Rimworld Without a GPU

[whiteeric]

I'm buying a pc soon, though it's missing a graphics card. I plan on buying one after I buy my pc. In the meanwhile I wanted to play some games. Could I run rimworld without a GPU?

[harpo99999]

as long as the available screen res is 1024 x 768 or HIGHER, yes (it can operate in an intel integrated graphics, and shold have no issues with the amd/ati integrated chips either)

[RawCode]

without GPU you can't plug monitor at all.

[Tagasaki]

if you have a mobo that don't come with a display port then yes without GPU you can't see anything.

[Jaxxa]

if you have a mobo that don't come with a display port then yes without GPU you can't see anything.

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), includes on board graphics on the motherboard / processor, not just referring to desecrate Graphics Cards.

[skullywag]

Cmon guys he obviously meant a dedicated gpu and not onboard. Questions been answered, ive run it in an iris5000 integrated gfx before and its fine. I imagine a 4000 series would be fine also.

[Calahan]

I imagine a 4000 series would be fine also.

I can confirm that the game runs fine using an Intel HD4000. I've played RimWorld on two separate laptops using it without issue.

[mrofa]

Rimwolrd will work on integrated ones, i got a old GMA on my mb and rimworld runs on it. Did also play rimworld on i5 with integrated and it worked.
Thing is that rimworld is actually working far better on integraed than gpu`s its especialy visible on largest maps in late game atleast from my experiance.

[1000101]

The graphics are not the issue with RimWorld, the integrated Intel GM45 in my laptop is not the issue, the issue is the 1.6GHz/core on the laptop.  A max-size map with a well developed colony starts becoming sluggish.

So, unless you are buying a 10-year old machine, whatever built-in graphics display on the motherboard will be fine.

Rimworld isn't a 3D game which need a good GPU, Rimworld need rather some extra RAM, faster Harddisk/SSD and CPU.

Actually, RimWorld is a 3D game, you only ever have two dimensions presented to you.  The third dimension is very much there and used (layering), however.

[milon]

As others have said, CPU > GPU

You'll be fine. I've got an old mobo with integrated video and it's perfectly fine.

[RawCode]

As long as you play without some mod with "VERY HD TEXTURES" or shaders.

Starsector run smooth on integrated GPU, but, many mods implemented shader stuff that does not work well on such hardware.

Actually it does not work well at all on any hardware...

[harpo99999]

the game's minimum requirements (from tynan way back in the low alpha area) are ghz class cpu or better, 2gb ram or more, screen res 1024 x 768 or higher!!!!!!!, and on one of my computers (a 2ghz 4gb ram core2 laptop using intel  series 4 graphics(actually the gma-4500mhd) (the lowest spec in my collection that I have run rimworld on) it runs fine

[Argelle]

As long as you play without some mod with "VERY HD TEXTURES" or shaders.

What is this mod? I'd like to try it !

[Grogfeld]

I'm playing on my old laptop with Intel Pentium B960 CPU and it's HD 2000, so no worries.