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I've got two teens that want to play multiplayer with me and am looking for suggestions on lowest cost desktops which will play the game. Not looking to play any other games, just looking for lowest cost since I'll need two desktops.

Thanks.

The minimum requirements are an i5 processor, 4GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 550 or Radeon™ HD 6XXX or better. Also required is 64 bit Win 7 SP1 or later, but Win 10 (64 bit) will be on any new Windows PC. I've seen i3 CPUs with hyperthreading mentioned as running the game fine.

The recommended specs are an i7 CPU (i5 should be fine, though), 8GB RAM (a good idea, and RAM is cheap) and GeForce GTX 770 or AMD R9 280.


I have not built a computer or upgraded recently, so am not sure what the best bang for the buck is for systems or various components.
Check out Tom's Hardware; that site has GPU ranking charts and has a best performance/price list, etc, and the last time I looked the forum there had topics with purchase advice. Searching for 'best cheap gaming PC', etc, should give you something to start with (if using Google, click on Tools, then change 'Any time' to 'Past Year' or custom range and set it to the past 6 months, or something).

As a general observation, I think the "RAM is cheap" consideration is an important one: I've been struggling along with 6GB for years and of all the upgrades I've made recently, hiking that up to 32GB has made a huge difference. Okay, that amount is probably overkill for any individual game at present but it's useful when you're running a bunch of mod tools at the same time; and 6GB really isn't enough for most current games, it seems.

It works on my non-gaming laptop, which is one of the cheapest model available in the local computer shop.

I turned off pretty much everything though, including shadows and most particles lol.

Thx for the tips everyone. I found a local guy selling an AMD machine with a GTX 450 card with everything else matching the system specs for $390.

@waterzdc what are your laptop specs, or what brand and model do you have? Thx

Interestingly enough, we can play DOS2 on an Asus i3 laptop, 6GB Ram, win10, and only integrated Intel HD graphics. Graphics aren't as good as my desktop with a decent gpu, but we can play in multiplayer just fine.

The desktop was unable to play the game until I got a good graphics card. So laptops may not be held to the same system requirements.