Should I buy the game on a low end laptop?

[GodDevouringLizard]

All there in the title.

I'm getting a Steam Card I hope before the end of the sales and I was wanting to play the game for a long time but my PC is a low-end laptop. Here are my specs:

AMD A6-7310 (CPU, its good enough for most things)

10 GB RAM (That's not a problem)

AMD Radeon R4 Integrated GPU (Roblox death noise)

I Googled this before and apparently my GPU is barely enough for playing the game but can run it although painfully and probably with some lagging.

So I was wondering if there are any other low-end users who could tell me if this will be a big issue while playing ? Will it completely ruin my experience with Hollow Knight or will it still be acceptable.

I don't care if I have to play in 720p or even 480p btw, while I can get 15-20 fps. Do you think that's possible ?

If it's not then I'll probably not even get the card, this is about the only game I really want...

[MADE IN IRON]

I cannot tell you if it's going to work or how, but keep in mind you can buy the game, test it in your laptop and return it later if you don't get the performance you are expecting. The money they return to you remains linked to your account, and you can use it to totally or partially pay future purchases.
(Check the return policy, there is a max gameplay time after you can't return it, but if enough for testing performance.)

[Sky79]

If you play it for less than 2hrs and you have the game for less than 14 days you can refund it.

[Hank Hill's Disappointed Sigh]

You should be fine. Years ago I played Alien Isolation on a 2013 i5's integrated graphics with 6gb of ram and enjoyed it.

[sekai]

If you have the cash, purchase the game and test the waters within 2 hours on whether or not you can get AT LEAST 150 fps (recommended 200+) when playing. This game has pretty bad input delay and the solution the devs come up with is that you need monster frame rate to not have severe input lag problems. If you get high frame rate, don't panic, you're are supposed to play this game on 200 fps and that's how the game actually plays normally.

Also when you're doing this, remember to turn off vsync in the options immediately and never turn it on ever.

If you just have like 60 fps like a standard game. The game would still be playable no doubt, but you WILL feel the input lag and voided inputs and the game becomes VERY UNFUN to play come mid and late game bosses, especially the late game ones.

This is also one of those games where the devs basically just made the game hard for the sake of being hard (and just about most upgrades are either mandatory or pointless and only exist to promote different playstyles otherwise the content's difficulty and monster stats always scale with the player. You will only become stronger to mobs in areas you've beaten and any fresh new higher tier area will handle you like you're ungeared just with slightly more tricks, rinse and repeat), which no one talks about because any instant you criticise any mechanical things in the game people will tell you how bad you are and you should "git gud" like this game can't do no wrong. So when you have bad input lag while in late game where it's already ludicrously hard as it is, you won't be having fun and there's a limit on how long you would stick around. Why do I know? Because I play this game on 70 fps and trust me, there are times I have to use the invincibility mod cheat to get through ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from the combination of the input issues and the game's questionable design decisions (especially late game).

So make sure to test the water, see if you can get at least 150+ fps at least. Then take into account whether or not this game with its design would be your cut of tea.

[GodDevouringLizard]

Ok. I won't have time to test the game before the end of the sales because I don't have a good internet connexion, but do you think integrated graphics can get 150 + FPS in a game using the Unity engine ? Because in the case of my computer, it has 25 FPS on freaking Minecraft. About the game design, it sounds quite SoulsBorne/Sekiro like. Hard bosses don't worry me that much (Except with input lag of course, that can be painful.)

[GodDevouringLizard]

Originally posted by Stupid.Sexy.Flanders:

You should be fine. Years ago I played Alien Isolation on a 2013 i5's integrated graphics with 6gb of ram and enjoyed it.

Is Alien Isolation not quite an older game tho ? I think HK uses the latest Unity engine and the minimum specs is an Nvidia Geforce 8000GT or something like that, that my card is quite inferior too (Says the SystemReqs site.). There again people have been talking about a HK update called Lifeblood that was used to port the game to the Switch and got rid of performance issues on low-end computers, and Team Cherry didn't update the required config on the steam page after the update. But there again I'm not sure.

Is there not a performance mod like for Dark Souls ? To make it run on a low end laptop ?

[GodDevouringLizard]

Originally posted by MADE IN IRON:

I cannot tell you if it's going to work or how, but keep in mind you can buy the game, test it in your laptop and return it later if you don't get the performance you are expecting. The money they return to you remains linked to your account, and you can use it to totally or partially pay future purchases.
(Check the return policy, there is a max gameplay time after you can't return it, but if enough for testing performance.)

Thanks for the feedback but sadly my slow connexion will not allow me to download the game before the end of the sales and there is no game at that price I want actually... There will be other sales I guess tho.

[Deagle Trainee]

Originally posted by Nasareyni:

Thanks for the feedback but sadly my slow connexion will not allow me to download the game before the end of the sales and there is no game at that price I want actually... There will be other sales I guess tho.

You don't need to download it before the sale ends, you only have to buy it before then. And so long as you're able to download and try the game within 14 days and less than 2 hours played, you should be fine.

That being said, I'm on a low end laptop, and the main issue I've had was the cutscenes not playing completely. I've got an i3-4030U 1.90GHZ, and an integrated graphics card.

I also don't want to seem like I'm trying to force you. As you said, there will be other sales. I'm sure this game will go on sale again. This is my third year on Steam, and I'm just now getting this game. It's not going anywhere, so there's no rush.

[tmacdonald7]

I'm playing on a 2012 Macbook Pro (2.7 Ghz i7 16GB Ram). Works perfectly. Hope this helps, it's a great game :)

[GodDevouringLizard]

Originally posted by Deagle Trainee:

Originally posted by Nasareyni:

Thanks for the feedback but sadly my slow connexion will not allow me to download the game before the end of the sales and there is no game at that price I want actually... There will be other sales I guess tho.

You don't need to download it before the sale ends, you only have to buy it before then. And so long as you're able to download and try the game within 14 days and less than 2 hours played, you should be fine.

That being said, I'm on a low end laptop, and the main issue I've had was the cutscenes not playing completely. I've got an i3-4030U 1.90GHZ, and an integrated graphics card.

I also don't want to seem like I'm trying to force you. As you said, there will be other sales. I'm sure this game will go on sale again. This is my third year on Steam, and I'm just now getting this game. It's not going anywhere, so there's no rush.

Don't worry, I don't feel forced. About the cutscenes, you can always watch those on Youtube if they don't play, so that doesn't worry me. I'm going to buy the game and see!

[GodDevouringLizard]

Originally posted by tmacdonald7:

I'm playing on a 2012 Macbook Pro (2.7 Ghz i7 16GB Ram). Works perfectly. Hope this helps, it's a great game :)

I7 is better than what I've got as a processor but Macs usually have integrated graphics, if it works on a 2012 one I guess it will work on my laptop. I'll see, if it doesn't blow up I guess it should be fine ;)

[D9pepper]

скачай пиратку и не еби мозги своими тупыми вопросами

[Xanathar]

I don't drink anymore but a pint of beer used to cost around £3.80 and Hollow Knight is on sale on Steam for £5.49, and Hollow Knight won't be ending up in the toilet bowl after the first hour. Even if you can't play it right now it'll always be in your library waiting until you upgrade your PC, and it doesn't strike me as a very demanding game graphically, and I think you can turn some of the graphical options down. The minimum specs are:

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E5200
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB)

whcih are pretty meagre. I'd say just go for it. I only played it recently on Switch and it was the best 60 hours I've spent on a game in ages – and that length wasn't even to 100% it, so it's deceptively large as I was expecting a duration more inline with Ori. It is the best of this genre of game since the progenitors of it: SOTN and Super Metroid IMO.

[GodDevouringLizard]

So, I brought it, haven't tested in detail but it launches and seems to have automatically configurated for my PC. Everything seems alright for now so I think it will run moreless smoothly. Thanks for the feedback.


Btw I have a file size problem, it appears to have downloaded 1.3 GB instead of 9 GB ?

[Singularity's Marauder]

Originally posted by Crunchyroll:

If you have the cash, purchase the game and test the waters within 2 hours on whether or not you can get AT LEAST 150 fps (recommended 200+) when playing. This game has pretty bad input delay and the solution the devs come up with is that you need monster frame rate to not have severe input lag problems. If you get high frame rate, don't panic, you're are supposed to play this game on 200 fps and that's how the game actually plays normally.

Also when you're doing this, remember to turn off vsync in the options immediately and never turn it on ever.

If you just have like 60 fps like a standard game. The game would still be playable no doubt, but you WILL feel the input lag and voided inputs and the game becomes VERY UNFUN to play come mid and late game bosses, especially the late game ones.

This is also one of those games where the devs basically just made the game hard for the sake of being hard (and just about most upgrades are either mandatory or pointless and only exist to promote different playstyles otherwise the content's difficulty and monster stats always scale with the player. You will only become stronger to mobs in areas you've beaten and any fresh new higher tier area will handle you like you're ungeared just with slightly more tricks, rinse and repeat), which no one talks about because any instant you criticise any mechanical things in the game people will tell you how bad you are and you should "git gud" like this game can't do no wrong. So when you have bad input lag while in late game where it's already ludicrously hard as it is, you won't be having fun and there's a limit on how long you would stick around. Why do I know? Because I play this game on 70 fps and trust me, there are times I have to use the invincibility mod cheat to get through ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from the combination of the input issues and the game's questionable design decisions (especially late game).

So make sure to test the water, see if you can get at least 150+ fps at least. Then take into account whether or not this game with its design would be your cut of tea.

Never knew framerate was so important in HK. I always have at least 200.
I once enabled VSYNC and realized why it should be left off.
But at the same time, damn.
This game is pretty non-inclusive, if it comes to lower end PCs.