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Fangz

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Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« on: January 04, 2013, 10:51:21 PM »

Hello.

I'm seriously thinking about buying this game. Problem is: I have a really low-end laptop, and I'm not sure if it will be able to run this game.

Specs:

RAM: 4Gb
GPU: On board Intel HD Graphics
Intel Core i5 m480 2.67Ghz
OS: Widows 7 64bits

Can anyone tell if it is possible to run this game in such a (terrible) machine?

Thanks :)
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MCWarhammer

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Re: Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2013, 11:01:42 PM »

Your laptop sounds fairly recent to me.  I would be surprised if this game had any problems running on a lower end intel Pentium processor.  Anything that has an iSeries in it should work fine.

Hope that helps!
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Re: Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2013, 09:50:40 AM »

You'll do perfectly fine - the graphics card doesn't matter that much here (as long as it has reasonable amounts of memory), it's the CPU.
I have ultra-mobile AMD dual-core APU 1.65 GHz, and it's keeping constant 30 FPS for most of the time (bigger battles go down to 15-20).

With i5 I'm pretty sure you'll stay at constant 60 FPS ;)
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Re: Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2013, 09:53:43 AM »

Hello.

I'm seriously thinking about buying this game. Problem is: I have a really low-end laptop, and I'm not sure if it will be able to run this game.

Specs:

RAM: 4Gb
GPU: On board Intel HD Graphics
Intel Core i5 m480 2.67Ghz
OS: Widows 7 64bits

Can anyone tell if it is possible to run this game in such a (terrible) machine?

Thanks :)

I... want... your... laptop. :D
You can't imagine how bad mine is but it runs Starfarer without any lag.
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Re: Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2013, 10:00:41 AM »

Thanks MCWarhammer, neonesis and jimy for your answers :)

I'm buying this game right now 8D
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Re: Starfarer (Starsector) and Low-End Computers. Question.
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2013, 11:14:28 AM »

I'm running it on a 1.8 Ghz 1 GB ram and it runs smooth most of the time.
It does slow down during bigger battles to 10 or so but this machine is aincient... so yeah.
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