Minimum Specifications?

Did I mention my PC isn't a laptop?

 

I don't recall.

 

Then I win

 

Damn it. Well played.

 

Agreed, good chap!

 

I'm not sure about the m part.

 

Well at least it didn't find any problems.

 

Seems just fine really. The 555m isn't the most powerful mobile GPU out there, but it's still rather good, so far as laptops go. It'll certainly run something like Starbound anyway. You can see HERE that most modern games will run medium to high on it.

It says "Mobility". In point of fact, if it is a laptop 99.9% of the time it will be a mobile GPU (excluding those that use a CPU's built-in GPU to do it). A number of discrete desktop GPUs have mobile counterparts (denoted by the 'm' or 'mobility'). They're usually about half as powerful as their desktop counterparts (lower clock and often fewer shaders and whatnot).

I know they call them 'cards', but I call them 'chips', even if they are separate from CPU based graphics renderers. There ARE discrete Laptop GPU cards though. But yeah, I looked around and it seems discrete cards are rather uncommon. Maybe they were more common back in the day eh?

 

hopefully not as high as magicka, im guessing the specs wont be too high, just reasonable i guess

 

If you can run Minecraft or in your case Starcraft II, wich uses a:

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2.6 GHz Processor
1 GB ram
128 MB video card or higher

Terraria in that case uses aL

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1.6 GHz Processor
512 MB ram
128 MB video card

Ill be sure you'll run Starbound just fine if its going towards the Terraria side.

 

I'm not sure what people are thinking, this isn't Crysis!

Anyway, since the Devs already have a somewhat "playable" game, maybe they can tell us something about the requirements in the next Q&A

 

My Dell Inspiron 8100 had an actual discrete video card... Gf2go ftw! you could even buy a gf4go variant later on...

on the topic of running the game, I see very little reason that Maka couldn't run it on the specs listed, that said I'm only speaking from a theoretical stand point, The graphics aren't as important as underlying run-time, p-code versus native code, etc.

Case in point the mentioning of Minecraft, which runs in Java land (p-code) and relies on JNI to get to the OpenGL rendering context. Because of these two points it runs likely close to an order of magnitude slower in many cases than it would in a c++/c and opengl based native app. Especially when dealing with Graphics drivers that aren't well written for OpenGL. (Intel I'm calling you out son)

conversely Terraria was written on .NET/XNA meaning that once again it's p-code, however benefits from that fact that MS has worked their asses off to make Direct X as "low cost" as possible from the managed world of XNA. The graphics needs of the two are also part of it, don't get me wrong.

 

sooo true...
the performance got worse with every update since 1.8.
at the moment, it is less stable than bf3 on "high" settings

also, i guess starbound will have higher requirements than terraria, given the higher complexity and sprite-resolutions. but i think it should still run fine on most average and several years old hardware

 

... ... ... ... I despise your amazing computer, at least 4 times better than mine.

 

I think that's just Minecraft.

 

Just looking at the screenshots and the one video of game-play that has popped up I have to say that Starbound should not require a very powerful computer. I could most likely run it on one of my spare computers using their integrated graphics. They sport a 3.5ghz P4 with about 1-2gb of DDR with a really old Nvidia GPU from the early 2000's. Also as mentioned early, since this game is written on C++ instead of XNA you will naturally get a more stable and lean graphics performance.

 

Hope i do not need three alienware computers taped together to run this game.

 

Figure if you have an nvidia 5800 or better 2gb of ram and 1gb of spare memory with a quad core processor you should be fine or any decent rig from the past 5 years that can handle windows 7. Minecraft will be a good gauge if you can handle that you are more than fine, not a huge comp guy but my comp now has way higher specs. Ram and a good graphics card will probably be the biggest thing

 

Minecraft... may not be the best way to judge minimum specifications.

 

My computer ran terraria fine and it's a piece of crap.
When 1.1 update was coming I thought I couldn't run it with the new lightning system, and it ran perfectly with just a bit more lag (minimal).
I hope they do it again with starbound, a game that runs in almost every computer.