Gaming with the X3100 IGP!

This is for those unlucky ppl(like myself) who got themself a lappy with the GM965 mobo together with the X3100 igp & Havin hard times playing games on it..1st of all u must have a little patience for plying games on this igp :D i play alot of games on this igp though(atleast better than my old Geforce 4 MX :P) my spec are:-

Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHZ
1 GB of RAM DDR2 :(
X3100 up to 387 shared memory
Window Xp Home Edition SP2 + Window Se7en beta(dual boot)
14.37 driver for xp & the original driver that come with Window se7en

Here are some games i have played:-

TES 4: Oblivion
-This game originally are unplayable because of the low fps in major places(like in the annoying oblivion realm) BUT! after some searching around the web!, i found a solution.. with little help of mod, can make the fps go higher.. the setting i use is 800x600 medium texture and other off ... here are the performance mod that i used:-

• Pixelivion
• Polygone Overhaul
• Streamline(need obse to works)

All this mod can be found on http://www.tesnexus.com/

Note: when using Pixelivion all the bump mapping in the game are removed, this give u lot of FPS boost..but particle effect like smoke,fire & spells all become some large pixel flyin around due to using lower resolution texture...& all the shiny armor are not shiny anymore..LOL..to fix this there are TIPS on using this mod, extract the texture folder to the game data directory, inside the folder u find other sub folder...deleted those sub folder that u dun want to replace with the new texture file....example like i deleted sub folder name effect, fire,spells, armor to keep the texture original...those that i didn't delete will b replaced ..... overall u can play this game(if you have patience in those choppy area) by help of this mod...

note: Oblivion run similar in both xp and se7en

DOOM 3

-The setting i use are Med quality & 800x600 reso, the game run quite fine but choppy in some area, quite playable in most area...last time i finish this game using the 14.31.1 xp driver...this game CAN COUNT as PLAYABLE!!xD(for me)

PES2009

-Run really good on medium setting with 800 x 600 reso(on XP). In window se7en this game can't run higher reso than 640x480 & low setting due to the game detected the graphic card only have 64 MB of vram with the original window se7en driver...but if u using the vista driver 15.12.1 on window se7en it can set to the highest (not recommended) and somehow run smoother than xp...

Thats all for my 1st post, i will post more when some games crosses my mind...cya!