[logiCstuff]

Specs

OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Processor: AMD E2-3000M APU - 1.80 Ghz
RAM: 6GB
Graphic Card: AMD Radeon HD 6380G
Direct X: 11


Can a computer with these spec handle Witcher 2? I just want to be 100% sure

[Guy N'wah]

No; your CPU is below minimum spec, and your GPU is nowhere close to being able to play the game. I would expect that you would see poor performance and artifacts on screen at even the lowest settings.

The stated minimum for the game is an 8800 GT or HD 3850 GPU with 512MB dedicated memory. Modern mobile GPUs with equivalent performance are the AMD Mobility HD 5830, 6830M, and 7730M; nVidia GT 445M, GT 540M, and GT 640M. The game is playable on GPUs somewhat below the stated minimum, so long as they meet the requirement for 512MB dedicated memory. But the 6380G has no dedicated memory and maybe one-quarter the performance of the minimum GPUs.

Since what you describe is a laptop somewhere near the low end of the market, there is no upgrade that would make the game playable on it.

[logiCstuff]

Guy N said:

No; your CPU is below minimum spec, and your GPU is nowhere close to being able to play the game. I would expect that you would see poor performance and artifacts on screen at even the lowest settings.

The stated minimum for the game is an 8800 GT or HD 3850 GPU with 512MB dedicated memory. Modern mobile GPUs with equivalent performance are the AMD Mobility HD 5830, 6830M, and 7730M; nVidia GT 445M, GT 540M, and GT 640M. The game is playable on GPUs somewhat below the stated minimum, so long as they meet the requirement for 512MB dedicated memory. But the 6380G has no dedicated memory and maybe one-quarter the performance of the minimum GPUs.

Since what you describe is a laptop somewhere near the low end of the market, there is no upgrade that would make the game playable on it. ›››

So not even low the lowest settings? My computer handled The Witcher almost perfectly, had some laggs around Trade Quarter, but that's it

[Guy N'wah]

The Witcher's a different engine and a much less demanding game. It had to run on technology that's at least four cycles of Moore's Law behind where we are now.

Those new AMD GPUs in the Llano and Trinity series are very good integrated GPUs. But for TW2, it's sending a little boy to do a big man's job.

[logiCstuff]

Is there any thing I can do besides getting a new graphics card? If that is the only option, then what would be the cheapest alternative?


EDIT: I just checked my old stationary comp and it got a RADEON X6000 SERIES. Any good? Also, it got Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU - 3.20 GHz (2CPUS). I guess this processor is better, any ways of actually changing a laptop processor?

[Guy N'wah]

logiCstuff said:

Is there any thing I can do besides getting a new graphics card? If that is the only option, then what would be the cheapest alternative?


EDIT: I just checked my old stationary comp and it got a RADEON X6000 SERIES. Any good? Also, it got Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU - 3.20 GHz (2CPUS). I guess this processor is better, any ways of actually changing a laptop processor? ›››

With a laptop, you really don't have a way to use a new graphics card or CPU. You're stuck with the ones it came with.

I think you mean a Radeon X600. It's far out of date and probably won't start the game at all, much less run it with any chance of playability. And the Pentium 4 is equally obsolete. A 3.2 GHz P4 is much slower than the laptop processor you have.

[logiCstuff]

Guy N said:

With a laptop, you really don't have a way to use a new graphics card or CPU. You're stuck with the ones it came with.

I think you mean a Radeon X600. It's far out of date and probably won't start the game at all, much less run it with any chance of playability. And the Pentium 4 is equally obsolete. A 3.2 GHz P4 is much slower than the laptop processor you have. ›››

Well that stinks, but thanks for the information though!

[logiCstuff]

Let's say I can upgrade my graphic card, what would be the cheapest option

[Guy N'wah]

logiCstuff said:

Let's say I can upgrade my graphic card, what would be the cheapest option ›››

Upgrade which one?

The one in the laptop is not upgradeable. Very few laptops have upgradeable GPUs; and even those are scarce, very expensive, and have severe compatibility issues that make this something only a specialist can do.

The one in the desktop is a candidate, but a troublesome one. If it is an X600, it is a PCI-Express card (one of the earliest), so you have a PCI-Express slot to take an upgrade. But this is going to be a very early version of PCI-Express. The common early version, PCI-Express 1.0a, is often incompatible with recent cards.

Exactly what make and model is that desktop computer? I can probably come up with some known successful upgrade ideas.

[Geralt The Riv]

What guynwah said................

[logiCstuff]

I might be able to change laptop with my brother, I don't remember exactly what his specs were, but something like this

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Duo Core - 2.2 GHz
Graphic Card: ATI Radeon Mobility 6300 (something like that, I think it was 6370)
Direct X: Pretty sure it was 11

Is this computer better?

[Guy N'wah]

logiCstuff said:

I might be able to change laptop with my brother, I don't remember exactly what his specs were, but something like this

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Duo Core - 2.2 GHz
Graphic Card: ATI Radeon Mobility 6300 (something like that, I think it was 6370)
Direct X: Pretty sure it was 11

Is this computer better? ›››

It's a little better, since a Mobility 6370 would have dedicated memory, but still not nearly enough -- and the 2.2 GHz dual core is inferior. Still only about one-quarter of what you'd need for respectable performance.