How well well SL run on Intel HD Graphics 5500?

[Aisling Caiben]

Just looking at computers and I have a very limited budget. I need something that I can have shadows with fir a short period of time for still photagraphy.

[Freya Mokusei]

According to this link, not well.

Integrated GPU's typically can't cut it against a free-standing card. These HD graphics APUs aren't designed for games, just high resolution video and web-browsing. Graphics in SL usually requires far better cooling capacity and throughput, that can't be provided by discrete chips.

You might get some success if you don't mind framerates <10 per second, especially with shadows.

You can pick up a free-standing card fairly cheaply.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Aisling,

Actually SL will run nicely on this low end Graphics Solution. I tend to work at various client businesses on mostly business class PCs with Intel HD 4400 & 5500 graphics. So I pop into SL frequently on these PCs to manage my islands and tenant issues. I can run on the High setting with a Very nice 20+ fps. Attached is a picture of mu SL session on a PC with an Intel HD 4400. Mind you I can't do any hardware skinning on this but SL is workable for me on these PCs until i get home to my SL monster PC.

So if you get get a nice CPU tower with a great power supply you can always upgrade it with a hot Nvidia card in the future as well.

 

[Lindal Kidd]

Both Freya and KarenMichelle are right, even though they seem to be saying completely opposite things!

A "monster Nvidia card" is a wonderful thing for SL.  I am currently using a GTX 980 and I LOVE it...I am getting 50, 60, or even more frames per second in most situations.

But the latest versions of Intel integrated graphics, 4400 and above, do a very creditable job, even though they are MUCH less powerful than the latest discrete graphics cards.