My computer is a potato

[CmdrBugbear]

Throwing down a challenge to see who has gotten BT to launch on the most incapable hardware.
This is my alienware laptop, circa 2012. It currently serves me as a Win7 VM host (it has 32GB RAM), but I think the graphics card is showing its age now.

I present to you a (nearly) ultimate 'image resources replaced with purple' example:

While the screenshot is 1920 x 1080, I get the same result at lower resolutions also. Luckily, my desktop gaming machine is able to max out settings (although the urban landscape is making it wince a little).

 

[ranger101]

The Purple Screen happened on my HP laptop: AMD A12-9720P 2.7 GHz, Radeon R7 graphics 1920 x 1080, 16GB ram, Windows 10 64 bit. If I remember correctly this was a glitch in the program later fixed by one of the updates. I could be wrong.

 

[CmdrBugbear]

I'd love to be shown that this is simply a glitch, because the game is nominally playable and responds as quickly as if I was on my modern gaming rig. But I suspect I'm asking too much from a 7 year old graphics card (oh and this is a Ubuntu build).

 

[Donvale]

Intrestingly aside from the odd graphics glitch when HBS do updates (most notably the headlight one), under macOS the game runs pretty well on really basic hardware. I don't think the issues are due to a lack of performance (well as long as you have everything on pretty minimal settings).
I logged over 200 hours of Battletech on my 2015 MacBook Pro 13" with I think a 6th gen i5 and Intel onboard graphics, I used second from bottom res and only antialising enabled.
I have now moved to the new 2019 MacBook Pro 13" again with Intel onboard and I am finding performance passable on that.
The only thing I do use is a small stand with a fan blowing onto the bottom of the laptop at the point it is hottest, this does enough to stop the fans from going full blast all the time (The GPU runs about 90% pretty much all the time, but CPU load is pretty low most of the time).

 

[Ken-Sw]

Try taking your time after a mission loads before hitting the begin mission button - it can take awhile for the graphics to finish loading on a slow card
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/pink-mechs.1144938/

 

[Lugh]

core2quad 9400 2,66ghz
6gb ram
gtx 670
1280x1024
Runs well enough on best settings until the game starts to hog to much memory and inflates the swapfile after a few missions and I need to restart.