chowbar wrote:Hey guys, I've been shopping around for a new laptop and since I'm a broke college kid I'm also on a budget. While this laptop will mostly be for school and browsing, I also want to play GZDoom and other source ports on it as well. While I know a dedicated GPU is always better, they tend to be on heavier and more expensive laptops which is not something I'd prefer. Lots of thin and lights seem to come with an integrated Intel UHD 620 GPU, so I wanted to ask you guys, is an Intel UHD 620 with 8GB of RAM sufficient for running GZDoom with all the fancy bells and whistles?
Should I just save up for a laptop with a dedicated GPU? Or is a RAM upgrade with the 620 sufficient?
If my trash Intel HD 4000 can run GZDoom 3.x with SOME effects at a resolution around 900 i can't remember at around 70fps then your GPU should be okay. This does NOT account for mods and some of them (Doom Tournament comes to mind) will run like real hot steaming garbage.
And if you are dying for performance you can roll back to GZDoom 1.9 (or 1.8.6 if that isn't enough) or use Zandronum.
If those effects GZDoom 3.x has won't run nice in your system you can use GZDoom 1.9 with the attached files unzipped into it's directory. You may want to enable SSAO but personally the bloom gives enough life to the graphics for me.
Also why the heck would you want to crank the graphics up so much? Literally the only stuff that looks good with Doom are a couple shaders, dynamic lights, trilinear filtering with 4x aniso, bloom and AO, most other stuff destroys performance and doesn't look quite as nice. Some of the tonemapping can look good too but it's much more personal preference than the other options.
EDIT: Nevermind, performance is way slower render-wise in the latest builds. If you want effects GZDoom 1.9 may be your only option. From what i heard ReShade which works with new versions is a performance drainer.
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