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And no. You have no more choice than to wait to have a new PC, albeit the poor RE4 performance is not tied to your hardware.
All these games are simply bug fests... Nothing more and nothing less.
The only good port from CAPCOM that I'm aware of it's Revelations 1. Maybe also RE 5 & 6, but I couldn't tell since I never had the occasion to touch them on PC.
And no it's not optimised for low-end PCs as firstly most games aren't; and, secondly it's a port which makes it tougher on hardware than it should be (that's a given).
Anyway I recently tried running it on my laptop to answer a couple questions here so if you look at my post in this thread, you'll see my results:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/254700/discussions/0/598199244887138392/
Essentially the game is playable on a Sandy Bridge dual-core @ 3Ghz, with Intel HD Graphics 3000 (mobile)...but just barely. That's 1366x768 at 30FPS, with AA off, and original textures instead of "HD". If your laptop is anything less than that (and that's nothing special to begin with), or if it has a higher res screen, I wouldn't bother. Also even if you're at that level I'd recommend one of those laptop cooling stand/base things as you can see my temps were very high during only a couple minutes of gameplay. Does depend on your laptop's internal cooling solution but yeah it'll heat up in most cases.
No
Yes Resident Evil 5 runs much better than Resident Evil 4 on PC.
I have no clue what'ss happening with their ports now, but with RE4 and the REmake HD they have dropped the ball. Same with Revelations 2 it seems.
You can play the game part okay-ish, but the audio synch in the movies, wow, that's an issue.
He's right about drop the AA, he's right about the resolution, he's right about don't even mess with 60 fps -- that's almost true even on better graphics cards. You won't lose responsiveness dropping to 30 fps, you may gain some. You'll avoid some bugs, possibly.
But, for some god knows why reason, the high res movies will still bust you wide open. I have the old RE4 HD for PC -- it runs better than twice as fast at low res then the current HD Remaster. The old PC version looks the same as the low res in the HD Remaster, it has no better textures or resolution, and it does not have a good mouse mod available (maybe one of the trainers work, but the original mouse mod doesn't find what it needs and fails -- it includes the PC patches and extra costumes). But the old version, at low specs, runs on Windows 7 on the very same PC, at least twice as fast, and responds correctly.
Understand, though, RE4 is meant to be a slower to respond game. It takes time to load your weapon, you can't side-step if I remember, looking around and turning your weapon around are two different functions. Etc. You can't do two animations at one time, usually, that's the way to think about it. If the controls need two animations, you are usually doing one at a time.
That makes it tactical, so 60 fps versus 30 fps is meaningless, except for synching the game's physics, and the movies, and the friendly AI, and the enemies. So the engine requires a kludge to do that, and good luck with kludges made by programmers who weren't the original guys working with it, and when they have not seen that engine in the last year.
Although the atmosphere is a bit less good, and the story is less good, I'd recommend you get Resident Evil Revelations 1 when on sale. It's got a lot of replay value in its RAID mode. The action is a lot like an improved RE4. The graphics look better than the RE4 HD Remaster and you get a much smoother framerate on a mere Intel HD 2500.
Revelations 1 has a working downloadable widescreen fix, which allows you to move the camera farther back from the back of the player, giving you a wider view for enemies, or to look at the ladies figures, and enjoy the game, if it is a bit too hard. It has a nice incorporated dodge, you still fight almost exactly the same way, but the mouse controls with keyboard, they are wonderful -- absolutely wonderful (once adjusted -- default mouse settings are likely off quite a bit I recall) and responsive compared to the RE4 HD Remaster kludge. Hey, the RE4 HD REmaster controls mostly work for mouse and keyboard, but no way they are beautiful, although some guides on Steam will help you a bit there.
But, Revelations 1's story is a bit meh, but my god there is a ton of actual gameplay. I've not completed RAID mode, and I'm 70+ hours in -- I mean wow. The graphics are very good, they are pretty close to the best you'd seen on a nice XBOX game on a nice flat screen TV (and I don't even have it on the very highest settings, although I can put most of them up near the highest with no framerate or control responsiveness issues) -- The character models are very nice, the walls and so on, they have the usual RE atmosphere, but not everything is meant to be superb. The enemies are too often too bright, but the game's sounds are good, you get to play a lot of RE characters, and it is responsive.
I play it, and I pretend it is RE4's story on a ship -- heck, it is not as if RE 4-6 have classic literature on the run. You are there to have the gameplay, to best your previous play, to beat your buddies or play co-op with them. You are there to learn your enemies, to use various customizable weapons, to find weakspots, and beat an entertaining game, over and over, higher level and higher level. I mean the RAID mode is often like Mercenaries meets Diablo loot systems. You unlock characters and costumes and they have varying bonuses to speed, reload, whatever.
Now, as an aside, I mean the models for the men and the ladies, they are quality. It's meant to feel like a modernized interface but RE4 style combat. Sure, it will get repetitive, but so do the others. But you could play this a whole year before you beat it with the RAID mode.
I can't guarantee Revelations 1 will run on your laptop, but it does run very well on my Intel HD 2500 gpu desktop. Where RE4 HD Remaster -- well -- borderline -- but it is the better story.
So, if you go RE4 HD Remaster, buy on sale, get a better video card, expect to be possibly disappointed -- no matter what -- with performance. But if you get Revelations 1 not 2 -- and you like Mercenaries and RE4 style environment -- and you get it on sale -- trust me the gameplay is worth the money (and don't forget posts on widescreenfixer.org for controlling the FOV and camera distance behind the character -- you don't seem to have one for RE4 HD Remaster yet).
Sorry, long post, but wanted to back up most of what BlueEyedRevenge said so succinctly. I wish they redid RE4 either in RE5's engine -- but you see how they messed up that patch to Gold -- or used the RE:Revelations 1 engine to remake it -- wow that would have been perfect. But, so it goes.
Best of luck on your decision.
I need more explanation.
Anyhow, I've posted many times on Resident Evil games, back when Revelations was out, etc, and you can read those posts for fresher responses perhaps with more detail, if you care about the Intel HD 2500 gpu experience. Just do a search, or read those entire threads.
Other than that, I think you are joking -- gave me a good belly laugh. I don't want to be the dentist on Steam.
In the end, it's up to you. I posted this to be charitable and because lots of gamers will search online and find Steam posts in their Bing or Google posts. I hope it helps them save money or make a more informed decision.
But in the end -- have a good attitude, do your research, and realize it can be a crapshoot, as Capcom PC versions often are.
Thanks for the logical response! I'll go and see if I can find an original PC copy of the game rather than buying a new PC like all of the other people on this thread are telling me to do, even thought I clearly said not to say that. Thanks!
The original PC version is aweful, i'm warning you.
If it were a "desktop" machine you would probably be able to get away with buying and installing a videocard if you had a PCIe x16 slot, but with a laptop it ain't so simple.
The old/original PC version is not that great either mind you (as someone mentioned above) but you could try it out. There is one additional setting in the HD version you can find in the config.ini file for the game, which is AF. You can set AF only in that file and you can try setting it to 0 but since AF doesn't really tax a GPU very much it probably won't make a difference; also as I said though your [integrated] GPU is slow your CPU is probably a more limiting factor in this case.
In any event, good luck.
Side note: I never understand why people with very low-end laptops made for basic computing (like web browsing and document creation) that were never ever intended for gaming, always come on Steam forums asking why/how they can't run games??? Hate to break it to you but your laptop was never designed for that and laptops don't have much room for upgrading to do so. Therefore if you want to be gaming you should buy a laptop designed for such things. It's like having a PS1 and asking how you can get this new PS4 game to play in it, lol. Not going to happen.
It worked for me.
(HINT: There's a configuration folder for the game.)