Game Compatibility List for Intel GMA9004

Game Compatibility List for Intel 915: (repost from http://groups.google.com/group/intel9x-gaming)

Hi everyone, along with some collaborators I gathered this list for the 915g chipset.  

Even if the 915g can be considered as a crappy version of the 950 GMA, I made the list hoping to help the guys whom specifically struggle with less performance. 

However, Many6 has come up with a Modded Driver for the 915. It has been tested and may give performance increases in many games. It is available Here.

Another way for increasing performance is to use GMA Booster. It is recommended for the boost to performance and frame rates it may provide. It is really hard to find a working release for the 915 but we managed to get one Here.

3D Analyzer will be required for many games in this list. Get it Here.

To know more on why most games don't work on INTEL 915 motherboards click Here. (Blog is in beta mode and is being updated)

Format goes as usual, alphabetically listed games, and the way to run them, if 3d Analyze, tweaking or Swift Shader is needed please mention it between brackets. 

Test hardware: Dell Dimension 3100, 2.8 ghz Intel Pentium 4,  2gb RAM,
Windows XP Professional SP2, Intel 82915G/GV/910GL 128mb

Umarth: If crashing or BOSD occurs while playing any of these games (like Empire at War) i advise you to revert your 915 mobile chipsets driver to previous version (14.24) which can be found here:14.24 driver

Umarth: Patch like hell :) Many game patches include optimization for graphics.

PC Games

• Age of Empires II + The Conquerors Expansion
• Age of Empires III + The Warchiefs + The Asian Dynasties
• Age of Mythology + Titans Expansion
• Alien vs. Predator 2 (+ expansion)
• American McGee's Alice
• Audiosurf
• Arx Fatalis
• Beyond Divinity
• Battlefield 1942 + Expansions or 3danalyze to enable TnL)
• Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat Mod
• Black & White 2 + Expansions
• Blackshot
• Blitzkrieg (+ all expansions and mods)
• Blitzkrieg  II (+ all expansions and mods, how to run the game explained here)
• Blueberry Garden (can be slow sometimes)
  
• Braid
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Works fine until the ending where it freezes)
• Call of Duty (+expansion)
• Chaos Legion
• Clive Barker's Undying
• Cold Fear (3d Analyze 2.34, force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL caps, emulate other dx8.1 caps, emulate cube maps, emulate dxt textures, it works smooth but still haven't finished it to see if it crashes)
• Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
• Commandos -  All versions
• Condemned: Criminal Origins (Needs nothing to run good, although near the ending you’ll get a nasty crash on a bridge, whenever this happens use SwiftShader 2.01 and run like hell until you reach a fence, there you can save, then close, erase SwiftShader files and launch the game again to keep playing nicely)
• Crayon Physics Deluxe
• Cuban Missile Crisis - The Aftermath
• Dark Earth (Disable directdraw using dxdiag tool to avoid "LS_ERROR:8 Bmap Error: Init Video Bmap" error when acsessing save/load screen) 
• Day of the Zombie
•  Deer Avenger 4
•  Demon Stone (Laggy)
• Deus Ex
•  Diablo II
•  Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Disciples II (+ expansions)
•  Divine Divinity
•  DOOM 3 (laggy while facing to glass and in open areas)
•  DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil (laggy in open areas)
•  Dracula: The Days of Gore (3d Analyze Force SW TnL)
•  Duke Nukem 3D: High Resolution Pack
•  ETROM - The Astral Essence (Use 3dA Emulate HW TnL caps, Force SW TnL, a bit unstable)
•  Evil Dead Regeneration
• Fable: The Lost Chapters 
• F.E.A.R (Patch 1.8)
•  F.E.A.R. - Extraction Point
•  F.E.A.R. - Perseus Mandate (First use SwiftShader 2.1 to get past the cinematics, then close it, erase the SwiftShader files afterwards use 3d Analyze to force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL, counters and you’re on for the rest of the game with good FPS)
• Fallen Lords Condemnation (SwiftShader 2.1 Laggy)
• FarCry (Update it and set to low to get playable fps)
• Fate
• Fate by Numbers
• Football Manager 2009
• Football Manager 2010
• Gothic
• Gothic II (+ expansion)
• Grand Theft Auto III
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad
• Grim Fandango
• Half Life (+ all expansions, addons, mods)
• Half Life 2 (With the usual shortcut fixes for the savegame crash, laggy while using flashlight)
• Half Life 2: Episode One (Has to be updated due to unsupported directx 9 textures)
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Harbinger
• Harry Potter video games (all)
• Hellgate: London (Lags a bit, set to lowest for optimal performance)
• Heroes V (patch until 1.6, better if you have more than 512 ram, if not's its laggy)
• Kabus 22
• Killing Floor
• Land of Dead: Road to Fiddlers Green
• League of Legends
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (Starts fine, then during waterfall cinematic crashes)
• Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy
• LOKI: Heroes of Mythology (Laggy and ugly graphics)
• Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II
• Mafia
• Manhunt
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance (3d Analyze, force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL  caps, emulate other dx8.1 caps, emulate pixel shader caps, emulate bump map caps)
• Max Payne
• Max Payne: The Fall of Max Payne
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Breakthrough
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead
• Medal of Honor Pacific Assault
• Metal Gear Solid
• Mount&Blade
• Myst V: End of Ages
• Myth: The Fallen Lords (select "Software Renderer" in options)
• Myth 2: Soulblighter
• Myth 3: The Wolf Age
  
• Need for Spped Series up to Underground 2 (good performance)
• Need for Speed Most Wanted (at lowest settings)
• Nemesis of the Roman Empire
• NeverWinter Nights (+ all expansion)
• NHL 2004
• Obscure (3d Analyze, 3d Analyze, force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL caps,  emulate other dx8.1 caps, emulate pixel shader caps)
• Oniblade (the original Russian version, not X-Blades, runs smooth)
• Overlord: Raising Hell (Use 3dA Emulate HW TnL caps, Force SW TnL, laggy even on lowest)
• Painkiller (3d Analyze, Force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL caps, emulate emulate HW TnL caps, emulate other DX 8.1, emulate pixel shader caps)
• Painkiller: Battle out of Hell (3d Analyze, Force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL caps, emulate other DX 8.1, emulate pixel shader caps)
• Pariah
• Pathologic (Use 3D Analyzer v2.36 and emulate HW TnL)
• Pool of Radiance 2 - Ruins of Myth Drannor
• Prey
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Requires 3dA Emulate HW TnL caps, Force SW TnL)
• Prince of Persia: Two Thrones
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (Works, gives 20-40 fps, but stutters)
• Quake III Arena
• Quake IV (laggy until it crashed in a certain tunnel)
• Quake Live (Great Free Online Game)
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape
• Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc (at the maximum settings)
• Rise of Nations
• Rise of Nations 2: Rise of Legends
• RollerCoaster Tycoon + Expansions
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 + Expansions
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 + Expansions (medium settings, can experience  performance and graphical problems sometimes due to the capacities of the card)
• Sacred
• Sacred: Underworld
• Silent Hill 2 (with flashlight tweak instructions Here )
• Silent Storm
• Simpsons Hit and Run
• Spider-Man – Friend or Foe (First replace the original exe with the latest crack available from Reloaded or the game will  crash randomly, then 3d Analyze, force SW TnL, emulate HW TnL caps, emulate other dx8.1 caps, emulate pixel shader caps, emulate bump map caps)
• Soldier of Fortune
• Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
• Spore + Expansions (can be slow sometimes)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl (fps drops too low when outside otherwise runs good)
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• Star Wars: Battlefront II
• Star Wars Empire at War (and possibly its expansion pack Forces of Corruption)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast
• Star Was Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy 
• Star Wars: Republic Commando (Minor graphic glitches, setting off bump mapping is required, otherwise the game will restart your pc, all else can be on high)
• Stronghold (+ expansions)
• SWAT 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Without the Cell Shading effects) 
• Temple of Elemental Evil
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Crash if thermal vision is activated)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
• Tomb Raider Legend
• Torchlight
• Total Overdose
• The Chronicles of Riddick - Escape From Butcher Bay (Many6 modded driver was installed)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind + Expansions
• The Fall - Last Days Of Gaia 
• The Godfather
• The Sims + Expansions
• The Sims 2 + Expansions (no major performance problems at medium settings)
• The Sims Life Stories
• The Sims 3 + Expansions (not recommended - important lagging if less than 2 Gb of RAM)
• The Suffering - Ties That Bind (with a weird flashlight glitch)
• The Thing
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines (3d Analyze 2.26, configuration
  here: http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff186/cefthecef/vtmb3danalyze226.jpg)
• Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption
• Vietcong (+ expansion)
• Warcraft III
• Warcraft III: Frozen Throne 
• Warhammer 40K - Dawn of War and Winter Assault expansion (all setting set to lowest available)
• Wizardry 8
• World of Goo
• World of Warcraft (No more stutter disabling hardware cursor in the game options)
• X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
• Zoo Tycoon + Expansions
• Zoo Tycoon 2 + Expansions

PC Online Games

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• Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine
•  9Dragons
•  Perfect World: International
• Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited

PC Emulators

PlayStation One: Almost any game will work with these emulators

• PSX Even
• Emurayden

Nintendo 64: Almost any game just use.

• Project 64

Nintendo DS: Almost any game but beware of emulator bugs.

• No&GBA 2.6a (nice performance setting nocash as 3D Renderer in the emulator options)

These are games that I've played and or/finished, also some that have been contributed in the post of this list.

Many thanks to:

·         Neo

·         Espionage724

·         Linda

·         Sanchet

·         Many6

·         Umarth

·         Cef

·         Nash

·         Recca

·         Dan Baby

·         Dark2025

·         Musicman2059

Any contribution will be much appreciated bros.