Civ5 on Intel 4400 GPU

[Cptobvious]

Has anyone played Civ on an ultrabook running Haswell and integrated GPU?

I want to get the new Surface 2 Pro but I have no idea how Civ would perform on it...

 

[illram]

If you believe Intel's statement that it doubles performance of the HD 4000, it's still just barely manageable. Expect a stuttering experience. The HD 4000, and for comparison a 5450 GPU (probably roughly equivalent to the HD 4400), show unplayable frame rates for Civ 5 in this review. Using that as a reference point, this follow up review comparing HD 5000 vs the old HD 4000 shows gains, but for minimal playability you are looking at lowest settings on a very low resolution. For instance even if you assume a 40% increase (highest % increase of the games sampled, a wildly optimistic assumption for Civ 5 which is very demanding) you're still looking at ~ 28 FPS at medium settings on 1366 x 768. And realistically you will probably not see that high of an increase so you are looking at what will probably be a very choppy gaming experience bordering on unplayable at best. I dealt with it with Civ 4 on my old laptop almost decade ago, so to each their own, but I wouldn't expect much.

 

[tokala]

Naaah, all those reviews are using the DX11 mode as far as I have seen.

DX9 mode should work fine, we had reports from people getting it to work reasonably well even on fairly old integrated ATI and nVidia graphics, which are much slower than the latest stuff from intel.

Hell, I got it to run a X1300 mobility, playable in strategic view (with some graphical glitches).
Of course single digit frame rates on minimal settings on normal mode.