spinspider Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I know I should have get a laptop with better specs for gaming, but what can I say? All of those high-end laptops with "dedicated" graphics are far, far too expensive. Seriously, all the ones I know about cost well over a thousand dollars. Some even hit TWO thousand dollars. Sorry, but that's money that a simple Canadian teenager like me just does not have. Anyways, it's an HP laptop with 4GB of RAM, a 2.13 GHZ processor, and a graphics card with 1696 MB of memory. I don't know if those specs are good or bad.. but can anyone give me some advice for running Skyrim with these? Pref tweaks? Any mods out there that could help? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaulWolfden Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I know I should have get a laptop with better specs for gaming, but what can I say? All of those high-end laptops with "dedicated" graphics are far, far too expensive. Seriously, all the ones I know about cost well over a thousand dollars. Some even hit TWO thousand dollars. Sorry, but that's money that a simple Canadian teenager like me just does not have. Anyways, it's an HP laptop with 4GB of RAM, a 2.13 GHZ processor, and a graphics card with 1696 MB of memory. I don't know if those specs are good or bad.. but can anyone give me some advice for running Skyrim with these? Pref tweaks? Any mods out there that could help? :( What is your graphics card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinspider Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Intel HD... probably a dud as far as they go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaulWolfden Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Intel HD... probably a dud as far as they go.I'm assuming it is one of those "fake" or integrated graphic cards, you probably won't be able to run it even on low if this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetradite Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I have (from what little specs you know) an equivalent or better HP laptop, and Skyrim was what finally forced to me to get a desktop for games. It can physically run Skyrim on High settings, looks gorgeous, until you try to move or do anything and then it grinds to a halt, unplayable. Knocking down quality settings didn't really fix this. Even if you can run Skyrim, I think you will probably be disappointed with the experience. IF it does run, you're going to have hammer down all the graphics settings (which affects gameplay as well as appearance, e.g on low settings you won't be able to see an enemy until they're practically hugging you) and it's likely to be very stuttery and choppy, in a headache inducing kind of way. Sorry :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinspider Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Actually it's not too bad. I can run it on the same settings as my desktop and it's working fine (no shadows, but those didn't work very well on my desktop either so I have them totally disabled, I do for most games anyway), but I'm just wondering if there are any tweak guides or anything that can help.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetradite Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Sorry thought you were asking IF it would work! Not sure I tried removing shadows entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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