Can my Alienware 17 run the Witcher 3?

A friend of mine recently gave his Alienware 17 to me for gaming. I am not very well educated when it comes to technology so i need some help here.

Intel i7-4700MQ @2.40GHz (turbo boost up to 3.39 GHz)
Nvidia 770m 3gb Vram
With 16GB ram

I am more interested in the laptop being able to run the game, not playing on ultra.

 

Run it? Yes. Probably medium settings with no AA or so?

 

Agreed. Should be no trouble but at lower settings.

 

770M is a med range card now... You'll be playing 1080p @ low-medium..

 

Oc it and mix medium/high settings !

 

TBH you'll probably be able to play it but you may want to wait until release date to see some benchmarks and stuff. Although if you dont care about graphics at all I'm sure you could run it, especially if you dropped your res or something.

 

could probably do it at 30fps for me LOL

 

You'll be able to run it just fine as long as you don't "have" to have Ultra like many around here ha

 

Your GPU is below min spec. The min spec is a GTX 660 and your 770M is a lower clocked 660. You would need to overclock it to hit minimum spec.

 

What's ridiculous is that both PlebStation 4 and XB1 are at or below PC minspec yet still manage to achieve 1080p30 at what I'm gonna assume are at least Medium to High PC settings. So hopefully now that CDPR has downgraded, er I mean optimized, the game to run so well on the peasant boxes, lower specced PCs such as the OP's will also have an easier time. Otherwise it would truly be a repeat of Watch Dogs, a game that was significantly downgraded yet still ate high-end PC hardware for lunch.

For sh*ts and giggles, I'm gonna give Witcher 3 a spin on my overclocked 650M SLI, which is a bit faster than stock 770M and slots in right between 650 Ti Boost and 660.

 

X1 is 900p 30fps and PS4 is 1080p 30fps (at least info I saw) but PS4 is just slightly weaker than a 660, yeah. So if the PS4 can run 1080p/med-high then 770M should be able to as well. I understand there is something to be said for low-level hardware optimization, sure, but it shouldn't mean the difference between "unplayable 1080p min graphics" and "med-high 1080p 30fps". That's a HUGE jump in fidelity.

 

XB1 has a dynamic frame buffer that automatically switches b/w 900p and 1080p: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-one-uses-dynamic-scaling-to-boost-resolution

 

So... when the game is less graphically intensive... it still uses the GPU at 100%

Oh well.

 

Well since the game is capped at 30 FPS, the devs don't have the option of spending that leftover GPU power on higher frame rates in less intensive scenes, so a resolution increase is the logical thing to do. Not that the consoles' netbook CPU would be able to run an open-world game at 60 FPS anyway.

But still, XB1 owners must be ecstatic.

"We have Witcher 3 at 1080p*! Woohoo! #ConsoleMasterRace"