Can You Play Fortnite on a $200 Laptop? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin fort night is

the most popular game in the world right

now take one look at which and you'll

see hundreds of thousands of people

watching streams at any given time now

that actually got me curious because

fort night is available on such a wide

range of hardware everything from

high-end gaming pcs to consoles to even

smartphones can you actually run it on

some slightly unusual things like a two

hundred dollar laptop at first glance

things look pretty promising for

tonight's minimum requirements only need

an intel HD 4000 GPU aka integrated

graphics on a laptop from 2013 which I

think should be pretty doable but we're

gonna be pushing the limits here so to

start with we're going to try four night

running on the iPhone 10 now it's

impressive here is that actually looks

pretty much like for night everywhere

else you've got your menu if you got

pretty much everything else that you

want to have unlike a lot of other

free-to-play games on the phone my first

impressions are that this is really

really good looking for a game on the

phone now I'm sure as we take a look at

some higher-end pcs you'll be able to

see more differences but I mean this is

pretty much the full game you're not

really losing a whole lot of anything

here probably the biggest problem with

Fortnight mobile are the controls now

it's not that bad especially if you can

kind of get used to some touchscreen

controls you'll probably be fine but it

is definitely not going to be as nice as

with a controller or especially with a

mouse and keyboard what's cool about

this addition is that it actually does

support cross play so in theory right

now I can be playing with people on PC

on Xbox or on phone next up we have the

full PC experience so this is the Acer

predator Helios 300 a roughly $1000

laptop with pretty beefy specs including

a core i7 as well as a full nvidia gtx

1060 immediately you can tell there is a

huge difference here smelling are we

playing at 1080p on epic settings but

we're getting a pretty respectable 70

frames per second or so right now don't

get me wrong there's nothing necessarily

wrong with the mobile experience but

there is a pretty big difference when

you jump up to the PC honestly probably

one of the biggest things is just a

better control scrimmage so even though

you have the Ultra PC experience doesn't

necessarily mean you're actually going

to be any good at Fortnight but I will

say there is a big difference in playing

something like this versus the phone or

as you'll see in a minute some of the

lower end systems this really is kind of

the way that fortnight is meant to be

played next up we have the Xbox 1s now

this is going to give you a good idea of

what the lower end of consoles are

capable of so this is the least powerful

ps4 ps4 pro as well as Xbox 1x are all

going to give you better performance and

especially better resolution but you are

still getting 60 frames per second on

the console and if this looks a little

bit different to you it's because this

is our portable Xbox one that's set up

you guys want the full information on

this link is in the description so what

you're getting here is that full 60

frames per second experience but at

lower settings some of the most

noticeable things is going to be the

resolution so this is running somewhere

in the neighborhood of 720p it looks

fine that's not going to be super sharp

especially if you're playing on a high

res 4k TV

that being said especially you're

playing on a smaller monitor like this

it looks totally fine and I can't stress

enough that 60 frames per second option

is a huge huge deal it really does add

so much fluidity to the game and it

makes it feel a lot more competitive

versus slightly less performing options

not that I'm hinting toward what the

other things in this video are going to

do I'm really impressed with just how

much optimization that they've done on

this game it's crazy the epic has made a

single title that can scale everything

from a phone to an Xbox OS this is bad

this is why are we all why are we all in

here no yeah next up we have something a

little bit more interesting this is the

Acer Aspire 5 and it's $600 this is by

far my favorite gaming laptop I've ever

tried so for that money you're getting

not only a Core i5

but you're also getting a pretty decent

NVIDIA MX 150 graphics card performance

wise this is actually pretty similar to

what you're getting on Xbox so right now

we're running on medium settings at 720p

now we're getting a pretty stable

lock-on 60 frames per second sometimes

during the action we'll dip a little bit

below that but it is surprising at how

close you can get to a full console

experience on what is a pretty budget

gaming laptop the only problem with a

game like pub G or fortnight is that

everyone is so good that I feel really

really terrible so

yeah now my friends it's time to take a

trip to the danger zone

so far we've been playing on things that

are actually meant to play the game

however fortnight can be run on very

very low settings so this is the 2017 LG

gran the idea here is that this is by no

means a gaming laptop instead this is

very much an ultrabook

and that she does have pretty decent

specs with eight gigs of ram and the

brand-new 8th gen core i7 processor

however graphics not exactly the strong

suit here now no one is going to buy an

ultra walk for gaming but it's

interesting to see how something like

this is going to perform it might seem

weird to try to play a game on an

ultrabook

but to be fair a lot of people do have

this class of hardware and might be

interested in trying fortnight the good

news is it's playable the bad news is

it's not going to be particularly pretty

so first of all you're gonna want to

crank your settings down all the way

down so right now I'm playing on the

lowest settings possible at 600 P and

getting somewhere around 30 frames per

second like here I'm walking around not

even a particularly challenging scene

worth I ain't empowering in the high 20s

it's gonna be playable but it's

definitely not going to be a great

experience so far we've seen a pretty

wide range of hardware to play on

fortnight but my real question is can we

play it on a 200 laptop so this is the

HP stream 800 dollar laptop with some

incredibly low hand specs so we've got

an Intel Celeron and 30-60 processor 4

gigs of ram and exactly no dedicated

graphics of any kind see here what do we

got we got 480p on low I'm gonna tell

you guess and say that's going to be too

high well they'd be nice things about

for tonight though is you can completely

adjust it all the way down to 360p I

like how your avatar in the game is like

18 pixels right now really fills me with

confidence

joining server alright tag placing

fortnight on a $200 PC this is not gonna

go well okay we're actually in the game

right now and that looks hilarious but

we're getting a solid 14 frames per

second

um okay I mean the game is actually

playing it's not crashing it's uh

there's some like pixels on the screen

there's like seven or eight of them it's

fine

no big deal oh okay we froze we froze

that's fine that's fine I'm sure you'll

come back oh okay we're back I guess it

didn't freeze after all Oh what what is

this is this supposed to be a tower

all right froze again it was funny huh

so you look at something like this this

looks like a giant blob of pixels

however this the tree actually doesn't

look that bad it's like any time I look

at a tree my framerate immediately tanks

I've looked down like you know the

ground or something it's fine or look at

this stupid Shack which oh wait it just

popped in a new texture oh wow okay so

it's now no longer garbage town great

okay so can you play fortnight I like

200 a computer yes should you absolutely

not

so I'm gonna say that fortnight actually

runs pretty well as long as you don't

try to you know push its capabilities a

little bit too far I'm curious what do

you guys play fortnight on let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you in the next one