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Another "Can I play this game on my rig" thread

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#1

Yay first post!
First off, if there’s a general thread for this topic please lead me to it, close this if necessary, It took a while for me to navigate and search for similar specs for my rig so I decided to start a new thread.

I have two “gaming” rigs: one is a day-to-day laptop PC and the other a desktop PC for low to mid-range gaming. I’ve been PC gaming for more than a decade now and I’m still working on upgrading my desktop, and since it’s summer in SEA and I don’t have air-conditioning at home I haven’t been gaming with it recently as the temperatures are just crazy, and I want my hardware to last longer.

anyhoo, I want to play this game on my laptop instead, but I have questions. so my specs:
laptop: Asus K555LB
Intel Core i5-5200U
15.6 inch (1366x768) HD
NVIDIA GeForce GT 940M
4 GB ram
1 TB HDD

I also plan to use my controller instead of m+kb because this laptop has no anti-ghosting etc like the m+kb I use for my desktop.
so, bigger questions are:

  1. Can I run for at least stable 30fps on this? I sometimes play FFXIV on this and get around 30fps on a customized setting set by GeForce Experience, but not sure with other games…
  2. Will the controller work smoothly?
  3. any suggestion on configs once I start playing tomorrow (I didn’t get to play CBT obv)
  4. should I stick to playing on my desktop instead?

Thank you in advance.

#2

You can pretty much run the game fine with that, you say you get 30 FPS on FFXIV, there might be something wrong on driver or some software that is causing bottleneck on your laptop, mine is a i5 2.6GHz with 12GB of RAM and a GTX 660M with 2GB dedicated and i played fine at around 50FPS on mid high settings.

Well, it could be the amount of memory. At least 8GB would be safe.

But for ToS you should be fine.

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#3

I think you can run it well and better at low settings…

I just wish there is a button to remove the monster dead effect…

it can get really messy with fps drops and lag…

#4

Yes you could play TOS with controller no prob that

http://wiki.tosbase.com/wiki/Controls

(but some classes will be a little hard to play with controller )

#5

I think based on the benchmarking outputs 30fps for FFXIV is good enough, provided my gpu is not gtx and my cpu I think is only up to 2.4ghz(2.2 default). In comparison to my desktop which could run it around 52fps at 1080p continously even during 24-man raids.
Glad to hear that I won’t need to play on my desktop for this game, thanks for the feedback!

#6

I hope it’s as fun to play with it using the controller as (you guess it) ffxiv, but I hope my laptop’s keyboard won’t give me too much of a hard time…thanks for the feedback!

#7

If only I can upgrade the ram then I’d hit the recommended settings, but this laptop is mostly for watching netflix, playing lego games and blogging lol I’ll learn about those effects soon, thanks for the feedback!

#8

I am not sure if they changed something about the monster death effects, but on iCBT on this laptop my FPS was normal, even when i was on a group on Demon Prison 2 we killing 50+ monsters i didn’t feel anything bad, except for the boss fights where there was more than 20 people using skills + the boss lol.
If your laptop GPU have at least 2GB of dedicated memory it should be ok for group leveling, but boss fight i think most systems suffer.

#9

what is the normal FPS? what do you mean by “feeling anything bad”? like lag or glitches? clunkiness? does the game have an in-game counter for such? my gpu does have 2GB vram but it’s at the low range, as the rest of the specs. hopefully, the game won’t crash on me :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

Generaly with you and the mobs, you get good FPS, since i turned off my Vsync it goes around 70-100 depending on what is on the screen, but when there is a group with me, casting all kinds of AoE and moving around while killing stuff, it drop to around 30-40, now on a boss fight, and i mean world boss, its you, your group and more 20-30 people, if not more, fighting and killing and casting and running around and talking, my FPS go to 5-8.

Doesn’t matter much which rig you got tbh, everyone suffer from low FPS on that situation.

#11

but that’s with your specs, so I should expect to hit half…or less :sweat:
hope to not run into a world boss all the time, thanks for the info

#12

Yeah that is on my rig, you should work better i think, world bosses appear every 3 hours or so i think, so while leveling you should be ok, if anything, you can try change channels in the same map.

#13

Thanks again to the helpful few who have replied to this thread.
Just an update: I initially attempted to log in using my desktop, anticipating a high traffic as it was launch day, fearful that my laptop won’t be able to handle the stress. True enough, I was beyond 1000 in queue to log in.
I finally got in around 11pm game time (pretty much the following day) and the game seemed smooth, with 60fps (I think this is max according to the in-game counter) BUT the lag! @Nirimetus was correct about changing channels.
I only got to level 13(?) questing and grinding for around 1 and 1/2 hours, figuring out the keybinds using my controller half of the time, and embarassingly waiting for the NPCs to respond when I should’ve just changed channels during delays.
Before entering the mining city, I switched to my laptop, and as expected, the FPS dropped to around 30 (max, least laggy) and even less to around 15(?) when I finally entered the hub area. Upon checking the video settings (on auto-detect), it seems the game “thinks” my graphics settings should remain high, and I haven’t encountered any glitch or bug that needed reporting, just a random rubber-banding when near a densely populated spot like the goddess statue or merchant NPC.

TLDR; I can definitely play this game on my laptop for most of the casual content. the launch day “stress test” allowed me to observe how my rigs would handle the game, and thankfully my experience wasn’t as bad as if my laptop will die on me any minute. for anyone who owns the same laptop model as mine, and is hesitant to play the game due to similar worries, STOP worrying and game on, don’t miss out all the fun!