Is Euro Truck Sim 2 suitable for low end pc's?

[Corgi]

My gaming laptop has a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, So is it like suitable to play? Cuz my game crashes from time to time and I cant tell if its my graphic card or my laptop entirely, It does run for about 20-30 mins before crashing so can anyone tell me why?

[Briannospam]

You can find information about the game's system requirements here, and you can also test your system there:
https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/euro-truck-simulator-2/11492

[DNZ]

RTX1050? You meant GTX 1050.
It'll run on medium I think.. it's above the minimum required specs (GTX 660).

[Wolfgang]

On low settings with 30FPS, sure.

[Cathulhu]

Originally posted by Corgi:

My gaming laptop has a Nvidia GeForce RTX 1050, So is it like suitable to play? Cuz my game crashes from time to time and I cant tell if its my graphic card or my laptop entirely, It does run for about 20-30 mins before crashing so can anyone tell me why?

Hard to say without knowing more about the issue. Like getting a copy of the game.log after a crash so we can see what caused the crash.

[Nimir-Raj]

While I was rebuilding my PC, I borrowed my dad's for West Balkans DLC closed testing, running at 1080p on lowest settings I struggled to maintain 20FPS in the Balkans at times it would drop to 10fps which is practically unplayable.

For reference his system was i5 7600K, 8GB RAM, GTX 750 Ti

In theory you should be able to play it. I would suggest posting a game log immediately after a crash as well as listing full system specs.

[Antaiir]

op has 2 questions, that are pretty different.

1. Yes it should run. Barely.

2. I wouldn't recommend playing demanding games on a laptop, due to it's insufficient cooling. When the rig is pretty new, you'll face thermal throttling sooner or later. When the cooling collect more and more dust and dirt over time, at some point your hardware can overheat and crash.

[VaLiuM]

I played the game back in the day with my old PC on version 1.3x.x on a potato... Athlon 2 X2 240, 8GB RAM, GTX 650 TI, even with many graphic enhancement mods and SweetFX / ReShade enabled. So i would say yes, it may do decently on older versions with older hardware. I don't know how 1.4x.x would perform with the same settings.

[дeл]

if a user that still use amd radeon 520 like me can still play it with high setting around 25-30 fps on WB DLC, then why would you doubt yourself with a lot superior spec? lol

[Corgi]

Originally posted by DNZ:

RTX1050? You meant GTX 1050.
It'll run on medium I think.. it's above the minimum required specs (GTX 660).

Sorry about that, I didnt realize I misspelled "GTX" with "RTX". Anyways, Your idea did work and the game ran for about an hour on medium, I launched the game on DirectX11 (64-bit) and crashed again. So I tried using the OpenGL (64-Bit) and the game started to run pretty smooth. So thanks for the suggestion, Now I can finally play the game without any problem. I'm glad that things worked out after ATS had this problem.

[PhantomSoul]

ETS 2 should pretty much run on a hair dryer. Its not too demanding but turning down the settings makes it look terrible imo

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by PhantomSoul:

ETS 2 should pretty much run on a hair dryer. Its not too demanding but turning down the settings makes it look terrible imo

SCS updated the system requiremtens not long ago, please check again on the Steam Store page.
If you have a hair dryer with that hardware you should first make it run DOOM.

[Peno11]

Yeah, even with 5600X, RTX 3050 and 32 GB RAM, which is above the new recommanded specs, I still have to lower some settings to get 60 FPS and even so, I still have some frame drops. Nothing serious, but still... those saying this game runs on potato, or hair dryer are obviously wrong.

[VaLiuM]

Originally posted by Peno11:

Yeah, even with 5600X, RTX 3050 and 32 GB RAM, which is above the new recommanded specs, I still have to lower some settings to get 60 FPS and even so, I still have some frame drops. Nothing serious, but still... those saying this game runs on potato, or hair dryer are obviously wrong.

I said on version 1.3x.x, lots of stuff may have changed since then, basically everything starting with version 1.4x.x. Look at my first screenshots from the game on Steam, they are all from my old potato PC, i actually never played the game yet on my new PC. I also explicitly said, that i don't know if 1.4x.x would perform the same way because i don't use the old PC anymore, it crashes after a few minutes of high load.

Potato screenshots:

ETS2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1855951368

Demo
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1378585068
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1376712863
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1376712814
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1376712698

[TheArtilleryman]

I play it sometimes on my laptop with an AMD R5 APU and it works fine on low, so your card should be fine. Depends on the rest of your system too ofc.

[VaLiuM]

Well, it all depends on how high or low the settings are. i'm almost sure i did not play it with the highest settings but also not on low either, it was something in between.

The last 3 screenshots are actually with SweetFX / ReShade enabled, good times on my old potato.

I had all the graphical enhancements available in the mod list and still managed to get around 25-30 FPS, which was pretty much enough for me. It took a while to find the right spot including all the mods and fiddling around with the graphic settings until i found a good middle ground.

Many people told me i killed my PC due to playing too many demanding games, they probably were right with this assumption but i don't remember which game actually killed my PC for good. :D