Lets experiment with the performance and gameplay possible on some of the lower options.When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Unlike many other popular games, Fortnite plays pretty smoothly on computers with integrated, Intel HD graphics, as long as you know what settings to tweak. It is also one of the best-optimized games released in the last few years, with very conservative minimum PC requirements and excellent performance on devices across the board: GPU: Intel HD 4000 CPU: Core i3 2.4 GHz RAM: 4 GB RAM If you are trying to play it on a laptop close to these minimum requirements, you might need a bit of help to play smoothly. My test setups To start, I was curious to try this game in something that was as close to the minimum requirements as possible, so I settled on a Microsoft Surface Pro v1. ![]() The first Surface Pro came equipped with an i5-3317U, an Ivy Bridge low-voltage dual-core with a base frequency of 1.7 GHz and a Max Turbo of 2.6 GHz. Since there is no dedicated GPU, it uses the integrated Intel HD 4000. It is hard to get much closer than that Then, I was curious to see how the game would perform on modern integrated graphics, such as the ones packaged in laptops sold in the last couple of years. So I tested the game on the XPS 13 9360 from 2017, which sports an Intel Core i7-8550U, Intel UHD Graphics 620 and 8GB of RAM. Using the settings screen Fortnite has an easy-to- read graphical settings screen. The quality setting controls the initial preset, and each separate setting is clearly labeled from its lowest value to the left to its highest value on the right. I highly recommend you ignore the auto setting that is applied when you first start the game and start from the lowest preset. The auto function tends not to work very well when closer to the minimum requirements. Be sure to disable motion blur, which remains enabled on the lowest present. ![]() Finally, we have the 3D Resolution settings, which is basically an internal-resolution scaler. Lets dig into the games files to go into detail about what this does. The configuration file The configuration file for Fortnite is located in your user folder and then AppDataLocalFortniteGameSavedConfigWindowsClient. The file in question is called GameUserSettings.ini. Since AppData is a hidden folder, you might need to enable hidden folders in your file options to reach it. Exclusive full-screen mode, which was discussed in the last section, can also be enabled by adding FullScreenMode0 to the first section. ![]() The remaining line, sg.ResolutionQuality, controls the internal render resolution of the game, and this can prove quite useful on weaker GPUs. There are two main advantages of reducing internal resolution versus simply changing the external resolution of the whole game. One is that reducing internal resolution does not affect the readability of the UI, and the other is that the low resolution is sampled back at the full render resolution, which is often why they are less jarring to look at. In the games settings, the resolution slider goes down to only 33.3 percent. This is much lower than most games with an internal resolution scaler. For example, PlayerUnknowns Battleground, which is usually pitched as Fortnites biggest rival, goes down to only 70 percent on the menu).
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