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Venedrakus

10 years ago

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dragon age inquisition

Anonymous
10 years ago
Since you didn't include the single most important component in a gaming PC, I seriously doubt your little notebook meets the minimum requirements:

From the official Dragon Age website, the requirements are:

DA: I Minimum PC Specs

    OS: Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64-bit
    CPU: AMD quad-core CPU @2.5 GHz / Intel quad-core CPU @2.0 GHz
    System RAM: 4 GB
    Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
    Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB
    Hard Drive Space: 26 GB
    DirectX 10

I don't think you have any real GPU.

Fred_vdp

Hero+

10 years ago

@Venedrakus wrote:

Games like skyrim and other Bethesda games Work perfectly fine. No problems with those at all

Bethesda's games are always a few years behind in the technology department. That's why Skyrim can run on a very broad range of computers, even business laptops.

Though I am very curious about your framerate and settings in that game.

Anonymous

10 years ago

Bethesda has consistently been blind to hardware technology, constantly publishing game requirements that have no valid application in the real world. Skyrim was no different. The amount of VRAM attached to a GPU is meaningless compared to the speed of that VRAM and the speed of the GPU core, but their minimum ignored that fact:

Corrected Skyrim Minimum Requirements

    * Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
    * Processor: Dual Core 2.3 GHz C2D or equivalent CPU
    * 3GB System RAM
    * 6GB free HDD Space
    * Direct X 9 compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM (and
           sufficient performance to actually put that VRAM to use)
    * DirectX compatible sound card
    * Internet access for Steam activation

I think that they ignored the differences between a C2D and a P4 dual core, as well, but my parenthetic phrase was an attempt to bring their erroneous GPU specs into reality. It also seems that they may have ignored differences between Dx9a, Dx9b, and Dx9c (shaders).

I do recall that Intel HD 3000s weren't at all adequate for decent play.