Ok so I have an old Sony Vaio Duo 11 top spec with a broken screen that I was unable to get fixed due to Sony selling off Vaio. I was thinking about using it as a desktop considering I have a MacBook Pro Retina now.
Are the specs any good for lightweight titles.
Intel Core i7 3517U Dual core at 1.9 GHZ
Intel 4000 graphics
8GB Ram.
Thanks in advance.
you can if you add a egpu to it.
but doesn't worth it though
https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/ is the subreddit to visit for low end gaming suggestions.
Very old games can still be played, and they are not neccessarily crappy games
Deus Ex: GOTY
Age of Empires II HD
Total Annihilation
Undertale
Starcraft (probably even SC2, on the lowest settings
Cave Story
Stardew Valley
Spelunky
Super MeatBoy
Hotline Miami
There's actually a ton of games you can play, they're just old or indie and not usually demanding in terms of 3D.
Look up "games for intel HD 4000".
The CPU and RAM don't matter in your case, they are not the bottleneck.
You can run these games:
1) Internet games
eg/ Flash-based games, Facebook browser games
2) Indie titles
eg/ World of Goo
3) New Light games
eg/ Minecraft, Rocket League, South Park SoT, CS GO
4) Heavy titles from Last-Gen with dialed settings
eg/ NFS Carbon, GTA San Andreas, Borderlands, Bioshock, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Civ 5, Bioshock etc etc
5) Emulator games
eg/ Atari, Sega, SNES, GBA, N64, PS1, Dreamcast
(and some lighter-titles from PS2, Gamecube, Wii)
You might be able to get some new titles to run…
…but they'll be running 720p resolution, on Low Settings, and hitting 30fps.
I just tried USF4 on steam.
Benchmarked A on low.
3317U and Hd4000
Not really, 720 and on low is about the limit of the graphics on fairly old titles.
Some games wll be fine though doubt it could do anything recent.