Hey Guys,

I want to buy this game but my laptop is couple years old now and I know Witcher 2 is a pretty graphics intensive game.

I found this website System Requirements Lab that apparently checks if your computer can run games / programs.. has anyone used it before? Is it accurate? It says my laptop meets minimum requirements but not recommended, does this mean I can run the game, just as long as I set all graphics settings to low?

Here's some specs for reference (this is what website says I have and honestly I don't know how to check otherwise haha):

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
RAM: 8.1 GB
Graphics: 1GB Radeon (TM) HD 7690M

Thanks guys

Canyourunit (System Requirements Lab) is one of the most worthless wastes of bits on the Internet. They actually know nothing that is true about the requirements of games or whether anybody's computer meets those requirements. You might as well use a Ouija board.

Your laptop does not meet minimum requirements, but the minimum requirements are very conservative, and what you have is enough for the game to be playable. Expect to get medium settings at 1280x720 or 1366x768.

The requirement that is most often limiting for this game is the GPU. The game is limited by the output stage, and the provisioning of output processors is the key figure. The minimum cards and those that perform reasonably well have 16 or more output processors and an output stage capacity of about 10 GPixel/sec. "Turks" chips like the 7690M have 8 output processors and 5 GPixel/sec, more or less depending on clock speed.

Your GPU is at the high end of that subminimum range, and the rest of your computer is more than enough. The game's still quite playable; you just won't get high resolution.

Hello there, just to tell you my situation...

I have a laptop worst than yours and I run it 20/30FPS @ 1280x720.

With as many things turned off as possible (like SSAO, Ubersampling, Bloom and some other stuff)

Believe me, this game doesn't need much to look amazing.

Just try to use middle to high textures and play around with mesh and grass LOD for performance.

Your best shot is to tweak the ini file to deep custom your game, worked great for me.

Cheers

My laptop has a worse processor and less memory, and I think a little faster GPU (Radeon 5870). I was playing TW2 at 1280*720, at somewhere between medium and high details, with comfortable framerate (over 30). With lowest settings, I was able to play at 1920*1080, at about 20-25 fps if I remember correctly. And that was just after release; I think the current version is a bit more optimized so it might be faster.

With low graphics settings and at 1280*720, your laptop should be able to get playable FPS easily.

I don't know if it'll help, but my desktop is from 2008 and here are it's specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5 GHZ,
4 GB DDR2,
msi GTX 650 1 GB DDR5 (Obviously, I put that in),
WIndows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

With that, I run it on some very nice settings. The game is surprisingly complacent given adjusting to the right resolution and settings. (I kill the SSAO, motion blur, and bloom, if it matters.

My guess: you should not have much of any problem.

Of course, you'll be able to run it.

I think it depends on what qualifies as playable for you. I tried to run the game with a single 560 ti @ 1920x1080 on low settings (no AA), and I was getting like 30-50 frames. That's too low for me to enjoy, personally. The 560 ti rapes the 7690M, so I'd say 'no'.