Greetings all!

I have some trouble assessing whether my computer specs are sufficient to play certain games, but I am virtually certain the specs on the computer I am considering are woefully inadequate. I wonder if someone can confirm?

I want to play Ethan Carter on my Lenovo laptop rather than my main computer because my family and I project the game on a wall, and it is thus it is easier if my computer is mobile.

Some things I see when I look at specs in Speccy is:

Intel Core i3-4012Y cpu @ 1.50GHz
Haswell Ult
For RAM, I see DDR3, and 3990MB, which I take to round up to 4GB?

Elsewhere, I saw that I have total graphics memory of 1792mb, but dedicated video memory of only 32 mb. Is dedicated video memory the same thing as VRAM? If so, 32 mb is laughable, is it not?

Is that pretty much the pertinent info I need to look at when assessing specs for game compatibility? Any brief tutorial on how to read that info would be much appreciated!

In any case, from what you see above, I can't play Ethan Carter on that computer, can I? I have another laptop that I can use that is older, but might be more powerful re graphics...I can Speccy that later, but it would help if I had a better idea of what I am looking for.

Thanks so much for any help!

Chuck

Yeah, I don't think it's really going to work on those specs.

With integrated graphics, your CPU and GPU are both pulling from that 4GB. Unreal Engine is surprizingly lean, but I'm pretty sure even low settings will need 1GB of VRAM dedicated to the graphics. If you know how to access your BIOS, you might be able to turn it up. But even if you had enough vRAM, both the CPU and integrated GPU would struggle massively, and may freeze up.

Greetings,

I see this message hasn't been marked as solved yet. I'd like to chime in, and no it doesn't matter if I get the solution credit or not.

I picked this game up the other day while it was on sale, and just played through it. I can tell you it is cpu and gpu intensive, and I can say that if you did get it to run on that Lenova laptop, it would most likely be a slideshow or stuttering quite a bit.

There are graphics options you can tweak, but honestly this game deserves a dedicated graphics card to be played on. The story is THAT good.

Hopefully since last year you have gotten a new laptop, if not could you post your specs on the other laptop you were considering?

Just one more note, while Haswell cpus are pretty nice, I think a 1.50 gigahertz cpu (regardless of # of cores) would be too slow for this game.

Hope this helps!
~Leu