Ryzen 3500u / Vega 8, 8 GB, 256 SSD

[Theus1974]

Hey guys. Anyone who has this spec on his notebook can confirm me, that this game is running? Thank you 🙏

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

The game is in your library. You could simply give it a try yourself. Steam's refund policy makes that possible (with a playtime of two hours within 14 days).

PoE works on very old low-end hardware. There can be a few fps instabilities with some high-end hardware due to how the game utilizes Unity engine, but that shouldn't hurt the overall experience since it's a realtime-with-pause combat game.

[ZumZoom]

It should work easily. I played through it on HD6670 graphics card which is like 50% weaker than Vega 8, and I only had uncomfortable fps in a couple of areas with lots of lighting effects - other than that it was very much ok.

[Theus1974]

The reason I am asking, is not because I am too lazy for trying it out myself.

Iam thinking about to buy a Ideapad 3 … mainly for my work. If poE works it would be a plus 😊

Originally posted by D'amarr from Darshiva:

The game is in your library. You could simply give it a try yourself. Steam's refund policy makes that possible (with a playtime of two hours within 14 days).

PoE works on very old low-end hardware. There can be a few fps instabilities with some high-end hardware due to how the game utilizes Unity engine, but that shouldn't hurt the overall experience since it's a realtime-with-pause combat game.

[Theus1974]

Got an offer for 120 USD for the Ideapad…

[Theus1974]

Thank you very much for your feedback!

Originally posted by ZumZoom:

It should work easily. I played through it on HD6670 graphics card which is like 50% weaker than Vega 8, and I only had uncomfortable fps in a couple of areas with lots of lighting effects - other than that it was very much ok.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

What I mean is that it is not an action game and not a full 3D game either. The 2D isometric area backgrounds consist of static pre-rendered 3D graphics, enhanced manually by graphics artists and brought to life with a variety of 2D animations to add particle effects (flying leaves, dust, butterflies), lighting, fire/torch effects, water and tide, underwater plants like kelp.

And you are supposed to play slowly, cautiously and with attention to detail anyway. Most of the time exploring areas using the socalled Party Scouting Mode regardless of whether you invest into Stealth skill. Party Scouting Mode is what affects detection of hidden things, such as traps, secret levers and item caches.

So, no strict requirement to run through the world like mad. Even if the frames per second rendering were affected by minor performance issues in rare cases, it shouldn't be any issue. Particularly not during realtime-with-pause combat.

If I were you, I wouldn't be concerned about the hardware requirements. Parts of the game, such as the character creation process where a large character 3D model is displayed, have odd requirements, but that doesn't tell anything about the rest of the game.

[Adam Beckett]

Get this:

I am running Pillars on a 10 Watt(!) 100 USD 'Mini-PC' (ACEPC T11)

4x1.4 GHz Intel Atom x5-Z8350 SoC Cherry Trail (2013)
200-500 MHz 12EU, 64bit bandwidth lowest-end integrated graphics
DDR3 SDRAM

According to gpu-userbenchmark website Vega 8 is 2000x faster than the successor(!) to this thing. They don't even feature it, it's that low.

... yet, it can run Pillars. On lowest settings in 720p. Just the way it runs Baldur's Gate 2 etc. only with nicer fonts.