Quoting: badber

Quoting: buenaventuraI would be very happy if someone could try it on a AMD GPU, since it is not included in the reqs. Does it work at all? Does your AMD GPU have 1gb VRAM, or more?

Pillars of Eternity sucked for me, while wasteland 2 was OK, so I HOPE this might just work! Want to be sure before buying though. It's funny, I just got a small windfall of about 40 dollars, so I am actually tempted to buy this full price.

What's the issue with Pillars of Eternity and your AMD GPU, why does it suck?

I run it at lowest settings, and get about 15-25 FPS and long long loading times. If I zoom out I get much worse frame rates. I kinda suspect it has something to do with my pretty weak CPU also (A8-6410). I guess ill try it with my padoka drivers now (that would mean that I have mesa 17 right?), but I do not have big hopes.

I have the demo of Shadow Tactics, and it also has pretty crappy performance even on lowest settings. I suspect, as said, that my CPU does not help.

No matter, I have BG1:EE and it is really great. When they remake PoE in the infinity engine, call me. Why dont they open source that engine and use it from now on, for all story-focused RPG's? That would be heaven.

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Quoting: STiATBut I can confirm it runs pretty well with AMDGPU on Mesa 17 (RX460). That's a start :-).

So that's like 2gb VRAM? I guess my 1gb VRAM probably wont cut it. Guess I'll just spend my little 40 dollar windfall on hearthstone packs then -__-

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Quoting: Tak

Quoting: buenaventuraUnity gives no access to tweaking for low end specs

It's there; it's just a matter of what the game developer chooses to expose.


Yes, I guess that's it, while in Unreal you can chance texture sizes to 1 and disable almost all visual effects in the ini, things that developers generally do not expose, altough I wish they would! I would love games to have a "mega rock bottom" setting, even if it was totally unsupported, that removed almost all visual effects and doodads. Who needs them for games like Pillars of eternity or Tyranny, or Torment? Or XCOM2? I would play XCOM2 if it was ASCII art.

Edit: I AM playing XCOM2 with mega tweaked ini that makes it look like a PS1 game, and it is lovely. Still, the loading times are loooong.

Edit: in fact, Tyranny, PoE and Torment are the ones that annoy me the most in their needless graphix wank. I am playing BG1:EE now, and it of course runs FLAWLESSLY on my old laptop, really mega smooth, and literally ZERO loading times - as soon as I click on a transition, I am there - it's so much more immersive and lovely compared to playing laggy PoE with like 20 sec loading screens between every house. And I can hardly see any real visual difference - if anything, BG1 is more charming to me in it's graphics.

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I prefer Unreal over Unity, since Unity gives no access to tweaking for low end specs, while Unreal often lets me utterly smash the graphics to get smooth frames.

Edit: From a consumer perspective, this is.

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I would be very happy if someone could try it on a AMD GPU, since it is not included in the reqs. Does it work at all? Does your AMD GPU have 1gb VRAM, or more?

Pillars of Eternity sucked for me, while wasteland 2 was OK, so I HOPE this might just work! Want to be sure before buying though. It's funny, I just got a small windfall of about 40 dollars, so I am actually tempted to buy this full price.

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I warmly recommend Quadrilateral Cowboy, it is a gem.

I am thinking of getting BG1, I've played it a long time ago, want to replay.

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I want to replay BG1, Icewind Dale, and Torment (the olde) first. And now I got Echalon 1 for free. What to do :P

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Quoting: edmondoInstalled and played about 90 minutes on AMD RX 470 (mesa driver) without issues.

The game looks nice and the story seems interesting, even I've only scratched a bit of it.

Now let's go back into the last castoff body and try to understand "what does one life matter".

What are your specs more exactly, how many gb VRAM does that card have? These names tell me nothing.

Thanks for your help!

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Quoting: AryvandaarI'm all for demos, but aren't there specs on the steam page?

Yes, but I have a weird laptop no name card (AMD Radeon R5 m240 AKA Mullins AKA GCN 1.0/1.1, has 1gb RAM) and I have no clue how it compares to those system reqs, especially since they dont even mention AMD.

Edit. Even if I knew that my specs where far above reqs, I always love being able to try games out before buying them - perhaps I just bounce off for some other reason. Or I become very hooked and buy a game I would not have dared to buy without trying it first.

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I wish more new games would supply a demo. In PC-land in general, isn't there a huge audience of people with slightly old hardware, who are unsure as to whether a title will run well? I mean, it would make buying games so much more straightforward for me. I guess I could pick it up on steam and refund it if it works like crap though. If I had the cash!

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