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"Games that work with an integrated graphics chipset&am

Paperclip

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Will these games work decently with an integrated chipset (preferably intel(R) 82945G)?
- Boiling Point
- Full Spectrum Warrior
- Age of Empires III

Newish games that work with my old 82945G chipset:
- Arx Fatalis
- Mount and Blade (slow)
- Painkiller
- Blood Bowl
- Fable
- Torchlight (a bit slow in some areas)
- Caesar IV (a bit slow, often crashed)
- Children of the Nile (a little slow)
- Gothic 2
- Hidden and Dangerous 2
- Sims 3 (slow)
- Homeworld 2
- Nexus: the Jupiter Incident
- Freelancer
- Rise of Nations
- Dawn of War and its expansions
- Warcraft III
- Silent Storm series, Hammer and Sickle
- Illusions games: Schoolmate, Sexy Beach 3
- Startopia
- Dungeon Siege II
- Sacred Gold

With 3D Analyze:
- NWN2 (slow in cities)
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (runs great!)
- Evil Genius (becomes slower as you spend time playing the game, not worth it)
- Ground Control II
 

Tycn

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Work most likely, decently perhaps on lowest settings. Why not buy a $20 graphics card?
 

Berekän

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Re: "Games that work with an integrated graphics chipse

Paperclip said:
- Full Spectrum Warrior
- Age of Empires III

Those sure.

About Boiling Point I couldn't know because I haven't played it, but from comments from other people I think it was some buggy and unoptimized piece of shit.
 

AZ

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Mount & Blade
Divine Divinity
Dominions3 :)
Sword of the Stars

my forever love is a Thinkpad x60s, so keep coming..
 

SCO

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age of wonders will, since it's actually 2d.

Arx fatalis... i doubt it. But it might.
 

Norfleet

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Anything that leans on 3D fails miserably on a non-3D integrated. You can pretty much forget about 3D games with a non-graphics-card, as it has no 3D capability.
 

Markman

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Dont know how you can run half of these games on integrated chipset. I was recently without a real graphics card for a few days and difference is huge.
Only game I played without hacks and slugishess was Zuma's Revenge. Anything else that required full 3d acceleration run like shit.
Age of Empires 3? Could run, but there's a HUGE difference between high res and low res in that game.
Not even worth playing on low settings,IMO.
 

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ecliptic said:
Nethergate Resurrection (any Vogel game works nicely)
Some of Vogel's games won't work if the horizontal resolution is less than 768. Forgot which ones, but I think I couldn't play the early Geneforges on my old netbook.
 

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Norfleet said:
Anything that leans on 3D fails miserably on a non-3D integrated. You can pretty much forget about 3D games with a non-graphics-card, as it has no 3D capability.
From my experience it's not so much 3D as it is the Shader Model. Which is why 3D analyze sometimes works, since it lets you skip the SM test. But of course, you really need one of the proper ATI/Nvidia integrated cards to get decent performance.
 

Norfleet

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3D Analyze works by faking the existence of a graphics card and making your CPU do the work instead. Obviously this is effective only for games which do not demand much CPU to begin with, leaving the CPU mostly free. This is because the onboard graphics does not actually possess 3D capability. Games that thus still run at all have to use their own software renderer, which is generally not made to do a good job.
 

Raapys

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They do possess 3D capability, if they didn't they'd be no more than display outputs. They just don't usually support TnL( except the more expensive Intel models, or most ATI/Nvidia models) and more advanced options. I think that's what 3D analyze emulates on the CPU, but it's still the GPU doing the 3D rendering to my knowledge. And most games don't have a software renderer; the Unreal engine was one of the few that did, and you could select it from the graphics setup menu.
 

Data4

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Solitaire works pretty good. So does Mine Sweeper, but you have to turn off the parallax shaders.
 

SCO

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Everything that runs on dosbox runs. Funny enough, these days, that includes 3d.

(voodoo emulation in dosbox, itz coming).
 

Paperclip

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Thx everyone for the info!

Tycn said:
Work most likely, decently perhaps on lowest settings. Why not buy a $20 graphics card?

Because I'm too lazy to buy a card for this machine.

laclongquan said:
3D Analyze is our friend. Graphic card emulator for the win!

Have you tried The Witcher yet?

Yes but not on this machine.

Admiral jimbob said:
Will Arx Fatalis and Age of Wonders: Shadow Bumface work well on an integrated chipset? My graphics card's going to be out of action for a few days.

Age of wonder will definitely work and I know that Arx Fatalis worked flawlessly on mine.
 

Wolfus

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Re: "Games that work with an integrated graphics chipse

Paperclip said:
With 3D Analyze:
- NWN2 (slow in cities)
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (runs great!)
- Evil Genius (becomes slower as you spend time playing the game, not worth it)
- Ground Control II

Are you serious???
 

Baddygoal

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Worms (all the 2D ones)
Infinity Engine games
Arcanum
Mechwarrior series (all of them, get the MTX modded MW4)
GTA 1, GTA 2
AOE 2
Starcraft
Dark Reign
Rainbow Six (first one, Rogue Spear and expansions)
TOEE
Deus Ex
Quake 3 Engine games
Unreal 1 Engine games

All the above should work smoothly more or less.
 

desocupado

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Re: "Games that work with an integrated graphics chipse

Wolfus said:
Paperclip said:
With 3D Analyze:
- NWN2 (slow in cities)
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (runs great!)
- Evil Genius (becomes slower as you spend time playing the game, not worth it)
- Ground Control II

Are you serious???

I played Bloodlines with an onboard card too, and with decent frame-rates. I was as surprised as you, though, when the thing worked.
 

Raapys

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Well, Bloodlines' source engine is still mostly the HL1 engine, which in turn is mostly the quake 1 engine. The basic framework from that time is probably largely intact, which would perhaps explain why it runs well on even feature-poor GPUs.
 

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