Best system for performance?

[Dr__Freeman]

Hi all. I'm hoping to get some advice. I just purchased a new laptop for general office purposes but also to play a few older games, black mesa being one of them as I'm a huge half life fan and have been wanting to play this for ages.

I initially bought a Lenovo ideapad with a Ryzen 3 and Radeon graphics and seemed to have no issue with playing the game. Unfortunately the laptop did not have enough storage so I returned it.

The laptop I have now is the Lenovo ideapad flex 5i with a intel i5 processor and intel iris xe onboard graphics. When I installed the game and resumed my save it was very dark, flashlight doesn't work and flares are also not effective in terms of providing lighting.

After a search online I see that it could be an issue with the game and the intel onboard graphics not working correctly.

The questions I have for this are two:

1. Is there a way to fix this issue with the intel on board graphics? I have tried various console comand fixedls that have been advised online to no avail.

2. If no fix is available. Would a new laptop with a Ryzen 5 processor and Radeon graphics be ok? The new one I'm looking at is a Lenovo yoga 7

Thanks all in advance

[GoobleMoWizard]

I would say get a new laptop, cause I have no idea how well Black Mesa will run on a okay laptop.

I'm sure you already know Black Mesa is more demanding in graphics, and power, but if you can't get it working, I suggest a mod for it, called, Black Mesa Classic.

If you want to experience the game with the modern graphics, either a new laptop, or someone else will be of help. This is all I have, sorry.

[CrAsH]

Integrated aka on-board graphic processing are a no-go for Black Mesa or virtually any PC gaming in general unless they are old school games.

[λG❄Scλrlyzinho❄]

Black Mesa is unsupported for Intel Graphic cards and not sure for AMD Radeon IGPU in laptops.

[Dr__Freeman]

Thanks for the help guys. A driver update for the integrated graphics seems to have solved the flashlight issue but I'm not too sure how well it will fare further into the game. I may switch to the Ryzen 5 laptop and hope that works better