ISO: good titles that DO work on an Intel GMA X4500HD

we're all well aware of what the X4500 can't run, but what older, less GPU intensive titles out there can it handle and are worth looking into? i play almost anything, name your favourites.

 

I have just started playing the original Splinter Cell game which plays ok. All settings on med and 1024X768 res avg 20-30 fps

 

The orange box, Hitman series, Halo CE, Mafia, Morrowind, Battlefield 2, GTA: vice city & san andreas and Far Cry.

 

I've seen Counter strike source run on some pretty scraggly machines.

 

CS:S is good

 

any games that's 3 years old, and some new games with the right setting.
If you like soccer, I'd recommend PES 9 and FIFA 2009

 

thanks for all the suggestions guys, i like playing older games, doesn't matter what genre as long as its fun.

 

Starcraft, Warcraft 3 TFT, Sins of a Solar Empire (maybe... depends on processor) Half-Life 2 (4500MHD Presets itself to all high, runs well) haven't tried Team Fortress 2 on mine, but provided its fluent, that games great, I've seen portal run pretty well on a x3100 so since the 4500MHD is stronger im sure it'd do well... uh.. Maybe X2 and X3, but I haven't played those, so I don't know, but I've always wanted em...

 

Deus Ex will run just fine

 

I have a toshiba l300-19y 2ghz core 2 duo with 3gb of ram,any advice on games that are playable?

 

Wonder if this igu could do games like these:

Temple of Elemental Evil
Icewind Dale I/II
NWN1
Sacred 1
Silverfall
BG collection
Titan Quest

 

I have an X4500 in my Acer and recently did a review on it. I verified it can run CS: S with no issues at mostly high settings and a 1024x768 resolutions. Games it definitely cannot play at a reasonable framerate (I have tested and verified these):
-Call of Duty 4
-Unreal Tournament III
-Left 4 Dead
-F.E.A.R. 2

 

Silverfall, Sacred 1 and Titan Quest might give problems, the rest in the list will be fine.

 

My friend can run L4D 720x480. Not as grainy as you might think, and he gets very playable 20+ fps, which I thought was very decent.

 

Hey Chaz, just curious, did you try running COD4 in shader 2.0 mode? It helped a TON for me on my HD3200, essentially doubling the performance, so curious if that wouldn't run on the X4500? I get 40-50fps with pretty decent settings, wouldn't think the X4500 would be that much slower than the 3200HD? Maybe it is, dunno.

 

Is that a setting in the game? I can't link you to my 4500MHD review since I did it on a non-NBR site, but I had mostly everything at the lowest possible setting (800x600 res).

 

no, it's a console command that you set in game, but once it's set, it's that way until you change it again.... it should be an option in the menu settings, but for some reason it's not... I just stumbled across it on another board that was talking about some performance tweaks with the COD4 engine. But, it dramatically improves performance, and honestly, I can't even tell a difference visually. But, it allowed me to jump from 800x600 and lowish settings to 1280x800 with mediumish settings.

here's a post I made about it over in the tabletpcreview side when sombody asked about COD4 performance:

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?t=23887

My posts with the info are towards the bottom.... just curious if it would help as much on the 4500?

 

really? that would be wonderful!
can you post some screenies please.

 

Warcraft 3, and expansions Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne

 

I don't have experience, but my friend has an Acer with an HD4500 and she said she can run Oblivion(probably lowest everything) with it. I haven't seen her run it, but I'm guessing she can if she says she can >.>

 

Left 4 Dead I can confirm works OK for me as Pi3guy said.
Mine is at 640x320 and it isn't unplayable or a slide show at a horde. I'd even say good frame-rate when it's just the survivors and a few zombies on screen. But everyone should remember if you are trying to play that, it's going to be serious bottom of the barrel and that you shouldn't expect much, especially if you have a lower end processor. (Mine's not high end, but it's a P8400, 4GB RAM, 4500MHD, which means an older processor with only 2MB L2 Cache or a slower FSB may make it unplayable, I don't really know.)

 

Here's a screenshot comparison of oblivion on both high and low with fraps running.

Oblivion high:


Oblivion low:


It might be technically playable but with 2 dimensional tree's appearing right in front of your face(no more than 10 ft.) you would have a hard time enjoying the game.
Although the 4500 should be able to handle the distant land setting or at least raised draw distances.

 

I don't benchmark at anything lower than 800x600, so all of my findings on the previous page were based on trying to run the game at that resolution. Anything lower than that and seriously . . . you might as well go play on an N64. I'm a high res junkie, so 800x600 is torture as it is.

 

you should be able to play oblivion with something more than all low i did with my 7150m and draw distance is alot better than that just lower the rsolution ALOT and you can make it throught with some settings on medium(even though it uses sliders)

 

Do a search for a mod called "oldblivion". It allows Oblivion to be played on meager hardware with decent draw distance.

 

Sorry to bump an old thread. I can confirm that Sacred 1 will work on a x4500, I've played it for a while on Macbook with a x3100 via Bootcamp and it played just fine.

Can anyone confirm whether Titan Quest will be playable on the x4500? I tried it a while back on a Sempron laptop with some lame integrated chip and it worked, just very very poorly.

 

It runs well with x3100 at lowest setting (i've beaten through the game 2 times on mine), so it should surely run on a x4500

 

I used to play Titan Quest on an ATI X300 mobile. Think 9700 desktop card. Intel's 4500MHD should be better than the old old old 9700.

Sacred 1 ran on an X1250 mobile IGP, should also run fine on an x4500.

 

Thanks folks. I'm really into these Diablo 2 clones at the moment, and I heard Titan Quest ranks near the best of its class. +Rep for both of you!

 

That's like 2x the fps of my desktop X3000 system.

 

This is weird. My lappy with the X4500 seems to be struggling with Command and Conquer Generals. The game is unplayable. I'm wondering if the issue is with Vista. I was able to play the game with an old Geforce 2 MX and a Quadro NVS 110 so it doesn't make sense that the X4500 can't.

 

Have u updated to latest driver and latest direct x?

 

Yea something is wrong. 4500MHD should be able to handle it at all High settings: http://www.thinkpad-forum.de/forum-...0-intel-gma-x4500hd-games-sammelthread-liste/

 

Whoa! Can you translate this one?

Ok nevermind. I see the table

 

Guild Wars might be ok i think. anyone have information on min and max fps this game run?

 

I've got the GMA X4500HD on my laptop and it plays the following games really well:
Age of Empires 3
Battlefront 2
Half Life 2 and it's Episodes

 

Spore! It's the only one I could actually find enjoyable on a GMA950 so I KNOW it'll work on the x4500.

 

Guild Wars will be fine.