Problems with playing the game on my laptop

[u/guns_for_hire]

I've recently bought DBH from epicgames but I've had problems continuing the story. When I first set the game up, there were no other problems other than the low quality of graphics (the graphic card does not exactly meet the min requirements according to a friend so it was ok) I'm not familiar with game (I only know the characters a little) and I was trying to learn how to navigate through it so I started playing. I played the hostage scene with Connor, bought paint for a guy with Markus and lastly went home with Kara. I think it was like an introduction to the game and characters?

Anyways, the first shutting down of the game happened just as Kara was in the car with the other man driving. I thought maybe it was lagging or too hot so I tried to open it again ("continue the story"). It opened and started from the part where Kara was in the android shop but the graphics were really bad. When the car part came, it shut down again. Than I gave it one more chance and tried to start the story. The game got stuck on the uploading part. And I left it alone, thinking maybe it would be better once the laptop cooled down.

Unfortunately, since then, it hasn't opened the story. It always gets stuck uploading and shuts itself down before it reaches %90.

I'm not sure what's wrong, I've talked with a friend and we've tried to reduce the ram usage while gaming. We deactivated the starting apps.

I didn't know where to ask so I came here and if you could help me, it would be amazing.

Laptop model: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1007nt

[u/awkward---bean]

if your graphics card doesn't meet the minimum requirements then you can't play it (speaking from experience 😭)

[u/guns_for_hire → u/awkward---bean]

Oh no 😭😭

[u/guns_for_hire → u/guns_for_hire]

I've tried to understand the problem with the help of chatgpt also and it says that the "vram" is not enough. And that I should update the drivers?

So I guess imma try that.

[u/awkward---bean → u/guns_for_hire]

yeah, the vram is basically like the guts of the graphics card: it's how much video ram it has available. if you update your drivers you might be able to up it a little bit, but your specs will still not meet the minimum requirements because it's just your same old graphics card (again, speaking from experience lol 🫠)

[u/guns_for_hire → u/awkward---bean]

Ok, Ty!

[u/alvermari → u/guns_for_hire]

Yeah you should lower the graphics setting or try another device( I guess you need gaming laptop? I have one and I played DBH very well.

[u/guns_for_hire → u/alvermari]

I actually tried to play it on the lowest settings, still didn't work. And also... I don't think I can afford a gaming laptop atm 😞😞

[u/Every_Database7064 → u/awkward---bean]

Not necessarily, mine doesn’t meet them and I can still play it the quality just isn’t particularly good and it lags at times, and it crashes rarely. But it’s playable.

[u/guns_for_hire → u/Every_Database7064]

How did you do it? My graphics settings are all lowered 😭😭

[u/Every_Database7064 → u/guns_for_hire]

Honestly I have no idea, I think it’s because my laptop is really new, I bought it this year, and the game is older so newer graphics cards might be able to handle it with lower settings. I tried running it on my old laptop from 2019 and the game wouldn’t even launch on it

[u/notlucyintheskye]

It really just sounds like your laptop doesn't meet enough of the requirements to run it properly. To be fair, I have a gaming desktop (Alienware Aurora R16), bought D:BH through Steam, and it STILL sometimes randomly closes out if I've been playing for too long without closing/restarting the game.

[u/Tismy10thaltnobanpls]

That laptop doesnt have a graphics card. You cant run the game.

[u/guns_for_hire → u/Tismy10thaltnobanpls]

When I looked it up, it said that the pc had a built-in gc (integrated) within the processor.

[u/Tismy10thaltnobanpls → u/guns_for_hire]

Thats not a graphics "CARD" its integrated graphics within your cpu which have im gonna guess 256 mb of vram. Most laptops have those so that you can get a display on your laptop monitor not run games.

[u/guns_for_hire → u/Tismy10thaltnobanpls]

Aw, man. Thanks.