So Happy My Potato Laptop can run SKyrim SE

[john_jet_au]

When the specs for Skyrim SE came out I was sad because the specs where way above what my laptop currently has. But yesterday I thought bugger it I will see what happens when I load it up.

First I got a message saying that it didn't recognise my graphics card and that it was being set to Medium, with some feature such as God Rays being turned off and grass set to the lowest setting.

Then I pressed start a new game. I got a blank screen and a spinning wheel in the corner and after about 30 secs, the game started. The graphics resembled the previous Skyrim game, with a lot of fog before arriving to sunny Helgen. - And really ugly characters.

So it played through to selecting my character, the dragon attack, in the keep - I went with Hadvar and played until I got to Riverwood.

The frame rate sits around 40 -45, which is slighty better than what I was getting before and the only lag I experienced was when I ran off ahead of Hadvar to get to the Standing stones when the game paused slighty for about 5 secs.

I'm going to load where I finished off and see how it plays out when I get to Whiterun and areas where there are quite a few bandits to my computer through its paces. And then if all goes to plan I will try a few mods.

My computer is a HP laptop with a AMD A4-6210 APU with AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 1.80 GHz installed memory of 8GB with 6.94GB usuable.

When I get my new desktop later this year, I should be in a better position for gaming but I am just surprised that I can play Skyrim SE and other games, that shouldn't work.

Is anyone else's below spec computer/laptop able to also play Skyrim SE and/or mods without issue.

[Sparhawk122]

I'm glad for you. Really :P

[Fussy]

It's always a miracle when that old piece of garbage you adore so dearly can run a game you /know/ it shouldn't be able to, but it pulls through anyways.

[add1]

Originally posted by Acapella:

It's always a miracle when that old piece of garbage you adore so dearly can run a game you /know/ it shouldn't be able to, but it pulls through anyways.

lol true, same as i have pretty oldish pc, and i can run arma3 perfectly fine at ultra,40-60fps in multiplayer. and some folks with much better pcs cant maintain stable 30....
but again i cant run skyrim se at ultra, but can on high, to maintain 60 fps i mean. but original skyrim, close to 200 mods, hd textures, lighting mods, ENB, etc... never drops under 60...

[neuroGear]

Ok... I knew smth was wrong! I am currently far away from my rig and stuck with laptop(i5-5200u and 940m). Well this laptop is not that bad... fo4 40-60fps, the division 40fps and in general majority of games runs in 30-60fps range(better optimized ones like mgs5 in 60fps) minus witcher 3(sad...). Well I installed skyrim se and I was getting like 15-20fps, the f... so I just deleted it... later on noticed that it has same req as fo4 and visually it is kinda similar. Time to reinstall and look into it again...