Gaming On Inspiron 1510

conormurphy

What are the latest games that this laptop will play. It wasnt really intended for gaming but what the heck. It runs WoW but because its Vista it doesnt seem to run Battlefield 2. Can anyone tell me what it will run?

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 1.83 ghz
Windows Vista Home Premium
2048 mb 667 mhz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRam
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
8x DVD/RW+ Optical Drive

Help appreciated thanks

AlmightyCushion

Nothing new at all as far as I know. Older stuff will work on it (half life 2 and the like) but I don't know how well.

TerrorFirmer

Battlefield 2 (does work in Vista; run in XP compat. mode): low settings
FEAR: low-medium settings
Dawn of War games: mid-high settings
Counter Strike Source: medium settings
Half Life 2: medium - high Dx7
Ut2k4: Medium
Far Cry: medium-low
Call of Duty 4: very low*

*Conflicting reports on this one, between barely playable and won't run.

Overheal

Ouch. That must have a bad enough time running Aero let alone games.
As Cushion says you might be able to get older source games to run on it (Counterstrike Source, Half Life 2) but I would even question how well you would be able to play Team Fortress 2.

if you have any specific questions about which game you would like to run you can have your machine scanned here (quick) and it will tell you if you can run it or not and at what settings you can expect to play it at, if any:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com

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My old laptop has a v similar spec.
I could play Quake 4 on it with low settings (though a funny bug stopped progress a bit into the game anyway.)
Games I played with it were: Rome: Total War, Battlefield 1942, Mafia (v good game), Half Life 2 (800X600 res with no problem), Civilization 4

conormurphy

thanks for replies people, funnily enough sr lab doesnt work...

How would fifa or pro evo work on it does anyone know?

conormurphy

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Battlefield 2 (does work in Vista; run in XP compat. mode): low settings

still wont work, the battlefield 2 screen comes up then the screen goes black and then thats it it doesnt come on

TerrorFirmer

Sorry I was assuming you had the X3100, if its the older GMA 950 then you're pretty much screwed in terms of anything remotely recent...Half Life 2 works OK at Dx7 640x400 lowest settings, for example, and that's one of the most hardware friendly FPS games in existence. Other games work; FEAR, Doom 3, etc, but at framerates so horrendous it's not worthwhile.

I think it's the X3100 though, and BF2 does work on that card. Have you got newer drivers then the stock ones? Check out somewhere like Notebookreview forums, nice long thread there on the X3100 and best driver releases.

The X3100 isn't that bad really, it's slightly more powerful then Nvidias Go6150 and Ati's X1100 cards.

conormurphy

Problems with Call Of Duty 2 as well... Directx problem...

conormurphy

If its any consolatiuon, its actually an inspiron 1525 and not a 1510, btw is there anyway i can upgrade my video card?

Overheal

conormurphy wrote: »

thanks for replies people, funnily enough sr lab doesnt work...

How would fifa or pro evo work on it does anyone know?

thats a problem on your end..the site runs fine.

edit: YES!

After reformatting my system SRL now takes into account my shared video memory I CANS runs crysis :pac:

conormurphy

I just ran FEAR perfectly on medium settings if that can tell you anything? It stopped sometimes at checkpoints but no more

TerrorFirmer

Yes it's definitely the X3100 so my original post still stands.

Call of Duty 2 definitely works on it as well, are you sure you have recent drivers and latest version of directx? What driver do you currently have? Also, Call of Du ty would preform far better in Dx7 mode/high settings then it would in dx9/low-medium settings on that card.

SRL is not very accurate; I'd never rely on it to determine anything. It often detects woeful cards pimped out with excessive memory as strong cards and equally often reports cards as insufficient to run games when they can do so decently at lower settings.

conormurphy

What mb is the video card btw 32,64?

TerrorFirmer

Dynamically allocated 384mb; it takes what it needs at any given time.

conormurphy

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Dynamically allocated 384mb; it takes what it needs at any given time.

What does dynamically allocated mean? 384 mb seems good to me anyway... Any ideas of other good fps's with online play maybe that would work well on this?

Dartz

It uses system RAM as graphics memory. The integrated chip has no dedicated memory of it's own. Compared to dedicated VRAM, system RAM is much slower. Also, each byte of RAM used for your graphics, is one less byte used to run the game, and vice-versa.

conormurphy

Still not getting anything from Battlefield 2, running as administrator and running in compatibility mode, all I get is the loading screen, then it goes, screen goes black and everything is back to normal... Any more remedies peeps?

TerrorFirmer

Dynamically allocated means that the card takes your system memory as it requires it, so on the desktop, it takes 8mb, but upon booting a game that'll increase as the game requires more texture memory. BF2 definitely works on that card, so I'm not sure what's wrong, again, have you updated the drivers? Also, is BF2 patched?