What games can I play?

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I bought a Toshiba Satellite E55-A5114 laptop a few months ago. The specs say it has an integrated Intel HD Graphics 4400 graphics chip. My question is what games, if any, would I be able to play on this?

 

I am not trying to play Crysis or Skyrim or anything like that. Basically just retro games like Diablo 2, Doom, Tomb Raider, Quake, etc. I would love to be able to play newer games like Diablo 3 as well but dont think that graphics chip could handle them. I am thinking I can play the older games but not the newer ones. The only one I have tried so far is Diablo 2 and when I was playing it it would stutter every now and then and just seemed sluggish at times. I was playing it from a CD via a portable USB 2 DVD/CD drive plugged into one of the USB 3 ports and I'm thinking that could be the cause of the stutter but I'm not sure.

 

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

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You should be able to play most games, so long as you turn the graphics settings down and/or lower the resolution on the more graphically intensive ones.  You might run into a few that it just wont be able to handle well even at low settings, but they should be few and far between.

A quick youtube search turns up plenty of people gaming with the Intel HD 4400:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=intel+hd+4400+games

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Thanks for the reply! I'll have to check those videos out.

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I watched a few of those videos. It looks like I should be able to play a lot more games than I though!

 

Did you have any idea what would cause the stutter on my Diablo 2? Would it be because I am playing it via a USB 2.0 portable DVD/CD drive?