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Anonymous

11 years ago

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Did I buy the wrong new system

I just purchased a new computer today. One of the reasons for a new computer was because I got DA:I for Christmas and my current laptop couldn't run the game. I am waiting for the computer to be deli...

dragon age inquisition

Anonymous
11 years ago
Not only is a dual core now more or less obsolete for games, and I7s the rule, that poor Geforce isn't good enough to pass minimum. If you HAVE to use a laptop, get a GPU that still contains everything internal that is required, instead of accepting only HALF.

Demand a Radeon, and get nothing slower than an R9 270 mobile.

Anonymous

11 years ago

More than the CPU, your graphics card is likely to not cut anything lower than low setting on this game. It is an insanely demanding game (mainly because of poor optimization), and if you can you should really go at least in the x60m series which is pretty midline for Nvidia. I will qualify that I am currently running the game on an old ivy bridge i7-3630 (quad 2.4) 8gb ram with a 660m at about 30fps on low settings in campaign and have to go to min settings for play-ability in MP.

I haven't seen too much on the ability of this game to run on dual core vs quad, but you could check out the benchmarks of my portable system (I use a separate tower for real play), vs yours and just note that if anything is lower than mine, it probably won't play at all.

(nvidia states my hardware is below recommended values)

So much is dependent on what you want out of the game, that this is sadly the best I can say for you.

Anonymous
11 years ago
I take that back. The 660m I am running is better than the 840m even though it is two generations older. You NEED to get a better one to play the game. Here is a comparison:
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-660M-vs-GeForce-840M
- Anonymous
  11 years ago
  Wow. This game must be a bear. I'm now not sure that I can cancel the order. Even if I can, I probably can't afford to get a more expensive system, since I went $175 over budget with this one. I'm gonna try it out when the computer arrives. If it doesn't work, I may just sell the game on eBay....no matter how much I was looking forward to checking it out, I can't justify to the wifey spending even more to be able to play 1 game. Anything else that I play will zoom with this new system.
  - Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I almost forgot.....
    Thank you guys for the feedback. I appreciate it!
Fred_vdp
Hero+
11 years ago
@Curufinwe_wins wrote:

It is an insanely demanding game (mainly because of poor optimization)

The game is very well optimized for Mantle, but it's true that Nvidia and non-GCN Radeon cards got the short end of the stick.
- Anonymous
  11 years ago
  I'm installing Steam now but the first thing that I did was use the (awesome) tool that checks if my system will play the game. I got a green checkmark for minimum requirements. Fingers crossed.
  - Fred_vdp
    Hero+
    11 years ago
    @AwesomeJack570 wrote:
    
    I'm installing Steam now but the first thing that I did was use the (awesome) tool that checks if my system will play the game. I got a green checkmark for minimum requirements. Fingers crossed.
    
    Do you mean http://systemrequirementslab.com ? Because that's actually a very unreliable tool. Just to give an example: