Can I play this with a GTX 940M 2GB?

[Kane]

I don't want a really sluggish performance playing the game in 1080p. I know this is not a gaming laptop. I just thought that maybe I could run it but am not sure.

[FerrusPugnum]

It ran on an msi w a gtx 780m ok before the last few major updates so i would expect it would run ok with yours but you might want more graphics ram and or system ram.

[VipreRX]

Recommended is a Nvidia GTX 560TI, with 1024MB VRAM so Magic 8-ball says, "All signs point to yes"

[Kane]

Thing is that a 560 Ti is meant for gaming. a 940 isn't as much. I'll give it a try though.

[VipreRX]

You're not really dealing with mind blowing graphics here, I'd think CPU/System mem would be the big issue items.

[[Q]uik]

Pretty sure CPU is the most important factor of this game.

[Crim]

Don't play with large/massive galaxies and you should be fine

[Cian]

You can always refund it if it doesn't. I would expect you would probably be ok, but I haven't tried it on any mobile cards. I'm running an old 670, but that's still several times stronger than the 940M.

[Kane]

Originally posted by Quik:

Pretty sure CPU is the most important factor of this game.

I have a low end i7 in my laptop, i7-6500U. Hope you're right though as it could be enough. Also I have a desktop that I can normally play it on, but I am troubleshooting some problems on it. I doubt I can use it for the next week or so. That's why I wanted to know if you all thought my laptop could run it. And I thought the game was larger than 6 GB. I forgot. I will select some mods though, but it shouldn't be too big.

[Kane]

This laptop has a touchscreen. I am digging how the game implements the controls. It is running well for me so far.

[[Q]uik]

There's a big difference between starting years and 200 years into the game though - i hope it keeps running well though :)

[Kane]

[Q]uik, good point. Thanks for the kind wishes.

[loveless]

I'm playing it on a 930MX, on low settings. I get decent framerates, 30 fps above at normal speed but dipping to the low 20s at fastest. It plays well on medium during the early years but slows to a stutter as the galaxy opens up.

I'm playing on huge 1,000 star galaxies, by the way.

[Peter34]

I can play it with a Radeon 6770 with 1 GB of VRAM. That’s a card from 2011, that’s not really different from the 5770 card from 2010.

Lowest settings, mind you. But it works.

[Madcain]

this thing is more cpu consuming than gpu consuming.

[romannets]

Dude you could play Stellaris with a potato, it wont make a difference. Start of the game the performance is acceptable,. but later into the game the perforamce will start to degrade, by the time you start having wars and crisis events you will suffer catastropic performance problems bringing the game engine to its knees, even if you are playing it on a dual socket intel xeon platinum with 1TB of RAM and an a 1080ti.