Grimrock

Hello, I'm running the hardware test on my Macbook '09 (Running Windows) And I get 17 fps on high and medium, 18 fps on all low aswell. Is this playable? I don't see much of a difference in the fps when I change the settings from all high to all medium, but it doesnt seem to be slow either thanks.

Thoughtless wrote:Hello, I'm running the hardware test on my Macbook '09 (Running Windows) And I get 17 fps on high and medium, 18 fps on all low aswell. Is this playable? I don't see much of a difference in the fps when I change the settings from all high to all medium, but it doesnt seem to be slow either thanks.

If you're wanting more frames, maybe lowering the resolution would help. Gotta make due with what you got. It's kinda a hard game to beat when you don't have all that great of a pc. I don't remember how exactly the hardware test was but I would think selecting the setting that lowers the texture resolution and the shadows off or on low would atleast help?

Set the resolution to the lowest your monitor supports and set all settings in the tech demo to their lowest possible value. Whatever framerate you get out of that is obviously the max you're going to see. Ideally you're going to want this around 30fps or better (personally I have trouble playing anything that isn't 60fps, but 30fps would definitely be playable, imo). Starting from your best performance scenario at those lowest settings slowly work your way up (both in resolutions and visual settings) to a level that meets your desired framerate with a level of visuals you can live with.

To answer your original question, 17-18fps is pretty low, but probably "playable", though I would do whatever you can to bump that up a bit.

I'd recommend updating your graphics drivers.

17-18 is oddly low. How is your fps in other games?

Haha I forgot to change one setting in the hardware test . I turned off the SSAO setting (I forgot it was still on high) whilst my other settings was on low and it went from the avg. 18 fps to 35. Now I decided hey, let's see what will happen if I change all my settings to high including the SSAO again, and it went back to 16 - 14 fps. I then tried turning off SSAO whilst leaving on the other settings on high and I got the avg. 26 fps.

Well, even though I won't get the best results, I'm still gonna end up buying this game.. man I love that theme music in the beta trailer

Yeah, SSAO is incredibly taxing for older/ weaker cards that don't properly support it. I usually have to disable it, but if the hardware test is anything to go by I might not.

When I ran the hardware test on my work laptop it ran pretty well, I will probably run it without SSAO if it runs too slow.

I noted a 63fps framerate on a MacBook Pro (i7, 2.2GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB). If I disabled SSAO, I hit 71fps.