Unofficial "Can My PC Run Skyrim?" Thread : V - Skyrim

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:12 pm

Any chance this laptop will run Skyrim...

Intel? Core? i5-2410M processor

4GB DDR3 memory

Intel? HD Graphics 3000

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:35 am

First off I would like to say I realise full well I don't have enough RAM. With this I understand I would have to upgrade to 4gb.

To be honest I would quite happily play on Xbox 360 but wanted to know how my rig looked. It's pretty old so I'm not optimistic.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6850 @3GHZ (2 CPU)
Memory: 2GB RAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1gb
Hard Drive: 465GB

Thanks

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:05 am

That's cool, I'm kind of a novice when it comes to computer hardware. Most my info comes from Newegg, :lol:

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Let me throw out my laptop's specs just for the sake of it. I already know it's mid range and might not be able to play it on high settings, but want an outside opinion:

CPU: Intel core 2 duo P8700 2.53 GHz, Bus speed 1066 MHz
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4650 1gb dedicated memory
Ram: 4g DDR2 800 MHz
Hard Drive: 500GB 5400rpm

What resolution are you playing at?

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:08 am

First off I would like to say I realise full well I don't have enough RAM. With this I understand I would have to upgrade to 4gb.

To be honest I would quite happily play on Xbox 360 but wanted to know how my rig looked. It's pretty old so I'm not optimistic.

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6850 @3GHZ (2 CPU)
Memory: 2GB RAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1gb

Thanks

Mid settings/resolution would be all right. The 4870 is a half-decent card.

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:12 pm

Mid settings/resolution would be all right. The 4870 is a half-decent card.

Yeah. The RAM is definitely something I would need to upgrade.

What do you think I would need to play on high settings? Probably a more up to date card alongside some extra ram? Or is the CPU too slow?

Also, will a PC on highest settings look better than a 360? I read the OP and it seems it's been designed for Xbox so I'm not sure.

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:40 pm

Mid settings/resolution would be all right. The 4870 is a half-decent card.

He'll easily play it on high if it's only at 1080p.

The game has to run on xbox don't forget

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:58 pm

Yeah. The RAM is definitely something I would need to upgrade.

What do you think I would need to play on high settings? Probably a more up to date card alongside some extra ram? Or is the CPU too slow?

Also, will a PC on highest settings look better than a 360? I read the OP and it seems it's been designed for Xbox so I'm not sure.

I'd say that the CPU is pretty slow...still, if you wanna risk it, you should grab a more decent card. About a HD 68xx or even a 6950 or so (about 200 bucks).

And according to all Todd and the devs have said, the PC version will have higher res content than the console one, plus higher resolution, of course. And talking about that.....

He'll easily play it on high if it's only at 1080p.

The game has to run on xbox don't forget

.....1) 1080p = 1920x1080. It's a pretty high resolution, so don't understimate it.
2) I doubt Skyrim will run at that resolution on the 360. Most console games doesn't. One thing is the TV resolution, and another different is the resolution that the console processes.

It's not the same to clone a pixel to fit in a 1080p TV (stretching) than to process it, have that in mind.

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:40 pm

Any chance this laptop will run Skyrim...

Intel? Core? i5-2410M processor

4GB DDR3 memory

Intel? HD Graphics 3000

no

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:30 pm

What resolution are you playing at?

1600x900

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:24 am

I recently bought a new laptop just so i could play this in hopefully high settings or so.
I normally game on my xbox but i heard skyrim would be better for pc so yeah.
Here are my specs.

Intel Core i5-480M 2.66GHz /turbo boost up to SC 2.93GHz, 3M
4gb of ram
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M 1GB dedicated
500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive

Any chance i can run this game on max settings?

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:36 am

I recently bought a new laptop just so i could play this in hopefully high settings or so.
I normally game on my xbox but i heard skyrim would be better for pc so yeah.
Here are my specs.

Intel Core i5-480M 2.66GHz /turbo boost up to SC 2.93GHz, 3M
4gb of ram
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M 1GB dedicated
500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive

Any chance i can run this game on max settings?

Not with only a GT of any kind, no. You will need a GTX to do that with certainty. Depending on the resolution, a late GTS version may also be able to do so.

Any chance this laptop will run Skyrim...

Intel? Core? i5-2410M processor

4GB DDR3 memory

Intel? HD Graphics 3000

Not with only that onboard chip, no. Sorry.

Meanwhile, in the gap this morning while our "host" author was elsewhere, I was poking around, and these were never answered, from a couple of weeks ago in the forum, and the first is worth commenting on because a chip video like that Intel above is not now a "Card", and doesn't come close to being one, by definition.

yeah, I'm not sure if you will be able to run high settings at 1280x720 with the AMD 4200m card. Probably on low settings, or maybe you have to reduce the resolution to 800x600.

It is always wrong to apply the word "Card" indiscriminately. A video card is actually separate from the system and added after both have been assembled. It's on its own circuit board, with its own VRAM attached. Onboard chips almost never can have their own VRAM, run slowly, have too few shader processors, just tons of failings. IMO, the HD 4200 would fail over too wide a range of weaknesses to be worth considering.

When I look in device manager, I see only one thats called ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series, and one thats called
Intel® 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (Microsoft Corporation - XDDM)

Device Manager doesn't have specifics, but the display PROPERTIES, Settings Tab, will have it.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:01 am

I'd like to know if people experienced performance differences with a good phenom II x4 and an i5 with FO3 and NV.

Edit: those games will be good things to base skyrim performance with (sort of).

I have an E6750 and both those games run smooth as buttah on my XP machine. That CPU is a couple of orders of magnitude less than the I5 and Quad Phenoms.

TES games have been pretty balanced in taxing both CPU and GPU in years past. Hopefully the new engine is optimized for this type of game. If that is the case, the CPU may not be as heavilly taxed this time around.

The fact that is still has to run on the 360 gives me hope that I won't have to throw too many dollars at my PC this time around. That is if my Jeep will leave my wallet alone.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:49 am

1600x900

I''d say a mixture between low/medium settings but more towards medium.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:17 am

I''d say a mixture between low/medium settings but more towards medium.

Yeah, for this game I've got to play it on max or not it all. I have a 360 so could by it for that, but I'm really looking forward to making/adding mods to the game, so I'll have to get a decent desktop...

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:15 am

Yeah, for this game I've got to play it on max or not it all. I have a 360 so could by it for that, but I'm really looking forward to making/adding mods to the game, so I'll have to get a decent desktop...

HaHa ya, i don't think my 5670 is going to cut it for max either but my laptop I'm getting soon should. Its definitely worth getting for PC/mods though :thumbsup:

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:57 pm

This is a fast , reliable computer that i've been using for some time. I'm wondering if it will be able to run Skyrim. My specs are as follows:
GeForce 256
Intel Pentium III
2gb ram
4gb HD
I generally use it for pong and pacman, and it runs fine with some slowdowns but it's playable. I'd like to know if it's possible to play skyrim with it.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:42 am

This is a fast , reliable computer that i've been using for some time. I'm wondering if it will be able to run Skyrim. My specs are as follows:
GeForce 256
Intel Pentium III
2gb ram
4gb HD
I generally use it for pong and pacman, and it runs fine with some slowdowns but it's playable. I'd like to know if it's possible to play skyrim with it.

Not a chance, your CPU and GPU are outdated. But I suppose you could upgrade.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:00 am

This is a fast , reliable computer that i've been using for some time. I'm wondering if it will be able to run Skyrim. My specs are as follows:
GeForce 256
Intel Pentium III
2gb ram
4gb HD
I generally use it for pong and pacman, and it runs fine with some slowdowns but it's playable. I'd like to know if it's possible to play skyrim with it.

Are you honestly not kidding? :confused: Because you say it's a fast and reliable computer but in the end you mention you use it to play pong and pacman with some slowdowns...

If you aren't kidding then no. That can't play any game from anything remotely recent.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:01 am

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» Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:32 am

nope you need more RAM HDD space (Skyrim is going to be around 9GB if not more) and you need a better GPU considering you still have the ancient rig you prolly do not have much money around and can't get a new rig that will run it let alone max it which means sadly it looks like your off to the horrible land of consoles good luck take stick with you and fight off all those pesky 12 year olds with it.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:54 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s my life is ruined!!!11one

Yep, you were kidding.

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 4:51 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s my life is ruined!!!11one

<_< I don't even see the point of kidding with something like this...

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:58 pm

nope you need more RAM HDD space (Skyrim is going to be around 9GB if not more) and you need a better GPU considering you still have the ancient rig you prolly do not have much money around and can't get a new rig that will run it let alone max it which means sadly it looks like your off to the horrible land of consoles good luck take stick with you and fight off all those pesky 12 year olds with it.

Actually, no. I wanted to know if i needed to upgrade my pc. I've decided on Alienware. I'm going with this http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-area51-alx/pd?refid=alienware-area-51-alx&~ck=mn (2GB2 Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600Mhz - 3 DIMMS /// Tri-CrossFireX 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon? HD 6950 /// Overclocked Intel? Core? i7 990x Extreme Six Core Processor (4.0GHz, 12MB Cache) )

» Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:49 am

WOW get that and I shall call you the most ripped off guy ever xD that rig would cost 2k from newegg most likely less with rebates/discount

» Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:19 pm

32 gigs of ram...is that even possible?

Mobos that can use that amount of RAM are fairly common but 8GB cards haven't been out long and are still very expensive(about 100$). So yes it is possible, insane overkill, but possible.