I bet you guys get a ton of these... ("Can I run it?")

[OldWorld_Blues]

I'm sure this community is fed up to the brim with "Can I run it?" posts, but I'm kind of a when it comes to PC gaming. I bought fallout 4 about a year ago, when I had a CRAPPY laptop. Needless to say, the game crashed on launch. Then I got a better one, which I am still using. It had 4GB of RAM before, but I recently upped that to 8GB. Given my other specs (below), Is it worth installing the game again (I can deal with low graphics if need be)?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer:)
My Specs:
Processor: Intel Core i5-2410M @ 2.30 GHz (Though I've seen it do faster in Task Manager)
Memory: 8GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series (28GB max. bandwidth)

[TwinChops]

No your labtop will not handle this. Your GPU is BELOW minimum pretty sure your CPU is too.

[The Giving One]

Click "store page" in the top right of this thread.

Go down and look at the minimum requirements for the game.

Then, you can use this handy site to compare the hardware, as well as other sources on the net for hardware information.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder

If you are going to be a PC gamer, learning how to do this is essential, so you will know if you can run the games or not. It's better to teach a man to fish, than to give a man a fish.

[paugus]

Laptops are good for college students or people who have to move around a lot for a job or something, but they're terrible for gaming. I know that doesn't really help you now, but in the future if you want to play modern games, it's worth investing in a solid desktop PC. You can upgrade them with new components as needed (instead of buying an entirely new system), and they handle heat much better than laptops.

[Yhwach]

If you don't have a non-integrated card that's going to be a no, and not worth it unless you want heavy downgrades.
The i5-2410M can run the game, just not well, and not well enough unless you have at least a mobile graphics card that's equal to or stronger than the GT 540m

[OldWorld_Blues]

Originally posted by 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜:

The i5-2410M can run the game, just not well, and not well enough unless you have at least a mobile graphics card that's equal to or stronger than the GT 540m

I mean the Radeon is supposedly seperate from the on-board graphics. 'Don't know if that makes a difference.

[Nite69]

this thread reminds me of the "Can it Run Crysis" days LOL, was really popular for benchmarking back then

[Solomon Hawk]

We don't shoot the messenger ....

we kick them into a deep pit.

"THIS ...
IS.....
SPARTA!!!!!"

[God's Drunkest Soldier]

But Can It Run Crysis?

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Atomic Speed FT:

But Can It Run Crysis?

The 1080ti struggles to get 25fps on low pls

[God's Drunkest Soldier]

Originally posted by 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜:

Originally posted by Atomic Speed FT:

But Can It Run Crysis?

The 1080ti struggles to get 25fps on low pls

Is computer a toaster powered by a potato?

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Originally posted by paugus:

Laptops are good for college students or people who have to move around a lot for a job or something, but they're terrible for gaming. I know that doesn't really help you now, but in the future if you want to play modern games, it's worth investing in a solid desktop PC. You can upgrade them with new components as needed (instead of buying an entirely new system), and they handle heat much better than laptops.

Perhaps you are unaware but Asus ROG series does sell laptops with up to twin GTX 1080 mobile gpu's in SLI, and full spec 7000 series quad core, hyper-threaded i7 chips, and even supports full unlocked multiplier overclocking of the internal gpu's up to 5 ghz. Some even come with 1440p screens up to 120hz and gsync. There's even brand new laptops shown at CES just recently that have full 8 core, 16-thread AMD Ryzen processors and full AMD Vega graphics in them coming out here in summer 2018.

There are high end gaming laptops that would put most desktops to shame. You've just never seen them.

[Yhwach]

They're also power hogs and don't last long, and that's a huge drawback.

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Originally posted by 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜:

They're also power hogs and don't last long, and that's a huge drawback.

They don't use any more or less power than a typical gaming desktop that's on a platinum power supply and (typically) overclocked a lot. I still have a dual-video card dell XPS laptop from 2008 that runs just as good today as it did in 2008 when I bought it. They last perfectly fine as long as you take care of them like any other electronic device.. dust em out regularly, don't splooge crap on them and replace heatsink paste once every few years.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

They don't use any more or less power than a typical gaming desktop that's on a platinum power supply and (typically) overclocked a lot.

Really ? That's pretty impressive.

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

and replace heatsink paste once every few years.

This is a big one right here for sure. You are right about that and the other maintenance you mentioned.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by 𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜:

They're also power hogs and don't last long, and that's a huge drawback.

They don't use any more or less power than a typical gaming desktop that's on a platinum power supply and (typically) overclocked a lot. I still have a dual-video card dell XPS laptop from 2008 that runs just as good today as it did in 2008 when I bought it. They last perfectly fine as long as you take care of them like any other electronic device.. dust em out regularly, don't splooge crap on them and replace heatsink paste once every few years.

The latest ROG Chimera runs at 330W and lasts 3 hours with intensive gameplay, I don't get the point of that unnecessary reply.
Dual Video Cards are going to severely shorten the battery life of a laptop, let alone a 1000 series card like the 1080.
Take for example, the chimera again that Is 74Whrs or 5.5 hours, that's not typically long now is it?
Especially considering games will drain it even more so independant of screen brightness, so again, unnecessary reply.