How Doomed Am I?

[Finalsong]

So, originally I was going off using the old minimum specs (or rather this scan was) and I was fine. However... They've recently updated to the new ones, and, well...

Do I need to meet the GPU minimum requirements to play? If yes, I'll cry a lil bit

 

[Magnificent Genius]

My laptop is even worse than that, and I am going to give it a spin, and juggle the settings to see what I can shake out. Steam has a very nice refund policy if you can't get it to work, or you can do what I do in such cases and hold onto the game until you can.

 

[Voidlord]

I am going to be doing the same, just in case hold onto it if I cant play it, and get a upgrade

 

[barny]

It is really hard to say, how important the GPU will be. Stellaris has a higher graphical fidelity than other PDX games with the space ships zipping around and fighting each other, so you might run into problems there. If you really can't upgrade (since the rest looks perfectly fine) you might want to buy it on steam, play it for an hour and a half, to see how it runs and then refund it, if not even the beginning runs really well.

Of course it might run pretty well at the beginning and then the performance might tank, when you have a battle of 50 ships or so...

 

[Oscot]

And so we attain our running target of 3 threads a day on the topic of "I live in the barrio, can this computer I fashioned out of wet string and old cereal boxes run Stellaris?"

Why don't the poor just buy more money?

 

[barny]

Why don't the poor just buy more money?

They might as well just eat cake.

 

[Admiral Howe]

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10 those results look like a yes.

Time to start budgeting for a new fx card.

 

[Wer6]

I know you..
You're ok.

 

[Finalsong]

I know you..
You're ok.

shoo shoo

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10 those results look like a yes.

Time to start budgeting for a new fx card.

goodbye world

 

[Admiral Howe]

goodbye world

Lots of ways to easy money.

Mowing lawns.
Delivering food.
Uber.
Pan handling.
Bank robbery.
Politics.

 

[Asiak]

What site is that I don't recognize it?

What does Can You Run it say http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri ?

But Can You Tun It has been wrong with me once or twice in the past. They still claim I shouldn't be able to run Fallout 4 simply due to my graphics card but I do, so there is some margin of error I think.

Honestly I think with only the graphics cards it's still worth a try. These things have failed me for being .5 short on graphics cards' internal memory and yea it turned out ok.

 

[AbelT]

I would never believe those CanYouRunIt-like things. They said I could never run Mass Effect Trilogy... I played those 3 games at stable 30 fps on medium settings.

 

[garbud]

I would never believe those CanYouRunIt-like things. They said I could never run Mass Effect Trilogy... I played those 3 games at stable 30 fps on medium settings.

they are based only on the system requirements for the game. all it really tells you are if you meet the system requirements that the developer of the game puts no no more no less.

 

[AbelT]

they are based only on the system requirements for the game. all it really tells you are if you meet the system requirements that the developer of the game puts no no more no less.

I know, but they dont consider game optimalisation, screen resolution etc. thats why they are inaccurate.

 

[Finalsong]

Interestingly enough, it's telling me I'll still get 30 FPS at my resolution. So I'm hopeful. If not, I'll upgrade soon but w/e

 

[lemmox]

Since we're all here talking about this, I wanted to hijack this thread to ask about my laptop, because I've been getting some very differing information on it.

I've got an i5-5200U, 8 gb of RAM and an R7 M360 2 Gb graphics card. Depending on where I look I either get told that I should be fine to run Stellaris on lower settings, but then places like game debate tell me my graphics card is somehow 117% below the minimum (which isn't possible).

I don't expect it to look amazing, I have my desktop for that, but I'd like to be able to at least run it while I'm on the road. Thoughts?

 

[Olliganak]

Mowing lawns.
Delivering food.
Uber.
Pan handling.
Bank robbery.
Politics.

Personally I prefer insurance fraud, but whatever works for you.

 

[Admiral Howe]

Personally I prefer insurance fraud, but whatever works for you.

Biggest problem with insurance fraud is that second time trying to cash in a life insurance policy.

 

[goraka]

I decided to try it out and it said I don't have enough graphical RAM when I have 4 times the amount required, never trust those things. Paradox games aren't known for their demanding visuals if you have the processing power for all the background calculations you can certainly run it.

 

[xsubtownerx]

Play in 720p instead of 1080.