Will run on my laptop?
DLite
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System req. says GeForce 2 or similar.
My laptop has a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Express chipset Family."
It runs BG2 w/o problems, so I take it BG:EE will run smoothly as well?
Thx.
My laptop has a "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Express chipset Family."
It runs BG2 w/o problems, so I take it BG:EE will run smoothly as well?
Thx.
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Contrary to BG2, where only spell effects were hardware accelerated, and even then hardware acceleration could be disabled in favor of 2D rendering, BG:EE is completely hardware accelerated. Integrated Intel video cards such as yours reportedly have performance issues with OpenGL, which is the API BG:EE relies upon to render its graphics.
Intel Celeron 2,7 GHz
512 MB Ram
GeForce 2 MX 100/200 ?
Min. settings ofc.
I could be wrong, but an intel graphics chip this day and age should have the capabilities of a Geforce 2 I would figure? I used to own (well, still do) a Pentium 3 rig that ran an old-school Intel 810 and it was running Half-life openGL pretty darn smoothly if I remember correctly. Baldur's Gate original system requirements weren't that much higher, and Intel 4 series is also much more recent. I have an old netbook that also uses an Intel 4 chip, running Neverwinter Nights (albeit at low settings). If a chip can handle a game like NWN, it should be able to handle BG:EE?
I dunno, I'd personally give it a try. Beyond my typical gaming desktop, I also planned on loading BG:EE on my intel netbook for travelling. Hopefully it works
Edit: I did some searching, and it looks like Neverwinter Nights is an OpenGL game. If my puny intel atom/intel 4 netbook can run that (which, by the way, has system requirements exponentially larger than BG:EE) , I highly doubt an Intel 4 chip would have any trouble with BG:EE. Of course, the only way to tell is to test it when the day comes. The specifications of the Intel 4 also appears to be exponentially better than the old Geforce 2. So yeah, I'd give BG:EE a serious try.
T4500 2,3 Ghz, 4 GB ram.
It runs NWN on the highest setting w/o any problems.
We will see.
I hope so.. it will break my heart if it dont lol
Any chance that we can get some kind of clarification on this before the game gets released?
As far as I know, so long as your video card SUPPORTS OpenGL, even if your video card isn't up to snuff it should still run on current gen hardware. As far as I know, if the GPU can't handle the load being required of it, it will offload to the CPU to handle.
Keep in mind that all graphics display is these days is mathematics. Your GPUs have specialized hardware to quickly process the rendering and math involved with displaying pretty moving pictures on your screen. HOWEVER if the GPU can't handle it, the CPU can get involved. Given the low end CPU requirements for this game (the original BG ran on hardware of what? 10 years ago? 15?) originally, I would suspect anyone with a graphics card that supports the function calls being made within the application (i.e. It's got to be OpenGL/DirectX Capable) should probably be able to run it, given that the CPU in most modern machines is so much larger than that available back 10 years ago.
Even the updated/enhanced version shouldn't require a huge amount more processing power than the original, and that leaves plenty of CPU (and threads) available for offloading some of the enhanced graphics work to the CPU to process.
You may have to turn down the graphics a bit, but I suspect it will still run.
This said, I'm no game developer (it's been years since I've touched anything but web based script code), so there could very well be things in modern games that do actually REQUIRE a GPU to make work.
LT22 Netbook
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Starter for Small Notebook PCs
Processor AMD V105 (1.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 512 KB L2 cache, 9 W), V Series processor
Chipset AMD M880G Chipset
Memory1, 3, Up to 1 GB of DDR3 system memory, upgradeable to 2GB using one single-channel DDR3 SDRAM soDIMM module.
Graphics ATI Radeon™ HD 4225 Graphics with 384 MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD2), OpenGL® 2.0, OpenEXR High Dynamic-Range (HDR) technology, Shader Model 4.1, Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 Dual independent display support
16.7 million colors
External resolution / refresh rates4:
■VGA port up to 2456 x 1536: 60 Hz
■HDMI™ port up to 1920 x 1080: 60 Hz
MPEG-2/DVD decoding
WMV9 (VC-1) and H.264 (AVC) decoding
HDMI™ (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs)
2008MB RAM
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Remember this, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is not a sequel of Battlefield 3, why should you worry whether your computer can support it or not? Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition doesn't have a significant graphics improvement such as from Final Fantasy 1 to Final Fantasy 13. There is no such thing. This is still our beloved old-school rpg graphics. And yes there are some improvements for the graphics but it just a minor one. Again, as I said, they won't turn Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition to Diablo 3's graphics. You guys shouldn't worry because I bet that our old spaceship can run this upcoming game smoothly and beautifully. Remember this bet.
I have tested many modern games in this spaceship including Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 3, The Sims 3, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, Gears of War, Dead Space 2 and so on; all of them are playable. If I can run these modern games beside this integrated gpu, why on earth it can't run Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition? I believe this gpu can run Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition in at least near max settings or fully max settings without any problems. No joke.
You ALL meet the system requirements.
Here's what you can play with the Intel 4 series: LINK LINK2