Gaming on the MSI Wind

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June 3rd, 2008 by Meghan J. McDonough  

 Comments (13 Responses) 

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Tags: MSI Wind U100, MSI Wind, MSI, netbooks

13 Responses to “Gaming on the MSI Wind”

1. Ryan Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 am

   I was just wondering if you were able to make a guide to increase the shared graphics memory (if you are able to do so) It would be such a great tip.

2. Vahid Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

   please pretty please, try playing Joint Operations on it also! And Battlefield 2 maybe?

3. Diego Says:
   June 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am

   Hello, I am interested in this UMPC, I play very much to world of warcraft and I would like to know if it works correctly in this UMPC. I suppose that in populated sites(places) it(he,she) will have few FPS, but it will be possible play correctly? Is it a better the graphical performance(yield) than the Asus eee??
   Thank you;)

4. Sandman Says:
   June 11th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

   The embedded video doesn’t seem to be working

   “Sorry, this video file was not found on our server”

5. Ben Says:
   June 15th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

   Hi. I’m no computer wizz, so the various numbers for the graphics cards n stuff don’t mean much . The only games I’d really be looking to play are things like GTA San andreas, old unreal tournaments and maybe a couple of 2+ year old shooting games. Do you reckon the msi wind could cope? Cheers.

6. Nobody Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am

   When will someone make a dedicated Windows XP Gaming UMPC? Every single UMPC blog I see people asking about gaming performance. Gaming is a huge selling point. All of these UMPC’s aimed at business use and word processing, I see people say ”will WOW run on this?” When will the manufacturers wise up and actually tap into this gap in the market. A dedicated Gaming UMPC would sell many units, not just for gamers but for business users too since the performance will be high. I have a UMPC manufactured for business use and I use it purely for gaming and emulation. Its a no brainer people.

7. Jspider Says:
   July 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

   It’s definitely mixed

   You can’t really raise gaming power without raising price but maybe that’s what needs to be done. Granted UMPC’s will never be as powerful as power based laptops. But why can’t there be high priced UMPC’s that have better performance but still designed for small form factor and high battery life?

8. Corto Says:
   August 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

   Not to mention that if you raise game performance in an UMPC (in other words change the graphics chip for something faster) it’s battery life will take a drop. No doubt about it. 3D gaming particularly takes much more battery juice than simple 2D actions (like net surfing). Batteries have their limits, too. And using supply current doesn’t always come in handy with UMPC’s. They’re supposed to be quite mobile, after all.

   I’d settle for playing those older games on UMPC and do modern gaming on a desktop PC with supply current and killer graphics card. Much more convenient that way.

9. barneybob Says:
   August 12th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

   To Nobody, Jspider, Corto:

   Check out the following link for your concerns about a “gaming UMPC”:

   http://openpandora.org/

10. jem Says:
    August 17th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    but it can install online games?

11. Jim Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Your flash video doesn’t recognize Adobe Flash version 10 (which I have installed on my PC).

12. Onuris Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    I was wondering if you can play COE and WOW, can you make the test with Silkroad on Line? thats my favorite MMO, if you can make the test and tell me if it works I’ll buy it

13. Roenie Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    11-12 fps isn’t exactly what I would consider playable.

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