Intel Graphics?

[Nice]

Before the expected comments of 'buy a better machine' and 'it can't run #@$%' the answers are 1- i can't and 2-it runs almost everything.

I can run 90% of the latest games on lower settings- question is, will The Forest run?
i5, 2.5ghz
4gb Ram
Intel Graphics HD 3000

Almost every game that lists NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT as minimum runs alright. Most people don't know how to handle the intel onboard cards but i config it to squeeze the maximum of it. From the top of my head Witcher 2 and a few bad and unfinished games are the only ones i can't run on my library; I can't tell for sure about some of the latest titles (thief, watch dogs), but from castlevania to assassins creed and the last tom raider all runs fine.
But since requirements are often misleading i have to ask.

And does it have acessible configuration options(or a ini) for further tweaking?

Im dying to buy this game right now, this is the only thnig holding my finger.

[sfrdragon]

it should run but on low and only at like 20 fps

[Dust]

Your PC is about what my wife has maybe a bit weaker but The Forest runs ok on hers, you will have to drop the gfx but it should work for you.

[JigglyRitz]

You can try if you are brave. The game is only $15 after all.

[Rabid Urko]

Dont try and make it the games fault, if your hardware cant run it ( a general post, happens on all games forums)

[Winstrol]

me too i lag so much i will try to contact game developers to tell him to reduce lag

-A friend

[Nice]

Surely, i don't blame the games that don't run because of these specs. I think i will risk it then. Thanks for the input guys

[JigglyRitz]

Originally posted by Walken on sunshine:

Surely, i don't blame the games that don't run because of these specs. I think i will risk it then. Thanks for the input guys

aparently it doesn't run well without intel 4200 graphics or more.

[limallo]

I am also running Intel HD3000, and I tested the game purely to see if it would actually run before I buy it, and the simple answer is no. Even with all the settings on minimum and the resolution at 640x480, I got about 7fps maximum. My specs are the same as yours, i5-2450, 4GB RAM and Intel HD3000.

[Nice]

Thanks for the waring, i was going to buy it this weekend. Damn, this is precisely the kind of game ive been dying to play...

[the dog from family guy]

Well that GPU... i used to had to deal with the Intel HD 4000 for 4 years... It was a pain in the ass(I had a mac... with Windows 7) and it was actually alright on some games, but seems you got the 3000, i really do not recommend it...

They have some settings in the graphical section within the game, you get High, Medium, Low, and then you have Laptop (i think that was all of them).

If you want to you can wait until the game is more optimized, therefor you will know for sure that your laptop/PC can just be able to run it, and if this is a laptop, what i did was i put computer fans under my laptop cooling it down, witch makes it able to run a game slightly better, but any fan that blows some decent air will do :L

Hope i helped! :P

[TemplarGFX]

Pretty much if your Intel HD card is older than the Haswell based HD 4200 you are not going to get acceptable performance. This is the card I have, it is barely playable (but playable)

[Nice]

There are ways to squeeze more out of it. Setting the laptop to proper full performance (generally the high performance isn't full), extra cooling(im using a cheap one, working great), tweaking the gpu properties and cutting the fat out of your system (software running on the background). +turning off steam overlay on more demanding games. That plus gamebooster(software), wich does help up to 10 fps on *some* games(by turning off even more windows background stuff).

If a game is optmized and have actual graphical options(or some way trought the ini files) it runs. Witcher 2, some of the AC series and State of Decay are some of the few i couldn't get in a playable state (plus some indie ones like that Garry Day One, terrible optmization). Not sure about the high profile/graphics shooters since i hate military shooters, but Metro 2033/Last Light, Hard Reset, Darkness 2, Farcry blooddragon, Rage (and of course all Valve games) i could run well, generally with textures set to high, most on 1280X760 (1024 is accpetable as well, regarding laptops screen size).
Talking about more recent games, Tomb Raider, Batman and Dark Souls 2 all ran *great*. But im afraid if i can run the new Thief or Watchdogs(with all its bugs), thinking if i will risk or not...

I will try the demo later on, see if i can turn off some of the flash on configuration files. Toning down shaders, depth of field and removing blur, from what ive seen on the screenshots should be enought.

[Curry Crusader]

My Intel HD 4000 runs just fine on this game with around 50 FPS on medium settings.

[limallo]

Originally posted by Walken on sunshine:

There are ways to squeeze more out of it. Setting the laptop to proper full performance (generally the high performance isn't full)

Any tips on what to actually do for this? I run most games through Game Booster, but I'd like to be able to tinker with the GPU settings to actually get more performance.

[JigglyRitz]

Originally posted by lamillo:

Originally posted by Walken on sunshine:

There are ways to squeeze more out of it. Setting the laptop to proper full performance (generally the high performance isn't full)

Any tips on what to actually do for this? I run most games through Game Booster, but I'd like to be able to tinker with the GPU settings to actually get more performance.

First tip: don't use game booster. Most of the time it only drains performance because it runs as a background program. People have done tests and proven that it is actually bad for performance on most games.