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To be fair, there is world between "extremely high minimum requirements" and a 6 years old laptop, considering laptop of even the current year are never considered super high end rigs.

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If you had s/minimum/recommended I would agree. But no, we are talking about minimum requirements. I submit that a game should be playable even on 10-year old hardware. Of course, the devs can blow the ceiling in their highest settings. Do they need three RTX-7000 series in parallell cooled with liquid nitrogen and eating 3000W of electricity in order to run at the highest/ultra settings? Yeah, be my guest, more power to them. But we are, I insist, talking about minimum requirements. These should be as broad as possible in order to keep the entry barrier low.

In a game which doesn't even look especially good, I see the very demanding hardware requirements as just a contribution to planned/artificial obsolescence.

(and yeah, I got downvoted as expected. This is getting old...)

I get where you're coming from, and I do think game devs should put more effort into supporting lower-end hardware.

That said, bg3 does run on 10-year old hardware. The minimum requirements lists a gtx 970, released 2014. Which, despite its age, is still 6x faster than your integrated graphics.

Good, but it is still a discrete GPU. My point is that games should be made at least playable on integrated GPUs.

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