I saw a thread from september 2021 but nothing recent.
my main gaming is on my desktop with a GTX 1070. I want to buy a laptop (US) primarily for d2r when i’m not at home. i’m debating between a super cheap laptop that uses legacy graphics vs playing the new graphics on low settings.
would integrated graphics on laptop run this on legacy graphics? there’s a 300$ laptop at walmart with 8 gb ram, and AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700U Processor with Radeon™ RX Vega 10 Graphics. would this run the game?
would i need a dedicated graphics card to play the new graphics? eg the GTX 1650?
i’m not looking to buy an 800$+ gaming laptop. really just the cheapest thing that runs the game ok.
Processor wise, the performance of the Ryzen 3700U well exceeds the minimum processor requirements of the game. However, when you see a “U” on a mobile chip, that means ultra-low power. Benefits = Good battery life. Drawbacks = Crappy performance. (specifically speaking of the integrated graphics)
Storage wise, chances are that $300 laptop has a mechanical hard disk, which are awful for running D2:R… And if it does have a solid-state drive, it’s likely a very small and mediocre quality solid-state drive.
RAM wise, that laptop is sitting at the minimum, which means that your storage device will be working overtime with the RAM swap file in order to free up enough RAM to run the game. Loading times will suffer.
IMO that $300 laptop would be fine for browsing the internet, typing up documents, watching Youtube, but not playing any modern 3D games.
Keep in mind the Legacy graphics are not on by default. When you start the game the computer has to meet the core game requirements or it won’t start. Once started you can switch to Legacy to reduce strain, but the game code is running on a newer engine.
Here are the system requirements.
I had it running on a 9 year old laptop that was just below specs, which surprised me. I would not recommend that though as it did not play well.
Yes. D2R currently only supports dedicated graphics cards. People have gotten it to work on some higher end integrated, but it is not supported and tends to crash/not start.
wait for the new AMD APU’s that feature navi2 in them IE 7000G and U models these new apus paired with some high speed DDR5 and a good sku will SMOKE a series S xbox use no power and be quite something.
im on the same boat waiting for the new AMD APU’s, they will make low end 7500 and 7400 GPU cards useless and i wont be surprised if amd stopped making such a lower end SKU
its also why AMD is sandbagging with there APU’s cus they dont want too lose that income that lower end skus bring in
u wont make as much money selling a all in one chip VS a lower end GPU card and a mid tier CPU.
also a 3700U will play D2R on 1080p mid settings and AVG 75 FPS my 3200U with only 3 vega cores plays it at 720P mid settings and gets avg 40 fps so a 3700 has 3 times the GPU cores so should be playable but again the new APU’s are around the corner might aswell wait
( are they expected to have cheaper laptops available with the APUs? or are those only for the higher end laptops? )
yes they will have lower end skus that have weaker CPU cores but have the same gpu core counts they will have more 7000g/u sku’s VS 5000’s and 3000’s
the 7400 7500 7600 7700 and 7800 g and u’s if i remeber and a 7600 has the same gpu core counts as the 7800 but its a 6 core not a 12 core
a 7600u labtop should come in around 500 too 650 USD yes its twice as much as that older labtop u see but it will be 3 times faster on the GPU because it will not only have navi cores vs vega but it will also have DDR5 vs DDR4 and GPU cores need that bandwidth
CPU performance wont matter with a GPU like that so u just buy ur APU’s by how many GPU cores it has
yes it will be clocked lower but there is 3rd party software made by the public that will unlock power limits and can set GPU clock speeds called “ryzen controller”
It doesn’t matter to me. The game works with my 8 year old integrated graphics machine. The recommended Nvidea for the game is 4 years older than mine.
a GTX 870 M ie mobile isn’t a integrated GPU and a labtop with a decated GPU is gonna cost 2 to 3 times more then just a AMD APU pls stop troll, and the batt life on that thing well gaming is trash 30 min and dead im good
NV is trying too start making CPU’s so they can offer APU’s IE CPU’s with integrated graphics because the writing is on the wall, good thing they got blocked when they tried too buy ARM
also a 7800H will runs circles around ur 870M and still game for 4 to 6 hours so again im good also it isn’t ultra light again u know nothing ur talking about
Also, the integrated Vega graphics is going to use a portion of the 8gb ram for video memory. 2gb most likely, bringing your usable system ram below minimum specs.
Noone is disputing your experience but it’s not an equal comparison, you’re calling it integrated graphics but it’s not integrated graphics. Your laptop had a dedicated… separate… GPU, so by definition it’s not an integrated card.
I could actually play the new graphics but it was not great quality due to my graphics card which was a GTX 650M. It was a dedicated graphics card though, which mattered.
Which is not supported so you are lucky it runs but if they patch the game and it breaks you are out of luck. They don’t have to fix it Unsupported is unsupported.
I think they hinted at maybe adding integrated support at some point but I don’t know if that is real or will happen.
Yeah I don’t mind, I’ll deal with whatever happens. I didn’t buy it with the intention of playing games on it, it was just a temp lappy while I was moving buuuut here we are I suppose.
I run it just fine with my potato and hamster setup and cardboard box monitor
Mostly depends on the quality of potato (big idaho russet works well) and hamster for generating electricty via wheel running needs to be best of the best
Unsupported is unsupported.