I have been playing the console versions of morrowind and oblivion since I first discovered morrowind in 2004, However, I have been wanting to play on the PC so that I could make use of the many mods available for some time now.

I recently bought http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+-+Laptop+/+Intel%26%23174%3B+Pentium%26%23174%3B+Processor+/+15.6%22+Display+/+3GB+Memory+/+320GB+Hard+Drive+-+Satin+Black/1250664.p?id=1218242900141&skuId=1250664&st=gateway%20laptop&cp=1&lp=2 for school work, and was wondering if I would be able to run oblivion on it.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
this website will tell you if you can play any video game that is already out, I am so glad I looked it up before buying black ops

Thanks alot, I failed the test due to my graphics card, strangely I meet all the requirements that for a graphics card, but it still says I failed due to the graphics card. http://yfrog.com/49systemreqsp

Does oblivion not support intel graphics cards?

1. Intel does not manufacture a single graphics CARD of any sort. None. Not one.

2. By definition, a CARD is on its own separate circuit board, produced on its own separate production line, and joined to a mainboard after it has been produced, separately. It does into a connector that joins the add-on CARD to the video bus built into the mainboard.

3. A dozen years ago, Intel tried making a real video card. They failed. Other companies were making video graphics on chips that could be attached to a PC's mainboard and we not too shabby compared to the add-on graphics. That was at the dawn of 3D graphics, and only two companies produce good graphics cards for games today. Intel is not one of them.

4. Intel was too cheap to keep buying the working graphics chips from that particular stage in PC system development, and created a chip of its own, only about half as good as the worst of what existed at the time. They put their inferior design inside of a larger chip that was part of their chipset, which in their case was two ASICs that they referred to as a "Northbridge" and a "Southbridge".

A year ago, Intel moved the best of its very bad chipset video chips out of the ASIC and set it up to ride piggyback in the package with the i3, i5, and i7 multi-core processors. It's still junk, but just runs a lot faster now than it used to, which is as fast as the nVIDIA chipset video chip runs. It can't beat the AMD chipset video chip yet.

Neither Bethesda, nor Bioware, nor Crytek, will waste a moment of time lowering their graphical standards to allow Intel junk to run their games attractively.

Alright thanks. So basically if I want to run oblivion on here, I should invest in a graphics card is what you are saying right?

If possible could you make any suggestions? I am not much of a PC person, which is why I have been playing on consoles for the past 7 years.

Being that this is a laptop, upgrading that Intel Integrated Chipset to a real video card is likely not possible. Desktop and mobile video cards are physically very different. Mobile video cards/chips are not sold through retail channels...notebook OEM manufacturers carry them and they are specific to notebook models. You have to understand that there are space constraints and cooling constraints within notebooks....it's not simple and most times impossible to upgrade notebooks when it comes to video cards.

Your notebook is a cheap baseline line model...I doubt there's any customization options for it, so you're pretty much stuck with what you have.

You may want to look into Oldblivion, a shader downgrade mod, that has allowed some Intel chipsets to run the game. Read up on the forums there to see how others got the game up and running:
http://www.oldblivion.com/?page=docs


This may also help:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/868166-mobile-intelr-965-express-chipset/page__p__12655360__fromsearch__1#entry12655360

alright thanks a lot for your help, I will probably just invest in a real gaming computer for TESV, whenever it comes out.

All you really need to do for right now is be patient a short while. Intel's stranglehold on mobile computing has been targeted by both of the 3D graphics leaders, and AMD's opening shots will show up on the retail shelves in about three weeks, right around the turn of the year. Just now, the odds are very good for the first time in ten years to leave Intel and its anti-games attitude behind, so no one should buy a new mobile computing device until they see what the first of the new year brings.

AMD and nVIDIA are both taking aim at the mobile market. The first of AMD's "Fusion" APUs are for mobile devices, and we will be seeing the results in less than a month. Intel's Atom in particular, for Netbooks, is under the AMD Fusion crosshairs.

But nVIDIA, with ION, is aiming a little lower at first, at Smartphones and Slates / Tablets. However, as I added in comments to shader performance ranking reference articles in the DAO and ME2 Tech forums last week, the court cases they had filed on one another (Intel vs. nVIDIA were scheduled to come up in three weeks, about the time we'll see the Fusion Netbooks) were nearly here, and they asked for the date to be continued into the future while they reopen negotiations.

The current speculation in the computer press is that Intel is very wary of losing its almost 100% share of Netbook sales, and may want ION to replace its current chipset video at a competitive price. Fusion is certain to DESTROY the Intel chip in every regard clear across the board, but ION can match the Fusion Netbook graphics version in several areas, not including game playing.

Intel also has a huge lead on AMD in Notebooks / Laptops (nVIDIA isn't allowed to produce chipsets for newer Intel processors, which is what the suit was about), and the public heretofore hasn't been that interested in good graphics on their mobile computers, or Intel wouldn't *have* such a large part of that market. But if the buyers can get much better graphics and equal performance, at a lower price, which is what Fusion promises, it seems, that could change.

I see, sorry if you answered this in your post but I am not too bright when it comes to talking about computers, Does this mean I am out of luck since I already purchased my laptop? did you mean that there will be some type of upgrade in the near future that I can use?

We do get a few visitors with the idea in mind of playing a particular game, who will ask your question BEFORE doing anything blindly, and they haven't already wasted their money before asking. Sorry. The pitiable weakness of Intel video, and thus, of the average laptop, is VERY, VERY well known.

Alright thanks, I didn't buy this computer for gaming really, I got it for school. It was just an afterthought that I would maybe be able to run oblivion on it, but its fine that I can't, I can still enjoy the game on xbox anyways. Thanks for all your help.

During the last several years, while the graphical capabilities of laptops and desktops grew apart rapidly, it's been fairly common advice to get an inexpensive laptop, not anything really fancy, and with the money saved, play games on an also inexpensive desktop. The comments about what potentially may result from both AMD's and nVIDIA's plans for mobile computing may change more than just the mobile systems' better value for the money. Another month after the various mobile Fusion APUs begin to appear for purchase, AMD will have similar processors for desktops to sell, and the same situation there may stir up the cost / price structure.

Preview samples are already going out, but Non-disclosure Agreements keep previews under wraps. My understanding is that two quality grades of graphics for PCs will appear from the beginning. First off is a "Business Class" similar to what last year's HD 5450 offers, with the cost of the processor essentially unchanged from the cost of similar CPUs that predated the Fusion APUs. Next, at a relatively small premium increase, graphics equivalent to an HD 5570 will be included. In other words, budget game-playing will cost less, and Intel chipset video chip PCs will be badly overpriced by comparison.