Question What games can I play?

[palmsaresweaty]

I have a Dell Latitude e5500 with an Intel core 2 duo T7250, an Intel GMA 4500MHD and 2G RAM.

 

[Eximo]

Sept 2007 CPU, DX10 integrated motherboard graphics.

FPS games like Quake III, Unreal Tournament/2k3/2k4, Counterstrike, Rainbow 6, Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty 1 and 2 are likely playable.
FPS story games like Halflife 2, Red Faction, Deus Ex
Real time strategies like Command & Conquer 2, maybe 3, Age of Empires 2, Warcraft II
Racing games like Need For Speed 2
Turn based and simulation games like Sim City 2000, Civilization 2, maybe Civ 3.

And an endless back catalog of older games.
Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake 1 and 2, Unreal, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein, Civ 1, Colonization, Warcraft 1, Command & Conquer 1, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun.

 

[palmsaresweaty]

It's running windows 10 on it's original 80GB mechanical harddrive.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

This is a good general list. Not sure if your 4500MHD falls into the 4000 subset of iGPU's though.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005659/graphics.html

 

[Eximo]

No, that is the much newer HD 2500 and HD 4000 that you would find in the 3rd gen core CPUs.

 

[DSzymborski]

Unfortunately, we're talking about nearly 20-year-old entry-level integrated graphics. You'd mostly see this on office PCs.

You can probably run most things pre-2000. Once you get to 2002-2004, AAA games of the time will start giving you trouble. You can likely play most casual games to like 2010 and then what you can play drops off quickly from that point.

It really depends on what you like and what your expectations are. There were a *lot* of good games before 2004 or 2002 or 2000 or even 1995. But you'll have to limit things you'll see from graphics. If you're expecting to play recent games on this, you may be disappointed.

 

[Eximo]

It's running windows 10 on it's original 80GB mechanical harddrive.

I was running a mechanical hard drive up until around 2011 or so. All of the games I listed will be expecting hard drive performance. SSDs in 2007 were quite expensive, and very small often used only for boot drives while games were kept on regular hard drives.