Question Hello Forum! Looking for help... Will my card and specs run this well?

[BuddyC3000]

I'm thinking my 15 year old daughter could benefit from playing a game called City Car Driver through Steam to help her get used to the feel of driving in many situations. I have a couple a laptops but I see that minimum requirements according to Steam are:
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 3.1 GHz.
Memory: 4 GB RAM.
Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 240 / nVidia GeForce GT 740

Both are W10. The HP Elite book has the R6 but it is a bit sluggish right now, main because It needs some maintenance and cleaning(I think). The Dell Inspiron 15 3000 is basically clean. Are both fine to run the game... which one is better? Curious if the R6 is good enough compared to the R7 which the card in the requirements stated. I do already have a Logitech Driving Force Pro GT. First three pics are for the Dell, last three are for the HP.

HP Elitebook... I believe it's a Core i3:
AMD Radeon (TM) R6 Graphics
AMD Pro A10-8700B R6, 10 Comp Cores 4C+6G 1800Mhz 4 Cores 4 Logical Processors
12GB Ram

Dell Inspiron 15 3000(Inspiron 3576):
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU@ 1.60Ghz 1800Mhz 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors
8GB Ram

 

[punkncat]

Both of them have a CPU that is more than capable. The Inspiron is technically the more powerful CPU, but honestly not sure if the integrated R6 graphics in the Elitebook or the UHD620 are going to be capable of running it.

IMO, clean/service the Elitebook and see. If it doesn't work, you could try the other. I would suggest 720p resolution.

 

[geofelt]

I think the inspiron is the better unit.
The processor is some 2x more capable:

PassMark - Intel Core i5-8250U @ 1.60GHz - Price performance comparison

The HP is a amd unit, not intel i3.

PassMark - AMD PRO A10-8700B - Price performance comparison

The inspiron graphics is more capable:

PassMark - Intel UHD Graphics 620 - Price performance comparison

This comes close to the GT740 requirement.

The HP not so much.

PassMark - Radeon R6 PRO A10-8700B R6, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G - Price performance comparison

 

[punkncat]

The inspiron graphics is more capable:

PassMark - Intel UHD Graphics 620 - Price performance comparison

This comes close to the GT740 requirement.

The HP not so much.

PassMark - Radeon R6 PRO A10-8700B R6, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G - Price performance comparison

I was rather wondering where that would fall. UHD hasn't been super impressive to me for anything on the other side of solitare, etc. Those dGPU specs are pretty low though.

 

[BuddyC3000]

Thanks. Since you mentioned trying the R6 first, does that mean you think the R6 is closer to the R7 required and the more capable card over the Intel ? How big a difference is there between the R6 and R7 and is the graphics card more important than the processor power? CCD looks like it has a fair amount of things going on onscreen at one time, but it's not too much and the graphics are not super amazing so not sure exactly how taxing it is on a system. It will be for practice so I don't mind if there is just a slight slowdown/glitchy spots sometimes as long as overall it runs decently. When you capable of running it, do you mean there is a good chance they actually might not be able to play it at all or not to a decent playable degree?

 

[geofelt]

The HP has 12gb of ram.
Capacity wise, that is good.
But 12gb does not divide evenly (there are no 6gb ram kits)so that pc may be running in slower single thread mode which could account for slugggishness.
And, integrated graphics depends on faster ram for performance.

Is there a reason not to try both if it can be that important?

 

[BuddyC3000]

No I'd love to try both, but I wanted to know if either stood a good chance of keeping up reasonably well with CCD before I spend the $25 or whatever it is for the game.

 

[geofelt]

No I'd love to try both, but I wanted to know if either stood a good chance of keeping up reasonably well with CCD before I spend the $25 or whatever it is for the game.

Give it a try with the inspiron.
The cpu meets requirements and the graphics does also.

 

[BuddyC3000]

Ok thanks... I need to clean my HP but I was actually hoping the Inspiron was better for this since it's clean already and has a bigger screen. Good to know it's PassMark shows it would likely be the better computer to run it.