What can I run

[AetherMoth]

New to the pc gaming world having just gotten a "gaming" laptop from a friend of mine. GPU is a geoforce 940m. Like I said, im new so its all greek to me. What games will i be able to run with this?

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Geforce 940m.= You can't run ♥♥♥♥.

(No offence).

[[☥] - CJ -]

Not much without lowered settings.

CSGO n the like are doable, etc so on.

[Nevergiveup]

whats is your cpu?

[ericcui1]

Lower graphic settings and lower your expected frame rate to about 30.

Downgraded graphics and 30FPS is not unplayble, you can still enjoy some great stuff, I mean, according to those "dirty console peasants".

But, for the price of a crappy ass "gaming" laptop, one can easily build a decent desktop that can run most games on high setting @1080p at 60FPS.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by jpriest454:

New to the pc gaming world having just gotten a "gaming" laptop from a friend of mine. GPU is a geoforce 940m. Like I said, im new so its all greek to me. What games will i be able to run with this?

Honestly, you're going to have trouble running anything at all. Even the most basic Indie games will struggle to run on such a weak system.

Your GPU was made by a copany called Nvidia, who have a simple code system for naming their GPUs. Using the code you can quickly work out how old, how expensive and more importantly how powerful a GPU is. The first digit(s) show age, the second set shows type, and an M signifies a cut-down Laptop model with reduced performance.

A 940 is a Ninth-Generation Type 40, which makes it about three years old and the second least-powerful model Nvidia makes. The 40 was mostly marketed for office and accounting computers and never intended for gaming, it's barely more powerful than a modern CPU without a graphics card fitted. The 940M is the mobile version of that, it's a cut-down model with even less power designed for entry-level laptops. It's effectively the weakest GPU Nvidia was producing at the time.

For future refference, you can identify Nvidia's gaming models by their GTX name. The GTX family are specifically designed for gaming and even the entry-level $90 GTX1050 can handle quite heavy duty gaming and deliver higher settings and framerates than a console. At the other end of the spectrum, the $700 GTX1080Ti flagship can handle any game currently in existance at max settings and at resolutions all the way up to 4K.

[ericcui1]

Once tried to run Witcher 3 on my laptop, which has a GTX850M GPU. Have to settle at midium-low settings and 1600*900 resolution. Game still looks beautiful, but barely playable. No mach to a desktop for sure, but if a crappy laptop is all you have got, you can still try to enjoy great games.

[Sólstafir]

Originally posted by ericcui1:

Once tried to run Witcher 3 on my laptop, which has a GTX850M GPU. Have to settle at midium-low settings and 1600*900 resolution. Game still looks beautiful, but barely playable. No mach to a desktop for sure, but if a crappy laptop is all you have got, you can still try to enjoy great games.

Try is the operative word and has all the right connotations of possible failure.

I'd sell it to some impoverished college kid and build a basic gaming desktop, something in the $500 price bracket. It'd be a potato by modern standard, but still lightyears ahead of what they have now.

[Mossy Snake]

Solitaire and Minesweeper with some settings turned down.

Welcome to the craptop club.

[smallcat]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-940M.138027.0.html