Thief DS on Intel GMA X3100 -- anyone tried?

sledgeas on 3/6/2007 at 23:49

Hi everyone!

Game of my life is Thief :) And I am buying a new laptop with only wish it could run Thief 3, but I am as well constraint on budget but on the same time eager to hands-on Intel's Santa Rosa, which employs this young graphics:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_X3100)

Has anyone tried, how many FPS and if it is playable? I will play no other game than DS, then i will delete the windows partition afterwards ;) So just tell me the benchmarks on this card. As now I have Intel 915GM and i get thief3 as a slideshow sometimes :( not playable..

Thanks huge!

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sledge
PS_offtopic: will this card run Beryl in Linux, and, most important -- water effect within it?

bikerdude on 7/6/2007 at 22:41

its about the same as a Ati Radeon X1000-1300

(http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-X3100.2176.0.html)

biker

Spaztick on 7/6/2007 at 23:44

Surprisingly with the Unreal engine you can tone down the graphics to the bare minimum and not lose a lot of detail vs the performance gain you get.

sledgeas on 8/6/2007 at 07:16

Quote Posted by Bikerdude

its about the same as a Ati Radeon X1000-1300

(http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-X3100.2176.0.html)

biker

Why would you say that? Your given site does not point this out at all. ATI 1300 benchmarks:
# 3DMark03: 3200 points
# 3DMark05: 1000 points
# 3DMark06: 560 points

and for Intel there is only an old 3DMark:
3DMark03: around 1700 Points

They do not share the same performance class (Intel - 5th, ATI -- 4th). Could you re-explain yourself?

And for Spaztik: Why are you talking about Unreal (which -- 2004?) engine? Is Thief DS based on any of those?

And so my question remains: is Thief DS playable with full or quasi full detail level with Intel GMA X3100 ?

Thanks ;)

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sledge

Spaztick on 8/6/2007 at 14:15

TDS runs off a gutted version of the Unreal 2004 engine.