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2017-06-19, 08:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
I'm in the mood for a good solid RPG and I'm interested in getting Pillars of Eternity, of which I've heard few but good things. The problem is that my computer is a tad slow and under-updated for various reasons. It's a MacBook Pro running OS X (10.6.8); the actual computer hardware is from 2011 and has never been repaired or updated or anything like that. Without mentioning anything about the game itself, what sorts of computers have people run PoE on and how well does that work? Do you think my aging, clunky laptop could handle it?
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2017-06-19, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2010
Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
We might need a bit more information about your computer's hardware, but here's what I'm using:
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)
OS 10.12.5
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB Memory
Intel HD Graphics 4000 video
My setup works well enough. I had some slow load times until I upgraded to a SSD, but nothing unbearable. Occasionally I'll get a noticeable frame rate dip in a big battle with lots of spell effects flying around, but that's not really a problem in this kind of game. If you have the minimum recommended specs, then I think it will be playable.
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2017-06-19, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
What is an SSD?
Edit: I have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I'm not sure how that compares.Last edited by VoxRationis; 2017-06-19 at 11:01 PM.
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2017-06-19, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
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- Minnesota
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Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
Homebrew
Please feel free to PM me any thoughts on my homebrew (or comment in the thread if it's not too old).
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2017-06-19, 11:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
Last edited by Anteros; 2017-06-20 at 12:15 AM.
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2017-06-20, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
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Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
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2017-06-20, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-06-20, 12:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
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- NYC
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Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
I'm running PoE + the expansions on a Macbook Air 2013 (with a Core i7 / 1.7 Ghz). The Pro was probably a year or two ahead of the Air, so my experience might be useful to you.
One thing I noticed: I bought the game both on GoG and Steam, and both were perfectly playable, but the GoG version's startup and load screens were significantly faster. Also, the Steam version's audio sometimes cut out the first quarter-second of each line of dialog, but only after hours of play. Saving & restarting the game fixed that.I want you to PEACH me as hard as you can.
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2017-06-20, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
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2017-06-20, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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2017-06-20, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
Never had any issues with it either, and while you can just simply do the work yourself its usually a lot easier. You also don't have to deal with figuring out what your GPU is equivalent to if you have something from NVidia that isn't their base tier card for the current gen.
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2017-06-21, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2009
Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
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2017-06-21, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-06-23, 12:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
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- USA
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Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
ze/zir | she/her
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2017-06-23, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
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- Australia
Re: How... taxing is Pillars of Eternity?
I could run it on my 2010 Toshiba satellite which only has 4gb ram and pretty crappy dedicated graphics.
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