Lowest 3DMark2001 score to run newer games?

[iamme]

So what is it? I have a laptop that score 935, and it seemed to run CS and Unreal Tournament at 800x600 pretty smooth and fast. How about games like WC3, what kind of score would I need?

 

[Rand]

I generally consider a score of 2000 the break off point to play fairly recent games at 30FPS or so at 1024x768 with medium visual quality settings.


That said, 3DMark doesnt tend to reflect overly well with real world gaming performance so I wouldnt rely upon it too much as an example of performance attained in real world games.

Plus 3DMark tends to be significantly better optimized for pixel and vertex shading then most real games,, but tends to be lighter on texture usage, though quite a bit more dependent on various forms of bumpmapping.

 

[LordMagnusKain]

if you want to run a benchmark that reflects the games your talking about try using just install the Q3 demo and set it to what you think is playable, if the FPS isn't at lest on par with what you think is acceptable then the systems not going to work for you.

*note:
if you like eye candy consider everything at full to be equal to default for newer games