Overwatch is shockingly playable on a laptop without a dedicated graphics card

Blizzard’s latest release is a fast-paced shooter with a lot of wonderful visual details, and it is totally something you could play on an older system or lightweight laptop.

Overwatch is a gorgeous shooter that still maintains its character when you boot it up on something like a Razer Blade Stealth that doesn’t have a dedicated graphics card. Running on a device like that on its lowest settings, Overwatch starts to look a little bit like a PlayStation 1 game with swimmy polygons and jagged edges, but that’s actually quite cool. In its minimum specs, Blizzard suggests that you have at least Intel HD Graphics 4400. That’s the integrated video processing Intel builds into many of the CPU chips that people can get in some of today’s cheapest laptops. I’m surprised that the game runs so well on those machines, but the two most incredible things are how great it looks and the fact that I can still keep up with the competition.

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