Least worst option - 960m or Iris XE?

Rat Race Choir

Rat Race Choir
Due to unfortunate domestic/housebuying botheration I'm currently living in my parents' spare room and my nice 2080 gaming machine is in a warehouse.
I've been trying to play Odyssey on my 6 year old Dell XPS 15 with a 960m card, as you can imagine that's not fantastic even on the lowest settings (yes, could stay in Horizons because that's a bit more bearable but don't want to because the bounty payouts are woeful and the 'splosions aren't as pretty).

I do have a brand new new Surface Pro 8 with an Iris XE graphics card - and am toying with the idea of trying that on the basis that it might be marginally better (and also because I'm spending a fair bit of time in hotels right now too), but before I download 70gb of game on my parents' spotty wifi, has anyone else tried it on a comparable device and is it remotely playable?
 

d8veh

d8veh
Laptops in theory have enough processing power, but can overheat. Mine is an i5 with GTX 1660 ti. It struggles with Horizons. It plays OK for about 30 minutes, then crashes.
 

MickyG1982

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d8veh said:
Laptops in theory have enough processing power, but can overheat. Mine is an i5 with GTX 1660 ti. It struggles with Horizons. It plays OK for about 30 minutes, then crashes.
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There is something up there, mine is quite happy playing for hours and is (just about) able to play oddy without crashing either.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Rat Race Choir said:
Due to unfortunate domestic/housebuying botheration I'm currently living in my parents' spare room and my nice 2080 gaming machine is in a warehouse.
I've been trying to play Odyssey on my 6 year old Dell XPS 15 with a 960m card, as you can imagine that's not fantastic even on the lowest settings (yes, could stay in Horizons because that's a bit more bearable but don't want to because the bounty payouts are woeful and the 'splosions aren't as pretty).

I do have a brand new new Surface Pro 8 with an Iris XE graphics card - and am toying with the idea of trying that on the basis that it might be marginally better (and also because I'm spending a fair bit of time in hotels right now too), but before I download 70gb of game on my parents' spotty wifi, has anyone else tried it on a comparable device and is it remotely playable?
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The Iris XE on the i7-1185G7 paired with LPDDR4X-4266 is moderately faster than a 960M.

Anyway, as Bravo17 points out, copying the game's files over is the fastest way for you to install the game and see for yourself if the performance is acceptable.
 

d8veh

d8veh
MickyG1982 said:
There is something up there, mine is quite happy playing for hours and is (just about) able to play oddy without crashing either.
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It depends what I'm doing. It's RES farming that makes it overheat. Maybe it's somthing to do with the bad programming that makes the frame rate go down the longer you stay there.
 
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