Running on low-end hardware

[PickleRick]

I have a laptop with i5 9300H, GTX 1650, 8 GB RAM, and an SSD. If anyone else playing on similar spec system, i wanna know how the game runs. share your experience and advice. Should I buy the game?

[Ichthyic]

yup, desktop and 1660, but similar.

set everything to medium settings in the graphics, except you can set texture res and filtering to high, and you should get fps from 40-60 in 90% of the game. not great, but tolerable. I'm enjoying it well enough. watch the heat though, I have a very well cooled system and it pushes it a bit.

[PickleRick]

1660 has more VRAM I think. it will be tougher on my 4GB 1650. and yeah since it's a laptop heating will be worse

[Annie Other]

I have a laptop with:
i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
NVIDIA GeForce MX130
8 MB RAM
512 GB SSD internal
2 TB SSD external (twice as fast as the internal one)

I had trouble getting it to run properly at first. No crashes, but terrible lag and stuttering.
The external SSD helped a lot, clearing autostart and disabling everything that uses RAM.
I can play medium quality now, game only sometimes lags, and it is bearable. I just can't run anything in the background.
Yeah, I have to be careful. I am rather overly careful with heating, but I can play up to an hour I think.
Oh, and of course I have the latest drivers, the game prompted me to upgrade drivers at first launch.

I have an unlisted video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCBGhctek4E
Maybe this can help someone with similar specs.

[Erylaria]

i'm not exactly low end for mobo (b550 gaming), ram (32gb), and cpu (ryzen 7 5800x) but i recently had to switch from my rtx 3070 ti to my old gtx 960 (3070 is dying, apparently <.<) and it works absolutely fine. it looks like garbage but it's fine, it's stable, decent fps (30ish). and that's even though the 960 (with only 2GB vram) is below minimum requirements (which you are not, you are above minimum).

personally, i don't think you're going to have issues, depending on how much vram you have. maybe, if you have the money, spring for an extra 8GB ram and you'll be fine. you won't be playing on ultra, probably low-mid settings, but i'd say it's doable. and you'll still enjoy your time. if you enjoyed dragon age games and were fine with those graphics, then BG3 on low-mid is very similar. sure, it's a beautiful game on max settings - but the story, characters, writing, music, sound design also contribute to making this a great game :)

[fox]

It will play like a slideshow.

[PickleRick]

Originally posted by fox:

It will play like a slideshow.

ok

[PickleRick]

Originally posted by Erylaria:

i'm not exactly low end for mobo (b550 gaming), ram (32gb), and cpu (ryzen 7 5800x) but i recently had to switch from my rtx 3070 ti to my old gtx 960 (3070 is dying, apparently <.<) and it works absolutely fine. it looks like garbage but it's fine, it's stable, decent fps (30ish). and that's even though the 960 (with only 2GB vram) is below minimum requirements (which you are not, you are above minimum).

personally, i don't think you're going to have issues, depending on how much vram you have. maybe, if you have the money, spring for an extra 8GB ram and you'll be fine. you won't be playing on ultra, probably low-mid settings, but i'd say it's doable. and you'll still enjoy your time. if you enjoyed dragon age games and were fine with those graphics, then BG3 on low-mid is very similar. sure, it's a beautiful game on max settings - but the story, characters, writing, music, sound design also contribute to making this a great game :)

very helpful. thank you. i have a good enough idea now to make a decision.

[Omario]

OP should be ashamed of those specs. I hope he posted this thread wearing sackcloth and ashes.

[Red Shirt]

Turn your settings way down. Turn you fans way up. Wrap a frozen gel pack in a hand towel and stick it under you laptop. Consider buying a cooling pad with lots of fans. Then stick that ice pack under it.

Edit: Or buy a newer computer.

[PickleRick]

Originally posted by Omario:

OP should be ashamed of those specs. I hope he posted this thread wearing sackcloth and ashes.

i am wearing those. damn how did you know

[Rodis]

I'm on a 1070, i5 7500 and 16Gb of RAM. Act one is playable, as it will fluctuate from 40 to 60 fps. Crowded areas such the Grove and the goblin camp will tank the FPS further, but indoors so far are locked 60.

[PickleRick]

Originally posted by Porpetodis:

I'm on a 1070, i5 7500 and 16Gb of RAM. Act one is playable, as it will fluctuate from 40 to 60 fps. Crowded areas such the Grove and the goblin camp will tank the FPS further, but indoors so far are locked 60.

1070 is far better than 1650. i think i'll buy the game when i upgrade to a decent PC.

[TripSin]

I can't say how it will run for you, though I'm not optimistic.

But Steam let's you return games within 2 weeks if they are under 2 hours of playtime. So you could get the game and play it to see how the performance is and refund it if it doesn't run well enough for you to play. If you do this, just skip past the character creation and go with the default because you can easily spend like an hour+ in character creation, but that's not the actual game.

played it on potato laptop with the spec:AMD RYZEN 3 2200U ,Vega mobile ,8GB finished the game with questionable FPS

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.