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Will the game work on this old laptop?

captainkccaptainkc Member Posts: 113 Arc User
in Windows and General: PC, Network, and Other Technical Issues
My laptop died and I want to use my dad's rarely used one from 2008. Trying to figure out if it will support STO before downloading ~12 Gigs. Thanks for any help.

OS: Win 10
Memory: 3GB SDRAM
Video: ATI Radeon X1250
Sound: Realtek audio (model or version unknown)
DirectX: version 12
HDD: more than 100 Gigs free
Network: DSL broadband
DVD: SuperMulti DL

Other specs if you want to know:
http://www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-satellite-l305d/specs/
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey ... stuff. --the Doctor, "Blink"

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  • postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    The graphics capabilities there are very poor for 3d gaming - ie no, probably not/only in really low res with every possible setting set low and then horribly jerky. Its not a demanding game but those 'office/productivity' oriented graphhics from a few years ago are really under-specced in comparison with modern cpus that do have enough built in graphics power.

    I run it on an AMD A8 chip, it was cheap 2 years ago and has been fine for me, let me run skyrim over christmas, which kept my nephew quiet.
  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    System Requirements

    Operating System
    Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista / Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit)
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz or AMD Athlon X2 3800+
    RAM
    Memory: 2GB RAM
    Hard Disk
    10GB Free Disk Space
    Graphic Display
    NVIDIA GeForce 7950 / ATI Radeon X1800 / Intel HD Graphics
    Sound Drivers
    DirectX 9.0c Compatible Soundcard
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    https://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1249570/axanar-locks-in-start-date-for-filming
  • captainkccaptainkc Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    garaks31 wrote: »
    Graphic Display
    NVIDIA GeForce 7950 / ATI Radeon X1800

    Explain, instead of just cutting and pasting. I already compared the specs before I made this thread.
    So you are saying that my ATI Radeon X1250 card is below the minimum requirement of X1800?
    People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey ... stuff. --the Doctor, "Blink"
  • postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    Exactly, the x1800 was the high end for that family of GPUs 10 years ago. I think the 1250 was a 'min required to run a pc' type of chip, fine for web use or MS office and next to useless for 3d games.
  • postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    A chip that basic has a couple of issue: insufficient processing power, which might mean a game would fun horribly, and incompatability with software that was released well after the chip, meaning the any particular piece of software may not run at all. It will either simply not run or be horribly slow.
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