Hi everyone, I have been rather hyped for this game since the trailer for it came out, but I've seen images and some videos and looks intenser than my current PC can handle. I've been meaning to get a Geforce GTX 670 but haven't saved the money up quite enough yet and if I buy Dishonored I might have to wait longer because if it is too fps intense I won't enjoy it and won't play it. Just wondering if my current specs will be able to handle this game at a good frame rate and performance. (Graphics Wise I couldn't care less, I played Deus Ex 1 graphics all minimal because I just like it like that)

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz (4 CPUS), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 4096mb RAM
DirectX Version: 11
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5400
Sound-card: I have one, default device I think.
Currently have no speakers, only use headphones

Not sure if I need to add anything else.

You should be fine. It's not a GPU-intensive game. If you can run other UE3 games on your card, you'll be able to run this.

Thank you very much. I'll buy Dishonored, and get the 670 at a later date.

yeah i got a crappy radeon hd 4660 and can run the game at 30 fps in most locations, which is acceptable for Dishonored

if I can run it on my Intel HD 3000 im sure you'll be fine haha

Wow, really? what display resolution

1280 x 720.

I made 2 ini tweaks (disabled dynamic shadows, Dynamic lighting) and runs at 30fps+for the most part so far (very early so not much has happened im in the sewers where rats begin to eat bodies and such) with textures on High and Model detail on medium
Also just added FXAA to on (off in the video) didn't notice that big of an FPS loss
I made a video here: Fraps did low the framerate a bit though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bUMcGfDWs

game still looks good

Can you run it is how I determine if I can or not. www systemrequirementslab com

That site is notorious for inaccurate information, particularly because it does not take into account the display resolution of your monitor, which makes a huge difference. Also it does not use actual benchmarks of people running the game on various hardware setups, but instead relies on the minimum specs and recommended specs posted by the publisher.

For example, I just ran it for Dishonored and it says my laptop fails and my computer cannot even run the game at all, because my CPU and GPU are below the posted minimum specs for CPU and GPU.

However, I have been running Dishonored for the past couple of days at 1920x1080 resolution, with FXAA and all other settings completely maxed and the game runs beautifully, very smooth frame rate with no crashes or hanging.

I get what you're sayin'. I just use it as reference for minimums. It's easier to hit up one site than to visit many. I get dinged all the time on my video card, I have two. in crossfire.

I recommend using SMAA instead. Better quality and gives better FPS than FXAA (Either set in-game AA to disabled or 'MLAA', depending on the performance hit.)

Are you certain you get higher frame rate with SMAA compared to FXAA? It was my understanding that SMAA is significantly more demanding than FXAA, which has an almost negligible effect on performance.

Do you have console if so I would honestly recommend getting it on console instead of PC at the moment

SMAA made it unplayable. ha ha so yes it is way more demanding than FXAA.

same thing with Skyrim FXAA barely has an effect on FPS

Yes. This is the case with all games I've tried. By the way, I'm talking about http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/ - more info on that link. It is usually activated in games by using http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/. It's pretty much similar to FXAA (both are post-processing AA methods), but has a better algorithm (making it faster and less blurry) and has even less negative effect on performance, compared to FXAA (noticeable in Skyrim and Borderlands 2 on a mid-end or low-end card).


How did you make SMAA work? There's almost no chance in hell that SMAA will make a game more unplayable than it is. http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/ is also a post-processing AA method like FXAA, and should have even less negative effect on performance than FXAA.