Quote Originally Posted by Chebmaster View Post
Nope.
HD 3000 is just that wimpy.
Can't comment on other games but I do know that Factorio is CPU heavy game that actually supports mutit-hreading and thus can fully utilize both of your CPU cores. Having bigger base in Factorio can cause FPS drop even on my Acer Aspire 6530 laptop with 2 Core AMD Athlon processor since it maxes out both CPU cores. At the same time dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 graphics card never even reaches toward full utilization. And yes this is laptop that is actually capable of running original Crysis albeit on minimal settings.

Any way when was the last time you tried playing Factorio on your laptop?
Factoprio developers managed to do some huge optimizations of the game before its full release like optimized belt simulation, optimized robotic path-finding and simulation, massively optimized biter path-finding, redesigned pipe fluid simulation, masive path-finding, collision detection and overall simulation of trains and much more.
They even managed to make some improvements of rendering pipeline and thus improving performance even on low end computers with integrated graphic cards.

Any way in order to see if your computer is CPU or GPU bound I would recommend using tools like Process Explorer (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sy...ocess-explorer) that can monitor your system utilization in real time. This was most used application on my laptop since it allowed me to track down any background processed that could hog down my computer. Not to mention that with its help I managed to adjust graphics settings of individual games to the point where neither my CPU or GPU would be fully utilized.