wow player said,

December 8, 2006 @ 9:59 am

i have intel gma 950 and i played wow pretty well on default settings

someguy said,

December 27, 2006 @ 12:37 pm

We have two notebooks w/ intel 950 gpus in this house the one w/ the the Mk-36 (512MB) stutters pretty bad while the one with the Core duo t2050 (1024MB) plays well on decent settings.

someoneElse said,

December 30, 2006 @ 1:01 am

Instead of saying that it runs “pretty well”, it would be more helpful to post an average frame rate.

I have seen people play games at 5 fps (frames per second) and call it “playable”. I am in agreeance with Paul… 30 fps should be considered the minimum acceptable performance for any game.

Guenter said,

February 20, 2007 @ 11:53 am

I use for office a lenovo thinkpad r60e with gma 960 and 1,5 GB RAM.
Just for fun I installed world of warcraft (a sony-notebook is my game-machine) and was surprised about the speed. Sure, the Sony is fast and brillant, but the r60e with gma950 and 1,5 GB does its job pretty well.

Guenter, Vienna, Austria

Vizel said,

December 2, 2007 @ 12:50 am

Here, I ran that game with my (well, it’s not mine anymore it is my brother’s now) good old laptop which has 1.5 Celeron M processor, 512 Ram, Intel 855 GMA and I ran that game 800 X 600 resolution with graphics low settings (not the lowest) 12-19 fps and yes, it looks kinda bad, but it certainly wasn’t “unplayable” even at 12 frames per second. (well, it was in comparison to my current machine which runs 30 fps minimum 1280 X 800 with graphics settings to highest without AA’s and all that stuff)

Haplem said,

January 28, 2008 @ 10:09 pm

I beg to differ. I have a toshiba P105-S9722. It is most definetly designed for gaming. With a GO 7900GS 256MB GDDR3, I can run any game, at medium (crysis included) and get decent 30+ framerates. As for WoW, I get 55-60 fps maxed out at 1440*900 (my native res)

pual said,

February 9, 2008 @ 12:24 am

wrong i ran it with 1mg and it ws good

Darius said,

February 20, 2008 @ 7:32 pm

First of all i have a macbook 2 ghz duo core, gma950, 1 gb ram and i must say that wow is playable please do not listen to PAUL his head is up his rear telling ppl with gma950’s (thats who this thread is for right, am i missing something oh but the hardcore gamers came in and advertised there hardware for what ) trying to get info that the game is not playable. understand anyone who put a wow disk on downloaded the game (on a gma950) isnt expecting the ultimate 3d experience, but the game is very much playable and not just with defaults, here is some advice, turn the grass and grass ratio down (who needs grass yeah its cute but this a macbook not a pro) turn weather down, other video settings can be tweaked to your liking. now if your in a highly populated place, in big groups, or getting into raiding then i would recommend turn everything down to enjoy your play (because this is where the debate of if its playable comes into play) does turning everything down mean you cant enjoy wow hell no, who cares about draw distance and how real the rain looks and the grass texture when your raiding a town you care about if you live or die and your stats. when i first played wow on default settings i was happy, then i turned some of the fx up and was impressed about how beautiful the game CAN be with full settings but its not a requirement. All you hardcore gamers guess what this IS NOT a hardcore gamer forum we dont care about your fancy video cards because everyone reading this HAS A FREAKING MACBOOK WITH GMA950! get a life you losers advertise your gf or your wifes body figure lets take a look at those numbers

Crusisredux said,

June 10, 2008 @ 8:30 pm

The GMA950 doesn’t have it’s own FPU, and instead relegates all of those functions to the CPU. You’ll find the 3D rendering performance of your system is directly related to your System ram and processor speed. As someone said above with a fast dual core processor thae Graphics experience of this chipset improves a good bit. Running WoW with my Core Duo T2350 and 3 Gigs of ram without issue including full raids at 1024×768 averaging 35 or so FPS consistently.

Is it as pretty as it can be? No. Is it on par with my desktop rig, no. Does it get the job done, for sure.

I also have had good experience with Eve Online, though the Frame Rate there does drop to a less than desirable speed with larger fleet engagements (Explosions, etc.)

Just me 2 Cents. If you are shopping for a new laptop and want to play WoW, look at the X3100 or better yet something with a low end discreet card, like the 8400 GS from Nvidia

Neil said,

June 16, 2008 @ 5:10 pm

Considering my main computer has two XFX nvidia 8600GT cards in SLI formation and I get around 100 – 120 FPS in Orgimmar I’m going to start crying when I install WoW on my laptop tonight…

It’s a tiny little celeron processor and a GMA gfx card but I didn’t buy it for WoW. It was just for email/internet and I paid £300 for it (will buy a nice shiny laptop with a dedicated GPU when I have the moola)

I’ll just see what it’s like really, most of the time I’ll be playing on my actual computer (especially when I get to Outland. I think if I try and run Outland on my laptop it’ll grow legs and throw itself out of the window just to put itself out of the misery and pain..)

So I’ll report back and tell you what kind of teeny tiny FPS I get!

Solymnar said,

November 1, 2008 @ 2:12 pm

Frankly I’d agree with darius on this one.

The questions was if WoW is “playable” with the Intel 950 graphix chip. The answer is that it is “if the cpu and ram are decent”. 30fps on an MMO consistently is GREAT! And more than enough to allow you manuver and play the game with your internet connection being the main culprit behind lag.

Most people playing modern MMOs are playing at consistently UNDER 30fps and somehow seem to manage… For a FPS yeah 30+ is damn important…for an MMO 30+ all the time in considered by most to be a luxery and certainly not required.