Potato Computers

[SprigusK]

So, question. Will this game run on a Potato? I have a pretty crappy PC... Nivida Gefore 210, from like 2008ish.. Is there or will there be a potatos graphics setting XD

[SocialModo]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grimace:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Maehlice:

Yes and no.

Will your native computer locally run Satisfactory? No.

Will your computer run it with all settings at Ultra after subscribing to Shadow[shadow.tech] and using it to "stream" from a computer hosted in the cloud? Yes. (This is what I do.)

This a real thing? Because this actually sounds pretty awesome for people who wanna play some high end games. I mean eventually the money spent would of equaled the price of a new computer but for the time being sounds like it could be fun.

About shadow. tech: "The French cloud PC provider Shadow is in financial difficulties: At the beginning of the month, the Paris commercial court opened insolvency proceedings against the Shadow parent company Blade; The US branch of the company is in parallel bankruptcy proceedings in a court in California. According to media reports, the background is apparently payment difficulties and outstanding claims from a hardware supplier." (Source (german language): https://www.heise.de/news/Cloud-PC-Dienst-Shadow-ist-insolvent-5076424.html)

To your question about system requirements: I play on two difference computers. A "good one" and it works fine and a "potatoe" one.
The potatoe has this system:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4005U CPU @ 1.70GHz 1.70 GHz
4 GB Ram
and some intel-on-board-graphic-card

I play also much on potaoe but the graphic is stuttering/laggy. Wheni am at my big base with lot of belts and machines its more stuttering, when i am in vanilla nature its less. Intersting: If i join a host with good computer it works much better (only few stuttering).

Btw, its possible to buy the game on steam and if you dont like it and you played less than 3 hours it could be refund.

[sansee]

Is it even a question?

What I don't understand is how people can compare a x60-x70 to a card like 210... those are lightyears apart when comparing processing power. The 210 was a low-powered alternative that supported the absolutely bare-minimum if the mamaboard didn't have or supported video out. It's called a video card for a reason - it can't do much 3D or rendering aside from handle mpeg2/divx movies (DVD) natively and simple older games.

Absolutely not, and the trailer alone should tell you that you'd need a heck of a lot more processing power. You can play older Civilization and Alpha Centauri, and some DosBox games, but that's it. No heavy 3D rendering games.

Besides, it supported only Directx 10 properly, and this game runs on Directx 11, so never.

Don't think even streaming would work much better, because I doubt the CPU is much better than the 210 either by the sound of it. Streaming does require a lot of the CPU also.

https://askgeek.io/en/gpus/NVIDIA/GeForce-210

[Maehlice]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Grimace:

This a real thing? Because this actually sounds pretty awesome for people who wanna play some high end games. I mean eventually the money spent would of equaled the price of a new computer but for the time being sounds like it could be fun.

Yep.

As the next post after yours said, they have filed for bankruptcy recently. However, it was only chapter 11 bankruptcy, so there's no guarantee Shadow is dying.

Their debt only amounts to something like $4 million dollars, so I doubt this is a death blow.

Whatever the case, cloud gaming is a thing, and it's only going to get better. I'll continue using Shadow until they kick me off, because it's the best thing I have found to make use of this otherwise useless laptop of mine.

[Dark Phoenix]

OP- if you are on a 210....upgrade the entire rig. Even if the gpu could start the game (which it may not support the entire set of feature levels for dx11), the cpu would not have the power to handle the game, and the ram would be so slow...

New pc time!

[FreeMan | Black Tiger]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dark Phoenix:

OP- if you are on a 210....upgrade the entire rig. Even if the gpu could start the game (which it may not support the entire set of feature levels for dx11), the cpu would not have the power to handle the game, and the ram would be so slow...

New pc time!

Maybe new PC time if you're going Intel, but if you're going AMD you should probably keep waiting just a bit longer because AM4 came out in 2016 and it's now 2021 Q2, AM5 socket is right around the corner, that's coming out within the next year I just know it, the cycle must continue as it always has and there were recent leaks allegedly on how the AM5 will be LGA.

I'm going to wait for that, because the last thing I want is to pay overpriced pricing on a no longer current generation socket type despite how well it may still perform.

[asmanaplays]

If you try to run satisfactory you would get like 10fps at low settings, i have a bad graphics card myself an nvidia geforce GT 1030 and it is fine, but still very laggy, i reccomend getting a better graphics card, try the one on the requirements page or higher

[Axsdenied]

I'm always baffled by these types of questions on steam. Buy it, if it doesn't run well or at all, refund it. You can literally try?

[Veeshan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Axsdenied:

I'm always baffled by these types of questions on steam. Buy it, if it doesn't run well or at all, refund it. You can literally try?

Yeah I'd rather lost $25 and donate some shirts to a charity than refund something. Though I guess digital goods are easier, never tried.

[DrNewcenstein]

I'm playing with Medium graphics settings on an HP Z600 workstation with dual Xeon x5650s and a Quadro K4000. Runs just as well as on my Win8 system with an i7-4770K and 1080ti with higher settings, just looks different up close.

[Axsdenied]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Veeshan:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Axsdenied:

I'm always baffled by these types of questions on steam. Buy it, if it doesn't run well or at all, refund it. You can literally try?

Yeah I'd rather lost $25 and donate some shirts to a charity than refund something. Though I guess digital goods are easier, never tried.

This is digital goods, not something physical, so it's much easier. If you refund within 2 hours there are no questions asked.

[Minnow]

I'm honestly surprised anything from the last ten years runs at all on your PC.

[Mogges]

Exactly: some of those "models" have been built shortly after WW II.
Are you too avaricious to buy an actual one or are you normally from the smartphone fraction and borrowed it from your parents ;-) ?

[1990 Geo Metro XFi]

Even if that 210 could run it, it would be a stuttery PowerPoint slide mess.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

nah , the game really need a cpu not too old to run without struttering. (the requirements in that reguard is not too far)

you can try geforce NOW! with a free account to see if your computer and Internet connection are good enough to play games with that.

[Veeshan]

Alright I give in I'll install it on my bill paying laptop. Doesnt even have a GPU... will update.

Well with everything set to Low and capped at 30 FPS, no I can't maintain 30 FPS. It dropped as low as 15 FPS at points (other than autosave and world chunk load ofc which are upwards of 2 seconds now).

However, it's totally feasible to load your game and leave it running, stare at a wall and it'll maintain 25 FPS no problem, without toasting your laptop and it does in fact load and run. So that's nice.

This is the following PC;
HP EliteBook 8760w Intel i7 Quad Core 2300MHz 750Gig Serial ATA 16GB