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What sweet games can you play...

Starcraft, Diablo II, Half Life 1 (Opposing force, blue shift)

Plenty of great games.. nothin newer than I'd say 2003 however.
 
Baldur's Gate II and Starcraft are my laptop's highlights. It can do Source but I'd rather not.
 
Solitaire...Freecell.... 😀


Most older games will run fine on newer integrated. Newer games....slide show.

 
far cry (based on the crytek engine - the one used in crysis), NFS U2, NFS Carbon (It will stutter occasionaly but playable according to my friend who has integrated graphics), doom1, wolf3d (my favorite dos based game) - tell me if u want it I can mail it to u as its freeware and will be difficult to get it on the net.

for more games checkout www.systemrequirementslab.com and the gameometer at http://www.yougamers.com/gameo...0241/?sysInfoId=691876


note: my friend has 945G integrated graphics on his laptop on which he plays NFS Carbon
 
Originally posted by: Insomniator
Starcraft, Diablo II, Half Life 1 (Opposing force, blue shift)

Plenty of great games.. nothin newer than I'd say 2003 however.
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Nonsense. I played TF2 on my laptop before I got rid of it. I couldn't use AA, but I had it at 1280x800 without a hiccup. It was a 3 year old HP with a 2.8GHz P4.

Originally posted by: Gaurav Duggal
far cry (based on the crytek engine - the one used in crysis), NFS U2, NFS Carbon (It will stutter occasionaly but playable according to my friend who has integrated graphics), doom1, wolf3d (my favorite dos based game) - tell me if u want it I can mail it to u as its freeware and will be difficult to get it on the net.
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Far Cry and Crysis were built on different engines. Same company, but different engine.
 
Actually CryEngine and CryEngine2 are pretty similar (hence the name) but you are right they are not the same engine nevertheless.

Tons of great games run well on laptops, some like Far Cry and Doom 3 even run pretty good if you turn down the settings, you could definitely play Source games as well (especially the older ones like the original Half Life 2).
 
These should all work fine with at least medium settings as I consider them oldies but goodies. (I played a few with a Geforce 2 pro before)

Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Psychonauts
Beyond Good and Evil
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Hitman:Contracts
Painkiller
Serious Sam
No One Lives Forever
C&C Generals
GuildWars
World of Warcraft
Dungeon Siege
Neverwinter Nights
Halo
Max Payne

Not sure how well, but Doom 3, Quake 4, and FEAR should all run with possibly the lowest settings.
 
Rome: Total War (2004) was playable (800x600 on the battle map, low-med settings) on a Via UniChrome chipset (it's from 2003). A few bugs here and there (like disappearing textures) but playable, it was. I imagine it'd be better on newer ATI/NV/Intel IGP.

Max Payne 2 runs fine on just about anything and still looks rather excellent for a ~5-year-old game.

Need for Speed Most Wanted is pretty smooth on Radeon 9800-level hardware with shadow-detail turned low/off @ 800x600 with 2xAA.

It'd be nice if some of you guys mentioned the IGP chipsets. Also, can you guys mention the desktop-equivalent of the IGPs?
 
Some people here are too hard on integrated - before I got my ATI 3850 installed I played Rome Total War, Rise of Legends, CIV IV, and the like, nothing cutting edge mind you, but games newer than 18 months, and this was with a 22" monitor at 1680 x 1050 and medium (for the most part) settings. Gratned, once the 3850 was in, quality improved dramatically! But playable, sure. This was an ATI integrated x1250. Played demo for WIC (that one stuttered) TOW, hmm, Neverwinter 2, I think thats about it, a pretty good slice if you ask me, and I could prolly have played about anything on low settings or lower rez.

Now the new chipset with the HD3000 integrated, i bet that's even better from the way it sounds!
 
i was able to play doom 3 at 1024x785 (is it 785? i forgot the exaxt pixel) pretty decently at medium to high setting. also i was able to play battlefront2 on the same setting until some of the battle scenes, then i had to switch down to medium and some low settings.


but i have an integrated x1250 for the desktop, not too sure about laptops.


3850 owns it 10 times over though for me lol.
 
My sis' laptop with the Intel X3100 IGP couldn't even play Need for Speed: Underground on the lowest settings (at 640x480). Driver issue? I tried Most Wanted thinking the drivers might support a more recent title but no sauce - got a pretty slideshow. I am certain it has enough horsepower but it must be some other issue.

The laptop has a Pentium T2310 1.46GHz CPU, 2GB RAM and Vista Home Premium x86. I was kind of in a rush so didn't have time to update the drivers so that might have been it.
 
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