Running games at 1080P with a mid level graphics card?

First of all please bare in mind I do not know very much about pc hardware and I'm just beginning PC gaming.I'm not going to be buying too intensive games (although I will be getting dragon age: origins) and am fine not running games on high due to my graphics card

I bought my laptop yesterday witht the specs:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7450 (2.13Ghz, 3MB, 1066MHz)

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit- English

Black Leather back cover : 15.6" (inch) Truelife 1080p Full HD WLED Edge to Edge Display

1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 4670 graphics card

4096MB 1067MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048]

320GB Free Fall Sensor (7200RPM) Hard Drive

So as it has a native resolution of 1080p, I have heard there will be problems running games on this resolution and you need a good graphics card to do so, is this true? Will the 4670 limit me from running games due to the detail? If the graphics card does limit me, is it possible to just turn down the resolution and then set the details to high, or does this make the graphics look fuzzy? (I know nothing about PC games)

Thanks

Yeah, running high performance games at that resolution will be pretty difficult. There is really not much you can do. You can turn down the resolution, but will look rather ugly on the screen.

And note, Laptops aren't typically meant for gaming.

Yeah, running high performance games at that resolution will be pretty difficult. There is really not much you can do. You can turn down the resolution, but will look rather ugly on the screen.

And note, Laptops aren't typically meant for gaming.

Luminouslight

Now if you hook it up to a 720p TV then you wont have much trouble.04dcarraher

[QUOTE="adamosmaki"]The 4670 is a good card. of course is on the low end of gaming cards but still is a gaming card You should be able to play most games at 720p ( aka 1280x720 ) at high or mostly high settings ( the games will look a bit blurry though since this isnt the native res of your laptop but nothing that ugly that will turn you off from playing at a different res than the native) At 1080p you should be able to play most multiplats at medium/ high settings but without AA blueflame8

on a 15" laptop screen theres NO reason to run games any higher than 720p unless you really just want to put your graphics card to the test. the difference between 720p and 1080p isn't really pronounced until you start getting into 40" monitors.

on a 15" laptop screen theres NO reason to run games any higher than 720p unless you really just want to put your graphics card to the test. the difference between 720p and 1080p isn't really pronounced until you start getting into 40" monitors.

z4twenny

[QUOTE="z4twenny"]

on a 15" laptop screen theres NO reason to run games any higher than 720p unless you really just want to put your graphics card to the test. the difference between 720p and 1080p isn't really pronounced until you start getting into 40" monitors.

TerroRizing

well actually the point at which you see the difference between 720p and 1080p is dependent on the screen size you have to sit closer as the T.V size goes down to notice the difference.

from the distance at my desk say 2ft 720p vs 1080p is a huge diffrence when im laying on my bed wtaching videos say 5-6ft can;t really see a diffrence going higher then 720p but 480p vs 720p content is very noticable If i sat back far enough say 10ft 480p,720p,1080p would all look the same. albeit my vision isn't very good and have to wear glasses and my eyes have gotten weaker so may only have say 20/30 or 2/40 now which is another factor if you eyes are weaker then 20/20 you have to sit even closer to notice diffrences and someone with really good vision of 20/5 or 20/10 or the extremely rare 20/8 would notice diffrences in resolution from even farther away then the normal person making 1080p a sort of a reguirment for them.