Ati Mobility Radeon HD 4200 enough for Gmod?

[Aragorn]

I have a gaming PC, but I wanted to get a cheap laptop just enough to run gmod and minecraft so I was just wondering if this could play Gmod at about 20fps on low settings? Also I know integrated chips are awful for gaming but I don't want to spend to much as I will only be using it now and again.

Here are the Specs:

2.10 GHZ duo core
Gpu: Ati Mobility Radeon HD 4200
Ram: 2GB
Hard drive: 100Gb

[Hovii]

http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
But it should work without problems ...

[Aragorn]

The 4200 is DirectX 10.1 and the recommended is DirectX 9 but I've looked on other sites and people are saying it wouldn't be any good at all, but for me 20 fps is playable

[Marble]

You would probably be able to scrape 20 FPS with the graphics settings turned down. Try some other Source games from Valve such as Team Fortress 2 (it's free!) and you should get an idea of what to expect.

[Aragorn]

Problem is I havn't got the laptop yet, what specs do you have?

[Marble]

I hope then that you are getting it for free, or close to free. For gaming, it's not going to be much use at all.

[Aragorn]

It's £100

[Aragorn]

What is the lowest laptop GPU that can run Gmod at about 25-30 fps on low or medium settings?

[Marble]

Intel HD Graphics (1st generation) could run Source games at around 30-40 FPS on low-mid settings. That's the closest comparison I can make from personal experience. These are in laptops around 3-4 years old, though. They've improved drastically since then. The Intel HD 4000 series would run them on high settings at 60 FPS easily.

[Aragorn]

Okay thanks I'll have a look at some others

[Anomander Rake]

I've played gmod on a laptop with the same specs. Except it had 4gigs of ram, and a bigger HD It ran ok. Don't recall the exact graphic settings, but I don't think they needed to be at the lowest.

Was also able to run a good many triple A titles on it without issue as well, albeit on the lowest settings.

[Supreme Toaster]

All graphics component can run games, the question is how well will it run. Gmod is based on a CPU heavy engine so you will most likely run it quite well.

If you are an advanced user, you can run the game in DX 8 and run some tweaks like reduced graphics or sound quality.

With your PC I would rate the FPS 2/5; It will run from 10-40 fps with stock settings and big resolution, with DX 8 probably 50 - 80(will look like garbage but more playable).