In-built INTEL graphics cards in Thinkpad laptops

[joyeebasu]

I have an old laptop

ThinkPad R51 (2887NQ2)

Intel Celeron Processor 360
(1.4GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)
760MB DDR SDRAM
Intel Extreme Graphics 2

trust me almost everything runs fine on it. in some cases I may have to lower the requirements etc... but I m having a real hard time trying to play gothic 3 on it. I have the guru crushing (hope someone knows it here). g3 runs on a nvdia machine.. so I think i have the problem with graphics card. since it is impossible to have nvdia on my machine how else can I run that game?

[Arzhange_S_Intel]

Hi joyeebasu,

This forum is meant to help people developing software for Intel graphics. There is a user community that exisits to help with such issues.

I'm not familiar with Gothic 3 and am not sure what "guru crushing" means. Thus, I may not have any advice that can help you.

From what I can tell the game has an NVIDIA 4400 as a minimum graphics part. This is a part capable of supporting shaders. The 855/852 in your Thinkpad only supports the fixed function pipeline (DX6/7). So if the game is crashing, this could be why.

If the game is running slow my guess would be that the performance of 855/852 is not good enough (the 4400 is a bit faster).

You can always try going to a site like YouGamers to see where your system falls in regards to minimum requirements.

-Arzhange