How strict are the hardware requirements?

[bigbishounen]

So, when you have an older PC you have to be careful about what you buy. Some games that SEEM like your system should be able to handle them turn out to have hardware limits coded into the game due to either the game engine itself or the game developers, and other seem like "no way should my potato PC be able to run this" and you set everything to low and it works just fine.

A recent example of the former is "Enshrouded". A survival RPG that honestly doesn't look THAT demanding, but because of the Vulcan game engine it has a hard coded limit in it that requires a video card with a minimum of 6GB of RAM. Anything less and you just get a popup that says "missing required hardware" and the game shuts off (had to refund that one)

So before I go and sink cash into Helldivers 2, I have to ask: How strict is the game? Will it let me try to run it with an AMD 8350 CPU, 32GB RAM, and an ATI R9 290 video card or will it tell me that I'm not allowed to join the fight for Managed Democracy and to fill Liberty's enemies full of lead flavored Freedom?

[Nyanko]

Damn bro, gave me a nostalgia trip with those specs. I used to have an 8320 and R9 280 back in the day. You can always buy and test the performance yourself instead of going based on others or what you have read online. Refunding due to performance is a valid reason and fall, and so long as your play time is less than 2 hours Steam will honour the refund.

[bigbishounen]

Originally posted by Nyanko:

Damn bro, gave me a nostalgia trip with those specs. I used to have an 8320 and R9 280 back in the day. You can always buy and test the performance yourself instead of going based on others or what you have read online. Refunding due to performance is a valid reason and fall, and so long as your play time is less than 2 hours Steam will honour the refund.

I've honestly been shocked at how long I've managed to stretch this rig out. I built this PC back in 2015, and while I have bought a better case, upgraded to SSD's and doubled the RAM I initially had, the R9 290 is still in there and has been an absolute champ. An incredibly OP card when it was released, and when I bought it, it was already a year old model. Same with the CPU.

I'm honestly not complaining even if I can't run this game. Decade old hardware shouldn't even be able to run today's games at all. It certainly wouldn't have back when I was in my 20's and first building PC's back in the 90's.

[bigbishounen]

Ok, so I thought I'd follow up on this;

Apparently the hardware requirements are VERY FORGIVING in this game. Not only could I launch the game, I could play it on MEDIUM settings pretty smoothly! Low was silky smooth, but looked kinda meh, so I bumped it up to medium and was pleasantly surprised.

EVEN WITH TEN YEAR OLD HARDWARE I can run this game!

If you have an older PC and are worried if your machine can handle it, well my ancient GPU cranked along just fine.

[McFuzz]

I was playing okay til a couple days ago on my gtx970 but it runs like ass now lol.

[[SAP] TheLazySamurai [SCRUB]]

I've got an i5-6500 @3.2GHz, and a GTX 1060, with 32GB RAM (pretty sure DDR3). I can run the game on mostly lowest settings with low 40's to low 60's until I hit areas with in game fog; then I'm down to 20 FPS.

No fog, but swarms, and it is playable. Any fog, unplayable imo

[Dept. of Savings & Pwns]

the game has GPU agnostic upscaling so with a combination of reducing settings & increasing upscaling you can probably get this to run on near anything