How does this run on lower end systems?

[stephen_d_mason]

I have a laptop, HP Envy, that is about 3 years old. Radeon HD 8650G + HD 8570M Dual Graphics, with 768MB of the 8GB RAM shared to graphics.
Will this run Rebel Galaxy well?

[Seidr]

If it's any comparison, this is running really nicely on my 2014 Mac Book Pro..I fully expected it to fall flat on its face with the Intel HD 4000 GPU, but it actually runs really nicely.

[Alex]

This runs amazing on med-high on my i5 2.7 laptop with an intel 3000 as long as you set the dx level to dx9, no real quality loss you will notice as the games made to work on a wide range of systems well.

[Zidders 'Rockin' Bard' Roofurry]

My computer is a nine year old quad core with a two year old Radeon card (6570) that is a midrange card. I can run this with graphics on full without much discernable loss of frame rate. That said you can also turn the settings down really low and even run in DX9 mode and it still looks pretty good. It was made using the Torchlight engine and both of those games were designed to run on low end systems. That hasn't changed any with this game.

The great thing is if you can't run it you can always return it as long as it's within the first two hours but I think you'll do fine.

[obliviondoll]

I have a relatively new laptop with a good video card, but for testing purposes (for a friend) I disabled the GPU and used the system's onboard HD5000 and it still held a higher framerate than the 60Hz my monitor could keep up with, and that was without turning anything down from ultra settings.

[tres_xf]

Rebel Galaxy is perfect for dirty, old, rusty PC's ;)

It runs smooth and fast with 1920 * 1080 Full Screen on my
Intel Dual Core 2,6 + ATI Radeon HD 5570 + 4 GB RAM + Small SSD system.

Good job, Double Damage.

[Zidders 'Rockin' Bard' Roofurry]

Originally posted by tres_xf:

Rebel Galaxy is perfect for dirty, old, rusty PC's ;)

Well it's a dirty, old, rusty galaxy after all.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Good to hear; I've got a PC (laptop) with a 1.9 GHZ duel core, 4 Gigs of RAM, Radeon 6480G series card (512MB onboard RAM) and it uses Windows 7 64-bit. It will run yes?

[obliviondoll]

Originally posted by SgtEmissary the Tauntaun:

Good to hear; I've got a PC (laptop) with a 1.9 GHZ duel core, 4 Gigs of RAM, Radeon 6480G series card (512MB onboard RAM) and it uses Windows 7 64-bit. It will run yes?

System requirements are on the store page.

Copy/pasted for your reading pleasure, and edited back to the relevant points:

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 2.8 GHz, or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 3.0, 512MB VRam
DirectX: Version 9.0b
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit

Your processor is below spec (also, it's "dual" not "duel"), but you're otherwise at or above minimum requrements. the graphics card hits (but doesn't exceed) the VRAM requirements, and supports shader model 3.0 (and up to 5.0). I wouldn't personally guarantee the game to run well, because I haven't tested it to see how much of the game's load is CPU-based, and how much is focused on the GPU or RAM. If your extra RAM can support it, the below-spec processor might have minimal impact.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

Originally posted by SgtEmissary the Tauntaun:

Good to hear; I've got a PC (laptop) with a 1.9 GHZ duel core, 4 Gigs of RAM, Radeon 6480G series card (512MB onboard RAM) and it uses Windows 7 64-bit. It will run yes?

System requirements are on the store page.

Copy/pasted for your reading pleasure, and edited back to the relevant points:

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 2.8 GHz, or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 3.0, 512MB VRam
DirectX: Version 9.0b
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compatible, 16-bit

Your processor is below spec (also, it's "dual" not "duel"), but you're otherwise at or above minimum requrements. the graphics card hits (but doesn't exceed) the VRAM requirements, and supports shader model 3.0 (and up to 5.0). I wouldn't personally guarantee the game to run well, because I haven't tested it to see how much of the game's load is CPU-based, and how much is focused on the GPU or RAM. If your extra RAM can support it, the below-spec processor might have minimal impact.

Alright, thanks; reason I ask anyways is because sometimes the requirements can be surprisingly deceiving. As strange as it is, this laptop can run something like Metro 2033 at 20-15 FPS (lowest settings) and I'm not sure how that is... and yeah 'duel' was a minor error on my part (things happen heh).

I also figured with how it uses the Torchlight engine it should be smoother (I own both Torchlight I and II and they ran great on this system). Keyword: 'Should'.

[obliviondoll]

Yeah, I was listing them out for comparitive purposes with the specs you gave.

As someone who hasn't tried running the game on a lower-spec system (best I've done is testing on my onboard HD graphics instead of my NVidia card), I can't say confidently. My best guess would be that it should run decently, though.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

Yeah, I was listing them out for comparitive purposes with the specs you gave.

As someone who hasn't tried running the game on a lower-spec system (best I've done is testing on my onboard HD graphics instead of my NVidia card), I can't say confidently. My best guess would be that it should run decently, though.

Yeah, I understand and I appreciate it... and decently you guess? Well, that works for me.