chipset quality

Hi,

I have a laptop(Dell Inspiron 1525) with Intel Chipset Mobile 965 Express in my laptop, with 2GB Ram and 250GB HDD. I want to ask about the quality of chipset performance-wise. I was trying to run old Need for speed underground on the computer and I couldnt set it to run smoothly besides having it on the lowest detail. the game itself is over 8 years old, and the computer is couple months old. Is it really that weak configuration? I didnt buy it to be a gaming laptop, obviously, but still, Im shocked that I cant run 8 years old game. is it just this game or is the config that weak? (score from Vista is 3.5)
thanks

 

1)NFS underground is 4 years old
2)intel x3100 is very weak.sorry.

 

It's not the problem of your chipset, it's a problem with your graphics card. Gaming performance depend wholly on the GPU, and the integrated GPU in your laptop is simply not good enough.

 

so I wont be able to run basically any games with x3100? if I cant pull off NFS undergroung, which is, ok, 4 years old...... ??!!!!

 

The X3100 is not a graphics card designed for any 3D intensive tasks. You will be able to run old games which are not graphically intensive (such as WoW etc), but if you purchased that computer with the aim for running 3D accelerated games, then you have made a mistake.
Read this thread for more info: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=173312

 

it is a school computer, so its main purpose is office work, movies etc. this is the first game I tried to run and I was shocked that it didnt work. I paid 1200 for that laptop (with international warranty), so it seems I didnt made a good deal....right? :-(

 

Are the right drivers installed? The X3100 should handle old games fine.

 

yea i cant see why that card wouldnt handle that game alright, my friends 950 could play games like civ 4 fine with all the animations on.