Recs and Reqs
Have been having Tales from the Borderlands in my cart for a while. I purchased Game of Thrones, but my computer can't handle it - I heard Tales from the Borderlands was better; I keep hearing recs for Tales from the Borderland over Game of Thrones, and I'm thinking Tales might take less (since there isn't the HBO sponsorship) but I don't want to waste $25 in case the graphics requirements were the same. I could play The Walking Dead Season 2 relatively fine...
Edit: Basically, how does Tales from the Borderlands fit graphically between The Walking Dead S2 and Game of Thrones
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I think the requirements are almost the same, BUT for some reason, my pc could handle TFTB better than GOT. I could play TWDS2 and TWAU relatively fine too. I don't really know why GOT is so laggy on my PC. :l
if you can't afford it, why you don't just take it?
Just so you know, we don't talk about those things here.
Because I don't need to dick a small company out of the fruit of their labor - it's $25, if I need to I can wait, it's not like I'll be going without food or anything.
You'll probably be fine, its about the same as Walking Dead and Wolf to handle
tanks for sharing this...
If you can't run Game of Thrones, you probably won't be able to run Tales from the Borderlands either as both titles use the same updated version of Telltale's engine. Still, though, I find it weird you can run Walking Dead: Season 2 but not Game of Thrones as both titles aren't that far apart and use the relatively same engine (minus small updates to the engine for each Season). Tales uses the same artstyle as Walking Dead: Season 2, but it sounds like what you are describing might be a back-end problem as Game of Throne's art style isn't extremely complex to the point where the graphics alone should be slowing you down.
For what it's worth, I'm only a volunteer Moderator and not a Telltale Staff member so don't take my word for absolute certain.
EDIT: The FAQ sections on each game page have the system specs. I'll copy paste them here for your benefit.
(In a nutshell, the only difference I see is that Game of Thrones recommends you have 8 GB Space Free on your Hard Drive, whereas Tales and Walking Dead: Season 2 only recommend having 4 GB Space Free. Beyond that, I can't see any notable difference...)
EDIT: Actually, it seems that GoT requires a more recent Mac OS update than Tales does as well.
Tales from the Borderlands:
PC Minimum System Requirements:
OS: XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB Space Free (for Tales)
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
DirectX®: Direct X 9.0c
Sound: Direct X 9.0c sound device
PC Recommended System Requirements
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.3 Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM
Mac Minimum System Requirements
OS: Snow Leopard (10.6.X)
Processor: 2.3 Ghz Intel
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB Space Free
Video Card: 512 MB Nvidia or ATI graphics card
Additional: Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks
Game of Thrones:
PC Minimum System Requirements
OS: XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Space Free
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
DirectX®: Direct X 9.0c
Sound: Direct X 9.0c sound device
PC Recommended System Requirements
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.3 Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM
Mac Minimum System Requirements
OS: Lion (10.7.X)
Processor: 2.3 Ghz Intel
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Space Free
Video Card: 512 MB Nvidia or ATI graphics card
Additional: Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks
Walking Dead: Season 2
PC Minimum System Requirements
OS: XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB Space Free
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics)
DirectX®: Direct X 9.0c
Sound: Direct X 9.0c sound device
PC Recommended System Requirements
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.3 Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 1024 MB RAM
Mac Minimum System Requirements
OS: Snow Leopard (10.6.X)
Processor: 2.3 Ghz Intel
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB Space Free
Video Card: 512 MB Nvidia or ATI graphics card
Additional: Not recommended for Intel integrated graphics or Mac Minis or early-generation MacBooks