Runes of Magic US / AU

Most advice on the forum says "avoid integrated graphics", but I expect that ppl tried it with limited ram. Hence the question: is integrated intel graphics the bottleneck also if there is a lot of ram?

I have a chance of buying a laptop with quite new i7 processor, 16GB ram (but also space to expand to 32GB), but no place for a dedicated graphics card. I wondered if anyone had any experience with such a combination of hardware. The integrated intel graphics (and the whole laptop) is quite new.

(It's not meant for the main computer with gazillion of accounts logged in at the same time, just as a backup solution for trips etc. I guess logging in one account a time to do dailies would never be an issue - but for this I could buy a really cheap older laptop instead. For the one I can buy now, probably the most I might possibly want would be 6 accounts to run gobs.)

Quoted from "sertet"

Generally it isn't the amount of ram the video card has available that affects this game, it is the performance of the video chipset.

Well, but specifically for RoM, I thought that the issue was that ppl were buying e.g. a laptop with 4GB ram (computer ram not a graphics card with 4GB dedicated memory) but with integrated graphics which did _not_ have it's own dedicated ram at all and used the main ram for graphics. About such a combination ppl did complain. I wondered if just increasing computer ram would solve the main issue in this situation.

Quoted from "sertet"

Intel 4th and 5th Generation i5s and i7s are reasonable but obviously not the best you can get for graphics. A laptop with a dedicated graphics processor will outperform an integrated one in the same generation, but that is not to say a current gen one is incapable of running the game.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking. And RoM not being exactly the newest game on the market - I would not expect it to require more graphics chip power than the integrated chip provides.

I was just wondering about this combination: just a few RoM clients at lowest settings, integrated graphics with loads of _computer_ ram. Not optimal, but my expectation is it would actually work. I wondered if anyone ever tried it and could confirm this...