List Great games that will run on this "Budget" Notebook

I don't think F.E.A.R. will work and any old game will work. I played the original Quake and Max Payne with full deatils on my laptop.

You can try BloodRayne 1-2, Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within and the new Prince Of Persia.

p.s. as you might have guessed I like 3rd person action games
p.s.2. My laptop has a Radeon 9000 with shared ram and I played PoP: SoT with full details and it was great, so I guess that the others should play as well.

I'd at least try Medal of Honor: Allied Assault or Call of Duty on that. And I can be pretty sure that it will run World of Warcraft. My mom's Intel Extreme 2 ran it reasonably well, so youre GMA 900 should run it if you're so inclinded.

Another game I'd check out is Freespace 1 and 2. They're hard to find, but tottaly worth it. It's a 3d space shooter with awesome gameplay, awesome controls, and awesome story.

A few other classics selections that I like to dig in and play: Homeworld, Mech Warrior 3, Age of Empires 1 & 2. You might try any one of many turn based games, a lot of those are pretty easy on the system.

And if you like Roller Coaster Tycoon, try and find a copy of Transport Tycoon. It was made by the same guy as RCT, but in like 1993. It's a very addicitve game, especially with some mods you can find online that take away all the tedious crap.

I think most games are playable on a laptop these days, as you said, scaled down, of course.

The question would be best served if it were more specific...as in what games are you most interested in playing in the near future, and then we can tell you whether it could handle that game.

Do you like strategy games?

I'm usually bored by RTS and FPS after a few hours, but games like Civ, Alpha Centauri, and Space Empires IV get me hooked for weeks.

Also look into the Close Combat series for more immediate gratification.

and Adventure games like the Fallout series, Grim Fandango, Sanitarium

Wow I have a decent lappy and Quake III wouldnt run for me. Since it says nothing about being compatibale with WinXP it didnt really suprise me. It would technically start up but the graphics were jumping all over the screen and it didnt look playable. I checked for updates but the only thing I seen was the point realease thing (which is ancient, theyve had that since I played QIII on my PII 350). I didnt really try to hard to get it to work tho. I play BF 1942 on my PC and it runs pretty well...and EQ thats all I play on my PC.
Oh.... F.E.A.R. and Elder Scrolls have NO possibility of running on your rig
which unfortunately I can totally relate to.

Your lappy may perform better than mine, and I run quite a few games with decent performance.

Listed best to worst running on Intel Extreme Graphics 2 w/ 32/64MB shared memory...

1. Unreal Tournament (blazing speed at native resolution 1280x800)
2. Quake III Arena (No native WS support for me but runs great at 1024x768 in 32 bit colour)
3. GTA: Vice City (Pretty good speed, but some minor graphics flicker which was fixed by the latest drivers from Intel)
4. Alice (similar in performance with Quake III.)
5. Everquest (Runs great compared to my old lappy at native screen rez. Zone times are minimal except in Omens Of War.)
6. Warcraft III (runs pretty well so far at 1024x768 with full detail)
7. Dungeon Siege (Runs okay, frame rate is sluggish despite going into different resolutions.
8. Curse Of Monkey Island (Runs okay, but have to turn on compatibility mode to Win98 or Win95)
9. Guild Wars (Runs despite giving me a "Unsupported Hardware" message. It will run at full detail but is nearly unplayable. Turning everything down and going down to 800x600 gives a decent frame rate)
10. GTA: San Andreas (No video problems or glitches but have to run at a pretty low rez for a decent frame rate. Also have to disable sound acceleration or the games audio starts skipping and echoes are overdone.)


11. Unreal (the original) Just for kicks, I installed this game just to see if it would run and was feeling a bit nostalgic. What I found very entertaining is my laptop ran the software rendering faster (at 1280x800)than it did using Direct 3D or Open GL rendering...

Yep with software rendering its using the CPU and no acceleration (compare your cpu speed now to the cpu speed when you bought the game) so I bet it does run alot faster, just doesnt look as good im sure. Wasnt the first Unreal accelerated through Glide (3DFX native API, back when D3D sucked)? If so it would suprise me that theres even an option for D3D, all the games then used OpenGL as an alternative. But heres my question...how do you guys get QuakeIII Arena to run on WinXP? I tried this recently because when I played QIII I always wished I had broadband and now I do hehe. Was there anything special you did to make it work? I looked for patches but didnt see anything even remotely new.

Back when I worked for the publisher (GTIS) the only acceleration Unreal used at the time was Glide and PowerSGL (beta and buggy as hell for those craptastic first gen Power VR cards) in the final patch for Unreal, support for Direct3D was brought up to date (for the time anyway) and D3D supported a larger feature set over Glide and OpenGL in the original Unreal.

To try and answer your question about Quake 3, I am unsure why it won't run on your lappy. I am using the original drivers that shipped with my GW running my crappy Intel EG2 chipset. I didn't have to mess with any compatibility settings or anything to get it installed or running, it just worked.

Wanuva, you should try BF Vietnam at 800x600,MOHAA,CoD,Vietcong,Shadow ops