I noticed many people in this thread have mobile graphics chipsets.
I asked EA support if mobile graphics chipsets are officially supported. They said that if there's no mention of mobile chipsets in the system requirements, they may not be supported.
The system requirements mention the need of graphics cards. I'm not sure if mobile chipsets qualify as cards, but I guess that's up for debate. If EA doesn't consider mobile GPUs to be cards, then there's no guarantee they will fix this.
Many publishers include a disclaimer in the system requirements saying "mobile chipsets may work but are not officially supported". I think EA could have spared a headache by including this disclaimer.
So high-end mobile GPUs that have more power than the majority of desktop GPUs in the Steam Hardware Survey are 'unsupported' because what? ;- 'because reasons'? Frankly, I find that a very poor excuse on behalf of EA. I am sick and tired of mobile GPU owners being treated like dirt by the wider PC gaming community - we pay the most out of any group of 'gamers' for the priviledge of playing games on our PCs and yet we are always without fail treated as second class citizens by the likes of EA and the cult of desktop elitists.
There are many AAA publishers out there who do not share the same contempt and arrogance for such a large and thriving part of the PC gaming market and fully support mobile GPUs. I can type away and list all the games that work perfectly without issues on my 980M-powered laptop until my hands fall off. If EA doesn't want our money then they are going the perfect way about it. The fact that 99.99% of games work flawlessly on mobile hardware I think shows that it is not exactly difficult to support them officially. Denying that there is an issue will not make it go away.
Mobile GPUs don't qualify as real GPUs - HA! I will have you know that the 980M sits just below the desktop 780, which not all that long ago was being praised to heaven and back as a true gaming powerhouse. You mean to say that a desktop 770 that is weaker and built using a more dated architecture than my laptop is not a true GPU? The brand spanking new GTX 960 is not a real GPU? Well then, it would appear that the majority of Steam users (and by extesnion the PC gaming community as a whole) do not infact have real GPUs, merely fake ones! It's a wonder that EA bother to support any GPUs at all seeing as there are so few 'real' ones out there!
I'm being snarky, because I'm angry. Angry that EA are doing nothing to fix this easily fixable problem (yes it is easy to fix or else every other PC game under the sun would also have this same issue). This is not meant to be a personal attack, but merely an attack on the notion that EA shouldn't bother to support their paying customers.
End of rant... for now.
