For those who have a low end pc especially those with 4gb ram and with an integrated graphic card

[bastos2244]

I've got a laptop. My specs were the following:

i5 6200u
4gb ram(before the upgrade to 8gb)
Intel HD 520 graphics
Win7 x64

The frame rates on resident evil 4 were really bad. I could only run it at 26-30fps with all settings on low or turned off and at a resolution of 800x600.In 1366x760 i would reach 15 frames on its best. I know my pc is not meant for gaming, but i was not expecting something that bad.

After some tests and some web searching i found out that i could boost the performance trying one thing that is not very expensive. Adding more ram. And more importante, adding 4gb ram to the other channel meaning a 2x4gb ram combination. The results were better than i though. I managed to gain a good amount of fps.

So now i can play at 1366x760 with settings on low with a steady 30fps and at 800x600 with settings on low at a constant 60fps. In my case, the 4gb ram were holding the game back in terms of performance. With 8gb ram i gain a must needed performance boost. I guess the game is ram heavy(although the requierements for ram are low) or it is the intel hd 520 that performes much better with more ram installed.

The intention of this topic is just to help people that have problems running the game with low end pcs, because i know that there are many. My solution was fast and not expensive. It may not work for everyone, but for me it helped a lot.

[El Fuerte]

Great post!

Now people will buy more RAM to gain fps instead of buying a real GPU for gaming. That's quite awesome!

On a serious note: i've just took out my GPU and tested both 4gb and 8gb on the mobo's Intel chipset. There is absolutely no difference in performance, it runs like sh*t either way.

[bastos2244]

Originally posted by RED:

Great post!

Now people will buy more RAM to gain fps instead of buying a real GPU for gaming. That's quite awesome!

On a serious note: i've just took out my GPU and tested both 4gb and 8gb on the mobo's Intel chipset. There is absolutely no difference in performance, it runs like sh*t either way.

Of course not. For gaming is much more important a decent gpu then a decent amount of ram. And the price you're gonna pay for a new gpu is much higher then a simple 4gb ram upgrade wich only cost me 30euros...What i said was that my intel hd 520 could do more in terms of performance for this game, in particulary adding 4gb ram. For exmple, i tested the pes 2018 demo and only gain 5-7fps more with the ram upgrade...So it depends on the game too and its optmization. Here it made a difference wich is rather strange since the recommended ram for the game is 4gb. I know my problem is within my cpu and graphic card but i still managed too adress the low fps problem. I think the game could be more optimized too.