Hello, im currently looking at getting a ultrabook (For school) with the following specifications: 6TH GEN INTEL CORE i7-6500U 512GB PCIe SSD 8GB DUAL-CHANNEL INTEL HD 520 GRAPHICS Im wondering if the Intergrated 520 graphics would be capable of running this game smoothly? Thanks in advance!
Uff. I had a very similar laptop earlier, and it had some problems. It ran pretty smoothly in most cases, but on a fully decorated spaceship the lag was intolerable. The nightly builds have a lot of optimization done to the lighting, so it may run fine now. I don't have the laptop anymore to test it out.
I ran it at max rezolution and furthest zoom, because I didn't want to have lower visibility. I was picky. The biggest slowdown right now is caused by the lighting system, which is improved in the nightly build right now, but not in stable nor unstable yet. I remember that the lag got bearable when we removed light sources from the ship. Sorry for double posting, but I wouldn't want anyone who's already checked the latest post miss this one. If you're having trouble with the FPS, and you have 64 bit computer, then follow this link, it may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/starbound/comments/2ucsyd/64_bit_openglbest_build_yet/
It sounds like it should run it fine. After the optimisation update. Cus right now even the "better" computers struggle in places where a lot of stuffs is going on.
That card would run it smoother than mine.... Mine is only a 6th generation HD card, and is for the most part smooth; but has some jumps in frames. Not often, mainly only when world loading. That card would out perform mine and support a heck of a lot more than mine would. So I would think it would be fine. that is a 9th generation HD card though. Had to look up just so I could compare to the the intel HD one that I have. Now how smooth... questionable, but should most definitely run the game, and I believe would be smoother than what mine is. And for me it works. Sure there might be better ones out there if dedicated, but it is more or less how well a card will be with the board or processor working together. Intel with intel works well together for the most part. It is finding a nice combo truly. Overall it should run at a decent pace I would imagine. They are also going to be soon releasing to branch all they have done; which is a lot of optimizations. But I say that one looks fine.
That's exactly what was holding my computer back. That, and not knowing defragging is a thing. To be honest, I didn't know integrated video cards had any difference. Thought they all just relied on the CPU to "emulate" the GPU the same way.
Thanks for all your help. I think im gonna go ahead and get it' cause its got a lot of great reviews. Although it might be a month or two until im able to afford it. I'll tell you guys how it runs once i receive it!
Beyond what lazarus78 said, between the different ones out there is the capability towards which shader model they can handle for one; at least on the opengl side of things. Plus other features depending on the version. Similar to how much difference each of the nvidia cards or amd cards compares to each other. Each has a certain capability; with the newer ones having more so over the older ones. It mainly is just a different way to go about graphic rendering, although I do have to say the best would be a non-integrated; it is just the integrated ones are more affordable sometimes. Well that is roughly it.... far as I know.
Update, just got it, runs like a gem. 60fps with a rare slowdown when entering high object areas but then it seems to compensate for it. Runs great!
I am running Starbound on a system with worse specs than that. There is the occasional lag, but the game runs well. I m hoping that optimizations coming with th 1.0 release will take care of that.
