Hi All

Wondering about the minimum requirements for graphics... Every game I've looked at states that it needs a "3D Graphics card compatible with DX7..." regardless of whether there's any 3D graphics in the game or not.

The specific games I'm looking at are all pre 2003, non 3D (strategy) games, my machine is a laptop with an Intel Dual Core Duo processor (with DX11). I would imagine that the machine is capable of running these graphics but is there something about 3D cards that GOG games need? I'd hate to spend my dollar and then have the PC tell me it cant run the game!

Cheers

If you're running a duo, I doubt any of the pre 2003 games would give you a problem, though posting your actual model of graphics card (maybe the rest of your system specs too), and some of the games you intend to run would maybe help get a more concrete answer.

My PC is so old the keyboard is in Sanskrit, and I can run anything prior to 2003. Of course, if you can, demos are always a nice way to get an idea for capability, though sometimes they mislead. The Fallout demo is horrible, and Fallout is great.

Ooops. Got off topic there. Sorry.

Thanks Gameon, your instructions gave me the info I needed to see what was what on my machine. I bought this laptop for audio production so I've never thought about the graphics, but apparently the Intel GMA 4500MHD provides, "Great 3D graphics performance, delivering over 3X scores on 3D Mark* 06◊" according to the Intel Website. The fact it can run 3D graphics fills me with confidence about non 3D games.

Thanks also to Sachys and tinyE.

No probs, glad to help. The 4500HD is one of the newer types of intel graphics chips, it out performs the woeful 3000 series thankfully. It even has better scores than some AMD and Nvidia chips on laptop pc's these days.

While i wouldn't think that your laptop could run modern games, you should get decent speeds in older games. Plus, when i had a laptop pc back in 2004 (with a 64mb radeon 7000) i was able to run Doom 3, so i am sure your pc could run that too.

You may be thinking of the wrong chipset here. The GMA line has always been pretty subpar. For instance, take a look at the GMA 4500MHD versus HD 3000.

Most 2D games and even some early 3D games should run fine, but there'll probably be some that'll balk simply because of it being an integrated chip. Hell, we don't even know when the latest graphics driver update for that chip was. Just to point out, some 2D games and video playback in others had been totally defunct for me until I had gotten a hold of a new driver for my HD 3000 this Fall.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

His laptop graphics card is ranked 393 in the list. All the cards in that particular tier all seem much of a muchness. But all would play older games fine. And again, if my old laptop could run Doom 3, then a new laptop would run it fine, even if it's only on low settings.