Best Games playable on GMA 950

i would like to know which games (the best ones) are playable on the GMA 950....

like this ones:

Star Wars: Empire at War
Call of Duty
GTA: san andreas
Counter Strike

etc....

i've been playing bf1942 and warrock OK.

p.s This is serious guys

 

Assuming you don't mind low, low settings, TF2 should be playable, considering it's on the Source engine.

 

GTA: San Adreas probably wouldn't work, but I know that GTA: Vice City will.

Call of Duty...maybe. FarCry will play at lowish settings if you update it to the latest versions.

I'm not sure about the others...sorry!

 

i couldnt load half of the games i tried on it, and that was almost 2 years ago.....

 

Serisouly... no one takes me serious on this

I play Farcry med settings
HL2 med settings
Garrys mod (for hl2) high settings
Call of duty (mostly high)
Trying to get Quake wars to run on it...

Well.,. at least ima say byebye to this lappie soon

NVIDIA!!! I SAY IF YOU DONT BRING YOUR NEW GPU's BY CRYSIS LAUNCH... I PRONOUNCE ATI THE WINNER

 

hehe, well thx for the help really, i just dont know which game to buy right now (cuz i have money right now )














;p

 

Beatsiz, the reason nobody takes you seriously is because in your sig you "Think" you have a 950.

 

We have in-game screenshots with the GMA 950 and know exactly how powerful of a card it is. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=139768

 

UT2004 plays fine on GMA950

 

wat is that game about? i've heard of it before but not sure wats up with it

 

That's Unreal Tournament 2004.

If you haven't heard of the Unreal Tournament franchise, you better google it up!

Long story short:
It's a fast and frantic online FPS (or offline with bots).

 

probably one of the most famous series for multiplayer online FPS.

very fast pace fragfest.

it pretty much gets you skilled up for other FPS games with more reflexes and tactics.

You can play it single player against bots (from beginner to godlike difficulty), or go online and play with A LOT of people.

More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2004

and here:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ut2004/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=tabs&tag=tabs;reviews

Its successor has just been released to the public with the Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) beta demo.

 

BAAAH! Crysis is the best and foremost important FPS lol jk

 

UT04 engine is also used by architects for real time animations. but garry's mod is probably better, and that apparently runs on GMA 950 so im pretty impressed.

 

I approve

Just finished having sooo much fun... Its fantastic =)

 

well, the game sounds great. I went to gamespot and saw stuff, not bad. I just might buy that game after all

im also into racing type of games, is NFS: carbon playable on GMA 950?? maybe NFS: most wanted?

 

I don't know about carbon, but a friend of mine had a packard bell 17'' laptop with a 3500+ sempron, 1gb of ram and a radeon xpress 200m graphics(which is similar to the gma950), and nfs mw ran pretty smoothly(on 640x480 and all details to low, unfortunately). But intel igp's sometimes have problems with certain games so i'm not sure how if will run on yours

 

what about Rome total war? ITs like empire total war except in roman times, I ran it on like low settings and I had a GMA 900

 

My buddy has a Pavillion with a GMA 950 and NFS most wanted works fine in low settings and call of duty 1 works fine in high settings. I'm not sure about carbon...

 

thx.... im still into searching stuff. u guys have helped quite alot tho.

i downloaded nfs: underground 2 just awhile ago. the game is OK(playable on high settings) , but its just a demo anyway im able to play online.

 

Rome total war is on Intel's List of playable games, but i doubt you can run it anything above low settings

 

smoothly... 640*480... low settings... dude my psp should have a higher resolution than that

 

has anyone tried team fortress 2?

 

haha+ .... i would say the same cuz i had a psp before

total war is curious. What about AoE3?? is it playable? (i hope it is)

 

haha! lol

Well.. I mean, a friend of mine had something wrong with his pc and got a resolution of 420*240 on his huge 28inch screen... man I had to step back 10 feet to kinda see how stuff went together and where the buttons to click where

 

How bout StarCraft?

 

yea.... could be, im gonna check that.

anyway, i'll be posting some pics here.... how do i put them?

 

you can use the attachments system in the forum

or use a picture site to store and link people to the pictures that you uploaded:
- www.imageshack.us
- www.photobucket.com

 

My roommate bought the Orange Box at my suggestion (before I could ask him what video card he had), so I've had the pleasure (ha ) of trying to make his games playable.

Team Fortress 2 is not playable on the GMA 950. At the very lowest settings @ 640x480 he averages around 7 FPS. (can get as high as 20 if he's staring at a wall, but you can hardly play like that ). I've tried forcing DX8 mode ( -dxlevel 80 in the launch options) but it crashes as soon as you enter a map. If I can get it working, I'm hoping DX8 might move it up into the playable range.

Half-Life 2 runs surprisingly well (still looks like crap, but it's playable). Portal can get really choppy at some points, but it's playable for the most part.

 

I'm pretty sure it will, I used to bnet with my friends on a w5a, and it ran pretty nicely.

 

thx for the update..... one down.
i really wont to buy AoE3 but it looks like its not playable

 

StarCraft - LOL!

It isn't even 3D so should work marvelously on a Pentium 100. Just behold 640x480 sprite graphics at its best.

 

BATTLEFIELD 1942
Here u go. Settings on high (all) and resolution at 1200x789. Its playable alright but sometimes it gets laggy. Fps around 8-17 (very low), so it means its not playable online. You need to lower resolution for online gameplay
In conculsion its OK.










i hope i put it correctly

 

lol dude Classics = the best
i'm soooooooo looking forward to sc2

 

WOW those screens look amazingly bad to me... I mean... I play garrys mod on high and stuff... it looks like a game only about 1yrs old... its about 4-5 years ....

 

Snood, chess, Tetris, Pac-Man, CS:S, and maybe Doom3

 

Windows 3d Pinball SPACE CADET might be playable...

 

That's one ugly looking game at high settings...

 

No CS:S and no DOOM3. Though it handles Tetris like a pro.

It's freaking 5 years old. Of course the graphics are going to look dated.

 

Can you stop spreading your lies all over the forum please? It's getting annoying now.

 

WHY AM I LYING!? Other people admit it too that they play hl2 and garrys mod! I will take screenshots for you ALL high settings 1280*800 average 25+ fps

 

Oh lets see...You claim to be running Half Life 2 at Dx9 high settings 1280x800 at 25+ fps. That contradicts what every other GMA user experiences and even Intel themselves....

Also, where are all these people also running HL2 at those settings (1280x800, high, dx9, on GMA950?)

Pro benchmark here: Dx8 (much slower), NOT Dx9, and only 800x600 - and still, somehow mysteriously, performing at 20fps. I think this contrasts with your claims of dx9 1280x800 high settings, don't you? Or are you some sort of tech guru that knows something that everyone else here and those guys dont?



Oh but wait, there's even more! Here's Far Cry, running at 800x600 - at a muscular 10fps on GMA950! Wait, didn't you claim you were running high settings? Yes, you did! So please get a freaking life I think this is evidence enough of your trolling.

 

I'd like to see a video of your GMA950 running HL2 at High with a fraps fps counter. Until then I don't believe it.

 

hmmmmm, this screenshots got you guys in disagreement alot LOL. I know it isnt the best but i like, thats what i care really.


p.s i might post pics of warrock......

 

Everything you've said is true, don't worry, you're fine! You said yourself that BF1924 runs not great at high settings, but you find it playable. That's fine, and it accurately reflects the GMA's capabilities, as known to the community. On the other hand we have Beatsiz here claiming he's running games at high settings that came out years AFTER BF1942....

 

hehe, well maybe u can (on some games tho)..... but i really expected less in my GMA 950.
For all those GMA 950 owners:

"It just isnt that bad..."

 

What's the point of gaming on a GMA950?

 

my point is that..... alot of guys say that its junk, it could be if u wanna play new games.... but if u wanna play sims, bf1942, roller coaster tycoon, etc its perfect. It grains less energy also, so thats why i say its OK

 

Well not to sound like a jerk, but if you really wanted to game, you should have spent the extra $50 and gotten a dedicated card. You don't need the 8600GT to play decently new games at moderate settings, but the 8400GS or something similar wouldn't have set you back too much and would work nicely...
Just my two cents...

As far as what would run... Check out Jagged Alliance 2. That is a fun game X-Men Legends 2 is fun and that might work... Not sure, Max Payne (2 should work as well), Mafia, Fable might work, Anarchy Online is free and it would work... Freespace 2 is awesome and that would work... Descent 3 would work as well.

 

Come on, we're not idiots.

I've seen you all over the forums with the most ridiculous claims/lies. You're misleading people who are geniunely interested in buying a new laptop.


Back on topic, C&C Generals can run alright on a GMA950, and the expansion pack runs even better. Not the most amazing game, but it was good a few years ago.