Questions & FAQ about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Requirements

[plutomaniac]

@plutomaniac: I'm aware that the GPU is the bottleneck. I hope I will still enjoy the game. Thanks anyway

I'm positive you will enjoy it at low (maybe lowest due to memory) settings. Have fun!

Just a heads up to anyone here. I'll try to answer any questions if I feel like I know what the answer might be. However if my answers contradict pluto's go with his, because he's like more well informed than I am! I'm just a guy with a bit of computer experience trying to help out when I can.

Don't worry, your help is appreciated. If I see something that I believe might not be accurate I'll let you and the guy who asked know. I don't know everything, and thus I regularly search the internet to be sure about specific hardware specifications.

Edit: fixed a typo, I meant everything, not anything! (obviously)

That being said I have some questions of my own:

I have two computers, and I'm positive their CPUs are okay (Probably not; see edit) but mainly a bit worried about how the graphics cards will hold out. Mostly one over the other since one is from a slightly more dated class.

1st: ATI 5770
2nd: GTX 550

Note: I run my games at 1440x900 because my parents thought it was a bright idea to buy computer screens for me without my guidance multiple times, and ended up buying ones which fell short of supporting 1080p by only a bit of money.

EDIT: Oh, and something I forgot mentioning is that the 2nd computer comes with an AMD Athlon x4, though I forgot which model it was. That should be put into consideration as well.

The first computer uses a i5 750 which should be just fine...I guess?

Both systems can definitely run the Pigs. I used to have an ATI 5770 at a computer with an i5 750 as well (coincidence? ) and it could run Amnesia perfectly fine at maximum settings if I remember correctly. The 5770 is 25% worse than a 460 so as I said above, you should be great at medium->high.

The other computer with the 550 will be able to play the pigs at Medium I presume without problems. Again, take in mind that I have not tested the pigs yet. These are assumptions based on the requirements we are given at the moment. The 4-core cpu is fine. It may be older but it has the cores to support the game. And because they are both (gpu & cpu) similar in class/age, I don't think you will experience any obvious bottleneck.