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BobSagini

BobSagini

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My specs are s follows:

I have an AMD E-300 APU with Radeon Graphics. 1.30 GHz

I have 4.00 GB of RAM, of which 3.60 is available. I have Direct X 11.

Which games for me are playable at any sane level, apart from Victoria Revolutions?
 
BobSagini said:
My specs are s follows:

I have an AMD E-300 APU with Radeon Graphics. 1.30 GHz

I have 4.00 GB of RAM, of which 3.60 is available. I have Direct X 11.

Which games for me are playable at any sane level, apart from Victoria Revolutions?
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You can probably play any that have already released, but it won't be comfortable. You probably wouldn't be able to speed 3, 4 or 5. I wouldn't recommend ck iI or eu4.
 
to add some exposition, here's a link to the E-300 on cpubenchmark.net http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+E-300+APU

hate to break it to you, but at this point your CPU is worth more money from the silicon content alone that any performance capabilities. dual-cores simply can't do what they used to.

idk if your motherboard is equipped or if your willing to buy but the AMD Phenom II X4 960T is the (quadcore) CPU i have and it's less than $100 on amazon. and with my radeon 7650 GPU i can run all modern PDS games with little lag for a long time and even Fallout 4 with maxed settings on a solid FPS (not that i ever actually checked what number specifically)

also what kind of GPU do you have? you have DX 11 so your computer clearly has the ability to run it.

also, i used to have a terrible GPU so i know the pain and lag you go through Bob.
 
AlfredMV said:
You can probably play any that have already released, but it won't be comfortable. You probably wouldn't be able to speed 3, 4 or 5. I wouldn't recommend ck iI or eu4.
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Eu4 is always 5 seconds for 1 day. Eu3 is like speed 3 or 2, and vick2 and CK2 iareabout speed 2.

aruon said:
to add some exposition, here's a link to the E-300 on cpubenchmark.net http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD E-300 APU

hate to break it to you, but at this point your CPU is worth more money from the silicon content alone that any performance capabilities. dual-cores simply can't do what they used to.

idk if your motherboard is equipped or if your willing to buy but the AMD Phenom II X4 960T is the (quadcore) CPU i have and it's less than $100 on amazon. and with my radeon 7650 GPU i can run all modern PDS games with little lag for a long time and even Fallout 4 with maxed settings on a solid FPS (not that i ever actually checked what number specifically)

also what kind of GPU do you have? you have DX 11 so your computer clearly has the ability to run it.

also, i used to have a terrible GPU so i know the pain and lag you go through Bob.
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My card is AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics, 1959 MB, and an ATI display adapter
 
BobSagini said:
My card is AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics, 1959 MB, and an ATI display adapter
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nice. that GPU will keep you going for a good long while.

but yeah you definitely need to get a new CPU. yours is just too old, underperforming, and limited for most post-2010 games. i advise looking up your computer model and seeing what it's motherboard is, and hopefully you'll have a list of compatible CPUs to choose from.
 
I'm not much of a tech guy... I'm not sure how to replace GPU's

In fact, this laptop has a bad battery too, among other things. The problem is while repairing it would almost cost as much as a new, better one, I wouldn't want to do so until this one breaks.
 
aruon said:
nice. that GPU will keep you going for a good long while.
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HD 6310 is the integrated graphics unit of this mobile processor. Its a laptop. Its not a seperate card and shouldn't even have own dedicated RAM.

BobSagini said:
In fact, this laptop has a bad battery too, among other things. The problem is while repairing it would almost cost as much as a new, better one, I wouldn't want to do so until this one breaks.
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You can't change parts of a laptop anyway, or at least I wouldn't recommend that. Wait until it breaks if you have patience, but otherwise just get a new one.

Don't know your budget of course, but if you want a laptop that can play Stellaris and Hoi4, you would have to invest around 450 Euro at least.

I would say you can play Hoi3 as well if Victoria runs, but CKII, EU4 and newer, thats not going to work.
 
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aruon said:
ah. how was i supposed to know he had no dedidaded wam?:p
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Well if you say that this GPU keeps him going for a while, you should know what you are talking about. It certainly won't. As said, its the mobile processors integrated graphic units and has not too much in common with the HD 6xxx GPU series that is the minimum/recommended requirement for Stellaris.
 
BobSagini said:
450 Euro?!

Aww cripes :(
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Just a quick guess, possibly less, but I fear not.
aruon was right that www.cpubenchmark.net is not a bad reference if you have no idea about this. Minimum requirement for Stellaris is an Athlon II X4 640 (3461 points) or Core 2 Quad 9400 (3785 points). Your E-300 APU has 616 points.

Laptops with mobile processors in this required region are about this cost, yes. And thats just with integrated graphics as well, although that should be enough for Stellaris. Maybe its not though.
 
Daddl said:
Well if you say that this GPU keeps him going for a while, you should know what you are talking about. It certainly won't.
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i thought he was talking about a PC not a laptop there. he said his GPU was a AMD Radeon HD 6310 my GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 7850. easy mistake to make.
 
So lesson here, AMD graphics cards follow a hierarchy of numbering. The first number, in this case, the 6 is the generation number. Basically, what year it was released in. The second number says what tier it is. 7-9 tend to be graphics cards with enough power for modern or modernish 3d games at the time. 4-6 are mid-range, 63xx means the graphics card is basically trash tier. The second number on amd cards is EXTREMELY important, don't think all 6xxx cards are alike. In fact, without looking, I can tell you a 5950 would probably be much more powerful then a 6350, for example.

At the same time, people tend to be more compute bound then graphics bound with paradox games, but I wouldn't be surprised if stellaris is a lot more graphically intensive. The other games as far as I know you should be looking at the cpu the most. While number of cores are nice, the more important thing would be the architecture or basically which generation it is.
 
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So lesson here, AMD graphics cards follow a hierarchy of numbering. The first number, in this case, the 6 is the generation number. Basically, what year it was released in. The second number says what tier it is. 7-9 tend to be graphics cards with enough power for modern or modernish 3d games at the time. 4-6 are mid-range, 63xx means the graphics card is basically trash tier. The second number on amd cards is EXTREMELY important, don't think all 6xxx cards are alike. In fact, without looking, I can tell you a 5950 would probably be much more powerful then a 6350, for example.
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cool i didn't know that about the 2nd number. i just figured that with new 1000 they'd have some new feature and start numbering again by 10s and 20s. thanks!

no wonder my old Radeon 4200 had the processing power of a potato.
 
aruon said:
cool i didn't know that about the 2nd number. i just figured that with new 1000 they'd have some new feature and start numbering again by 10s and 20s. thanks!

no wonder my old Radeon 4200 had the processing power of a potato.
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Well They do tend to add some new features every generation, it just doesn't always apply to power. Usually just new directx support even though some of the lower lines tend not to have the power to support the new features. Often times the new gpu's are rebranded old gpus even. Numbering scheme is pretty much the same for nvidia chips, just remove the 0 on the end iirc.
 
With your current laptop you could play CK2 up to patch 2.4 (Horse Lords). If you want to play post patch 2.4 however, you'll need to either upgrade your RAM or buy a new laptop (try looking for a laptop that have at least 6 GB RAM and i3 Intel processor).
 
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