can i run skyrim? (hope im in the right section)

[Chinoman]

yeah I am just amazed at some people in this thread thinking it can run Skyrim or even the OP claiming he ran BF 3. we talk about upgrading slow video cards all the time but a 6150 will make even an 8600gt look amazing. a 6150 does good to ever deliver more than a slideshow for modern games.

Why would OP lie about it running BF3? What does he stand to gain?

 

[toyota]

Why would OP lie about it running BF3? What does he stand to gain?

OP claimed to run BF 3 smoothly on a 6150. that is 100% impossible.

I did not say he was lying though. I said earlier that he must be mistaken about his video card since a 6150 cant do that.

 

[skipsneeky2]

6150 is slow built a friend a amd x2 555 machine and the onboard video hardly even played BF2 and that's a very old game.

Played ut2004 ok but not all that great .

 

[chimaxi83]

I second the crappiness of 6150.

My sons PC has a 6150 too, along with a Phenom X4, and I had to upgrade it to a 5770 just for a simple kid themed MMO at 1440 x 900. Felt bad for him lol. Literally 8-10x improvement.

BF3 won't run on a 6150, nor will Skyrim. More like Cakemania, or something.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I used to use a single-core Athlon 939 rig with a 6150 (SE?), with DDR RAM, and it barely player WoW. Something like 5-8 FPS min, 10-12ave, 18fps max. It was painful to play.

That was before both expansions too.

In regards to Skyrim, this is what Tom's Hardware says:
"As settings drop, so do CPU requirements. So, any dual-core processor running at 2 GHz or more should be ample."

So it just looks like the OP needs a GPU.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I doubt a 6150 would even do well in Oblivion except in the lowest settings and resolution. I can't see it running Skyrim at a playable frame rate.

 

[Nebor]

The 6150 is absolutely awful. It raped my mother, murdered my father and kicked my dog.


Well, that's what it meant to do. It only had enough power to hug my mother, thump my father and scratch my dog.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

The 6150 is absolutely awful. It raped my mother, murdered my father and kicked my dog.


Well, that's what it meant to do. It only had enough power to hug my mother, thump my father and scratch my dog.

 

[crisium]

OP claimed to run BF 3 smoothly on a 6150. that is 100% impossible.

I did not say he was lying though. I said earlier that he must be mistaken about his video card since a 6150 cant do that.

Indeed - the OP makes no sense. He must have gotten the Battlefield 2 demo by mistake, as the 6150 can run that on Low. Or, a tech-savvy friend of his upgraded his rig and he forgot.

Athlon II X2 @ 2.7GHz is fine for this game at lower settings, as Tom's shows (Phenom II @ 2.5GHz is quite similar).

He should just get a 5670 and play it on Medium.

OP, just get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102871

 

[lehtv]

if your cpu only allows you to get 30 fps then lowering the res will make no difference. so again lowering your res because you have a slow cpu makes no sense.

I don't follow that logic at all. Why does it not make a difference? Lowering the res will give you better fps.

 

[Termie]

I'm not sure we've helped the OP all that much in determining whether he can play Skyrim. He definitely needs a bit of a GPU upgrade, but that's not too hard.

First of all, Skyrim is not quad-core aware, so he's not at a big disadvantage with a dual-core: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-benchmark,3074-9.html

However, Skyrim does require high clock speeds to get the best performance, and he won't be overclocking on his OEM system.

That being said, he can pair it with a moderate GPU to get reasonable performance. It's been estimated that Skyrim will have 60% of the performance of Oblivion on equivalent video cards, so anything above $50 should work, since these cards are at least as powerful as the best cards in 2006. For example, he can play the game at 1280x1024 on an HD6450: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-benchmark,3074-4.html.

Something like this GT430 would be ideal though: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134121

I think the suggestion of a 5670 that crisium provided isn't a bad one, although it's probably more GPU than the OP needs for his system. It requires a bit more power than the GT430 as well: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3973/nvidias-geforce-gt-430/17. It depends on the OP's budget (and his power supply - a 250w PSU would be optimal for an HD5670).

 

[toyota]

I don't follow that logic at all. Why does it not make a difference? Lowering the res will give you better fps.

if the cpu is too slow NO IT WONT. it will just be the same framerate at a lower resolution.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I don't follow that logic at all. Why does it not make a difference? Lowering the res will give you better fps.

The FPS you get will be limited by your slowest part. More often than not, for gaming, that is going to be your GPU or CPU.

Let's say you want to play SlowSpyder RPG (awesome game btw). At 1080P your current video card can render at 60FPS, your CPU is powerful enough to run the game at 90FPS. You'll still only see 60FPS because your weakest part, your video card, cannot do better.

Now let's say you get a new video card that is roughly 2x as fast, it is powerful enough to render at that same resolution at 120FPS, but you still have the same CPU, it will limit you to 90FPS with that new video card. Even if you lower resolution to make life easier on the video card, because your CPU is giving you all it can at 90FPS, you will not see frame rate increase as resolution is lowered.

In this case the OP's CPU isn't all that fast, so whether he went with a GTX560 or 580 he likely won't see much difference in FPS as his CPU will always limit him. And if he had that 580 and was to lower resolution, well, his CPU is already the limiting factor.

 

[CKTurbo128]

No matter how fast the CPU is, it still remains that the fact that the integrated GeForce 6150 is a slow dog and there is no way that BF3 should be able to run on it. GeForce 6150 is DX9 and I thought that BF3 only runs on cards with DX10 & DX11 hardware support?

@MRcrispyyo: If you really did run BF3 beta on your PC, you probably have a different graphics card installed. You can do us all a favor by confirming this: type "dxdiag" in the search bar of the Start Menu, checking the Display tab, and look at the Chip Type; that's your graphics card.

Depending on what you have, you may or may not be able to run Skyrim. If it is a GeForce 6150, you definitely need to get a new graphics card, as your CPU and RAM meet the minimum requirements for Skyrim.

 

[tweaker61]

Sorry to bump this, but have any of you actuall tested this video card with any new games? I can say from experiance that this card does in fact have a few tricks up its sleeve. It can in fact play some new games. So far all the Call of duty's work, dead space 2 and portal 2, skyrim works (not the best of course) fear 3 works (slow but with some tweaks it will go at full speed low settings) Crysis also works along with crysis 2. Of course some PC's cant actually play these games with 6150, mine can. Pretty sure gears of war is also playable too

Some other games ive tested have been both L4D games, fear 2. Also someone said something about WoW not being able to play well on this, not sure if that was an exageration or what but i play it with high settings.

All im saying is this card can do a few impressive things.

 

[toyota]

sorry but you are either using a different card or have no idea what you are talking about. I have had a 6150 in two of my comps and no way could it run a game like Crysis. I know because I tried just for fun. it was low single digits even with lowest possible settings and res. some of those other games may work on lowest possible setting but they are probably not playable.

that integrated junk could not do impressive things even when it was released regardless of what you have fooled yourself into thinking.

 

[tweaker61]

sorry but you are either using a different card or have no idea what you are talking about. I have had a 6150 in two of my comps and no way could it run a game like Crysis. I know because I tried just for fun. it was low single digits even with lowest possible settings and res. some of those other games may work on lowest possible setting but they are probably not playable.

that integrated junk could not do impressive things even when it was released regardless of what you have fooled yourself into thinking.

Im using it at this very moment lol. Most of the games i mentioned are playable too lol. Ive done a lot of testing my self with games. I dont care if you believe me or not just wanted to let people know there it is possible to run some good games. Just some run different from others. For instance as i mentioned i can run portal 2 lowest settings with decent FPS, Dead space 2 decent fps, i cant run fallout 3 very well, nor oblivion, so i use old oblivion. All call of duty games work low settings, i can put textures up to highest, not resolution or Specular. World of warcraft high settings. Skyrim, is somewhat playable..pretty slow. But still, works. Needs some tweaking. Magicka doesnt, it goes way too slow. All games are different.

Like i said you can believe what you want, i know for a fact this card can play some decent games. If you want i can make a small list of games ive tested. Fooled my self into thinking? Cant help but feel that was a bit rude and not really needed.

 

[toyota]

you claimed to run Crysis 1 on that 6150 which I know for 100% fact is not playable and cant get even go above single digits for average. just the fact you claimed that means I put absolutely no stock in anything else you have to say about what it can do.

 

[tweaker61]

you claimed to run Crysis 1 on that 6150 which I know for 100% fact is not playable and cant get even go above single digits for average. just the fact you claimed that means I put absolutely no stock in anything else you have to say about what it can do.

lol read again. Didnt say i can run crysis on my pc, i said it should run. Found some pretty impressive videos of it. Other than that, yea this card can run a lot of games simple

 

[toyota]

lol read again. Didnt say i can run crysis on my pc, i said it should run. Found some pretty impressive videos of it. Other than that, yea this card can run a lot of games simple

oh really..."Crysis also works along with crysis 2." so by "works" you mean that you have not tested it but it should run? lol, come on now.

there are video of all kinds of stuff on youtube that are just nonsense. sometimes you can not even tell just how slow the games actually are because a gameplay video is not the same as actually playing the game. I know because I have recorded gameplay before.

 

[tweaker61]

oh really..."Crysis also works along with crysis 2." so by "works" you mean that you have not tested it but it should run? lol, come on now.

there are video of all kinds of stuff on youtube that are just nonsense. sometimes you you can not even tell just how slow the games actually are because a gameplay video is not the same as actually playing the game. I know because I have recorded gameplay before.

Yea "should work" meaning ive watched some impressive videos of it actually working. The rest of the games ive mentioned i have tested personally.
Doesnt make much sense if i would make this up. Oh yea i just signed up to come on to this one thread and state false stuff about games working on a crappy video card. :\ Seriously?

All im saying is, this card can run a lot of games, somewhat new games on low settings with decent fps.

But if you only care about graphics i wouldnt suggest it, like me, i personally dont care as long as it works well. I would find my self pretty lucky to be able to play them on my crappy pc. Not trying to start arguments with you, just telling people that yea some games work on this crappy video cards, some dont, they all differ. I was quite surprised too, but yea i recently tested the starter pack of starcraft 2 so i could play with my friend who is maybe too over obsessed over this game lol and it works with great FPS but i cant put any settings higher or it will go pretty slow.

 

[toyota]

now you are backpedaling and changing your story with every reply. you clearly said "Crysis also works along with crysis 2."

now you say that you did not try it but it should work because you saw "some impressive videos of it actually working". so the one game I know for a fact is not playable at all now suddenly becomes the one game you really did not even play?


look I do not know you but you are not coming across as being very genuine.

 

[tweaker61]

now you are backpedaling and changing your story with every reply. you clearly said "Crysis also works along with crysis 2."

now you say that you did not try it but it should work because you saw "some impressive videos of it actually working". so the one game I know for a fact is not playable at all now suddenly becomes the one game you really did not even play?


look I do not know you but you are not coming across as being very genuine.

Hm yes i see that i rushed a bit when saying Crysis and Crysis 2 works, should have said it should work, from the videos and information ive seen. Anyways, if thats the only issue you have then oh well everything i said is true. Like i said dont need you to believe me, just wanted people to know. And im sure with some tweaking crysis 1 will work. Probably look like crap but still would work.

 

[toyota]

how about you throw up some videos showing your 6150 in it and then firing up a game with fraps or some other monitoring tool running? some of those games you mentioned were barely playable on a 4250 which is way faster than a 6150.

 

[tweaker61]

how about you throw up some videos showing your 6150 in it and then firing up a game with fraps or some other monitoring tool running? some of those games you mentioned were barely playable on a 4250 which is way faster than a 6150.

rofl so the 4250 couldnt play left 4 dead 2? couldnt play portal 2? or dead space 2? hmm...

If you havent noticed some, yes, SOME pc's with these cards can play these games i mentioned. For instance me. I can play all the games i mention, still havent tested crysis yet. Anyways heres someone running portal 2 with the 6150 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCVED0Ktfvo as i uninstall most of my games because this pc has horrible space problems lol. But ill reinstall them sometime this week and post some videos. heres a L4D2 one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndc7FX6rGRA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta9XU8doopc&feature=related thats MW2. All using the video card im talking about. Anyways i need some sleep, ill post some videos soon using fraps, takes too much time though lol