Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition | Intel i3 8130U (UHD 620) | HD 720p
2The first game of the trilogy was played on 5 years old laptop with Intel 8th Gen i3 CPU. Possible?
Released in 2020 for PC and 2017 for console.
Intel i3 8130U couldn't hit the minimum 30 fps required for smooth play. On average it could produce around 20 fps. It looks like it is not worth messing around with this CPU, but the gameplay looked much better than the numbers said.
I was shocked but the game performed really well. It felt smooth at some point, and gaming wasn't a pain. During battles, I didn't feel that the game was slowing down and the lack of frames was my disadvantage. Exploring, changing weather condition and landscape didn't feel bad as well but rather quite normal.
Obviously game doesn't look great with lowest possible settings and low resolution but (at least myself) adaptation to pixels is quick and gaming brings pleasure instead of pain.
The field of view has to be reduced to a minimum and shadows have to be OFF to maximize performance. The first one reduces a bit camera view so you have to be careful during battles. The second one is not even noticeable during gameplay.
CPU is hammered all the time as it is only a dual-core CPU and the game can easily use multi-core CPU to increase performance (up to 12 threads). In this situation, there are only 4 threads to use.
GPU was also hammered all the time as expected but did a good job I would say. GPU shared memory was very high all the time.
RAM usage is very high and even though my laptop is equipped with 20 GB it was barely enough to fulfil game demand.
The audio was sharp and clear all the time and that was another positive surprise.
Chapters:
00:00 - intro
00:06 - settings
00:25 - river, steppe, sunshine, forest
05:05 - cutscene
05:58 - hills, river, snow
11:48 - river, forest, canyon, snow
14:52 - outro
Laptop Lenovo Ideapad 330S-14IKB
- CPU: Intel i3 8130U (dual-core)
- GPU: Intel UHD 620 (integrated)
- RAM: 20 GB DDR4 (flex mode)
- SSD: 250 GB M.2
- OS: Windows 11
- VIDEO RECORDING: AverMedia 2 Plus
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