pc requirements: oblivion vs dark messiah

[zancek0]

My laptop is not very powerful but I really want to play Dark Messiah. I already tried Oblivion and it ran well on low-mid settings. Which one requires more powerful system? I can post my system spec later if needed.

[Genesis]

I'd say Oblivion requires more power because Dark Messiah is a Source-powered game, so you'll get almost the same performance than in Half-Life 2.

However, in the second half of Dark Messiah, when you'll get magical weapons (with visual effects like lightning and fire), the framerate is probably going to get choppy. It was the case even on my laptop, which runs Skyrim maxed out in Full HD (1920x1080) smoothly, while I was running Dark Messiah maxed out in HD (1366x768) !

[Unbornchild]

Messaggio originale di zimko:

My laptop is not very powerful but I really want to play Dark Messiah. I already tried Oblivion and it ran well on low-mid settings. Which one requires more powerful system? I can post my system spec later if needed.

Yes post your system specs please.

[zancek0]

Intel HD graphic - is the worst part of my laptop. this is only thing you need to know. ...

[Unbornchild]

"System specs" is a lot more than just a graphics chip. And then WHICH Intel HD graphic chip; it exists in many generations.
That is why the autoconfiguration feature that creates the "recommended settings" at first run, most of the times puts too high settings for that chip so the game might crash (in which case you have to lower the graphics settings in Options > Video. Especially: disable HDR!).
But you'll probably get similar or slightly lower performance as your Oblivion experience.

It is made for desktop PC's. Although this is an older DX9.0c game, it has pretty rich graphics, and the effects are demanding on the hardware. Make sure you have enough free space left for the temp files and savegames.