Intel Hd Graphics

most. I am avoiding it for my new laptop though. I got a crappier one then yours and it can run skyrim metro 2030 and a few others. you should be fine for a while.

i3 or i5 processor?

I have a late 2010 laptop with an i3 and Intel HD and with a bit of jury rigging, quite a bit will run. Skyrim will run in the mid teens FPS, for example; it isn't pretty, but it plays. Really it's just a guessing game - Assassin's Creed 2 won't open, while the Mass Effect 3 demo runs just fine, etc. Your best bet is demoing a game to see if it'll run, or just wing it and be prepared to be occasionally disappointed.

Well im surprised by all this because when i play Payday the heist on lowest graphics and lowest res. it still lags quite bad also, its the i3 version.

I have an i5 with intel hd and it runs most anything I try. Not going near Battlefield 3 or anything like that. It runs saints row the third jerkily and darkness 2 runs amazing. Can't run gta 4. It loads the characters and cars, but no world. You run around on nothing which is pretty cool lol.

I have the same. Uh, I can run Borderlands, after I modded the INI files. I play that at around 12-13 FPS. I could get more FPS if I lower the resolution to 800x600, and reduce the texture to low(Its currently at highest), but I wanna enjoy the great artwork of the game. I could play Portal and Portal 2 both, at 1366x768 resolution with decent FPS (Portal 2 had to be modded a little bit). I don't play Killing Floor, but I can run it QUITE well at max graphics and 1366x768(native) resolution. I've beaten Spiderman: Friend Or Foe quite well.

PS: My processor's an Intel Pentium U5400, which is basically a 1.2 GHZ Dual Core processor. So that's one of the reasons why my games have a low FPS when the settings go higher. If you got an i series processor, well, I think you're good to go at medium or low for a while.

Ask Cult.

Just so you know, it's only hd for a while. After a few years it's gonna be pretty crap :|

It can run any game that is not HD.

Bad jokes aside, if you have a rather good CPU (name it i3,i5,i7) you should be fine for a while.

Go here and select a game:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

See what it tells you. Now do note, everything else is probably valid except the Video Card part. As intel, you'll fail everything just because of that[it tells me I can't even play Oblivion but I assure you that is wrong]. But if you meet all the other requirements, you should be good to go.

Also as suggested above, go test out game demos. Steam is a good place. See how you handle tough things like Just Cause 2, Arkham Asylum, Sonic Generations, etc. It will help you get a better idea of what you can and can't do. Though you may not be able to run most modern things on the highest settings, you should be able to pull off something playable (if not medium).

Btw, I'm an i3 core.

I have an i3 chipset, and I've been running most things with satisfactory framerates.

You're best going to forums of the game or Intel HD forums. I've tried using the Systems Requirement Labs thing and it tells me games work when they don't and tells me they don't when they do. I can't run Fallout 3, TF2, VtMB, Alpha Protocol, a bunch of Ubisoft games, and Garry's Mod. I own all of those on Steam, which sucks that I can't play them. I've taken to pirating games first to see if they even work now.

Quite a few things actually, but don't expect decent performances out of anything but the most minimum settings on newer games. CPU can have a major impact too, as you can see from the benchmarks in the above link - you can actually play Skyrim @ 25fps with an i7 2860QM CPU and 4GB RAM.

Guess you want to try this

This nub with his Intel HD graphics. I have Intel integrated graphics, and I'm chillin' like a villain.

I would suggest you to check this link. That is a community aiming at better gaming with intel hd graphics.

I have Intel GMA 4500MHD on Dual Core processor and it runs quite almost 2011 games. Name them Bastion, Payday The Heist, Portal 2 etc. But I guess you have to be used to mouse lag and low res/textures.
While people complaints about mouse lag in their game, I encountered them with every game I play. Yeah like a BOSS.

it really is game dependent you'd be lucky to find a processor with integrated graphics that'll run amnesia, all because of shaders. I built a pc and can barely run borderlands due to processor, but can run darkness 2 full setting with absolutely no issues.

My laptop has intel integrated graphics and I was skeptical about whether or not I would be able to play new games. It's a dual core 2.3Ghz of some kind (B950 I think?). Anyway, I'm happy to report that I can play almost anything. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Space 2, Blur, Duke Nukem Forever, etc. all came out just last year I think and I can not only run them with playable frame-rates (18-30 something fps) I can usually bump up a bunch of the graphics options too. Slightly older games (STALKER series, Front Mission Evolved, Venetica are a few examples) run fine with slightly higher settings too. Here's my tips for a good balance between playability and graphical quality to try in game settings:

-V-Sync off! This almost always throws my mouse control off and results in 20% drop in frame-rate for me. The screen-tearing that can result from turning off V-sync is very rare in my experience.

-turn off SSAO and/or post-processing. These are big performance hogs.

-shadows at medium

-if you have the RAM (4-8GB+) feel free to set textures to medium or high. It will compensate for the lack of other effects you've turned off and it doesn't seem to affect performance much in my tests

-I turn bloom and depth-of-field off. Intel graphics support these but they do affect performance and I don't like them anyway. I'm old-school like that.

-I often see an effect called "glow" that is different from "bloom." I usually turn this on as its usually used sparingly, looks nice, and barely affects performance.

-motion blur I usually turn off because I don't like it much and depending on how its implemented it can affect performance noticeably. In Unreal tech games it doesn't seem to affect framerate much though.

-turn anti-aliasing off, especially full-screen AA.

-texture filter set to bi-linear or tri-linear. Try anisotropic if you have fps to spare

-finally, many games will have a generic "detail" setting of some kind that usually refers to the polygonal level of detail in characters and environments. Intel graphics seem to be just fine at pushing polygons (not so good with special effects) and I can usually bump this setting up pretty high.

Your results will vary of course! There is more than one kind of processor out there from Intel and many versions of the drivers.

I've been playing games released from 2005-2011 on my laptop and haven't run into any that won't start or have major issues except for Rage from id software. It won't run due to it using recent OpenGL instructions that aren't supported by intel. 99.9% of games use DirectX or an older version of OpenGL instead and you won't run into issues. The latest 2012 releases I have yet to try but from what I've read elsewhere I shouldn't run into too many problems.

Whew, that ended up being a long post. Hopefully it helps someone.

Depends on the processor

Minesweeper with 24 FPS, I think it is enough for your intel hd graphic xD

Nah i'm joking. Btw if you got a good processor you should be able to run Cod 1-4, l4d, Nfs U, U2, MW and Carbon. Cs and BF2 :D. I think all the games between the year 2000-2007

I was able to run most games I wanted to play on at least medium on HD Graphics 2000 with my i5 2400. I definitely wasn't suffering until I bought a 560. Skyrim ran okay on medium settings, which is really what I wanted. HD Graphics chip family is a great bridge between buying parts when you're on a budget. You can save on a card or hold off on a deal in the meanwhile. This is, of course, you're running the Sandy Bridge on-die GPU, then I probably wouldn't recommend it.

Well i guess i will try MW2 but its not 3000 series so not really sure.

intel hd. hahahaha. Maybe some flash games if you're lucky.

Test and trial mostly, i have i3 350, 4gig ram, intel HD 3000.
I'm quite surprise with a couple of games i encountered, simple game like Hoard http://store.steampowered.com/app/63000/ could play on my laptop but the game look really horrible and not playable, bunch of heroes too.
Here are a couple of games i have that plays really smooth with Intel HD:

• Defense Grid Awakening with all dlc http://store.steampowered.com/app/18500
• Orc Must Die (haven't installed the dlc yet) http://store.steampowered.com/app/102600/
• Team Fortress 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/
• Nation Red http://store.steampowered.com/app/39800/

Dirt 1 didn't run, but Dirt 2 run but not in a decent fps, so not playable.
look the game requirement on steam before buying
if its need Pixel Shader Model 3.0 then it's definitely couldn't run on Intel HD,
some open GL run, some don't .

nb: sorry for the link, i dont know how to create link properly

Excellent review, goes into good detail based on performance comparing Intel and AMD integrated graphics since 2006 - How Far Have AMD & Intel Integrated Graphics Come Since 2006?