Tiny laptop with bad graphics card

[Korten12]

So I am using a tiny laptop mainly for writing stories but I was going to put some games on it.

See the graphics card is Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 500, now I assume thats weak, and I can't even seem to play Minecraft becuase of OpenGL,

Anyone know if this can play anything?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Most likely no. You could get some indie games working, but you're pretty much out of luck for playing anything after 2004 with good visuals.

 

[Korten12]

Most likely no. You could get some indie games working, but you're pretty much out of luck for playing anything after 2004 with good visuals.

Well I downloaded Desktop Dungeons but keep getting an error: "unexpected error occured when trying to play."

 

[Taxman1]

Morrowind.
Nothing more can be said.

 

[Cronq]

I'd be surprised if you could even run a 720p video.

 

[Gaiseric]

I don't know if this will help...
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/intro.aspx

Take it with a grain of salt though. It says I should be able to run all the Stalker games and it was right about Chernobyl, but wrong about Clear Sky and I imagine Pripyat(not going to buy it to find out I runs bad). Clear Sky opens and will run, badly despite the site saying I have more than enough juice to run it past the min requirements(bad framerate even with settings turned to min and all advanced settings turned down).

 

[octafish]

Civ 2, Baldur's Gate 2 (turn off 3d acceleration), Planescape: Torment, Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs The Third Reich, Homeworld, World of Goo, Xcom and Jagged Alliance 2.

That should keep you busy for a few years.

 

[Skorpyo]

If you're using an Intel graphics chipset, games are something you shouldn't even bother considering.

Unless, of course, you prefer older games.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Desktop Dungeons
Dungeons of Daggorath
Rogue
Westwood-era CnC games
X-Wing and Tie Fighter
Red Baron
A-10: Tank Killer
Myst

Those should last you for a while.

 

[Slash Dementia]

You could try to run Thief 1 and 2, but besides that, I'd have to agree with some of these posts.

 

[hopeneverdies]

I managed to get Half Life 2 and Ep. 1 running on full settings with probably a worse card than that. Also Intel brand. And Quakelive ran pretty quickly until my bandwidth magically shrunk one day.

TF2 and Ep. 2 when switched to DirectX 8.1.

Can play plenty of indie games, including the entire Touhou Project series running at 60 FPS except for Scarlet Devil because it hates Vista.

 

[Korten12]

Desktop Dungeons

For some reason I keep getting the error: Unexpected error occured when running the game...