Intel Graphics cards

just to clarify, i looked under search and saw posts about the intel graphics card, but didnt know if i could get a quick response so i made a new thread
Would a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 work guild wars? im looking at a laptop and everything else would run guild wars fine but not sure about the graphics card, and anybody know if HP pavilion notebooks allow you to switch video cards??
thanks
-jack

Integrated graphics (Intel) probably will not run GW very well if at all, how much RAM does the aformentioned laptop have? You'll have to wait for confirmation on that integrated GPU. HP notebooks almost certainly will not allow you to change the GPU in. Few laptops do so, and all those that do require special GPU's.

here is the benchmark article for your integrated card.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1821808,00.asp
I think from the graphs you can tell that your gfx is biting the dust. If you can run GW it will have to be on the lowest possible settings.
Oh btw its integrated (no surprise) which means its stuck on your motherboard. No changing video cards unless you have the sudden urge to change your motherboard (then you minus well buy a new laptop)

The newer GMA's will probably run it ok. Not really well though. Expect some chop.

So Guild Wars won't run on a Macbook?

depends on the macbook, like other laptops, they come with a decent gfx card. They have laptops with a mobility radeon X1600 and nvidia equivilent.

Basically those onboard graphics are not made for gaming. If u wanna game get something with real graphics hardware and not something integrated.