Will my new laptop support games?

[haroman666]

ok so i have just bought a new laptop and i am interested in playing games on it such as Call of duty 2, World of warcraft, far cry and various other popular online games. I am just wondering if my system is capable of running these games and what quality will they be played at?

Its a toshiba A100-027 running vista home premium
General Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
1014MB RAM
32 bit operating system

I have just checked and it seems that i have an Intel GMA 900 video card

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Andy

 

[imported_Kiwi]

If it has no actual video card (Intel does *NOT* produce any such), WoW is about all it can handle (almost anything can do WoW). Video cards are the most important part for gaming, and laptops mostly don't have any such thing in them.

 

[Steve325]

yup. chances are it's integrated. I have it on my desktop and supposebly one of the better integrated video cards and it's rough with 3d games

 

[bobsmith1492]

The video card is the most important; your CPU is fine and you have plenty of RAM.

 

[Brainonska511]

What kind of graphics card does the machine have? Supposedly, some models have integrated graphics, some have dedicated GPUs. Whether you can play most of those games will rest on what kind of graphics card the computer came with.

Edit:
From a quick google search of the model number "A100-027", it came back with you have the Intel Integrated graphics of the Napa and earlier generation, meaning, you'll be able to play some of the games (like WoW), but others might not play at all or play only at the lowest settings the game offers.

 

[RedBeard]

WoW on the GMA900 is going to be painful, I know from experience.

 

[TheStu]

I have the GMA950 and it isn't too bad, i'm not real sure if the 950 is Napa or not, but like I said, not too terrible. WoW seems to be more dependant upon having a sufficient amount of system RAM. I got a trial just after I bought my MacBook, and at the time I only had 512MB. I then got a full GB and the game ran a whole lot smoother. This was in OS X by the way, not sure how much it matters.