Dedicated Graphics card required?

[njones1693]

I was curious if anyone has tried to run the game on just a regular laptop i7-8565U Processor or similar with any luck. I have a desktop, but would be fun to play on the go.

[snipers_end]

I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as it meets the minimum specs. The game was released in 2008 so it can't be too difficult to run.

[Donoghu]

The game has an option called "Hardware Skinning" which, if toggled off, lower the load onto the GPU. (If toggled ON, the option makes the game uses the GPU to calculate the Skinning (a.k.a. textures & UVs) which is one of the thing that can make integrated GPU struggle.

Can't say which version of the game it's based on, but if you consider that the Xbox360 used an integrated RAM + VRAM structure (512MB of shared RAM) could run this game well, that should give you an idea that, while some parts might struggle (part related to possible issues with the rendering libraries from your Integrated GPU driver being incompatible), you should be able to run this game well.

If the FPS is too low, I suggest you turn down the little amount of options in the graphical setting such as Shadow Quality and turn off Motion Blur (especially Motion Blurr) and turn the Blur quality down too. This basically turn the game into one of those old PC games from the early 2000's in terms of requirement.

[FreeGameShow]

Your i7 8565U HAS UHD 620 graphics so it'll run the game. Just lower your expectations though(and possibly your resolution to 720p on LOW) because the game does require a minimum of 128 MB of VRAM. Hopefully, you have a good 8-16 GB of RAM in your laptop because the CPU is gonna use that RAM to run the game.

One bright side here is that the UHD 620 graphics in your CPU will run Rainbow Six Siege in 720p on the lowest settings at around 25-40 fps so you should be able to achieve much more than that in Rainbow Six Vegas 2 because Rainbow Six Siege requires 6 x's the RAM(6GB) and 8 x's the VRAM(1GB) than Rainbow Six Vegas 2(1GB and 128 MB of VRAM).

I hope I typed all that correctly because I'm not editing it, lol.

[njones1693]

Appreciate all the help! I'll give it a go and if its too bad I'll just stick to playing on my desktop!