My laptop says it meets minimum requirements. Dragon Age says otherwise.
So here's the scoop:
I've been having trouble launching Dragon Age: Inquisition (I haven't tried the other two yet) on a different laptop in hopes that it will run better. My original laptop is an Intel touchscreen with virtually the same DirectX card as the computer I'm trying to launch it on. The problem was originally that, even on the lowest graphics setting, the cut scenes and gameplay were skipping, and I was even losing whole clips of dialogue. The solution was to move to another computer with a more powerful processor.
However, once downloaded, I attempted to run DA:I only to be met with an error message that tells me that this laptop doesn't reach minimum requirements (in fact, it meets recommended, as far as I can tell, but not minimum?) to play the game. Like I said, I've been through my DirectX info on both computers and, as far as I can tell, it's all pretty much the same. Both of them are Intel(R) HD Graphics cards, both of them are running DirectX 11. The game plays, albeit badly, on one laptop; and doesn't play at all on the other. I've restarted the second laptop twice hoping that a power cycle might help, but it doesn't seem to be.
Can anyone clue me in as to what might be wrong here? I'd hate to have dropped $70 on a game just to be completely unable to play it on any of my laptops.
@Shescookiecat wrote:Both of them are Intel(R) HD Graphics cards
Intel doesn't make graphics cards. Intel HD Graphics are integrated graphics chipsets and are below the minimum system requirements. They are designed for video playback, some light video editing and Photoshop, and for running some undemanding video games like League of Legends and The Sims.
If you want to play this game, you'll need to buy/build a gaming PC or get a video game console.
To get an idea of quality hardware, check out http://logicalincrements.com . For this game, I recommend a 'very good' tier graphics card and an 'excellent' tier processor.
Another good idea is to look at the system requirements and compare them to the Tom's Hardware GPU hierarchy chart: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
And here are the system requirements:
Graphics CARD
AMD Radeon HD 4870
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Memory
512 MB
I don't think Intel's chipsets even have graphics memory. Instead, they share system RAM.
Also, do you know the exact models of Intel graphics you have in each PC? Since performances are different on each laptop, I'd assume one has a better model. On the Intel HD 4600, the game is at least somewhat playable on the lowest quality settings and at a very low resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkdpoTRCXLQ
