guide/how to: ULTRA LOW settings for weak systems

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Warrax wrote:

All that matter is texture quality and resolution because others settings are in the UI already.

I recommend staying in fullscreen, Window mode doesn't necessarily mean more fps, it's often the opposite.

Also, nice Reply/View ratio (13:20600)

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Drakier wrote:

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I can't get the settings low enough. I set texture filtering to 0 and quality to 100 (though it looks the same as 5) and my game is still slow during certain moments. I can't lower my resolution 800x600 otherwise when i alt-tab back into the game it won't stretch to fit my screen. I alt tab a lot during five-minute load times.

Sounds like you need a better system to play PoE on then.

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Drakier wrote:

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I don't need a better system. My system is fine. I have a 2013 11" Macbook Air. The problem is this game does not support low enough graphics settings.

I don't give a shit about graphics, I just enjoy the gameplay and want a fast frame rate. Give me DOS graphics please. Give me that choice.

Your system begs to differ. If you're using the 2013 11" MacBook Air, it probably has only the default integrated Intel HD Graphics 5000 or some such crap right? While integrated graphics are getting better and are better than the older models, they still can't even come close to competing with dedicated graphics cards.

PoE is what it is. It is unlikely that they'll lessen the requirements of GPUs to accommodate GPUs that don't have enough power ... although maybe with more time and money they can optimize the engine to perform better. I wouldn't hold my breath though.

Until then, you're stuck with what the game is, and what the game provides for options. If that still isn't low enough, then it's because your GPU isn't capable of performing to what PoE needs.

The other problem with integrated GPUs is that most of them don't have a dedicated bus in most cases so they require usage of the CPU to do graphics processing... so not only is your CPU performing normal CPU tasks, but it's also trying to process graphics at the same time. It's akin to doing software rendering rather than hardware rendering.. although it's slightly better because the hardware in this case is a little more optimized for it. That's different than a dedicated GPU which the CPU can completely offload all graphic processing tasks to the GPU to be performed in parallel to whatever the CPU is doing.

Just because you have a 2013 11" MacBook Air, doesn't make it a great gaming machine. Most laptops make VERY poor gaming machines. They're not made for gaming in most cases (even most of the ones that say "Gaming" on the name or box). They have poor heat dissipation and the hardware isn't built for it. They're meant for "office" type tasks.