The game does not work!

Hey. I just started playing Grim Dawn yesterday. It installed just fine (got it from GOG), and it runs. However, even without V-sync, with ONLY the lowest settings… it lags. A lot.

The game is completely unplayable, and nothing helps. I have the latest drivers, latest directx, the PC Specs should run the game easily… I ve no idea what to do.

Could someone help, please?

My laptop is Acer Aspire 5750, my video card is Intel HD Graphics 3000, I’ve 6GBs of RAM, and my processor is Intel Core i5 2430M. The processor has 4 cores.

Do you have dedicated graphics ? do you have another graphics card intalled in the pc.

I don’t have another card installed, and it’s integrated.

Dual Core Laptop from 2011 with Intel 3000 graphics. I don’t think ‘should run the game easily’ was correct.

All you can do is find the most up to date video driver and lower the resolution.

Dual core? No. 4 cores. from 2011, yes. It should run the game easily on low-to-medium settings.

i honestly don’t know if integrated graphics will do it…:undecided:

my GF had to use my old laptop to play because hers has intel integrated graphics 3000. my old lappy had a first gen I7 with a nvidia 420m. not great but it still did the job.

you would probably have to seriously tweak stuff to get it to run smoothly, if it even can.

you sure your laptop doesn’t have a dedicated gpu as well? all i can find on the net are 5750g units which have a geforce which can probably handle the game so check if you can select a different rendering device in the options. if not the integrated gpu is defo your bottleneck, no idea if there’s any way it could run this.

The issue is with the Intel HD Graphics, because everything else is fine. I’m running 60 FPS with Core 2 Quad 9650, and Nvidia GTX 260. The best that you can hope for is to lower all your settings, which you’ve said you’ve done, and try to maximize your graphics. Have you tried playing the game in Windowed Borderless settings in options>>Video? Use the pull down menu to adjust.

Nope. It’s dual core cpu (2 cores + 4 threads) + integrated graphics. You’re not going to be able to play any modern game on that with the expectation of decent performance of any kind.

There appears to also have been an i7 Quad-core version of that laptop. Still with Intel 3000 integrated graphics though, so below minimum requirements.

The CPU is not even close to being as important as the GPU for games. An older Core 2 Duo with a decent graphics card can easily play the game. Before he gives up it might be a good idea to try “Windowed Borderless” settings, which will still keep the feel of the atmosphere, but lower the graphics demand on his integrated graphics. If that doesn’t work then he can try the windowed setting.

Fair enough but his graphics solution just barely meets the minimum requirements.

What I said still holds, you can’t expect good performance with that set up.

While you might be able to “play” I don’t think it will be a good experience. My 6 month old computer with high end parts dips down into the 30 fps range in some specific places and that’s the fault of the game and has nothing to do with how good/bad the pc running the game is.

I would honestly suggest to the OP to spend $600-700 and build a decent gaming pc instead of struggling with a 5 year old laptop that just skates in under the minimum requirements.

The PC should run the game. I guess using “easily” wasn’t right, what i meant is that the PC _ should _ be able to run the game on low or medium settings according to the requirements of the game.

I can run not-so-old games on this PC such has Fallout New Vegas, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 on low-to-medium settings, with good FPS. Grim Dawn should also give good FPS on low settings, but it doesn’t. The game isn’t optimised well.

I ve also tried ALL of the resolution settings - Lowest resolution and having the game windowed - no help.

Unless something wonderful comes up i guess i won’t be playing it on this PC.

so basically you have no graphics card at all, that is your problem right there… the HD 3000 is below the minimum specs

To OP, this ^^

The minimum is a dedicated GPU (albeit old), be thankful it can run at all.

In this link it says that if i could run Titan Quest, i should be able to run Grim Dawn too: http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3185 .

I can run TQ with medium settings with decent FPS. It doesn’t make sense.

You missed the word “provisional” in the post title. Also, that post is four years old. The fact is, you have a computer that’s below the minimum requirements for the game. Why you insist that you “should” be able to run it is beyond me.

And on the Steam page it lists the minimum requirements. You do not meet them.

My other parts are sufficient enough for running the game, the only issue has been the video card.

I have CPUID, which tells the specs of my PC. It says my video card has 2172 MB s of memory - Grim Dawn’s minimum requirement is FOUR times less than that.

So, my pc meets the minimum requirements - the game is poorly optimised which is why it doesn’t run well.

For the fourteenth time, integrated graphics are not the same as a discrete graphics card. Your 2172 MB of memory is shared memory, not dedicated video memory. You have 0 MB of graphics memory, an integrated GPU with only 85% of the Texels/sec of an NVidia 6800, and a complete lack of understanding what computer specifications are.

YOUR COMPUTER DOESN’T MEET MINIMUM SPECS.