thank you all, this has been very helpful. i may be able to run it comfortably. I'll take your advice and save up for an earlier graphics card! thank you all.

Half of the games I've played over the last couple of years shouldn't have worked the way they did given the stated minimum requirements in relation to my setup. Your card is anno 2017, DirectX 12 capable. That's not nothing. If you can accept playing at low settings and
adapt resolution skies the limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dtTa32LH_U

Turn down sound for crappy, too long intro.
But this should tell you if it will run enough for you.


Note for future reference -
If you google the video card type and game name you will probably find someone who posted a video on youtube about it. I always found it more helpful to find a video for this type of problem to find a real answer.

do you have $400 or so? You can get a 2 generation old card for around that. I know that can be a lot (you can buy a basic school/work laptop for that much!), but its nothing like the current series prices.

The way PCs are set up, there is a rudimentary graphics card on many motherboards that can let you run windows and some simple 2-d stuff -- this sounds like what you current have. It is not sufficient for most real games (3-d or advanced 2d that has lighting and such).

This game isn't optimized as of right now, so I wouldn't suggest buying it before you get the chance to upgrade your rig. Maybe in the future if they optimize it further or you get a better computer. My computer's fans kick it into high gear when I start playing this game and I've lowered literally everything graphics wise, I can't imagine a computer without a dedicated graphics card would fare any better.

Maybe , but probably not. Maybe someone else here was able to make it work though.

Steam has a 2 hour return policy, so you could find out.