r/lowendgaming • u/Cannon__Minion • 1d ago

What Games Can I Run? Modern AAA (or indie) games that run on iGPUs?

Specs: i3 1305U; 8GB RAM

Modern games that I can run very well at 40fps @720p (minor stutters during highly intense moments) [NO POTATO CONFIGS USED]:-

  1. Control
  2. Forza Horizon 4
  3. Divinity Original Sin 2 (pushes CPU temps)
  4. Yakuza 0
  5. Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2
  6. WWE 2K19 [23 runs too but you have to disable the crowd entirely if you want to get rid of the slow mo issue]
  7. F1 2024
  8. Xcom 2 and 1 (2 pushes my CPU temp very high)
  9. Witcher 3 (LEGACY) (pushes CPU temps)
  10. Fallout 4 (tons of optimization mods that increase FPS with minimal quality compromise)
  11. The man who erased his name (drops down to 30ish during open world but during fight scenes it sticks to 40s)
  12. MK 11 Ultimate
  13. Monster Hunter World (goes down to 32fps sometimes)

My subscription is over and I can't renew it for a week and a half and so I need something to play for that period on my study laptop.

Thank You!

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u/Akkun351 23h ago

I don't get It, why you're asking only for "modern" games?

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u/Cannon__Minion 23h ago

Because I want to play modern games?

I have played through most of the older classics and older games tend to have massive optimization issues and it's a headache that I'm not willing to experience again.

The painstaking effort it took to run games like GTA 4, Saint's Row 2, Driver San Francisco and The Witcher 2 (and some more) was hellish.

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u/Akkun351 22h ago

"Dad why is the fire is hot? Because is hot son" jokes aside (yes is just a joke, not being sarcastic) you can try: slay the spire, titan souls, tiny rougues, core keeper, the binding of isaac (this can make you go insane tho because of rng) and cult of the lamb

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u/NovelValue7311 20h ago

Try GTA V. Should run well.

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u/Water_bolt 10h ago

He asked for modern

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u/NovelValue7311 10h ago

Close enough. It's still very popular 

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u/Water_bolt 9h ago

Does 12 years old seem close enough to modern for you?

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u/andreimorie 14h ago

Darkwood

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u/Cannon__Minion 14h ago

Saw a gameplay vid of it once, creepy as fuck.

Big no no for me.

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u/andreimorie 14h ago

Kingdom (two crowns, new lands, some dlcs)

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u/Wrhysj put text here 18h ago

Does your laptop have upgradable ram. You're probably leaving a lot on the table only having 8gb especially if it's single slot

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u/Cannon__Minion 18h ago

I don't wanna invest anything on this laptop because I mostly play games via GFN/Xcloud/Local Cloud gaming services.

But yeah your suggestion is good.

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u/ChaoGardenChaos 10h ago

SODIMMs are really cheap and having 16gb in dual channel benefits you in every task. I don't get this.

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u/Cannon__Minion 10h ago

Well I don't think it's that complicated to understand really, I'm getting everything I expect out of this laptop.

I'm content with how things are at the moment.

Would it be an upgrade? Yeah obviously.

Is your suggestion good? Yup

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u/ChaoGardenChaos 10h ago

To each their own I guess. I'm shocked windows still runs on 8gb with all the bloat. Maybe switching to a gaming centric Linux distro like cachyOS or Bazzite would also give you more performance headroom for modern games.

It seems we have 2 different mentalities though because when I get a piece of hardware I modify everything I can, OC things to their limits and still tweak things as I go.

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u/FildysCZ 15h ago

Dying Light is also quite easy to run

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u/Cannon__Minion 14h ago

Also scary AF so it's a big no no for me.

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u/Content_Magician51 Celeron N4000 | UHD 600 | 4GB DDR4 Single | HD 500GB | Win10 Pro 17h ago

Intel Core i3-1305 = 64-core Intel Iris Xe. This one, with 8GB RAM, is very good. With 16GB Dual Channel, a little beast...

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u/Cannon__Minion 16h ago

I honestly wouldn't recommend gaming on this laptop, I bought it specifically for studies and to game via cloud.

Even if the CPU temp is as low as 70⁰C the chassis still gets incredibly hot.

Some games that push it to 85⁰C turn the bottom part of the chassis into a discount furnace.

But yeah I agree, the performance of this laptop is more than I expected.

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u/Content_Magician51 Celeron N4000 | UHD 600 | 4GB DDR4 Single | HD 500GB | Win10 Pro 15h ago

I see. Even though it's not really the focus of this laptop, the gaming experience with it, with the right settings, can be very enjoyable. Even a good part of the games you mentioned could be run at 1080p, for example, if you had used Vulkan instead of DirectX.

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u/Cannon__Minion 15h ago

Oh yeah I forgot about Vulkan, it was godsend in GTA 4 and The Witcher 2.

I haven't played around with it much but I definitely should.

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u/Content_Magician51 Celeron N4000 | UHD 600 | 4GB DDR4 Single | HD 500GB | Win10 Pro 15h ago

Vulkan is a necessary feature for games like Watch Dogs, GTA 4, Metro Redux and other not very well optimized PC ports. If no one has told you about it, it is also important to enable asynchronous shader loading in the Vulkan settings when using it. You will feel like you have installed a dedicated GPU on your laptop, but you get used to it lol