Basically, intel integrated graphics are not designed for any type of gaming whatsoever. They are at best capable of playing crap like Farmville or something. They are not designed to handle any type of 3D gaming unless it's from the year 2000 or so(Starcraft or other old sprite based games)
Look at it this way, whatever year your Intel Integrated Graphics is from, the only games it is going to be capable of playing is stuff from 5 or 6 years before it was made. DX11 and SM4.0 or not, it's just a gimmick to get people to think it is good and thus buy their products.
Example:
A bottom of the line "gaming" video card costs at least $100 unless it is several years old, and even those aren't capable of gaming very well. Look at their components though. One of the most common mistakes your "average joe" makes though is that thinking more ram means good performance. It does not. Ram is just the frame buffer size the gpu has to store data before processing it. Of course a high end gpu needs high end memory but everything eventually has to go through the gpu(graphics processing unit) core before you get your end result, and if that core is extremely cut down and incredibly slow(like Intel IGPs are) then amount or speed of the memory is meaningless.
Even the most basic "gaming" video card has several hundred stream processors(difference in design but the more the better) which process all the data from your games, an Intel IGP has about 12 of them. Several hundred....down to twelve....you can guess what kind of performance you are going to get from such (extremely) low specs.
Intel IGPs were only designed for web browsing or flash games or watching HD video, and that HD only includes 720p as even the latest models struggle with 1080p video unless the cpu is a quad core.
This isn't about the game's developers not supporting your hardware. It is your hardware physically and technologically not being capable of running their game. It is just too weak and slow, there isn't much they can do. You can't power your family sedan with the engine from your lawnmower. It just doesn't have the power necessary to get the job done.
Look at it this way, whatever year your Intel Integrated Graphics is from, the only games it is going to be capable of playing is stuff from 5 or 6 years before it was made. DX11 and SM4.0 or not, it's just a gimmick to get people to think it is good and thus buy their products.
Example:
A bottom of the line "gaming" video card costs at least $100 unless it is several years old, and even those aren't capable of gaming very well. Look at their components though. One of the most common mistakes your "average joe" makes though is that thinking more ram means good performance. It does not. Ram is just the frame buffer size the gpu has to store data before processing it. Of course a high end gpu needs high end memory but everything eventually has to go through the gpu(graphics processing unit) core before you get your end result, and if that core is extremely cut down and incredibly slow(like Intel IGPs are) then amount or speed of the memory is meaningless.
Even the most basic "gaming" video card has several hundred stream processors(difference in design but the more the better) which process all the data from your games, an Intel IGP has about 12 of them. Several hundred....down to twelve....you can guess what kind of performance you are going to get from such (extremely) low specs.
Intel IGPs were only designed for web browsing or flash games or watching HD video, and that HD only includes 720p as even the latest models struggle with 1080p video unless the cpu is a quad core.
This isn't about the game's developers not supporting your hardware. It is your hardware physically and technologically not being capable of running their game. It is just too weak and slow, there isn't much they can do. You can't power your family sedan with the engine from your lawnmower. It just doesn't have the power necessary to get the job done.
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