Game incompatible with Radeon 500 Series

[A Lovable Ghost]

Is there any word on when the game will be made playable on Radeon 500 series cards? It seems unreasonable that I have to run the game on my baked in intel graphics driver which runs the game but poorly when my more powerful (although outdated) Radeon 500 isn't optimized to run this low intensity Unity engine build.

[Mac]

From what i found on the radeon 500, its a very low budget card, the only thing i can recommend is doing a directx check to make sure you have the latest version and updating your gpu drivers, i doubt the dev using standard unity settings would be able to fix the problem your end.

The problem with AMD cards is normally always, unfortunately, their terrible drivers, they have slowly been getting better at making them not as bad, but their driver history has been following them for ages, you buy AMD for budget reasons, not quality unfortunately.

For instance, with amd you need to pick and choose a working driver depending on the situation, often rolling back to an earlier version, with nvidia you just, always update to the latest version and it works right out of the box.

This might be whats happening with you, if the latest drivers aren't helping, try rolling back afew drivers and see if that works.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Idk maybe tell us your acutally gpu and cpu?

[Maverick]

It sounds more like you're getting steamrolled by "Progress" in the tech-world. Radeon 500 cards are old as hell, man. You have to expect at some point people are going to stop caring about old hardware that very few gamers would even put up with using, let alone an old AMD card that was not really all that hot when it came out.

It was a budget card in 2017 running a modified arcitecture of the old 400 series, which was even older... That's hitting almost 10 years old, and again, it was a budget card THEN. Expecting devs to spend thousands of dollars to specialize into weird old tech is kinda silly, don'tcha think? Especially when, for a fraction of the price, YOU as a consumer could just upgrade your PC and have a better experience all around regardless?

"High intensity" or "low" has nothing to do with it. It's what your card is capable of handling on a basic level, and Radeon 500 series is just dated as is. Sure, there might be workarounds here or there, but those are going to be in obscenely popular games that are based in old engines, and even then it's a stopgap measure. Only going to last for so long before another game comes out that needs a more upgraded card.

I appreciate being frustrated by it, but it's also not really on the developers to upgrade YOUR computer for you. These things don't last forever, and much like consoles, you have to keep them upgraded and updated or you'll run into problems like this.

[A Lovable Ghost]

To clarify: the issue I have is a common issue that you can find in the thread for bug reports. Launch the game, get through the brief opening credits/logos, followed by a black(or white) screen of death. By following possible solutions in the aforementioned thread, I noticed most of the users experiencing this issue were my fellow budget-laptop gamers, and that one of the solutions that worked for me was to disable my graphics card and use the integrated graphics card on my laptop. Now as you may assume, my integrated graphics card is significantly weaker than my main card, and yet it can run the game; albeit with sub-30 fps and poor texture resolution. Where I take issue, is why? Why it be like that? My specs are admittedly 1 step below what is the posted Min Requirements on the steam page (i5-7300 CPU and Radeon 550 GPU vs i5-7400 CPU and a GTX 1050 GPU) but to have the game not run at all with a slightly subpar card vs running with a massively inferior card is baffling to me.

@Unbound Cross I am neither entitled enough nor foolish enough to expect a developer to cater to my specific qualms or "upgrade my computer for me" but to front those as my issues is to build a man of straw, sir. I of course recognize I've stretched the limits of my budget-laptop atom thin and I have no complaints towards its mounting shortcomings when it comes to gaming. That's par for the course, but it is goofy shoes that this game cannot be run on this card. My only assumption (as an ignorant man) could be that this game eats an exorbitant amount of memory, as that's the only area were my integrated card should have a possible advantage, but the GTX 1050 and the AMD 550 have the same memory specs so even that is suspect to me.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

I am getting like 40 FPS on a RX550 at 1650x1050 (if I change the resolution my display will start whining).

[A Lovable Ghost]

@rat Performance is the name of my game friend, frames are my only lifeblood. My gpu settings are and have always been geared towards low quality/ high performance, and my laptop stays plugged in so much the battery life is unsustainable if it isn't plugged in. Its not an issue of the game running poorly, its that it steadfastly REFUSES to run if my AMD card isn't disabled

[A Lovable Ghost]

Originally posted by POWER WITHIN USER:

I am getting like 40 FPS on a RX550 at 1650x1050 (if I change the resolution my display will start whining).

whats your CPU?

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Originally posted by A Lovable Ghost:

Originally posted by POWER WITHIN USER:

I am getting like 40 FPS on a RX550 at 1650x1050 (if I change the resolution my display will start whining).

whats your CPU?

An used AMD Phenom II X4 955 running at @3.00GHZ (it's unstable at 3.2), it's from 2009.

[Recruit "THE NASCAR DRIVER"]

Huh, I'm not having any issues with my RX470 (and using linux to boot), Quite possibly its specific to the 500 series maybe?

[A Lovable Ghost]

Off of @POWER WITHIN USER's response I'm thinking it has something to do specifically with integrated graphics cards on laptops and the 500 series. I can run it passably on my ♥♥♥♥ Intel 630 HD for christ's sake lol

[Saobie]

Originally posted by A Lovable Ghost:

Off of @POWER WITHIN USER's response I'm thinking it has something to do specifically with integrated graphics cards on laptops and the 500 series. I can run it passably on my ♥♥♥♥ Intel 630 HD for christ's sake lol

Reading the comments here, im guessing youv seen either mine and/or the other post that has the same issue. I too have an integrated graphics card as far as im aware

Today i figured out how to use different versions. The version i currently have is dated to 2019, there is also a version dated to 2014. I also downloaded and installed the newest version of the Intel HD Graphics 5500 card i use. None of them worked, every one of them gave me the exact same issue

But when i disable my display adapter, or install the Microsoft Basic Adapter, it runs, but at 15fps tops

Thing is, i have access to another laptop. I dont remember its specifics, but its FAR inferior to this one, easily half the capability. However it can run and load the game (at like 15fps too, so not playable). So the device i have now, which isnt great but is just barely under the minimum requirements cant run it and always has the exact same issue, but the other laptop, an absolute fossil, can run it

[Lex]

I have rx 580 with ryzen 5 3600, game ranges from 150 - 100 fps. Maybe try downloading the graphics mod on the thunderstore to increase fps?

[A Lovable Ghost]

Okay so the people who are running similar level cards to mine, you guys aren't on laptops. I had mentioned earlier I believed the issue to be with having some form of conflict between my integrated GPU on my laptop and my AMD card. However, in conjunction with you guys running the game on similar/same cards, I have encountered a major wrinkle. Spontaneously, through just messing around with launching the game, I've it run twice now without deactivating my GPU. Game ran just fine with high graphics and 60 fps, no issues. This has completely baffled and infuriated me even further as I believed previously it was an issue with recognizing the GPU on laptops. I have been unable to recreate running the game on my amd card intentionally thus far, anyone have any ideas?

[Ragnos]

Originally posted by Ace:

It sounds more like you're getting steamrolled by "Progress" in the tech-world. Radeon 500 cards are old as hell, man. You have to expect at some point people are going to stop caring about old hardware that very few gamers would even put up with using, let alone an old AMD card that was not really all that hot when it came out.

It was a budget card in 2017 running a modified arcitecture of the old 400 series, which was even older... That's hitting almost 10 years old, and again, it was a budget card THEN. Expecting devs to spend thousands of dollars to specialize into weird old tech is kinda silly, don'tcha think? Especially when, for a fraction of the price, YOU as a consumer could just upgrade your PC and have a better experience all around regardless?

"High intensity" or "low" has nothing to do with it. It's what your card is capable of handling on a basic level, and Radeon 500 series is just dated as is. Sure, there might be workarounds here or there, but those are going to be in obscenely popular games that are based in old engines, and even then it's a stopgap measure. Only going to last for so long before another game comes out that needs a more upgraded card.

I appreciate being frustrated by it, but it's also not really on the developers to upgrade YOUR computer for you. These things don't last forever, and much like consoles, you have to keep them upgraded and updated or you'll run into problems like this.

I agree with the idea of progress, but not so much that 500 series is a bad GPU. I have an RX 580 and can still run Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 at decent FPS as long as I don't go crazy with the settings. And I have 16GB RAM and Ryzen 7 1800x, which is also a very old CPU, and I'm running it on an HDD. So yes, the developers are perfectly capable of creating gorgeous games that work on older systems if they really want to. But they don't have an incentive because they're paid by GPU companies to promote new technology and sometimes force it exclusively as a minimum. Sure we're all going to upgrade eventually, but a vast majority of the globe is still playing CSGO and Valorant because they can't afford new systems.