quake 3 with a gma900 i think i can??

ok so i have done some searching and i think that i have found the right anwser but....


can i play quake 3 with a gma900?

i would think that i can since i can play COD1. also since the intel site says that i can paly doom 3, haha ya right.

oh 1.73pm with 5400hd and 1.25gb ram

 

while i don't have the quake3, i do have the gma900...and i'll tell you it sucks for gaming. no other way to put it...get a different card

 

I think you can. My past laptop had an integrated chip (don't remember the number) and was able to play it very good.

 

It DEFINETLY WILL. MY 2001 DESKTOP WITH SIS INTEGRATED CAN PLY IT WHILE GETTING 40fps.

 

And yes, Gma900 does suck. I use to have it in my IBM Z60t and no, BF2 won't even start and HL2 experiences some severe lag in some areas due to lack of renderes.

 

So, you can play Doom 3 only a bit laggy. I played it on my friend's GMA900

 

Quake III doesn't require much hardware acceleration.

 

how laggy was it?? 10fps?

i know the gma900 isnt a gaming card but why is it that so many people rag on it so much. i mean im not trying to play games like oblivian or fear, im not even a serious gamer. i just like to have a little fun and blow off some steam after work and class. im not even trying to play the most recent games, i dont think that quake 3 is exactly new.lol

whenever they come out with a 14.1 lappy that has a dedicated graphics card and i can get 4 hours on a 6cell and is under $900 then sign me up but until that day comes im going to have to stick with my current laptop and just play games that it can handle

 

i have played Quake 4 on a gma950 with 1GB RAM and on a Duo 1.83 Ghz with low settings(800x600, with a window) and it plays around 40fps

 

To actually answer your original question, yes Quake III runs perfectly at high settings on the GMA900.

 

so why is it so bad that i realize that i cant play current games but ask if i can play older games to have some sort of fun at least?

 

Yes, you can. It just won't run anything modern, and Intel's drivers have caused really flaky issues for me in the past. It'll perform alright for games that aren't graphically intensive, or are older. Flaky issues as in, icon caches being constantly corrupted, nothing I could do to fix it. Soon as I replaced the video card, all the problems stopped (this was in a desktop, though).

 

Merky, I am sorry everyone is ragging on your card. When some people have bigger and better things, they like to make everyone else feel like crap. The GMA900 will run Quake III perfectly fine all maxed out! I also suggest-

Unreal Tournament (Original)
Counter Strike (1.6 or Condition Zero)

People would say my laptop GPU is outdated, which it is... but hey, I can play BF1942 with expansions, along with CS:S, HL2, and UT2K4 all with pretty decent settings at great framerates! It's a notebook, I have my desktop for gaming!

 

yes thank you, KGann you hit the nail on the head. ill have to try CS out as well

i just think that its funny really that people are so nose up in the air when you mention integrated graphics cards..like they have never owned a comp that had one...we all began with something

 

When the first p4 where in stores i just bought an old P1 pc for 2,5 euro (i know the euro didn't excisted at that moment, i calculated ). I was really happy!

 

yeah right

 

Quake 3 ran smoothly on my old Geforce 2. At max detail and high resolution.

Please, not lag. Choppy, maybe, or just low framerate. Lag = network latency.


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There's nothing inherently wrong with IGPs other than that they're very low performance parts. That said, though, for some people they suit their needs just fine.

I get pissy about the GMA 900/950 because they're pathetic even as IGPs. For Q3 generation games, they're fine. For the most part. But I have yet to use an Intel graphics part that didn't render some kind of graphical error in a game somewhere, or didn't have a woefully inconsistent framerate. Their compatibility is in the dumps, that's my issue with them.