Zwift minimum requirements

[peterd53]

I have a Dell laptop which was purchased in 2011.
It has Pentium Dual Core T4500(2.30GHz,800MHz,1MB) and 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel and graphics is Intel GMA 4500MHD. I upgraded my memory to 8GB.

I want to run Zwift, a cycling game, with minimum requirements of Intel Core 2 Duo processor and graphics requirements of 1GB dedicated GPU,or embedded Intel HD 4000/AMD R5.

Do my graphics and processor meet these minimum requirements? If not, can you easily upgrade these? Thanks

 

[The Paladin]

The Intel GMA 4500MHD is an integrated video chip on the motherboard of your dell Laptop.
so to answer the question "If not, can you easily upgrade these?" the answer is no.

I would look at the two following pages that benchmark the video chipset your talking about
the HD400 is a better , faster processor then the GMA 4500HD, So to answer your question "Do my graphics and processor meet these minimum requirements?", I would guess that you would be disappointed in the graphical results, and quality of game play.

Links to GMA 4500 HD specs and Benchmark:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-4500MHD-GMA-X4500MHD.9883.0.html

Link to HD4000 specs and Benchmark:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000.69168.0.html

 

[peterd53]

The Intel GMA 4500MHD is an integrated video chip on the motherboard of your dell Laptop.
so to answer the question "If not, can you easily upgrade these?" the answer is no.

I would look at the two following pages that benchmark the video chipset your talking about
the HD400 is a better , faster processor then the GMA 4500HD, So to answer your question "Do my graphics and processor meet these minimum requirements?", I would guess that you would be disappointed in the graphical results, and quality of game play.

Links to GMA 4500 HD specs and Benchmark:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-4500MHD-GMA-X4500MHD.9883.0.html

Link to HD4000 specs and Benchmark:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000.69168.0.html

Thank you for your reply. So basically something should appear on my screen but it will look pretty terrible. So I either put up with it, or buy a new laptop, as I can't upgrade the current one. Thanks again.

 

[13thmonkey]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from peterd53 : "Zwift minimum requirements"

Apologies, but I also posted this on the graphics forum.

I have a Dell laptop which was purchased in 2011.

It has Pentium Dual Core T4500(2.30GHz,800MHz,1MB) and 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel and graphics is Intel GMA 4500MHD. I upgraded my memory to 8GB.

I want to run Zwift, a cycling game, with minimum requirements of Intel Core 2 Duo processor and graphics requirements of 1GB dedicated GPU,or embedded Intel HD 4000/AMD R5.

Do my graphics and processor meet these minimum requirements? If not, will it just not work?! And can you easily upgrade these? Thanks

Yes you can run it...

Thanks! I'm at work now, so I'll be able to check it out this evening when I get home. Just didn't have the patience to wait to find out.

You do you have an ant+ dongle?

Yes I have one of those thanks, as well as the cadence sensors etc. It's the laptop I'm worried about.

Dont really know much about the program but as long as you aren't expecting top quality and understand it may be laggy at some points and are okay with that, you should be fine. Then again I've ran skyrim on a single core 2.2ghz cpu and a 9500gt gpu on medium settings before no problem. You should do okay.

I think you'll be fine, need to get mine set up to ease the boredom of the pain cave.

 

[peterd53]

thanks KiL3MaNjAr0W.

yes 13thmonkey - that's the plan. Zwift seems to be a really great idea.

Just hope the quality is bearable. I can update you later with how I get on.

 

[13thmonkey]

thanks KiL3MaNjAr0W.

yes 13thmonkey - that's the plan. Zwift seems to be a really great idea.

Just hope the quality is bearable. I can update you later with how I get on.

Thanks, i've a slightly faster laptop that i'm considering it with. It does like a power meter though, or a controlled turbo trainer.

 

[peterd53]

I have a cadence and speed sensor and a basic, but compatible turbo trainer. This should be enough, but I have read that a power meter, or a fancy turbo trainer is the way to go. I'm not good enough to justify the spend on that !

 

[peterd53]

The application is crashing upon launch. I have contacted zwift support.
This Q has already been asked - https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/articles/202979045-I-crashed-What-do-I-do-now- I'm assuming I'll fall under the minimum requirements bullet point.

 

[13thmonkey]

drivers?

 

[peterd53]

What do you mean by drivers?
I've spoken to a friend who doesn't think it's a spec issue. I uninstalled it, removed any documents related to zwift and reinstalled it. No luck. My friend has advised me just to wait on support's response.

 

[13thmonkey]

What do you mean by drivers?
I've spoken to a friend who doesn't think it's a spec issue. I uninstalled it, removed any documents related to zwift and reinstalled it. No luck. My friend has advised me just to wait on support's response.

Intel drivers for the hd4000. Are they up to date? Compared to nvidia and AMD they rarely get updated.

 

[peterd53]

Zwift have got back to me and said I dont meet the minimum requirements 🙁

 

[13thmonkey]

shame, but I wouldn't have expected crashing, you have the right 'class' of card so why not just run terribly.

 

[peterd53]

shame, but I wouldn't have expected crashing, you have the right 'class' of card so why not just run terribly.

I don't know. It's still seems to be running in the task manager.

 

[peterd53]

I'm hoping HP Gaming PC, 8GB Ram DDR3, AMD Phenom II x 2 3.0GHz, 250GB HD, 1gb Radeon HD7750 will do the job..?

 

[13thmonkey]

I can't see why it wouldn't. I assume you are on the trial?

 

[peterd53]

I can't see why it wouldn't. I assume you are on the trial?

Guy selling PCs on gumtree. I told him my specs and he suggested a higher spec'd computer, then when I sent him the link to the zwift requirements he said a cheaper one would do the job, being the one I've outlined above.
It's a good price, so I'm going to go for it. Just wary after my previous problems and not being too up to date on computer specs!

thanks guys

 

[13thmonkey]

get him to install it on the trial, and show you it getting into the program.