Trackmania United Forever: Star Edition

Despite its Nvidia endorsed, we used Trackmania because it's a fun, casual game that's easy to drop in and out of, it works well and looks great even on integrated graphics and also, it's not another FPS! We know plenty of people who love to give Trackmania a whirl during their lunch break or play on a laptop during travels. In addition, on a HDTV the fast pace and unique tracks make for great experience, even if it's a little mind churning.

We set Trackmania Unlimited to its 'Nicer' setting on the graphics side, with V-Sync disabled and the resolution was set to 1,280 x 800. As you'll see in the screenshots below, the Nvidia graphics have additional grass and water texture effects because it's unlocked by the game automatically. We manually ran the first race in the Staged, White arena for 90 seconds, constantly throwing the car into the water and off the track in inventive ways, three times over with FRAPS 3.03 and took an average result.



Trackmania was notably slower than the Radeon HD 5450 and Intel GMA-HD even, as the HD 4330 just scraped just over 30FPS on average and scored an identical result to the 785G IGP, albeit, with a much faster CPU. Still, it's twice the performance of an Ion system, which can only render 12-15FPS and feels distinctly choppy compared to the much smoother Zino HD.