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I am not a gamer and know next to nothing about technical specs but there's a few games I want to play but don't have the money (or need) for a custom PC/gaming setup so I'm trying to see what, if any, games I could run on my current laptop. The ThinkPad I have now is legit 10 years old but it seems to have what is needed to run the few games I want to play.
Most of the games need at least Windows 7 (I have Windows 10), 1.80GHz Processor (I have 2.3), between 2 and 6GB of memory and storage.
My questions are:
What's the difference between memory and storage? If a game needs 2GB of memory and 2GB HDD space what exactly does that mean? Can I just use an external drive for both?
One game needs "DX10 Video card with 512MB of VRAM". I have Intel Graphics HD 520, are those even remotely comparable/compatible? A few of these games have different requirements (like "Discrete GPU" or "NVIDIA GeForce"), is there a good rule of thumb to tell if what I have will run it?
