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While I agree that Proton is awesome, running a game originally released for PS3/360 with enhanced visuals at 60 FPS (instead of 30ish) on a 1660 Ti is hardly anything to write home about.
Do low-end laptops come with 1660Ti chips?
If a laptop has a dedicated GPU, it's not low end.
Depends a bit on the age I think. A 15 year old laptop is nowadays low end, no matter how high end it was when released. Maybe I am using the term low end incorrectly though, please let me know.
If op's mangohud is correct, yes
Heh, my main machine still has 1660 Ti. I wouldn't say it's low end. It's better than 3050.
...my is gtx 750. Just. Every year, it becomes more disheartening to be on internet xD
Don't be. :)
If it works for you, it works. I use my GPUs until they die. Nothing wrong with being a patient gamer.
To be honest I'd be surprised if it didn't. I ran the OG version on a 2011 MacBook air with Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. On HD 4000 it actually ran quite well.
Oh it’s the best. I can run just about any game now between proton, wine and other Linux tools for gaming like lutris or play-on-Linux. Gaming on Linux has come a long way.
I booted windows on a 2012 MacBook Pro with a 650m gpu and that computer got HOT!
I know it’s been 13 years, but it doesn’t feel that long and now a phone can probably run that game no problem.
Mind sharing your specs?
It's Ryzen 5 4600h and Gtx 1660ti
Oh, I’d have loved to have that gpu back in the day.
If your laptop has more than 2 cores/2 threads and has integrated graphics better than HD 6xx it is not low end.
Its a 1660Ti, so really not a low end laptop lmao
On a 1660 Ti (MaxQ, I presume)? I can believe it. It's the exact range of game that card is made for. At a glance I don't see Skyrim AE benchmarks, but notebookcheck has it running Monster Hunter World, MGS V and Rise of the Tomb Raider maxed out at 1080p60ish.
Maybe I'm spoiled by just assuming Windows and Linux benchmarks are comparable by default? I guess it's no longer a surprise now, so... congrats, everybody?
Also, man, is there something you can do about those CPU temps? It makes me nervous just to look at that 28% utilization at 90C. I've been away from gaming laptops since handhelds are a thing and I'm not used to that anymore.
at that 28% utilization at 90C
It's probably all single threaded. Overall CPU usage isn't very useful in the day and age of 8-24 core CPUs. Especially hybrid architectures like Intel has.
Sure, and with the GPU sucking up a bunch of juice that's plenty to get toasty.
It's just I haven't been using laptops that do that in the past few years and coming from desktop world it feels so wrong now.
Skyrim is a pretty well optimized game, so this is not really that surprising.
I was playing Nine Sols for quite a little while yesterday, and when I switched away for something I discovered that NixOS had decided to rebuild the kernel when I did an update and I hadn't noticed. It was sitting there with the load at 18, all the cores pegged in the red, just happily playing the game for me as normal the whole time.
Nine Sols is not some kind of graphical powerhouse but still I was pretty impressed.
Now do WoW on an Intel HD530 !
Im playing it on my steamdeck. Ugh just lost a thrall and could not find shadowmere for awhile after the soul cairn. I really wish the thrall spell would just set the thrall to the max level of the spell rather than fail due to auto leveling thing.
Nice!
Mine probably can't run Skyrim, but I'm surprised what my 8yo laptop w/ a Ryzen APU can still run.
Not sure which one that is, but the first and second gen Ryzen APUs were fire. They were massively under appreciated at the time.
Mine is a 3500U, which is pretty great for what I paid for it.
Yeah, it's still good! I have a 4800HS myself that's aging well too.
Ryzen really shook things up when it came out. They were running on par, or nearly on par, with Intel's current offering for like 2/3 the price.
The laptop APUs were better than Intel, with lower power, and far better graphics!
It got even more dramatic in the 4000 series. Renior is one of the best chips AMD ever made.
TBH the press just had a hard time comprehending it back then, and it was lest dramatic on desktop (or tanky desktop-sized laptops with dGPUs) because Intel's chips could clock higher for single-threaded workloads (at the expense of mad power usage).
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025
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