Warlord your little lady will have a hard time dealing with full blast dx9 games such as Half Life 2 at native laptop resolutions. Current dx9 games doesn't fully ultilize dx9 abilities; therefore, you can claim that you have no problem playing current dx9 games. Anyways your judgement of your experience is highly perspective. Warlord, what I want to know are you able to play(in the most intense scenes) Fry Cry at max detail in your native laptop resolution?