Grim Dawn playable with craptop?

[FortyTwo]

Hello,
I am a big Diablo II+III fan, but I have already played them several times. Currently I'm looking for another good ARPG and found Grim Dawn.
Now I only own a laptop that is not designed for gaming:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
System: Windows 10
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
Graphics: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620

I was able to play Diablo 3 smoothly on medium settings, and games like Bioshock Infinite or Civilization V are also playable well if I adjust the settings accordingly.

My question now: Can I also play Grim Dawn well on this laptop without it going up in flames? An FPS rate of 30-40 is perfectly adequate for me.

Thanks for your estimations!

[FlamingX21]

You are answer to everything, you should know better yourself, no?

But on serious note, medium settings should be just right for your desired frames. This game is really CPU heavy rather than on GC, so...

[Wolflyte]

My specs:
Inter COre i7-4700MQ 2.4GHz
8GB RAM
Win8
GeForce GT 755M
When I tried Diablo 3 demo recently I had to set it to 720p and low settings.

In terms of GD it doesn't run as smooth as I would like to, but i can play and I'm very far in Ultimate difficulty with my current build (not reaching 60 FPS and some FPS drops don't block me from progressing). That being said, I'm playing on low setting and 720p aswell. It's hard to tell how well your "craptop" will handle GD, but if you could play D3 on medium settings and that I had to play on low, you should be fine in GD.

[tukkek]

I think you should be able to play on minimal settings and perhaps a lower resolution (720 or less). I should warn you though that there are graphical glitches if I try to play on my laptop's Intel HD 4000 but the game works fine on my desktop.

I think you can definitely give it a try and refund the game if performance is not good. I'll reiterate though that you're probably going to have to put all options on minimum and lower the resolution.

Grim Dawn is an absolutely great game, totally worth playing even without the fancy graphics.

[Wolflyte]

Plus on Low or Off on everything and 720p it still looks better than Titan Quest on higher settings.

[tukkek]

Yup, game doesn't look bad at all. Just feels like an older game, rather than a more modern one.

[jazztickets]

You may wanna pick up a cheap 570 to round that system out

[Pisaro]

Sorry but you can't play Grim Dawn without stuttering, laptop is way to weak.

But I don't get it: when I have a hobby like gaming, why i can't spend some money to play nice? I mean, gaming is a cheap hobby..

[1MantisPhoenix]

GT640 works on this game, 1366x768
Your actual resolution matters, but Nvidia > Intel :)

[1MantisPhoenix]

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

Sorry but you can't play Grim Dawn without stuttering, laptop is way to weak.

But I don't get it: when I have a hobby like gaming, why i can't spend some money to play nice? I mean, gaming is a cheap hobby..

Cheap - long-term , not initially,

[tukkek]

Originally posted by jazztickets:

You may wanna pick up a cheap 570 to round that system out

I'm running Grim Dawn on a 710M that I've got new on the box for $20, no joke - it runs the game perfectly on lowest settings, from Linux on a Windows emulator. Plus 100% passive cooling so no noise at all!

I mean, if you're into graphics that's no good at all but just saying how cheap you can game for.

When I got to late game and all of my items have procs and I'm fighting dozens of enemies on-screen at a time I did have to lower the resolution from 768p to 720p but honestly can't tell the difference other than my game running butter-smooth now.

EDIT 570 vs 710M compared (basically the same score) https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-570-vs-Nvidia-GeForce-710M/3156vsm10751

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

Sorry but you can't play Grim Dawn without stuttering, laptop is way to weak.

But I don't get it: when I have a hobby like gaming, why i can't spend some money to play nice? I mean, gaming is a cheap hobby..

Not everyone has extra average salary for gaming rig every few years or even can put his own hobbies over priorities like family.

[tukkek]

Also, I think the point is made that you don't need to spend money to play Grim Dawn. The engine is old, the gameplay is amazing. If you don't want fancy graphics, a budget card will do.

[Pisaro]

Originally posted by {2020}1MantisPhoenix∞:

Originally posted by Pisaro27:

Sorry but you can't play Grim Dawn without stuttering, laptop is way to weak.

But I don't get it: when I have a hobby like gaming, why i can't spend some money to play nice? I mean, gaming is a cheap hobby..

Cheap - long-term , not initially,

Not initially? NEVER. Ist really a cheap hobby. What u should sold in a year for your rig? Don't know, for me it's round about 1000 Euros in a YEAR!! Yeah, that's cheap for a hobby.

When u don't have this salary isn't that a problem. Not everyone can spend this, right. But then don't cry when a game stuttering like hell.

Im mean, my hobby are also the whole galaxy. Buy telescopes etc. But I can't fly into the universe, because it's to expensive for me.

A friend of my spend every year round about 5K euros in his car. That's way Mir expensive then a Gaming rig.

Really, noooo problem here when u can't buy a gamer rig. But maybe gaming then is the wrong hobby.

Sorry for by bad english. That "you" don't mean a person himself, that's for us all.

[powbam]

Originally posted by FortyTwo:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
System: Windows 10
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
Graphics: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620

My question now: Can I also play Grim Dawn well on this laptop without it going up in flames? An FPS rate of 30-40 is perfectly adequate for me.

I entered your specs here..
https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/grim-dawn-system-requirements

..and supposedly your system passes muster even for the recommended settings. I'm not sure how accurate that is and I haven't used any integrated Intel GPU's in quite some time so I guess it's up to you to determine how well it really fares.

Browsing Google for performance articles covering the Intel UHD Graphics 620 seems to indicate that it does respectably on most modern games, apparently even at 1080p.

https://www.criticthoughts.com/gaming/intel-hd-graphics-620-review/

Only some high-end latest game struggle on HD620 like FIFA 19, however, it supports all others including some popular ones. If we compare HD620 with discrete GPUs, then it will fall with GeForce 910M and 920M from Nvidia.

As we witnessed in the benchmarks, this GPU can play most of the in-demand games in high definition resolution (1920×1080).