You are stuck with a crappy IGP for 1 year. What do you play?

[Rhonda the Sly]

The most complex games I've played recently are Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer, Saint's Row: The Third, Dead Space 3 Multiplayer, and Fallout: New Vegas. They all run fine on HD4000 but need some or all the effects turned down.

I've been considering replaying Bioshock but... my backlog... :'(

 

[KentState]

FTL

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Mine craft. I'd download a ton of older games. No modern FPSs but I'd try some of the older CoD classics since a lot of people still play them. Portal one and two, half-life 1&2, etc. in other words play all the "old" games I don't right now.

 

[Martimus]

The funny thing is that 90% of the games I play have very low system requirements. I have a nice system, but rarely push it (in fact I have never pushed my current setup, other than stress testing it when I put it together to test for stability.). I don't think I would have any issues playing the games I currently play with integrated graphics.

Right now I'm playing Wasteland 2, Warlock, Gal Civ 3, and Civilization: Beyond Earth.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Actually could play COD:BO2 at 1280x720 all low on HD4000 too,just the textures on like the guns are damn near non existent lol.They look nearly as bad as those on UT99 but the game is completely playable.

 

[mohit9206]

Very interesting thread but Yeah HD4000 can play any game you want to play considering i have played games like GTA4,Max Payne 3,Mass Effect 2,Crysis 2,etc on a Radeon 5450 which is worse than HD4000.
So lets say i am stuck with Nvidia Geforce 6150 igpu with 128mb of dedicated video memory which is what i had in my old HP desktop. In that case i would play
Far Cry, Doom 3, Riddick escape from butcher bay, GTA 3,Vice City, San Andreas, Tomb Raider Legend, Anniversary,etc and if possible lots of 2D indie games from Steam though i doubt they would launch on a card with 128mb vram.
Actually all those games i mentioned above i did actually play on Nvidia 6150. And they all played fine at low/medium settings with 20-30 fps at 720p so still lots of awesome pre 2006 games can be played even on a garbage igpu like that.Intel HD4000 is like a GTX Titan compared to it.

 

[BSim500]

This is an interesting "what if" scenario.

I am sure most everyone here has a nice dGPU and a fast processor, but suppose you are stuck with, say, Intel HD graphics 4000/4600 for one year in your gaming desktop. You cannot pop in a dGPU because for whatever reason you can't buy one and nobody will give you/lend you one, nor do you have access to a game console or any other higher performance gaming machine.

What game(s) do you play for the year?

Age of Empires 2
Age of Mythology
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Deus Ex (original)
Diablo 2
Doom / Heretic / Hexen (+ around 1,000 community WAD's)
Don't Starve
Jagged Alliance 2
Lemmings
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Morrowind
Neverwinter Nights (+1,000 hours of "Epic" mods, eg Aielund Saga)
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
Rise of Nations
Serious Sam FE & SE
Spiderweb Software RPG's (Avadon, Avernum, Geneforge, series, etc)
System Shock 2
Thief 1&2
Torchlight...
...Most DOSBox games
...Most ScummVM games (Day of The Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, The Dig, Loom, etc)
...Most point & click adventure games (Syberia 1&2, The Longest Journey, Sam & Max series, Daedelic Entertainment & Wadjet Eye stuff, etc)
...Most 2D puzzle / flash games
...In fact, pretty much +80% of GOG's entire collection...

Funny thing is, I'm not limited by an iGPU yet find myself replaying Golden Oldies and backlog-clearing Indie's a lot more than I'm interested in modern demanding AAA games... I'd still prefer some dGPU (750Ti / 260X class) simply to run much loved Bioshock trilogy, DAO, DXHR, Dishonored, ME, Skyrim, etc, at 1080p/60 +AA (which even a top-end AMD APU won't do), but yeah I could survive for a year easily. As someone said above, the biggest limitation is often not lack of horsepower or money, but time.

Me? I'd download DOOM/DOOM II from Steam, install ZDoom, and download all of the best megawads available and have at them

:thumbsup: I had a "Doom-a-thon" last year (Doom 1 (Ultimate) + Doom 2 + Plutonia/TNT & Icarus WAD's (and then onto Heretic) via the Doomsday Engine). Most fast-paced fun I've had in ages compared to a lot of boring overly-cinematic "cover shooters". Also got that "1,001 WAD collection on a CD" that came out in the 90's I don't think I'll ever get through. 22 years on and people are still making WAD's for it today.

 

[Elcs]

ADOM or ToME4 - Kings of the Roguelike genre.

If I get bored; FTL, Darkest Dungeons, Space Rangers 1/2 and so so many more.

 

[JumBie]

Head to GOG and take your pick.

 

[DigDog]

oh and FTL.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Kotor 1/2, NWN 1/2, Titan Quest/TQIT, League of Legends should work. I also think WOW, World of Tanks would be OK.

Really though, I see this as more of a laptop scenario, where you cannot add a discrete card. I cant imagine gaming on a desktop with an intel IGP for a year without trying to pick up something like a used HD7750 for 50 bucks and sticking it in.

 

[cbrunny]

FFXIV can be run on an IGP.

 

[swilli89]

Starcraft: Brood War all day

 

[nemesismk2]

i play master of orion 2 which plays just fine