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My brother is wanting to play quake 4 on a laptop, but he doesn't want to splurge to buy a decent laptop with a decent graphics card. Will an xpress 1150 play quake 4 (even on the lowest of the low settings) at a framerate above 30 fps. I've seen benchmarks on 3dmark05 stating a score of 700, but we all know benchmarks can be misleading. Is there an integrated graphics card that will play quake 4? like the geforce 7150? 6150? xpress 1250? 1270?

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Nope, my brother has a laptop with an X1150 or X1250 one of them anyway and that can barely play Halo for PC which came out in 2001...

Just shop around there are many good laptops with discreet GFX cards in them.

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Tell him that he doesn't need a decent laptop. Just get an average laptop with a average graphics card. Onboard are only basic tasks

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has he tried to run quake 4? i'm sure it'll run it, but what are the framerates... less than 10, 20, 30 fps?

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Well the GF7150 and X12xx series are your two best option and even they sit under the 20 fps avg in D3, let alone Q4 which is slightly more demanding.

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The only way it might work is to run the Linux version of Quake 4. You could DL and install the Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD as a Dual boot with Windows. You would then have to install the Linux 3D drivers for the onboard video using the restricted drivers manager. You just click in the video card looking icon and it does the rest.

Then download and run the Quake 4 Linux installer, copy the game files from your Quake 4 CD, and your done. http://www.linux.com/articles/49600
You don't have to type in all the commands, just copy and paste them from the browser to the terminal program using your mouse.
Sounds like a lot, but it really only takes a few more minutes than installing the Windows version(once Linux is installed that is).

The reason I know this works is because I had an old Nvidia 6200 card that would not play in Windows, but did just fine in Linux, although only at 1024x768 at medium settings. Same with Doom 3.

I assume the laptop has XP and not Vista. It might work with Vista, but I have not tried it. When you are done, and if you do not want Linux any more, you can use Windows to delete the Linux files, and run "fixmbr" at the Windows command line to get rid of the Linux boot loader. The machine will be back to normal.

The Linux version of the new Quake Wars also runs well on lesser hardware than Windows.

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