How Doomed Am I?

[Sopot]

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

Don't cash it in for you, cash it in for other people.

 

[cole98]

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?

If your laptop runs EUIV it'll run Stellaris, IMO EUIV is more graphically intensive due to the small details (hundreds of small waving flags etc.), it's the same engine as EUIV and CKII so there should be no issues. If there is it would appear as frame rate drop, but the thing is PDS games are about gameplay not graphics so it doesn't matter how it looks.

 

[lemmox]

If your laptop runs EUIV it'll run Stellaris, IMO EUIV is more graphically intensive due to the small details (hundreds of small waving flags etc.), it's the same engine as EUIV and CKII so there should be no issues. If there is it would appear as frame rate drop, but the thing is PDS games are about gameplay not graphics so it doesn't matter how it looks.

Good to know, it runs EUIV on max settings with an...unreliable...framerate at max speed, but otherwise fine. So hopefully it'll hold me over when I'm not near my desktop.

 

[PMLF]

Is the NVIDIA GeForce 940M Graphic any good for Stellaris?

 

[AndrewT]

The specs are here
http://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/

They clearly state

Minimum Graphics: AMD HD 5770 / or Nvidia GTX 460, with 1024MB VRAM.

Recommended Graphics: AMD HD 6850 / or Nvidia GTX 560TI, with 1024MB VRAM

How that utility in the OP thinks that a GT 640 doesn't exceed that, I have no idea.

Is the NVIDIA GeForce 940M Graphic any good for Stellaris?

In google put:

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

and you'll get comparisons that will answer your question.

 

[cole98]

@AndrewT by 1024 mb of VRAM is that dedicated or overall? I have 512 dedicated but a total of 3072

 

[Finalsong]

The specs are here
http://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/

They clearly state


How that utility in the OP thinks that a GT 640 doesn't exceed that, I have no idea.


In google put:

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

and you'll get comparisons that will answer your question.

thank you

 

[PMLF]

Graphic cards (GPU) that meet Stellaris minimum system requirements:

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=23339&canMyGpuRunIt=Stellaris

 

[lemmox]

Graphic cards (GPU) that meet Stellaris minimum system requirements:

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=23339&canMyGpuRunIt=Stellaris

I'm starting to suspect that site isn't as accurate as it seems, considering it seems to think that only the surprisingly high-end laptop graphics cards can run Stellaris, and it doesn't look *that* pretty.

 

[Azkaban]

Lots of ways to easy money.

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

Bank founding.

 

[TomBombadil]

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?

If there's one thing Paradox has taught me in the last few weeks it's that it's re-he-he-heeeally difficult to compare system requirements measured in 5-8 year old chips with modern systems only a year or two old.

I have an i5-5200u too, and have read every different opinion on the subject to find that nobody really knows how good it is, but that it's probably ok-ish. Maybe.

As for the graphics card, even the minimum system requirements are way above your graphics card. But I'm wary of making a judgement, because their system requirements are for gaming desktops, and it makes me wonder if they tested it on a laptop configuration.

Interestingly, the system requirements used to be lower. Then they released higher specs, but the Mac specs remained unchanged.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/updated-system-requirements.912427/

Their Mac system requirements are way, way lower, and it makes me wonder if the change in specs for the Windows/Linux was due to a single bottleneck, such as the 512MB VRAM, and that otherwise the video card was fine, since the system requirements for the Mac remained unchanged on 1024MB VRAM.

So they may not have tested a lower performing 1024MB VRAM graphics card, since they've probably only got a limited number of lower quality setups to test with. More like tested it on the old minimum requirements, found it jittery and horrible, and then tried it on their next worst setup, somewhere above what would've worked.

All of which is to say "I don't know". The only real way to be sure will be to buy the game and play it release day, and take advantage of Steam's refund policy in case it won't play. But there's reason to be optimistic.

 

[lemmox]

If there's one thing Paradox has taught me in the last few weeks it's that it's re-he-he-heeeally difficult to compare system requirements measured in 5-8 year old chips with modern systems only a year or two old.

I have an i5-5200u too, and have read every different opinion on the subject to find that nobody really knows how good it is, but that it's probably ok-ish. Maybe.

As for the graphics card, even the minimum system requirements are way above your graphics card. But I'm wary of making a judgement, because their system requirements are for gaming desktops, and it makes me wonder if they tested it on a laptop configuration.

Interestingly, the system requirements used to be lower. Then they released higher specs, but the Mac specs remained unchanged.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/updated-system-requirements.912427/

Their Mac system requirements are way, way lower, and it makes me wonder if the change in specs for the Windows/Linux was due to a single bottleneck, such as the 512MB VRAM, and that otherwise the video card was fine, since the system requirements for the Mac remained unchanged on 1024MB VRAM.

So they may not have tested a lower performing 1024MB VRAM graphics card, since they've probably only got a limited number of lower quality setups to test with. More like tested it on the old minimum requirements, found it jittery and horrible, and then tried it on their next worst setup, somewhere above what would've worked.

All of which is to say "I don't know". The only real way to be sure will be to buy the game and play it release day, and take advantage of Steam's refund policy in case it won't play. But there's reason to be optimistic.

Damn, thanks for the breakdown. I'm finding it hard to believe that my graphics card is as unequal to the task of playing Stellaris as the specs suggest. It's certainly a nice looking game, but it doesn't look obscene, and I can play plenty of equally solid looking games without any real issues.

So, like you said, I guess I'll see.

 

[Tiaexz]

http://www.game-debate.com/games/in...ight_FPS=1080&checkSubmit=#systemrequirements