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I was checking out some system requirements for a game earlier and it got me thinking about the time I tried to run Border lands 2 on a geforce 6800gs

The min requirements called for a geforce 8500. I figured a couple generation difference wouldn't kill it and it was a high end 6000 card.

It was chugging alone around 30 okay, dipping no lower than 25(not okay) until I got to the first real fight and it actually crashed my computer after dropping below 10 frames. Have any of you tried something like that?

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usually, you want to meet the recommended specs, not the minimum ;)

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yes with spore when it first came out, because you needed a 256mb graphics card, and then a decent one that wouldn't make blue/green/pink textured, textures.

 

now I play it at 4k and it looks funny....

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I was checking out some system requirements for a game earlier and it got me thinking about the time I tried to run Border lands 2 on a geforce 6800gs

The min requirements called for a geforce 8500. I figured a couple generation difference wouldn't kill it and it was a high end 6000 card.

It was chugging alone around 30 okay, dipping no lower than 25(not okay) until I got to the first real fight and it actually crashed my computer after dropping below 10 frames. Have any of you tried something like that?

It probably shouldn't have crashed unless it was overheating or unstable.

 

Yeah I've tried playing all sorts of games on laptop GPUs and integrated graphics.

Got GTA 5 running at 1024x768 on a 610m at 30FPS. Looked pretty awful, but definitely playable.

Tried playing Crysis 1 on pretty much everything I've owned.

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It probably shouldn't have crashed unless it was overheating or unstable.

Yeah I've tried playing all sorts of games on laptop GPUs and integrated graphics.

Got GTA 5 running at 1024x768 on a 610m at 30FPS. Looked pretty awful, but definitely playable.

Tried playing Crysis 1 on pretty much everything I've owned.

Probably wouldve figured that now

I've tried all sorts of stuff on integrated. Tried to get saints row 2 to run on an E-Serious laptop apu

No luck

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With tweaking the OS and game... you would be really surprised.

 

Bioshock Infinite Ultra at 480p on a DDR2 4570m laptop anyone?

 

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I remember playing loads of games on a Pentium P6100. UE is the best engine for low spec players, highly tweak-able.

Then there are games that give you little to nothing.

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I've tried a couple games on my Core 2 Duo + Intel GMA graphics. It was not fun.

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Got GTA 5 running at 1024x768 on a 610m at 30FPS. Looked pretty awful, but definitely playable.

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I tried that out with a laptop

Played a lot of halo combat evolved and painkiller

 

TES III: Morrowind was about the best I could run and it crashed after ~15 minutes :P

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I used to play all my games on a core i3 2310M, Intel HD 3000 and 3gb ram. Ran everything at minimum settings 720p and got at most 30 fps. Never had anything that was unplayable though. This was games as demanding as skyrim, borderlands 2, and Bioshock infinite.

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On 1/26/2016 at 8:29 PM, steezemageeze said:

I tried that out with a laptop
Played a lot of halo combat evolved and painkiller

 

TES III: Morrowind was about the best I could run and it crashed after ~15 minutes :p

This thread gave me the great idea of installing Tomb Raider 2013 on my laptop. 4 FPS is good, right? 

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22 minutes ago, cleb said:

Usually you want about 6 or 7 :/

Yeah I mean, it isn't ideal but it's good enough for me 

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Yeah definitely i got fallout 4 running on my three year old laptop with a gt 745m graphics (which has aged rather badly due to this being my first computer and all.) fallout 4 runs smoothly at 30 fps at 1080p on low to medium settings.

but GTA 5 is another story i tried, it works but is not really playable 

 

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Best rule to follow.

 

Ignore 'Minimum Requirements' on games.

 

Consider ' Recommended Requirements'  as ' Minimum Requirements' and go from there

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3 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

Best rule to follow.

 

Ignore 'Minimum Requirements' on games.

 

Consider ' Recommended Requirements'  as ' Minimum Requirements' and go from there

That's a fair point. But sometimes you just wanna play your games at 800x600 at 20fps

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On 1/25/2016 at 11:10 PM, LokiFire said:

With tweaking the OS and game... you would be really surprised.

 

Bioshock Infinite Ultra at 480p on a DDR2 4570m laptop anyone?

 

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Lol, that's actually not too bad. Little pixely, but totally playable. :)

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