Hi, I usually play games on my switch and I love horror so after finishing games like amnesia I really wanted to step it up and play outlast.
I saw it was on sale on steam but I only have a laptop which I usually use for uni work - I got it anyways and it seems to run (albeit kinda slowly) but when I play it my laptop gets super hot and smells a bit toasty. I checked the specifications and it seems I have everything except the CPU (it says 2.2GHz dual core needed and I have intel i5 1.8GHz) - if I keep trying to play it will it damage my laptop or am I ok to continue? If I put something under my laptop to allow ventilation (I have a laptop stand with gaps for ventilation) will it help?
Sorry if it’s a stupid question, I’m not used to pc gaming at all and I need this laptop for uni so I’m a bit paranoid
I wouldn’t recommend it, in short term it ain’t actually gonna make any damage, but in the long run you might regret it. Heating up when playing games is absolutely normal, but overheating is a different thing. Usually when a laptop is heating up, its just hot in the base cover and in the ventilation system, if there’s one. If you can feel the keyboard is being unbelievably hot that’s obviously overheating. If you really plan to play games on the machine, like I always do, play on a cool area with good ventilation preferably with air conditioning. Windows might try to stabilize temps by dropping your frames and reducing performance but burning cpu isn’t rare at all. Anyway are you running at dual channel doing so improves performance (but not the heating). Also, you need a cpu to run anything.☠️☠️☠️☠️