149603-why-i-wont-play-this-game-no-rant

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I actually lolled at 64 bits windows installed with only 4 GB ram, not even to mention the dual core processor? I hope this laptop is at least 4 years old or that you didn't pay more than 400 euros for it, really. This sounds like the type of laptop you'd make essays on and check facebook once a while, not actually do stuff on. I don't believe you can actually run anything properly on normal on this thing, and with normal I mean at least 30 fps. Like others suggested the only games this "laptop" can run would be very low requirement games like Undertale, Binding of Isaac or anything similar that can hardly be called "recent". Sure, they're new but the hardware requirements for these games might as well be the same as Rayman's back in the day. World of Warcraft for example has aged pretty well and, even if people don't want to admit it, is very well adjusted and performs very well on very little and this is one of the very few mmos that actually run "properly" on low-end machines. Wildstar is a bit less optimised, yet the requirements aren't that low and I suspect that a proper laptop can at least run it on ultra low. If you want something affordable to play games on, I would recommend buying a desktop. They're usually more "high end" for the same price. If you really need to buy a laptop, I'd get one with at least 8 GB ram, i5 or i7 processor and an nvidia graphics card (or even AMD, as long as it's not "on board").

Edited February 11, 2016 by Pepperdragon


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I didn't say that you need to buy doritos if you can. I'm saying that if you invest in a big bag of doritos you're going to have a better value and it'll last you a day or two instead of buying a small bag that'll last you 2 hours before it's empty. And not because you CAN but because you WANT TO. If you don't want to invest in it, don't? If someone doesn't care to upgrade their gaming rig every 5 years at least, then they shouldn't come here to write a forum post about how their ancient machine can't handle the game. This wasn't about Wildstar specifically either; if you can't run Wildstar you can't run half of the modern games coming out at this point. This doesn't even have anything to do with bad optimisation, OP's laptop can't run most games properly at all. This is mostly because it properly can't handle its own OS let alone play games on it. The graphics card on it, as stated by multiple people here before, is as good as having no graphics card at all. Gaming isn't a "necessity" for me either, but it's a hobby I'm willing to invest in. In all honesty, upgrading every 4-5 years isn't an issue for me and gaming is one of the cheapest hobbies one can have. But if it isn't a big thing for you and you don't want to upgrade to stay up to date, that's your choice and to be respected, but again, don't come on the forum of a game and "complain" you can't play it because your specs are too low. For this game the specs are more than agreeable and if you can't run Wildstar on ultra low properly on your gaming rig, it's probably ancient and needs updating to play any recent game. The thing is that the specifications of OP's laptop SEEM okay, but they aren't. If they had an nvidia graphics card and windows 7 running on the laptop, they would be able to play Wildstar. I do agree that Wildstar is poorly optimised, but many other games are too. This mostly depends on your graphics card. But if we look at this "issue" from two sides: OP is asking Carbine to inject money for the niche people who maybe want to play the game for free; on the other hand OP could upgrade his system to play the game. It all depends on how you look at it. In the end again, the laptop of OP is really bad and needs replacing to play any modern game properly at all.


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