Games that run decently on the HD3000

I keep hearing the HD3000 is good for light gaming. I was just curious what are some games that will run decently on the HD3000? I don't need the best settings. It's just a time killer. Hopefully, something I pick up cheap and used on ebay. It's got work good with Vista too cause that's what I got.

 

CnC Generals and Generals Zero Hour work great on it. I highly recommend buying Zero Hour and downloading the latest Shockwave mod, you'll love it.

 

Plants vs Zombies is a classic Mount & Blade (RPG) is fun as well and should run.

 

Starcraft 2 1v1 very hard AI. Of course, the capacity and speed of your RAM will greatly affect the actual performance of the IGP (it was a X220 user, funny enough, who did the informal testing on that).

 

I should have been more clear, I'm looking for some older FPS that could work well. I'm not really interested in role playing or strategy games. Thanks.

 

Counter-Strike 1.6., Counter-strike source, call of duty 1, call of duty 2 -- on low-medium. Pretty much any FPS before 2005 should run decently.

 

Just tested Battlefield BC2, runs pretty bad. Have to use 1024x768, low settings, it's quite hard to play but at those settings the fps is decent, it just looks like and it's a bit hard to shoot at faraway targets. Really looking forward to getting my eGPU set up sigh.

Battlefield 2 and 2142 work fine though, they worked on the previous generation Intel HD graphics at low settings.

Mind you, Battlefield series games are all on sale for 5 dollars right now, that's why I picked up BC2

 

Are you only looking for FPS games? Have you considered browser flash games? They are great for time killers are some are very creative.

If you get Steam(Source game engine is pretty scalable) , check out the free list of games they have. More will likely be added because of the Free 2 Play "craze".

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/355292-steam-games-deals.html
(bottom of first post).

Also, Older games with an active mod community are a great way to get some pretty good games for cheap. I enjoyed a lot of the BF2 mods.

 

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division - one of my favorite games of all time. You might need to do some tweaking in order to get it running optimally on a modern system. If you end up buying it and have issues, hit me up with a PM, and I can give you some suggestions.

 

Anything before 2005 should run fine on the GPU.

 

My brother has the HD3000 so I'll definitely recommend him some of these games since he's been looking for something to play.

 

I'm sure that the Sims 3 and expansion packs work on it as well. My sister plays them on the family desktop, which has a mere nVidia GeForce 6150SE card with 128MB of memory and it runs mostly okay (little lag here and there, nothing major).

 

I play Company Of Heroes maxed out (no aa tough) at native res 1600x900. Runs better than I thought it would.

 

Definitely get Terraria. It's a 2D game but super awesome!

 

Has anyone tried Shogun 2: Total War on low settings?

 

These benchmarks should tell you a lot.

 

Benchmarks are one thing, but playing the game gives you a feel of how it runs. So after playing BFBC2 for a day, just to make sure it's not me that was the problem, I am concluding that the HD3000 (at least in its lower clocked form in the i3 and i5-2410) is no good for this game in multiplayer mode. I consistently came in last place because 1024x768 was so grainy I couldn't see enemies until they were too close, and I couldn't aim because the framerate was too low.

 

Certainly, I wouldn't even dream of running BFBC2 on a HD3000. Maybe CoD4 in singleplayer should be fine.

 

it could also be a mix of the HD3000, lower clocked memory, and the fact that it's only a dual core.... even with Hyperthreading. On the anandtech review, the quad core mobile sandy seemed to have fared better at 1366x768.

 

I remember reading about how the destructible environment stresses the CPU a lot in BC2 which may be true, but I think the video is still the biggest problem. I tried playing single player yesterday and it's fine since the enemies don't run up and kick your lol.

 

Duke nukem forever

 

I'm guessing games included in Humble Bundles

 

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Fun game =D

 

I'm guessing pretty much all the games on Grand Old Games will run just fine with the HD3000:

GOG.com

Well, maybe not Far Cry (which despite being 7 years old, looks as good as some brand-new shooters). But most everything else, like Ghost Recon, Shogo: Mobile Armored Division, etc.

 

Looking for more good games that will run with this. LoL? Starcraft II? TF2?

 

The witcher 2 can run on this card, I have tried it on a Thinkpad T420s. I had to change a few settings but it was playable and the quality was pretty good.

 

Far Cry can play quite good on even the older 4500MHD Intel GPU. Not all details maxed, but it's fluid.

Good suggestion for Good Old Games though. I own half their catalog! Still several I'd like to see added.

Starcraft 2 should run at lowest settings and 800x600 or even 1024x768. It's more GPU bound than anything when using lowest detail levels. At lowest, it almost looks like original Starcraft!

Other FPS games I'd suggest would be:

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2,
Chronicles of Riddick Butcher Bay
Half-Life & Half-Life 2
Freelancer
Call of Duty 1 & 2
Battlezone 1 & 2
FEAR
GTA San Andreas
GTA Vice City
Hitman series
Splinter Cell series
SWAT 3 / 4
Rainbow Six Raven Shield, Rogue Spear, Athena Sword
Aliens vs Predator 2
Delta Force Blackhawk Down
Beyond Good and Evil

I could go on and on. Enough?

 

I have a probook 4430s with an i3-2310m, 4 gigs ddr3 1333mhz, 7200 rpm hd. Heres the games that are playable on this laptop. I know there not fp shooters, but I hope it helps a little. The hd 3000 is actually pretty decent for intel integrated, a big improvement on there part. AA off on all games.

Sims 3 - Low to medium settings 1366x768. Fully playable and smooth.
Lord of the Rings Online - Medium to high settings. 30-50 fps. Verry playable.
Civ 5 - Medium, smooth gameplay.
Neverwinter Nights 2 - Low - medium with smooth gameplay.
Dawn of Discovery(anno 1404) Low with smooth gameplay.
King arthur the role playing game - Lowest settings is playable but looks terrible.
Shogun 2 - Not playable even on the lowest settings, its very jerking. Probably under 15-20 fps.

 

If you are looking for FPS games in particular, you should get Unreal Anthology. All four of the games in the collection should be more than playable on the HD3000.

 

Try some older classics like Quake 3 Arena, Quake Live, and UT2004. You should be able to run them quite well.

 

Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, maybe Team Fortress 2. I have no problem running the Half-Life games and CS:S on an Intel 4500MHD and can run TF2 decently with low settings, all at native resolution (1280 x 800). Left 4 Dead series I'm not sure, my x200 can't really run it that well at native resolution.

If you're into Star Wars, there's the Battlefront series and Republic Commando. You could also look into Halo: Combat Evolved, but I think putting it at a widescreen resolution cuts off part of the HUD.

Also, just curious ZaZ, will you be using a mouse for gaming? I've actually been using my TrackPoint for gaming and it's not too bad. Of course for something like precision sniping in Counter-Strike it's probably not the greatest idea, but for Half-Life and even Team Fortress 2 I don't have too many problems.

 

ah republic commando, i wish the in the multiplayer you could have your won ai squad to command arround that would be amazing.

 

I feel like Republic Commando is criminally underrated, even by Star Wars gaming fans. The squad dialog was hilarious, and the game really brought me into the grimy trenches of the Clone Wars. Super Battle Droids don't look so tough when they're being cut to pieces by a lightsaber, but to a clone trooper they're pretty scary. The scale really changes when you're nothing more than a foot soldier and not an all-powerful Jedi.

 

I have SWRC as well and loved the gameplay. Dialogue was awesome

 

yeah they made the superbattle droid like a boss in that game, i wish the made a sequel in dx11. in fact im going to install that on my clevo now.

 

The game absolutely needs a sequel. Everyone talks about Battlefront 3 or KOTOR 3 or the next X-Wing/Tie-Fighter game. But I'm pining for a Republic Commando 2, especially after that ending.

 

in battle front 2 they had a thing where you could command around a squad of men, the higher your rank the more men you got, but it wasn't the same as repcom(republic commando).

 

I absolutely love that game, the super battle droid arent that though, its the battle droid that is too easy to kill. I remember that in the first mission I was like "what the hell! die already" when I was faced with the SBD, however as the game goes, you learn to shoot in the head, and it became easier

 

This is a bit of a revive, but today I tweaked the settings.ini file for BFBC2, and I am getting it to run smoothly on my intel HD3000! It does lag a bit when buildings are collapsing and there are a lot of people around, but it is pretty smooth, albeit at 1024X768 and everything turned down. The issue seemed to be the refresh rate, which is set to 60Hz by default, but the X220 screen is set at 50Hz default. Putting it to 50Hz made it load about 10 times faster, and run smoothly. I wouldn't call this playable though, as I feel like my performance in game is being significantly compromised by the crap resolution. I tried playing on an HD6570 with AMD Athlon x4 and it was much better, I'd say that's about as low as you can go and have a really good time playing.

 

Get Counter Strike: Source or Crossfire (FPS MMORPG) or Garrys Mod (You can buy a pack with it including Team Fortress 2 or CS:S and the game is a HUGE time killer, so many user sWEPS). Anything with the source engine is awesome.

 

does anyone know if Dungeon siege 2 would work? or any other rpg or RTS games?

EDIT: would it run heroes of might and magic V?

 

League of Legend 5vs5. 20-25fps in 1920x1080 , I forgot to swap it back my 6990 that day.

 

AssaultCube is a simple, quick FPS with a pretty devoted following.

Although not an FPS, Revenge of the Titans is a cheap, well-designed, and pretty fun tower defense game, if you're interested. It was a part of the Humble Indie Bundle on Steam.