Wolfire Games Forums

Hello, i have been thinking about buying overgrowth for a long time, but im not sure wether my laptop can handle it, i have 4 gb of ram and a HP hd graphics card.
I hope you will help me in this since i really want overgrowth
Thanks

That's not enough information to tell that. You should tell us your CPU processor type, and the exact name of the graphics card.

Ok the name of my graphics card is Intel hd graphics (thats all it says anyway) and my cpu processor is Mobile DualCore Intel Core i3-380M, 2533 MHz (19 x 133), i hope that info helps

I have the same graphics card, and the same processor I think. It runs for me, but the shadows get all funky unless I use cascaded ones. The cascaded shadows are a lag fest, and more than maybe 10 objects on screen lags pretty bad too. Handles 5 or 6 AI pretty good, barring objects on screen. So you should be able to run it, but it won't be optimal until OG is optimized. As far as I've heard, integrated cards suck for OG, and games in general, but I can play HL2, Mount and Blade and Minecraft along with OG, so I'm happy with it in general.

As Korban said, it's not the best machine for running OG in its current state, as there are no optimizations in place yet and the game has to essentially be run at full settings, which an integrated Intel card won't exactly accomplish with flying colors (I have one myself), and the processor isn't exactly top-of-the-line either. That said, you'll probably be able to run the final optimized version with some reduced graphical settings very smoothly. Keep in mind that Wolfire would have no problem giving you a refund if the final product didn't run well on your laptop and you weren't satisfied with the performance, so you don't really have anything to lose from a preorder

Ok thanks for the help

I have now bought OG, but when i try to load up a level it just stops working! please help, i really want to play it

Have you tried running the .exe in compatibility mode for Win XP? That's what I have to do.

Yep still doesnt work

Hmmm. Tried installing via the torrent? It may download slow if it doesn't have enough seeds, but it's guaranteed to not be broken.