug a couple things pop the laptop in a bag and you're good to go so thanks again to corsair and origen for sponsoring this video thank you guys for watching so much toss like if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech content on the way coming very soon have a good one guys i will see y'all in the next videoso origen and corsair were like hey you want to do this video with us i was like oh yeah sure okay basically the video is setting up a mobile workstation battle station for students you're in school you're a student you're getting an edumacation then you probably need a computer of some sort you could just get a desktop but for schooling if you're going to go to class you probably want something a bit more portable something you can throw in a backpack set up and take down really easily but wait kyle school's not even in session for a lot of people physical classes have been cancelled due to covet 19. everything's online now that's true but this video is still relevant because what happens when class reopens are you gonna bring a big old desktop to class actually if that's you if you bring a full-blown desktop and monitor class that is a power move and your life should be celebrated but for the rest of us who are a little more practical and our logical minds get in the way of things a laptop is probably the way to go but not just any laptop no this is the evo 17s from origin well this is a wooden box but inside is the evo 17s from origin and i mean there's something to be said about boxes that require a crate or a power drill to open it just it just gets me in the mood so this is a one and done solution right this is the whole enchilada you put this in the backpack you head to class done deal but once you get home you want to spice things up a bit when you're ready to game don't you you don't want to be gaming you don't want to be playing csgo on a trackpad so we've got a couple other accessories and other peripherals here from corsair and elgato to help us out when we're at home the corsair k95 rgb platinum xt this is corsair's flagship mechanical keyboard this one in particular comes with cherry mx belay switches personally i'm actually really glad they sent us one of these because we recently lost one of our k95s i don't know how you lose a massive mechanical keyboard but we did and we only had five of them at that point let me tell you life was hard those are those are dark times but now we have six again so that's great for a mouse we have corsair's dark core rgb pro sc fantastic beautiful mouse super comfortable great shape it's actually one of the few mice that's made it onto the wall of fame right there in the middle oh yeah that's how you know it's good if it's on the wall of fame it's good we don't put crap on this wall all right only good good on that wall so rgb wireless rc a headset uh yeah i've actually never used this before so uh we'll see how it is it's very shiny it's very shiny headset looks pretty snazzy it looks pretty snazzy right there okay so we'll check that out and see how that goes we've got a gaming mouse pad you know that makes you 10 times better of gamer mm-300 i think this is an extended one yes it is measuring 930 by 300 millimeters and then we've got some elgato products to help us become full-time professional streamers because let's face it mom and dad while you suckers are paying 50 grand a year for me to go to med school so i can become a heart surgeon i could probably make more money playing fortnite i know the truth hurts but we do have a nice ensemble of streaming hardware here the wave 3 which is a fairly new product from elgato has gotten really high marks actually is my first time working with it got some nice features zero latency monitoring anti-clipping technology that's actually really useful so you don't define your entire chat when you scream after winning your first battle royale it also supports high resolution audio up to 24 bit 96 kilohertz very excited to check that out gambling 4k obviously with a laptop you can't really use an internal capture card so here we have a usb type a capture device that does 4k i've actually never used this product before either i do have an elgato 4k60 pro inside of the streaming pc over there which has been a fantastic product so if this comes anywhere close to that in terms of performance and quality then we are in very good shape and lastly we got a couple key lights lighting is very important talk to any cinematographer or dp they will tell you that lighting is everything and can make or break a shot in movies and film and tv the same goes for your stupid face believe it or not your chat wants to see you in full clarity unless you're really ugly links links links links to all this stuff can be found in the description below now let's put it all together all right it's all good we got it set up and uh it's looking it's looking pretty legit there's a lot going on here a lot of functionality it's a pretty killer setup to be honest but uh there are a couple things to note for starters you might have noticed that i am using a large and cumbersome c-stand for my elgato key light i'm not using the actual stock stand that comes included with it because the c-clamp doesn't actually fit behind my wall-mounted desks so i couldn't really use it fortunately most people don't have wall mounted desks like i do so it shouldn't be a problem for them but i got to see stan so that's what i'm using also i had to elevate the uh well i wanted to elevate the laptop just a bit to give me a bit better ergonomics so i'm looking more eye level and not looking down at the panel so i actually just put it on my little plastic toolbox that i keep my power drill in and uh it's it's working out pretty good it's probably not the best permanent solution but for the sake of the video it works just fine also there's a lot of connected devices here and only three usb type a ports on the laptop so fortunately i had a usb hub that i was able to connect to which gave us two additional usb ports but that still was one short of how many we needed fortunately the dark core se has the option to either go 2.4 gigahertz wireless or bluetooth and obviously bluetooth doesn't require a usb port or an adapter if you've got it built in so we're using bluetooth right now which is kind of a bummer i wanted to use 2.4 gigahertz because that's the lower latency option of the two but at least we get everything connected this way it still feels really responsive also i added my own personal stream deck to the mix because it works perfectly for this environment and what we're trying to do it's kind of one of those must-have items if you're serious about streaming the keyboard's great i use a k95 at home so it's nothing new to me but there's a reason why i use it there's a reason why i have five of them um because they're damn good keyboards the headset the virtuoso headset my first time wearing it very comfortable as well and it feels very solid i love the uh the ear cups how they're hinged onto the uh the headband very sturdy it's like all metal and solid if you shake it you know you know like some headsets you just shake them and then you see the you see the uh the ear cups just kind of rag doll just like flopping around these ones have like some resistance to them memory foam ear cups very comfortable nice faux leather uh headband pretty sure this is faux leather the microphone i have not used and i'm not going to use it i'm actually recording the audio that you're hearing right now with the wave 3 microphone from elgato and i tested it earlier it sounds pretty darn good i actually elevated it i've got it standing on top of a ryzen 9 retail box right now just to get it a little bit closer to my mouth for better clarity and it uh it sounded really good i really like this thing i like how just intuitive it is it's simple simple and clean nice capacitive mute button at the top very easy to use if you don't want to use the included stand you can just unscrew it and add your own boom pole or whatever i i'm using my phone right now i kind of propped it up against the laptop that's my chat that's how i'm gonna be viewing um twitch chat because i am gonna stream i'm gonna stream for realsies in this video okay you won't be able to join because by the time you see this the stream will be over obviously but um that's gonna be this is gonna be my my chat window all right oh yeah the video that you're watching right now is a lumix gh4 from panasonic it's kind of my glorified webcam for today and it is being connected to the laptop via the cam link the 4k cam link from elgato and it's looking and working pretty good we're only recording and streaming at 1080p 60fps but knowing that we can go to 4k if we want to is a nice option to have the laptop itself is looking pretty solid the screen is a 17.3 inch i don't know the resolution yet in fact i don't really know much of anything about this laptop because there's multiple ways you can configure it you can tailor it to your own needs and budget of course so i'm not exactly sure what kit origin sent me i don't know if this is like the maxed out high-end version we'll go into that in just a moment but as far as the outside of the laptop it looks really clean kind of a minimalistic approach in the design the the keyboard is actually really nice for chiclet style keys they have some decent travel distance they're very snappy very tactile they're not clicky at all which i actually prefer and very nice rgb backlighting on them if i didn't have the k95 right now i would have zero problems gaming or typing on the keyboard that the laptop has the trackpad is super smooth very fluid it doesn't depress instead you've got two buttons just beneath it two physical buttons for your right and left mouse click and those feel good as well so there's an overview of the setup there's a lot going on here like i said uh but it's looking really promising so far of course we got to test it out for realsies but first before we do any of that let's take a closer look at this evo 17s all right because i have again i have no idea what the specs are apart from 17.3 inch screen and it's ips i know it's ips as well but just just from moving the mouse around this is super fluid this is 120 or 144 hertz at least so let's let's take a look at that first 240 hertz holy toledo okay no wonder i'm just cutting through the screen with my mouse cursor it feels really fluid guys and 1920 by 1080 that's a good pairing right because that's an easier amount of pixels to drive than 4k or even 1440p so at 240 hertz if you really want to utilize that refresh rate then 1080p is kind of where you want to be at even if we do have a beefy gpu in here speaking of drum roll please okay they gave us an rtx 2080 super yeah it is a max q yeah i think they i think they kitted us out pretty good guys the processor is an intel core i7 10875h wow that's just a really long cpu sku intel 2.3 gigahertz that's the base frequency and 16 gigs so 16 gigs of ddr4 memory i think you can go up to 32 gigs ddr4 um if you wanted to configure it to that but pretty decent i would say this is definitely on the high end in terms of how you can configure the evo 17s but uh let's jump and do a game all right we're going to kick it off with some cs go i feel like this is a pretty good title to showcase running on this laptop because it's a fast-paced shooter a competitive esports title that really benefits from having a higher refresh rate display probably also goes without saying that this laptop can do video conferencing it's more than equipped to handle all of your zoom meetings someone's 420 blazing it up in here guys not it not at work okay have some respect gotcha no oh man all right so far this setup can clearly game without issue let's try a different title continue let's play some death stranding this is my first time playing it i played like the first five minutes which was basically just me watching cinematics let's take a look at our settings sure you're all curious so 1920 by 1080 v6 off and looks like we're at very high pretty much maxed out settings here we do have nvidia dlss set to performance we could go quality i'm gonna do performance all right so right off the bat looks like we're getting anywhere between 70 and 80 fps and visuals look great this game looks fantastic on pc oh even when norman reedus he looks good while doing it cool wait out the red over there could skip the cinematic over there yes thank you for letting me skip that skip skip skip let me play the game thank you all right let's go over there ow am i like a delivery man or a newborn because it seems like i can't walk jump jump jump climb norman climb man this game looks good it looks good and it's performing well paddle norman paddle he is a toddler this is just like toddler simulator meg yeah i'm in the water i don't want to take a bath i'm only five minutes in it's already the weirdest game i've ever played this game is pretty it is pretty i like the music too i'm digging the vibe yo now i've seen some gameplay footage and it all looks the same all the gameplay that i've seen so far it just looks like this it's norman reedus in the middle of nowhere which is beautiful but i haven't seen a whole lot of diversity so i'm not sure how much our frame rate's really gonna change with uh with this little demo here oh damn it's a damn ooh smart drugs see drugs make you smart told you mom all right can we skip this i don't care if anything cool happened can we skip this too so much thought and time and energy went into these cut scenes and i just want to skip them all kojima you're obsessed with the story and the narrative which i admire but it's a video game let me play why don't you just quit the gaming industry and make a movie oh my god what's what's the point of skipping a cut scene if it's just going to jump to another cutscene this is not interesting they're all 68 it's long all the cinematics are locked at 60fps there's really nothing to show another cutscene all right i'm bailing sorry kojima this is this is just too much but uh from what we saw this laptop runs death stranding perfectly fine at a smooth and salem 70-80 fps not too shabby and now for our final test an actual stream i'm gonna actually stream to my twitch account and we'll see how that goes okay we are now streaming hey everybody hey empty chat room i don't have a lot of people that follow me on twitch so not expecting a huge audience but maybe a few folks will trickle in by the way it's worth noting that i'm actually processing the stream right now with nvidia's nb inc or nb encoder which is a dedicated part of the rtx gpu that's used specifically for video encoding so this encoder has actually quickly become a go-to for streamers because it produces great image quality that's more or less equal to if you're using a cpu at x264 medium settings it's also just really efficient it basically delivers the same image quality using up to 15 less bit rate than last gen pascal gpus when streaming in h.264 the other nice benefit of nvinc is that since it uses fewer system resources and takes pretty much all the load off the cpu when it comes to streaming cpu intensive titles can actually see some serious fps gains i really like envy inc i've been using it personally for a while now and it's definitely cool to see it on board the laptop let's just start playing let me make sure that i'm actually streaming oh hey cool people are popping up in chat yo yo yo yo yo yo actually you guys uh you guys will be the perfect perfect way to benchmark this how do i sound and look apart from glamorous as always uh i'm talking about the stream quality guys my eyes are up here okay stream looks good sounds good too sounds good pretty crispy all right sweet hey you no oh god oh geez it's fine i'll just carry the team at four health no big deal bros sorry headphone users so right now in case you guys are curious i am streaming at 1920 by 1080 60 frames per second with a bit rate of 65 6500 kilobits kilobits per second oh so smokey oh did i kill you i'm sorry oh shoot hello am i dead did i go to heaven oh that was just a flashbang so guys if you want to uh maybe help me with my video here give me a rating one through ten how's the stream quality look how does it sound wow actually a lot of a lot of nines and tens a couple 8.5s but overall i think the consensus is pretty positive guys thank you so much for tuning into this really random and super quick stream you've been very helpful actually in helping me determine the quality of the stream itself which seems to have been really good so thank you guys for all the feedback so there you go guys there's the whole setup in action we've seen it game we've seen it stream we've seen it those are pretty much the only two things we did but those are very intensive tasks and it performed both of them with flying colors which means that it can definitely handle anything less intensive than that like schoolwork or word processing or any of that stuff that's less exciting so uh a nice work and play setup if i do say so myself and when you're ready to go to class just unplug a couple things pop the laptop in a bag and you're good to go so thanks again to corsair and origen for sponsoring this video thank you guys for watching so much toss like if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech content on the way coming very soon have a good one guys i will see y'all in the next video\n"