Games that run well on the Intel x3100

- Warcraft 3
- Flight Simulator: A century of flight
- Unreal Tournament 2004

lets add some games to this list!

 

Just a wild guess but I think it'll run wow just fine

 

try battlefield 2,and medieval total war 2

 

Hopefully, mine should arrive tommorow, and I'm going to be testing basically every game I have where it meets the minimum required specs.
Also, people may want to check out:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgm965/sb/CS-026146.htm
I'm not sure whether that's specifically for the X3100 graphics chipset, but it's for the 965GM chipset, which is what the m1330 uses. If that's the case, I'll see if STALKER actually does run as they put there. I think I'll give Oblivion, Double Agent, Bioshock, RB6Vegas and BF2 a miss though, I doubt it'll handle them, or if it does, it's not like I'll care. I'd rather play Oblivion on my home PC at Ultra High, heheh.

I'll also try out WoW (although I'll have to pay for another month, urgh), and Guild Wars, maybe Sims 2, if I can stand the shame of it being discovered by mates at Uni.

I think anything older than, say, WoW should run quite well (so about 2005 or earlier release dates), especially if they had patches to improve performance, or if there are performance enhancing mods.

I think I might try to dig up a few other games, like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Halo and Max Payne 2, see how well they're working with it.

 

Battlefield 2? Not likely. It struggles with UT2004 and CS:S, but they'll run if you sacrifice enough quality/resolution. Nothing that requires SM3 will run at all yet - Bioshock, R6:V, SC: Double Agent, etc., and though driver improvements should get those games to launch, they'll never receive acceptable framerates.

Basically old games (think Q3 engine days) are going to run great; slightly newer ones like WoW, Halo, CS:S, and UT2004 will run with some degree of playability if you sacrifice enough in terms of details. Anything newer than that, and you can forget about it.

 

my CS Source ran fine until i reinstalled windows and now it runs like a total dog, 10fps on lowest of lowest settings, and i cant fix it =( i hate you
x3100 i hhhate u

 

I guessed as much, that's why I said I'd give those games a miss, plus, after reading through the X3100 thread, for HL2 specifically (although some started posting other benches, heh), it seems anything SM3 really will struggle with the beta drivers, although I havent finished reading the thread yet.
I'm hoping that Guild Wars will run well, I don't like subscriptions, so WoW isn't for me, but GW appeals to me, I think this laptop may get me playing it again. I've ignored installing it on my PC for two years already, after a few months of play.

 

Actually, several posts have indicated BF2 works at high FPS on low settings.

Guild Wars, unless there's some abnormal issue relating to drivers, should run fine, it ran fine on the 900 and 950 (I tried it on the 950 screenshots in sig. It ran fine, bit low FPS in big areas but given the nature of the game it was no big deal)

 

??? The X3100 has SM3.0 support, at least in XP. Bioshock, while running with very low framerates, is confirmed to run on the x3100. R6:V does not, though that game's unplayable even on fairly recent mid-end dedicated laptop cards.

As long as you realize you don't expect anything more than 640x480 and lowest settings, you should be fine with any game from a year ago on back (excepting games with known performance problems, such as bad ports).

 

how will run world in conflict?

 

The lowest settings, due to the high textures in the game.

 

I hope this is true, as my x1600 laptop crashed on me and I need a 12in to play wow and work stuff.

edit: I would like full res low settings on wow that would make me happy. Full res being 1280x800.

edit 2: I figure this is possible since I got wow working fine on my old ati 200m

 

Doom 3 (with some tweaks in the autoexec.cfg)
Call Of Duty 2 (directX 7.0 mode runs great)
Civilization 4
FEAR (the demo was working all right)

 

If you have a good CPU and have Windows XP, you'll be able to run the following games.

-Battlefield 2(30-40 fps at 800x600 low, and 20 at medium)
-Oblivion(Playable indoors, getting 10-20 fps, and unplayable outdoors, getting 5-8 fps, using 1024x768 medium)
-Quake 3(any resolution, setting)
-Warcraft 3(You'll likely reach a frame rate limit of 60 fps, sometimes dropping to mid-50s)
-World of Warcraft(Varies by zone, but is playable. Heavily dependent on CPU, users with Core 2 can get 20-40 fps with 1024x768 everything high)
-Half Life 2(20-40 fps with 1024x768 everything Max)
-Age of Empires 3(30-40 fps at 1024x768 High)
-Command & Conquer 3(10-15 fps 1024x768 Medium, 20-30 fps at very low)
-Supreme Commander(Similar to C&C3)
-Company of Heroes(30-40 fps 1024x768 everything low, 25-35 fps medium, ~10 fps everything high)
-Quake 4(20-25 fps 640x480 default)
-Prey(similar to Quake 4, slightly less demanding)

Games that run in Vista that doesn't run on XP
-World in Conflict

 

great posting IntelUser, now lets just wait patiently for the Vista driver that can perform as well as XP.

 

Any other games:
Here a new list of games that I played which are playable:

Fable (20-35 fps)
Civilization 4
NHL 2008 (very playable)
Half Life 2( thumbs up)
Lego Star Wars II
Need For Speed Underground II