Playing with an Intel(R) HD Graphics

[Paulobergonci 673]

Well, I just started playing the game with my notebook.

 

Specs:

Windows 8.1 - 64 bits

Core I3 3110M, 2,40Ghz

4GB RAM

Intel® HD Graphics 4000 - 1.7GB

 

Its not a gaming computer, not even a good computer haha

 

I opened the game this morning with everything set high, as it came to me, the city didn't even load, I had to keep the On/Off button pressed to turn it off, because Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't even work.

 

Then I opened it and set everything to Low, no Tilt Shift, no shadows, no anti alysing.

The loading screen took a while to load and at some point it froze, then the city slowly and laggy started to appear. Then i could play with no problems.

 

But then I tried to set some things to Medium,to see how it would work, it was the worst mistake of my life, the game just crashed in front of my eyes.

 

So I'll just have to play with everything on low.

 

That's the experience I'm sharing with you.

Now I'm gonna get back to the game XD

[Panos 29]

a) HD4000 is not a graphic card to play the game. The minimum requirement is GTX260/ATI 5670. (roughly 8 times more powerful than the HD4000)

 

b) Your system has 4GB Ram of which seems you have given 1.7GB to the graphic card as shared RAM. Your effective Ram then is 2.3GB. Half of what the game needs. 

[squeaky024 14]

I have basically the same thing except worse: I have the 3000 graphics. Can I even consider running this?

[Mister Giggles 310]

If it runs, it'll run poorly.

[squeaky024 14]

SC4 it is then, thanks.

 

edit: its been time for an upgrade for a while but since I need a laptop its going to be more expensive to get a good performance than a desktop.

[GAMESTUPID74 1]

I created this account just to help... I have had the same issue. I believe I have hd4200 video card and was soo slow and laggy. Just barely playable. Was easy fix and hope it helps. Game is still a little slow but defiantly playable and I'm happy with it..try at your own risk..I accept no responsibility for anything

..set game graphics to low

..set game resolution to 1024x768 (I believe is what I have on)

..goto windows and set desktop resolution to match your game resolution (in my case desktop lowered to 1024x768)

.. play game

.. when done just end game and change desktop resolution back to your normal settings.

Goodluck hope this helps

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

SC4 it is then, thanks.

 

edit: its been time for an upgrade for a while but since I need a laptop its going to be more expensive to get a good performance than a desktop.

 

Pssst....Lenovo Y40, on sale.  If you can afford it go for one with a Solid State Drive.  Will handle this game just fine.  And SC4 too.  These games can co-exist, although people are going to try to convince us otherwise.  

[Mister Giggles 310]

Joe, it's only a matter of time before Cities: Skylines and Simcity 4 fight to the death. There can only be one!

[Sabretooth78 808]

Yes and no.  They both have their places.

 

There are still things you can do in SC4 for which it doesn't appear C:S was built to accommodate - for instance region play and huge regions at that.  I shudder to think how a SC4 typical large (13 x 13 large tile square or so) region would run as one cohesive city in C:S.

 

If I had to give up SC4, I could easily survive with just C:S even in its vanilla form.  But I don't have to, and that's the best part.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

My Dell is All in One 2020 Insprion One meets the Pentium requirements but Graphics Card that I can't upgrade or Ram I have is 4. If I could replace DVD Drive with the Graphics Card that the Game needs.

[catty-cb 4,411]

.....  I shudder to think how a SC4 typical large (13 x 13 large tile square or so) region would run as one cohesive city in C:S.

 

If I had to give up SC4, I could easily survive with just C:S even in its vanilla form.  But I don't have to, and that's the best part.

 

I haven't been game to buy more than two extra tiles in C:S as technically my computer shouldn't be able to run the game at all

 

HP Omni 120-2135a Desktop PC

Motherboard: WJ5 (Leon)

Processor: Single Core Celeron G440

Memory: Added 8GB (was 2GB)

Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Integrated graphics (DX10.1)

 

It (and I have switched off or set to low everything in the graphics options) takes about 15 minutes to start and after than its fine and once you purchase an extra tile the two tiles merge together so you really don't notice the difference you just keep building as per normal you just have more room to do it.

 

[Paulobergonci 673]

Mine is loading a bit faster now.

I'll try to put 8GB of RAM, thats the only thing I can do.

[Prophet42 1,503]

I haven't bought Cities: Skylines yet, but I want too.  However, having read the game requirements that it doesn't support the Intel Integrated Graphics, I am somewhat hesitant to get it. Following are my computer specs:

 

HP Pavilion 17 Notebook

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

Intel Duo Core i5-4210U @ 1.7 GHZ

RAM 8 GB

Intel Integrated HD Graphics 4400

 

So opinions....Do you think I would be able to run C:S on this machine?  It runs SC2013 and SC4 just fine.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

Sim City Games don't need AMD Graphics Card but like this Game,Cities XXL and so on do.

[Paulobergonci 673]

I haven't bought Cities: Skylines yet, but I want too.  However, having read the game requirements that it doesn't support the Intel Integrated Graphics, I am somewhat hesitant to get it. Following are my computer specs:

 

HP Pavilion 17 Notebook

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

Intel Duo Core i5-4210U @ 1.7 GHZ

RAM 8 GB

Intel Integrated HD Graphics 4400

 

So opinions....Do you think I would be able to run C:S on this machine?  It runs SC2013 and SC4 just fine.

I guess you could run on low, maybe some itens on medium, MAYBE.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

Hope your right and somebody just needs to try it .

[IRE505 109]

Would I be able to run the game?

My Specs:

Dell Dimension C521

AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual core 4400+ @ 2.3GHz

RAM: 3GB

ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series

Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit

[TPB 563]

I am successfully running the Game with all settings on High, at full 1080 resolution, without lag or problems. Only had a couple of CTDs so far.

 

System: Windows 8.1 64 bits

 

Memory: 8GB 

 

Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 4600

 

CPU: Intel ® Core i5-4460S CPU@2.90GHz

 

The detail here that might be doing the trick for me is the fact I rolled back my Intel HD graphics driver to a previous version when trying to fix the machine for SC4. That might have inadvertently made it work better with other games too, unsure.

[Paulobergonci 673]

I am successfully running the Game with all settings on High, at full 1080 resolution, without lag or problems. Only had a couple of CTDs so far.

 

System: Windows 8.1 64 bits

 

Memory: 8GB 

 

Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 4600

 

CPU: Intel ® Core i5-4460S CPU@2.90GHz

 

The detail here that might be doing the trick for me is the fact I rolled back my Intel HD graphics driver to a previous version when trying to fix the machine for SC4. That might have inadvertently made it work better with other games too, unsure.

 

Your CPU speed and 8GB of RAM helps a lot.

[Azurespecter 506]

Joe, it's only a matter of time before Cities: Skylines and Simcity 4 fight to the death. There can only be one!

 

 

Haha, just kidding! I still have SC4 on my computer.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

Thanks and I can just update the Ram and it will work.

[CoreyEttinger 1]

I just want to highlight the fact that my 15" Retina Display MacBook Pro with 2.8GHz Intel i7 with integrated Iris Pro graphics and additional GeForce GT750M with 2GB of DDR5 and 16GB of Ram simply slays this game. Having the dual GPUs makes everything run incredibly smooth even at the highest possible resolutions and detail levels. If you have $3,600, I would definitely recommend buying one.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

It worked first tine loading but going back to Main Menu to try another Map froze up when loading and couldn't even get back to Windows.

[iviaarten 534]

I just want to highlight the fact that my 15" Retina Display MacBook Pro with 2.8GHz Intel i7 with integrated Iris Pro graphics and additional GeForce GT750M with 2GB of DDR5 and 16GB of Ram simply slays this game. Having the dual GPUs makes everything run incredibly smooth even at the highest possible resolutions and detail levels. If you have $3,600, I would definitely recommend buying one.

heh, for 3600? I'd build a pc that has better performance for 1500, and go on a nice holiday for the other 2100

[mgomrjsurf 16]

The Game works for me with Intel Graphics,4 Ram.

[OliverJPhillips 23]

I'm running it on a MacBook w/ Retina with the following specs.

 

2.6 GHz i5 processor

8GB Ram

Intel Iris 1536 MB Integrated Graphics.

 

I'm running the game on all medium settings and it runs smoothly, it sometimes stalls when plopping roads but thats all. When I run it on low settings it never glitches at all. I usually run it on low settings when building and when exploring/snapshotting I use medium.

 

The difference between High/Low graphics isn't as bad as I thought it would be, it's not too significant of a change IMO.

 

Hope this is helpful.

 

O.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

I just want to highlight the fact that my 15" Retina Display MacBook Pro with 2.8GHz Intel i7 with integrated Iris Pro graphics and additional GeForce GT750M with 2GB of DDR5 and 16GB of Ram simply slays this game. Having the dual GPUs makes everything run incredibly smooth even at the highest possible resolutions and detail levels. If you have $3,600, I would definitely recommend buying one.

 

It doesn't work that way.  Can't use two GPUs at the same time like that; they trade off for performance vs. power saving.

 

Unless that whole post is sarcasm against Apple.

 

 

For everyone experiencing some success with integrated graphics, don't get your hopes up until you've built a huge city.  Running an empty game versus one with thousands of simulated agents makes a huge difference.

[OliverJPhillips 23]

 

I just want to highlight the fact that my 15" Retina Display MacBook Pro with 2.8GHz Intel i7 with integrated Iris Pro graphics and additional GeForce GT750M with 2GB of DDR5 and 16GB of Ram simply slays this game. Having the dual GPUs makes everything run incredibly smooth even at the highest possible resolutions and detail levels. If you have $3,600, I would definitely recommend buying one.

 

It doesn't work that way.  Can't use two GPUs at the same time like that; they trade off for performance vs. power saving.

 

Unless that whole post is sarcasm against Apple.

 

 

For everyone experiencing some success with integrated graphics, don't get your hopes up until you've built a huge city.  Running an empty game versus one with thousands of simulated agents makes a huge difference.

 

 

 

See above post for my specs...

I'm currently on 8 tiles and a population of circa 300k. Still running perfectly fine. Will keep you updated.

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

I run an Asus X551CA with duel core 1.86 Intel Celeron N2815 laptop with Windows 8.1. Rarely have issues. Aso with 8.1 be careful about ctrl+alt+del as it tends to destroy the operating system. Even Microsoft recommends the on off switch. Also have Intel Graphics. Everything set to minimum. All except tilt shift.

[ugzz 0]

Microsoft Surface Pro

i5- 2.5Ghz

4GB Ram

Intel 4400

 

Tilt shift: off

Film Grain: off

Shadows: Disabled

Texture Quality: Low

Level of Detail: Low

Shadow Distance: Very Short, should be N/A (they are off)

Anisotriopic: Disabled

Anti-Aliasing: Disabled

 

City: 6 map tiles. Lots of mountain and River. Small pockets of very dense areas scattered, but still 60%+ empty space and highways. 

Current Population: 75k

 

Frame-rates are averaged, i panned around the city, zoomed in and out, and rotated the camera around a few times at different view levels for each test.

 

1920x1080

6fps. 

 

1280x720

12fps: Almost playable if you can tolerate it

 

1024x768

15fps: This is actually playable, while 15fps is low, its surprising how playable the game is. The text and icons are just legible/ viewable enough to work decently.

 

800x600

19fps: while playable frame-rate wise, some of the text and icons are starting to really suffer. I would say this is borderline unplayable, but maybe i'm too picky.

 

640x480

26fps: huge jump in frame-rate. but now the text is illegible, and i mean that, you can barely make out some of the words. Even the icons you click on become "blobs" and unless you memorized the entire UI, good luck..  This also had the highest jump around the average fps, jumping up to nearly 30 and tanking down to almost 15 at times.

 

 

An interesting note for Surface users, it does some interesting things with scaling sometimes, and running the game in a window or with black bars isn't going to work playing at such a low res. 

If this is your goal you are going to need to change your desktop background and make it way lower then play, this seems to resolve the issues. Alternatively if you are a bit more "techie" you can force the stock intel drivers on which enable some extra scaling options. You will need to "update" the drive manually for this one though, as the exe won't run and windows will tell you the driver is "already up to date".

 

*fun fact, i've had a simtropolis account for over 3 years and this is my first post lol.