Dell Inspiron 1505 game compatability.

I was wondering how well an Inspiron 1505 with the following specifications would run the following list of games.

Specs-

Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7200 (4MB cache/2.00GHz/667MHz)
2GB DDR2 RAM, 533MHz
7200RPM SATA HD
256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

Games-

World of Warcraft
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2
Battlefield 2142
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Quake 4

I know in theory that it should run them all fairly well, but I'm hoping for a little feedback from people with first hand experience on how those will run on it.

 

I've got an X1300 in my laptop, which is the model below the X1400. But this might help as a guideline I guess.

FEAR - 1024x600, Low detail
Half Life 2 - 1280x800 Medium Detail
Star Wars Empire at War - 1280x800 Medium Detail
Civ 4 - 1280x800 Medium
Railroad Tycoon 3- 1280x800 Medium (can play at higher detail...but why bother!)
Call Of Duty 2 - 1024x600 DX7 Mode
Sims 2 - 1280x800 Medium Detail
Lego Star Wars 2 - 1280x800 All on but no Anti-Aliasing
Quake4/Doom3 - 800x600 Low Detail


WoW you'll be fine with on that machine. Elder Scrolls is a demanding game, so you would be looking at 640x480 I would think. Only guessing here though.

 

Should do fine for the older games(pre 2004), but the newer ones it'll have to be taken a notch down, in resolution and quality definitely.

 

Thanks for the feedback. That actually makes me a little more optimistic about it. If you can run those games on those settings with an X1300, I should be doing just fine with them on a X1400, considering the 1300 only has 64MB of dedicated video RAM, and another 64 shared, whereas the 1400 has 128mb dedicated, 128mb shared. Not that shared memory matters much, but the X1400 has double the dedicated memory.

I'm really wondering about Battlefield 2142, though, cuz I freaking love that game. Can anyone with an X1400 tell me if/how well it will run on it?

-EDIT-
Also, I have a desktop with 1GB 533mhz RAM, a 3.0ghz intel single core processor, and a 128mb ATI RADEON X300 graphics card. BF2142 runs fairly well with that setup, so could I assume that the X1400 would run at a similar quality to the desktops X300?

 

The X1400 is better then an X300. And it runs BF2142 relatively well, search the forums, I know a few people have posted up screenshots in the past.

 

World of Warcraft - 1280x800, high settings
Counter-Strike: Source -1280x800, all high with no AA, HDR.
Half-Life 2 - Same as above
Battlefield 2142 - No idea, never played that rubbish
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 1280x800, medium details, no water settings at all (for some reason they kill it)
Quake 4 - Dunno, but Doom 3 ran 60fps at 1024x768, high settings.

 

If the Mobility X1400 is a better card than the desktop Radeon X300, then I really shouldn't have a problem running any of them. I can run BF2142 on my desktop with the above mentioned specs perfectly fine on medium settings, with only the occasional slowdown from only having a single core processor and 1gb of RAM. I think BF2142 is more of a RAM thing than the graphics card, because the textures are nice, but the particle effects and lighting and such isn't all that hot, but there's just so much crap going on all at once. My main concerns were WoW, BF2142, and CS:S. If it'd play CS it'd play HL2, and I just bought Oblivion as something to piddle with during the huge breaks between classes so I don't have to drive back and forth to the campus twice a day. As long as it doesn't have to dip down into the very low settings it won't be so bad.

 

This is a great thread. Come on people write some more. I want to buy the EXACT computer and I wonder what is x1400 really worth.
Sylvain - is your info based on T2400 | 1GB Ram | 128MB X1400 ? If you say YES, then I guess I would do just fine on "my".

 

Ive got a Core Duo T2500 1 Gb ram, and x1400 GPU
Omega drivers!!

CS:S- All high except for AA, 1280 x 800 ~40-50 FPS
HL2- ^^ same but slightly lower FPS.
BF2142- 1024 x 768 (no widescreen for the game ) Lowest settings - ~35 Fps
(I turned down the Resolution a notch to about 900 x 600 (or something near that, its not much of a diffrence trust me) and runs at about ~40 fps )

FEAR- 1280 x 800 low- medium settings ( you can get it to run REALLY good if you tweak the settings. Like low on shadows, and such, but medium on effects etc. ) ~35-40 fps

 

Yeah, although if you're planning on playing Armed Assault, steer clear.

 

Are you sure you actually have an X300 because I guarantee you, there is no way you are running BF2142 on medium settings on an X300 card. The X300 is a true bottom of the barrel card at this stage and it doesn't support some of the newer games even, and it was a very poor performer in BF2 - The X1400 even, has no problem whatsoever running BF2, but at lowish settings and it is more powerful then an X300.

 

Straight out of my device manager, using Catalyst drivers (remember, I have a desktop, not a laptop atm. Is there even an X300 for a laptop?):

RADEON X300/X550 Series

For some odd reason it lists a second one, though. "RADEON X300/X550 series secondary"

And also, there are only 3 graphics settings for BF2142: Low, Medium, High, with whatever custom changes you make to each. I've ran the game on Low before, and there's no vegetation, crappy terrain textures, low quality explosions, etc. So no, I'm definitely not running it on the "low quality" setting.

That might have something to do with it though. The X300 with Catalyst drivers is a supported card. The X1400 isn't. So it could run because it meets the minimum requirements (Pixel shader v2.0 or above, 128mb video RAM, Directx 9.0c compatible), but just be kind of wonky because the drivers aren't supported. Plus, it warns that Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. You never know about EA.