As you might have seen in the signature of thecakeisaspy and my own a team of five members are currently working on a mod called portal stories. Some of the maps we created so far are quite big and have lots of details in them. By optimization we can reduce the amount of work your computer has to do, but there is a point where further optimization is impossible.

We want our mod to look as good as possible but also run on as much computers as possible. That's a problem, so we're searching for a good balance. It would be great if you could insert your computer specs here, so we can estimate where that balance has to be.

A few guidelines of what we like to know:
Your windows experience index (can be found on control panel -> system)
Your cpu (processor)
Your gpu (graphical card)
The amount or ram you have

How to get this information (windows vista and 7):
Go to Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Systems

Then look for these things:
Rating:
Processor:
Installed Physical memory (RAM):

Then click in the menu to the right device manager and look for display adapters, and note that name as well.

to the right the device manager, to the left the other settings

Thank you very much for the info!

~Lp

My specs:
Windows rating: 5,0
CPU: Intel(R)Core(TM) i3 CPU M370 @2.40GHz 2.40GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00GB (7.87 GB usable)
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series

My specs:
Windows rating: 4.5
CPU: Intel Pentium P6200 @2.13gGHz 2.13GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 4.00GB (3.8 GB usable)
GPU: Intel HD Graphics

Hope it helps and best of luck with your mod, I lokk forward to playing it when its finished!

Bring it all!

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

CaretCaret wrote:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Thank you, that is very useful!

And the original game works on medium

Everything Max'd on Portal 2. Only thing I can't run on max is metro 2033.

CPU: 2.8 Ghz Intel Xeon
HD: ? 2TB Hard Drive
Partition to 1TB HD
RAM: 12GB DDR3 RAM
GPU: ATI Radeon HD

Everything on the high/very high settings.

P.S This is a Mac.

spongylover123 wrote:
Intel Xeon

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spongylover123 wrote:
2.8 Ghz

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WRY?!

Portal 2 runs maxed out at 1080p @60fps with Vsync On

During the scene with the extended relaxation vault bumping into those stasis chambers, the GLaDOS wake up, the core transfer with Wheatley, and the part at the end with the portal on the moon, I usually get less than one frame per second during the entire scene, with the picture lagging up to two or three seconds after the audio.

Windows Experience Index:

System Requirements Lab for Portal 2: (I don't know why it said I have 4.5 GB of RAM, because I only have 4)

2 year old laptop, connected to a monitor. I need to set my graphics on all of my games to the minimum. Yet, Portal Stories works fine.

Windows Rating: 5.9 (win7 64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67 GHz
Memory: 6GB
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 (2560x1600 res)

I run portal with fully maxed out settings and no problems.

Rob.

Ipfreaky90 wrote:
These specs surprise me :O
I had the idea that there were a lot of people using laptops with integrated graphics :O

It probably won't help much...but I've always wanted somebody to know

Maxes the game at 60FPS.