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Hi there,

my first Mac ever was a MacMini CoreDuo 1,66Ghz with the builtin Intel GMA950. The Mac was released about 2006 and it was a mighty fine machine, except for the graphics 🙁
12 years later I bought it again, because I am currently going upwards in the Games-Compatibility for Retro-Gaming. In my case this means Games from 1999/2000 upwards.
The MacMini has 10.5.8 installed and also WinXP Home SP2 with the updated 2.1 Bootcamp driver.

It's really hard to find deeper Informations of software tools/tweaks for that GPU because no one seems to be interested in that anymore.

For my purpose (retro-gaming 1999upwards) the GMA950 seems to be a really good choice. The MacMini is really small and silent machine nearly perfect for that.
Though I have some questions and I hope that we can solve some of the issues.

Most Informations seems to be lost. Only first page: https://web.archive.org/web/20100209221059/ht … /intel9x-gaming
Some other Informations: http://neoswrath.blogspot.com/2009/03/intel-g … 950-review.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080419072913/ht … l?artnum=303407

List Of Games compatible with Intel 945 GMA 950
THIS LIST HAVE BEEN COPIED FROM - http://groups.google.com/group/intel9x-gaming/web/games-that-work-intel-gma-950
And, I am not the creator of this list. Its updated till May 29, 2010.
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Intel 945 Compatibility List

Notes:
- It is recommended you patch any program or game to the latest version because of optimizations.
- When on Windows Vista or 7, running all games as administrator fixes most problems.
- Great page about why most newer games fail to run http://compatible-games.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-latest-games-dont-run-on-intel.html
- Make sure you have the latest graphics drivers for your OS. Modded Drivers work best though (unless stated otherwise on a game below)
- If a demo is listed below, 90% chance the full version of the game will give equal results
- Software Vertex and addgame.reg are the same thing. Software vertex can be added from the IDAMT program.

~~~Games~~~
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007 - Quantum of Solace DEMO (Win7 + Default Drivers + IDAMT 2.0 = crash when Bond will follow the man but playable) (Win7 + Default Drivers + 3D Analyze = no crash, but laggy)
18 Wheels of Steel: Extreme Trucker (Use addgame.reg tweak and select DirectX in the game's settings window. Tested on Win7)

A
Africa Corps vs. Desert Rats (XP only)
Age of Empires + Expansion...
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings + The Conquerors Expansion
Age of Empires III + The Warchiefs + The Asian Dynasties (Everything high, 1360x768, no shadow and shaders set to low. Win7 and MD 1.1)
Age of Mythology + Titans Expansion
Aggression - Reign over Europe (Using 3D Analyze: all textures work but too slow. FPS is unplayable status. Try Swiftwshader)
Aion Online
AirStrike 3D II
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter 2
Alien vs. Predator 2 + Expansion
Alpha Prime
American McGee's Alice (tested on XP, stock drivers)
America's Secret Operations
Ancient Wars : Sparta (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Area 51 (Version 1.2 patch)
Armed and Dangerous (3D Analyze)
Armies of Exigo (Works with Medium Settings with Swiftshader)
Ashes Cricket 2009 Demo (Windows 7 with Modded drivers and 'addgame.reg' tweak)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (Dogfight game, playable at pretty high setting)
Audiosurf
Avencast: Rise of the Mage

B
Bad Boys II: The Video Game
Baja 1000 (use addgame.reg, still lags though)
Batman: Vengeance
Battle Isle: The Andosia Conflict
Battle Realms
Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf
Battlefield 1942 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat Mod
Battlefield 2142 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL, a bit laggy at lowest setting)
Battlefield Heroes
Battlefield Vietnam
Battlestations: Midway
Beyond Good & Evil
Big Mutha Truckers 2
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Black & White
Black & White 2
Black Mirror / Black Mirror Special Edition 
Black Shot (All Details High, tested on XP, v1.2 Modded Drivers)
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Blitzkrieg + All Expansions and Mods
Blitzkrieg 2 + All Expansions and Mods
Blood Bowl
BloodRayne 1 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL / medium settings)
BloodRayne 2 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL / medium settings)
Boiling Point: Road to Hell (Vista/7, Modded Drivers. Low FPS, about 15-20 on version 1.00)
Braid
Breath of Fire 4
Brian Lara International Cricket 2005
Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 (3D Analyze)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Works under XP and Vista)
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon (Works under XP and Vista)
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (Works under XP and Vista)
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL or 'addgame.reg')
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL or 'addgame.reg')

C
Caesar IV
Call of Ctulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Duty + United Offensive
Call of Duty 2 (Windows Vista/Windows 7 With Modded Drivers and 'addgame.reg' or 3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Call of Juarez (very laggy after first level)
Championship Manager 2006
Championship Manager 2007
Championship Manager 2008
Chaos Legion (Best Resolution, high details - very smooth FPS)
Chaser
Chrome
Chrome: Specforce (Laggy - try low/middle settings)
Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
CivCity: Rome
Civilization IV
Clive Barker's Undying
Close Combat: First to Fight (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL)
Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island
Code of Honor 3: Desperate Measures (barely playable on minimum setting)
Codename Panzers: Phase One
Codename Panzers: Phase Two (Note: for both versions, if you encountered any problems running the demos, change Shadow to 1 under Options.ini file. This only applies to the demos, the full versions can function perfectly.)
Cold Blood (Only XP)
Cold Fear (3D Analyze 2.34 only, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL, other dx8.1 caps)
Colin McRae Rally 2.0
Colin McRae Rally 2004 (Update to latest patch for removing graphical issues)
Comanche 4
Combat Arms (korean MMOFPS)
Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars + Kane's Wrath (shader detail must be set to medium to avoid crashes)
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Command & Conquer: Generals + Zero Hour
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge 
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 + Expansion (Too slow with Normal drivers,but much better with Modded drivers (addgame.reg, or patch game for more FPS increase.)
Command & Conquer: Renegade
Commandos (All Versions)
Company of Heroes (xp--> Laggy even at very low settings, Vista + Modded drivers + addgame.reg---> smooth and playable)
Conan (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL)
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Conflict: Desert Storm 2
Conflict: Vietnam
Contract Jack
Counter Strike 1.6
Counter Strike: Condition Zero
Counter Strike: Source (Runs slow with normal drivers, with modded drivers you can run with settings and resulution on medium, tested on Vista)
|-- CSS SCI FI 3: HARDWIRED (Counter Strike: Source MOD) (On missions with APCs, restart the game with the -dxlevel 80 command on Set Lauch Options)
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crazy Taxi
Cricket 2005
Cricket 2006
Cricket 2007
Crime Life: Gang Wars (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL - solves random restart problem)
Crimson Skies
Cross Racing Championship 2005
CrossFire
Crysis v1.0 (Some textures buggy on the screen and a bit laggy)
Crysis Warhead (945 - Modded drivers with addgame.reg Tweak. Also works with 3D Analyze but runs around 10-5 FPS)
Crysis Wars Trial (945 - Modded drivers 1554 with registry of "1" on crysis.exe)
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder

D
Darkest Island
Dead to Rights
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down + Team Sabre (3D Analyze / RegTweak)
Delta Force Xtreme 2 (3D Analyze / RegTweak) (Laggy)
Deus Ex
Deus Ex 2: Invisible War
Devastation (All settings on High + highest resolution)
Devil May Cry 3 ('addgame.reg' Tweak[Vista/Win7] 3DA, Emulate HW TnL, Force SW TnL, Emulate pixel shader caps, Check skip pixel shader version 1.1, Check skip pixel shader version 1.4, Check skip pixel shader version 2.0, Check force 100 hz, Check disable lighting. Note* :This only works on Devil May Cry 3 version 1.0) (Extra Note: Don't use Game Rips or you won't be able to go to the 2nd level. Thing is you can only use Virgil)
Diablo
Diablo II + Lord of Destruction (DirectDraw for best performance)
Dino Crisis (only under XP)
Dino Crisis 2
Dirt Track Racing
Dirty Split
Disciples
Disciples II + Expansions
Disciples III: Renaissance (addgame.reg)
Divine Divinity
Doom 3 (Better with Doom 3 Tweaker Screen RES: 512x384 Minimum Quality Preset 15-60 FPS)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Dracula : Origin
Driver 4: Parallel Lines (Windows 7 with Modded drivers and 'addgame.reg' Tweak)
Dredd vs Death
Dungeon Lords (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL caps, force SW TnL)
Dungeon Runners (Don't put bloom too high)
Dungeon Siege I
Dungeon Siege II
Dynasty Warriors 6 (Slow but playable with addgame.reg + Modded Drivers)

E
Earth 2160 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL , force SW TnL)
Empire Earth I + Expansion (The Art of Conquest)
Empire Earth II + Expansion (The Art of Supremacy)
Empire Earth III (Shaders set to Medium)
Empire Total War + Special Forces Edition (Windows Vista/7 + Modded Drivers + 3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World
Emperor Battle for Dune full settings no lag
Enter The Matrix
Eragon (Windows Vista + Stock Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)
Europa Universalis: Rome
Evil Dead: Regeneration
Exteel

F
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy
Falcon 4.0: Allied Force
Fantastic 4
Far Cry (Try patching first. 3D Analyze, VendorID= 4098, DeviceID= 20040)
F.E.A.R. (Patch v1.01 to v1.08 required) + Extraction Point
F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
FIFA 2003
FIFA 2004
FIFA 2005
FIFA 2006 + Road To World Cup
FIFA 2007
FIFA 2008
FIFA 2009
FIFA 2010
FIFA Manager 2006
FIFA Manager 2007
FIFA Manager 2008
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII (If it seems bad, dont think it's the card, this game only runs at 640 x 480 with bad quality textures)
Fallout 3 (http://www.oldblivion.com/sm/index.php?action=printpage;topic=6927.0)
FlatOut
FlatOut 2 (With low resolution, it runs without lag)
Football Manager 2007
Football Manager 2008
Football Manager 2009
Football Manager 2010
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood (smooth in high quality)
Freedom Fighters
Freelancer

G
Gangland
Garry's Mod
Gothic
Gothic 2
Gran Turismo Racing 2
Gran Turismo Racing: Revolution
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grandia 2 (only under XP)
Great Battles Rome
Grim Fandango (Requires newest patch, or it will run in hyperspeed)
Grom: Terror in Tibet
Ground Control 1
Guild Wars
Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (v1.3 patch and 3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL, disable lighting, force low precision pixel shader, emulate other DX8.1 caps, performance mode and Vendor ID: 4318 Device ID: 816) (You can find tweaks for GH3 in google)
Guitar Hero Aerosmith (Alpha Drivers + IDAMT 2.0) (Min 20 fps(when show all the crowd) and Max 55 fps(when shows only one person))
Gun

H
Half-Life
Half-Life: Source (Software Vertex)
Half-Life 2 (Software Vertex)
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch (Software Vertex)
Half-Life 2: Episode One (May crash in some cases, unknown reasons) (Software Vertex)
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Windows Vista/7) (May crash in some cases, unknown reasons too) (Software Vertex)
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Software Vertex)
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo: Custom Edition
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (XP [said by user Rishabh Kumar],Windows Vista + Default Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)
Hellgate: London
Heroes of Might and Magic III + Expansion
Heroes of Might and Magic V (Patch up to 1.6 will solve all problems regarding crashing to desktop also officially remove the CD/DVD check. Note: There will be minor graphical glitches present if run normally. Use 3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, for better view. Try check force shader 1.1 in 3DA)
Heroes of Might and Magic V - Tribes of the East (v3.0 Stand alone, no patch needed - Windows Vista and XP)
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Hitman 3: Contracts
Hitman 4: Blood Money (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL - lags badly and textures corrupted-game runs but unplayable)
House of the Dead 1
House of the Dead 2
House of the Dead 3 (Win7 and MD 1.1 + addgame + (0000,+0001,+0002).reg tweak for hod3pc.exe)
Hulk
Hunting Unlimited 2010
Hydro Thunder

I
Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit
Infernal (Works great out of the box - 640 x 480 with DOF and Reflection off [Windows 7 + Modded Drivers])
International Cricket Captain 2008
Iron Man

J
Jade Empire: Special Edition
Jade Dynasty
James Bond 007: NightFire
Juiced (XP, stock drivers)
Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (3D Analyze, emulate pixel shader caps -VASH )
Just Cause (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, antidetect shaders)

K
K-Hawk: Survival Instinct
Kabus 22
Kill.Switch
Killing Floor (Everything on Low, 1024x768. Win7 and MD 1.1)
King Kong
Knights of the Temple 1+2 very playable no lag full graphics (just remember to use 3d analyze on 2 and tick force SW TnL and emulate HW TnL)
Kohan + Expansions
Kohan 2
KOS Secret Operations (Source Engine) (Modded Drivers with addgame.reg or SwiftShader)
Kuma Games
Kung Fu Panda (Windows Vista + Default Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)

L
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green (Everything high. Some glitchs with shaders effect. Win7 and MD 1.1)
Land Rover Off Road
League of Legends
Left 4 Dead (Software TnL gives graphical glitches, no support for darkness shader so everything is bright)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Same as L4D1)
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Legacy of Kain: Defiance (Vista/7 with addgame.reg)
Legion Arena (bit of lag if you have slow processor i.e. 1.6 ghz but playable)
Lego Batman
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Star Wars (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL caps, force SW TnL)
Lego Star Wars 2
Line of Sight: Vietnam
Live for Speed


M
Machinarium
Madagascar
Mafia
Making History + Gold Edition
Manhunt
Manhunt 2 (Windows 7 using addgame.reg tweak)
Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam
Marine Sharpshooter 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Tested on Vista using default drivers and addgame.reg tweak)
Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX
Max Payne (Patch 1.05, tested on XP SP2)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Patch 1.01, tested on Vista SP2, runs smoothly on all high except post-process effects off)
Mechcommander 2
Mechwarrior 3 + Pirate Moon
Mechwarrior 4 + All Expansion
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault + Expansions (Breakthrough , Spearhead)
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
Medieval + Expansions
Medieval II: Total War
Megaman X4
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
Megaman X7
Megaman X8 
Metal Gear Solid
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Microsoft Flight Simulator X + Deluxe Version
Midnight Nowhere
Monster Truck Madness 2 
MotoGP 3
Mount & Blade (DirectX 7, DirectX 9 gives texture corruption) 
Mount & Blade Warband (DirectX 7, DirectX 9 gives texture corruption, but you can use it on DirectX 9 if you have everything exactly like I tell you This is going to BE BIG
Antialiasing:None
Shadow Quality:Ultra High
Texture quality: 100 %
Shader Quality:Medium
( no instancing)
Grasss Density: 0 %
Realistic Shadows On Plants: Full
Tree Detail: High
Tree Degrade Distance: 100 %
Character Detail: Highest ( 100%)
Character shadow Detail: Highest ( 100%)
Number of corpses and ragg dolls: unlimited
Blood Stains: On
Dynamic lighting: On
Character Shadows : On
Enviroment Shadows: Off
Particle Systems:On
Anisotropic Filtering : On
Fast water Reflections: Off

ok you can't put it any higher than this (putting something higher will result into white blue purple !!!)
enjoy i am pcgameplayvidz on youtube so you can contact me for errors!!!
P.S: This needs a powerful computer to run!!!!)

Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
MySims
Myst III: Exile
Myst IV: Revelation
Myst V: End of Ages
Myth I: The Fallen Lords (select ''Software Renderer'' in options)
Myth II: Soulblighter
Myth III: The Wolf Age

N
Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek 
Nascar: SimRacing 
NBA Live 2006
NBA Live 2007
NBA Live 2008
Need for Speed: Carbon (Vista. On XP with Swiftshader - but low FPS)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Porsche
Need for Speed: ProStreet (Swiftshader but it's laggy like Carbon on xp)
Need for Speed: Undercover (Must have 1.5gb ram, Windows Vista and run the game in Windows 98 compatibility mode)
Need for Speed: Underground
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (Software Vertex)
Nemesis of the Roman Empire
NeoTokyo
Neverwinter Nights + Expansions
Neverwinter Nights 2 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
NHL 2000
NHL 2001
NHL 2002
NHL 2003
NHL 2004
NHL 2005
NHL 06
NHL 07
NHL 08
NHL 09
NiBiRu: Age of Secrets
Night Watch
No One Lives Forever
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way
Nosferatu
Nox

O
O2 Mania
Obscure (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Obscure 2 
Oddworld
Oni
Oniblade (the original Russian version, not X-Blades, runs smooth)
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
Operation 7 (free online fps)
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Overclocked: A History of Violence (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL. Got a BSOD sometime, still working for it and haven't used modded drivers)
Overlord (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL) (5-10 fps)
Overspeed: High Performance Street Racing

P
Painkiller (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Painkiller: Battle out of Hell (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Painkiller: Overdose (sun smoothly on Win7 + Modded drivers, on xp use 3D Analyze)
Pariah
Pathologic (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Extreme
Peggle Nights
Perfect World (Works on lowest quality on Windows Vista)
Peter Jackson's King Kong
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst
Phantasy Star Online Ver 2
Phantasy Star Universe
Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of Illuminus (Both original and expansion will have post effect glowing problem most likely on XP. Use Swiftshader with d3d9 to solve the post effect problem. Should work without any problems for Windows Vista)
Plants vs. Zombies
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor
Port Royale 2
Portal (Software Vertex)
Praetorians
Prey
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (3D Analyze v2.34, emulate HW TnL)
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Prison Tycoon 4
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (tested with XP, stock drivers, black title screen)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010
Project IGI
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Psychonauts (Runs in 800x600 with Medium Details)
Pyroblazer (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL caps and force 100 Hz)

Q
Quake 3
Quake 4 (Better performance with Modded drivers)
Quake Live


R
Ragnarok
Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World
Rally Trophy
Ratatouille (Windows Vista + Stock Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)
Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Red Faction 2
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (Everything on Very Low, laggy. Win7 and MD 1.1)
Rent a Hero
Reservoir Dogs
Resident Evil 1 (Works on Windows XP, Vista, and Win7 with Windows 95 compatibility)
Resident Evil 2 (Works on Windows XP, Vista, and Win7 with Windows 98/2000 compatibility)
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 4 (Modded drivers on Windows Vista/7 works. Windows XP only on low 640x480, 15-25 FPS)
rFactor
Restaurant Empire 2 (Windows XP, Normal Drivers, You can max the resolution but all others to low or the game will crash)
Rise of Nations + Thrones and Patriots
Rise of Nations 2: Rise of Legends
Rising Kingdoms (everything high 30-50 fps)
Rogue Trooper
RollerCoaster Tycoon + Expansions
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 + Expansions
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 + Expansions
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI
Rome: Total War
Rune
Runescape + HD (All settings lowered for best performance)

S
Sacred
Sacred Underworld
Sam & Max Season 1 + 2
Samurai Warriors 2 / Sengoku Musou 2
SAS: Secure Tomorrow
Scarface: The World Is Yours (Windows Vista/7 with 1545 Modded drivers and 'addgame.reg' Tweak)
Second Sight (3DA crashes randomly)
Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Serious Sam
Serious Sam II
Shade: Wrath of Angels
Shadowman
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Sherlock Holmes : The Silver Earring
Sherlock Holmes : The Awakened 
Ship Simulator 2006 + Add On
Shogun: Total War
Sid Meier's Railroad 
Silent Hill 2 (flashlight fix)
Silent Hill 3 (with addgame.reg)
Silent Hill 4: The Room (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Silent Hunter 3 (Lags when looking out onto the horizon)
Silent Storm
Sim Copter
SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition
SimTower: The Vertical Empire
SiN Episodes: Emergence (Uses the source engine like Half Life 2, expect similar results)
Singles 2: Triple Trouble (A copy of The Sims 2, runs perfect with Modded drivers)
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sniper Elite
Sniper Path of Vengeance
Soldier Front
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Worlds
Sorades
Space Rangers
Space Rangers 2: Reboot (The Original Dominator is Playable)
Spartan+ Expansion works PERFECT
Special Forces Nemesis
Specnaz 2 (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL. Windows Vista/7 - a bit laggy)
SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (Windows XP + Modded drivers, 1024x768 4x antisotropic Filtering Texture:High ~20fps)
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe (Windows Vista + Default Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)
Splinter Cell 1 (To fix thermal vision crash, open SplinterCell.ini, look for "EmulateGF2Mode=0" and change to "EmulateGF2Mode=1")
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Windows Vista with Modded Drivers and the 'addgame.reg' Tweak for splintercell2.exe not pandora.exe )
Spore + Expansions
Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run (Windows 7 with 'addgame.reg' tweak)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl (Tweaking Guide - http://www.tweakguides.com/STALKER_1.html)
Starcraft + Brood War
Starcraft 2
Starship Troopers
Star Trek Elite Force 2 (XP, stock drivers, runs okay)
Star Trek Starfleet Command 3 (XP, stock drivers, highest settings)
Star Wars: Battlefront 1 ( All low - 40 FPS )
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 ( All low - 20 FPS, depends on map )
Star Wars: Empire At War
Star Wars: Galactic Battles
Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast
Star Wars: Jedi Knight 3 - Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Some graphic glitches, but otherwise runs fine)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - The Sith Lords
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Racing Syndicate
Streets of SimCity
Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People Episode 1 - 5
Stronghold
Stronghold 2
Stronghold: Crusader 
Stronghold Crusader Extreme
Stronghold Legends
Sudden Attack (Korean fps)
Sudeki
Supreme Ruler
Supreme Ruler : Global Crisis
SWAT (Windows XP - compatibility mode for Windows 95)
SWAT 2 (Windows XP - compatibility mode for Windows 95)
SWAT 3 (Windows XP - compatibility mode for Windows 95)
SWAT 4 + Expansion
Swashbucklers Blue vs. Grey
Swing Plus
Synergy

T
Team Fortress 2 (Software Vertex) (Windows Vista and Modded Drivers. Type vertices 1024 command in console to obtain playable FPS)
Terminator 3: War of the Machines (a bit laggy on Win7)
Terrorist Takedown 2
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Windows Vista + Default Drivers + 3D Analyze 2.26)
The Club
The Cosen: Well of Souls (Rpg)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind + Expansions (Everything on Maximum. Sometimes laggy in town. Win7 + MD 1.1)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion + Expansions (Oldblivion is demanded or else the game will crash after startup even if you use 3d analyzer)
The Fall: Last Days of Gaia
The Godfather 
The Guild + Expansions
The Guild 2
The Hell in Vietnam
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth I
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II + Expansion (The Rise of the Witch King)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Software Vertex) (Help provided on Intel site and also works with 3D Analyze)
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
The Sims + Expansions
The Sims 2 + Expansions
The Sims 3 (All low quality)
The Suffering
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
The Thing 
The Westerner
The Witcher (Windows Vista/7 + Modded Drivers)
Thief 3: Deadly Shadows
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Toca Race Driver 
Tom Clancy's HAWX (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL or Modded drivers with a registry value of 1 on HAWX.exe, playable with textures on low and highest resolution)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL, force SW TnL)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Torchlight
Total Overdose
Trackmania Nations Forever (Higher FPS with Modded drivers or 3D Analyze)
Trackmania Sunrise / Trackmania Sunrise Extreme
Transformers: The Game
Trials 2 SE
True Crime: New York City (Runs using addgame.reg, inside buildings runs perfect/outside city runs a little slow)
True Crime: Streets of LA (Runs on vista, but game is very glitchy, (patch advised), Fps:15-20 using 1GB)
Turok: Evolution (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL , force SW TnL, force 100hz)
Two Worlds (3D Analyze, force SW TnL)

U
Ultimate Spider-Man (3D Analyze for better graphics)
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Unreal 2: The Awakening (tested on XP, works with highest settings-no lag)
Unreal Tournament 1999 (works great with updated OpenGL drivers, and STC3 textures)
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2004
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Urban Terror

V
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (Systems with 2GB ram or more must use 3D Analyze v2.26 or game will crash)
Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption
Virtua Tennis 3 (Update to latest patch. Works smoothly on 1024x768 with all low)

W
Wall-E (Windows Vista + Stock Drivers + Addgame.reg tweak)
War Rock
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (if -swtnl is used, said to give more performance)
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (if -swtnl is used, said to give more performance)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Soulstorm
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (Software Vertex)
Warlords Battlecry
Warlords Battlecry II
Warlords Battlecry III
Warriors Orochi (Software Vertex)
Warriors Orochi 2
Warrior Kings: Battles playable highest ( a tiny bit of lag but with low perfect)
World in Conflict (Version 1.0 with Pixel Shaders set to high)
World of Goo
World of Warcraft + The Burning Crusade + Wrath of the Lich King (if you have a lower CPU speed, disable addgame.reg effect) (Runs best under XP)
Worms
Worms 2
Worms 3D
Worms 4: Mayhem
Worms Armageddon
Worms Blast
Worms Forts: Under Siege
Worms World Party
WWE RAW
WWE RAW Ultimate Impact 2009

X
X3: Reunion (Update to the latest patch and use the 'addgame.reg' Tweak)
XIII
XIII Century: Death or Glory (Win7 + Modded drivers)
X-Blades (Win7 + Alpha Drivers + IDAMT 2.0) 
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (Tested on Vista using default drivers and addgame.reg)
X-Men: The Official Game (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Xpand Rally Xtreme

Y
Yager (3D Analyze, emulate HW TnL)
Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (Patch to 1109, apply english translation)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana


Z
Zeno Clash (Windows 7 with Modded drivers and software vertex processing mode)
Zeus: Master of Olympus
Zoo Tycoon + Expansions
Zoo Tycoon 2 + Expansions
Zombie Panic!
Zombie Panic!: Source (addgame.reg + Modded Drivers under Vista/7)
Zombie Shooter
Zombie Shooter 2
Zwei II


~~~Console Emulators~~~

Nintendo 64
Project 64
Snes9X

Gameboy Advance
Visual Boy Advance

Nintendo DS
no$gba (supports GBA too)

Nintendo Entertainment System
RockNES

Playstation
PCSX

Playstation 2
PCSX2 (works with a certain graphics plugin well, also works good on turn-based games)
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So here some of my experiences:

1. With DVI-Connection there is no Fullscreen in 640x400 / 320x240. All other resolutions seem to be fine.
2. The Driver has a "rotation-option" that can not be checked out. This is mostly no problem, but Re-Volt always switches to 480x640 and this has to be corrected every time. I would love to deactivate those rotated resolutions.
3. 3DMark 2001 shows all features even with Vertex and Pixel-Shaders. It's visable that they are done in "software" but they are fast and 100% OK. That's really a big thing that I did not expect. Can anyone tell me if that can be done for games with pixel- and vertexshader-support? 3d-analyze does not work for morrowind. I do not get pixelshaded water 🙁
4. With this games, the intel gpu shines.
- Unreal 2.26 with S3TC Textures in OpenGL mode. 1024x768 native 15" Eizo. Performance and Quality (5) is fantastic.
- DeusEX (never get a HiresTexuture-Mod working) but the Game look great and runs great.
- UT99 S3tc really fantastic.
- Severance Blade of Darkness (don't know with texturepack is the best, but game looks and runs fantastic
- Outcast. Thankfully 512x384 is fullscreen. The game is one of my faforites.
- SoldierX Himmerlsstürmer. Nothing more to say, no better sidesshooter known. Steady 60fps and really beautiful gfx.
- Quake2/3 both a great. Quake1 has issues with flickering after the second boot, don't know why.
- still lots of games to be tested

It's a bit of a pity that older games (before 99) mostly refuse to work in WinXP with selected D3d on that configuration. (e.g. nfs3/4/5/nba2000 only software-rendering-mode is working)
The later games mostly require TnL and Vertex-/Pixelshader that do not work either, but beside that the Intel is really great. Did not expect that.

O.S.D.M works great but one DX9 filtereffect seems to be missing. Then I only get a white area. I have to investigate what that is. https://vimeo.com/groups/tstosdm/videos/6880900
In comparison to other older intel IGP's that gma950 does not support JazzJackRabbit2 hardwarescrolling option in 640x400 8Bit. So no smooth scrolling in any resolutions (what a pity!).

If you want to test your Macmini/GMA950 too, please install the "dualcore-patch" for WinXP otherwise the system will generate "hickups" in certain games. This patch is highly recommended.
more to come...

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The GMA950 supports Pixel Shader 2.0. I was able to get a result from every 3DMark up to 2005 on it, and even 2006 ran except for the PS3.0 tests. Don't expect good performance though.

I've found it's okay for "big" games up to ~2003 and a fair bit of retro/indie stuff after that. I meant to try UT2004 while I still had my Dell D430 set up but didn't get around to it. A lot of (most??) Unity games should run on it.

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Don't know any unity game.
Are you sure about Pixelshader 2.0. Beside 3DMark 2001, I don't know any pixelshader-stuff that works on the GMA950 (but I am at the beginning.
I don't think that Morrowind requires PS 3.0, therefore the PS2.0 should work, but it does not, even using 3d-analyze it does not work.

Btw. nGlide and dgvoodoo do currently not work on my setup. dgvoodoo runs with turok1 but with a lot of gfx-issues.

Edit. I think you are right with PS2.0. I would love to see the PS2.0 in action (beside 3DM2001) Any good demoscene-products known?

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GMA950 was quite popular back in time. Take a look at this: http://www.gmabooster.com/home.htm
http://gmatweaker.blogspot.com/

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xjas wrote:

The GMA950 supports Pixel Shader 2.0. I was able to get a result from every 3DMark up to 2005 on it, and even 2006 ran except for the PS3.0 tests. Don't expect good performance though.

I've found it's okay for "big" games up to ~2003 and a fair bit of retro/indie stuff after that. I meant to try UT2004 while I still had my Dell D430 set up but didn't get around to it. A lot of (most??) Unity games should run on it.

it supports PS 2.0, but VS 2.0 is done via software, and it also doesn't support Hardware T&L, so is not even a full "DX7 GPU", it's a very odd thing, and for that it's fairly common to find problems launching some games even older than 2003.

I think the first IGP from Intel with hardware T&L and Vertex shader is the X3100 from the 965G chipset.

and keep in mind there is the GMA 3100 (G31) which is basically the GMA 950, which is newer but inferior to the X3100...

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Yes indeed. TnL was a feature a lot of (later 2000) Games required. It will be a bit hard to find matching Software for the GPU, but I think there will be some 😀
I'll keep up trying more stuff, because I love that damn small Macmini so much.

Anyone with a DL-Link for the GMATweaker?

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2018-10-13, 18:36:

Thx! Great findings. GMA-Tweaker is unavailable. No DL-link found 🙁

I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists.

The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore.

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bifo86 wrote on 2023-08-03, 02:05:
dr.zeissler wrote on 2018-10-13, 18:36:

Thx! Great findings. GMA-Tweaker is unavailable. No DL-link found 🙁

I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists.

The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore.

I did all of that back 10 years ago on my GX520 , so I have most of the required modded stuff and boosters and what not for GMA , I will post them (upload them) soon

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-10-15, 19:59:
bifo86 wrote on 2023-08-03, 02:05:
dr.zeissler wrote on 2018-10-13, 18:36:

Thx! Great findings. GMA-Tweaker is unavailable. No DL-link found 🙁

I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists.

The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore.

I did all of that back 10 years ago on my GX520 , so I have most of the required modded stuff and boosters and what not for GMA , I will post them (upload them) soon

Thanks. I've got the last version of GMAbooster but it had a weird time limiter on it that was intended to force you to update by a certain date - doesn't actually do anything to the functionality but if the date is after some point in 2017 it refuses to start. I've just been switching the date back, running it, and then fixing the date. It doesn't require the program to run after making the change so if anyone knows what setting it's actually changing for the clock it seems like it'd be easy to throw something together to just do that without the annoyance.

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bifo86 wrote on 2023-12-28, 05:47:
ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-10-15, 19:59:
bifo86 wrote on 2023-08-03, 02:05:

I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists.

The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore.

I did all of that back 10 years ago on my GX520 , so I have most of the required modded stuff and boosters and what not for GMA , I will post them (upload them) soon

Thanks. I've got the last version of GMAbooster but it had a weird time limiter on it that was intended to force you to update by a certain date - doesn't actually do anything to the functionality but if the date is after some point in 2017 it refuses to start. I've just been switching the date back, running it, and then fixing the date. It doesn't require the program to run after making the change so if anyone knows what setting it's actually changing for the clock it seems like it'd be easy to throw something together to just do that without the annoyance.

sorry for the l8te replay , I may have a version that not requres or has time limit , if you want to test I can search/upload it here.

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It's impressive how much good the Intel linux driver support is. I've tested these iGPU into a linux distribution still built impressively on 32bit and latest kernels which support (I suppose it's only partially compatible if I remember correctly) the OpenGL 2.1 which is needed for a modern browser on this Atom N280. .

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2024-01-10, 15:57:
bifo86 wrote on 2023-12-28, 05:47:
ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-10-15, 19:59:

I did all of that back 10 years ago on my GX520 , so I have most of the required modded stuff and boosters and what not for GMA , I will post them (upload them) soon

Thanks. I've got the last version of GMAbooster but it had a weird time limiter on it that was intended to force you to update by a certain date - doesn't actually do anything to the functionality but if the date is after some point in 2017 it refuses to start. I've just been switching the date back, running it, and then fixing the date. It doesn't require the program to run after making the change so if anyone knows what setting it's actually changing for the clock it seems like it'd be easy to throw something together to just do that without the annoyance.

sorry for the l8te replay , I may have a version that not requres or has time limit , if you want to test I can search/upload it here.

Please do, the original site is long gone now and a version without a time limit no longer exists anywhere online.

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