Can you say a little more about this sudden change of opinion? I have a list of some games -most are classics- I'd like to play on Intel HD graphics 3000 and 4000 (windows 10 and 8.1, decent ram and ghz machines), but I don't know if they'll run without errors. Yep, most recent drivers installed. Also, I'm not really into high details and superb performance.
I know I gotta search info on the requirements, but it's just that sometimes they're so bland :P
Just wanna play the damn games in a good way! :D

Here's the list:
- World in Conflict
- The Elder Scrolls Redguard
- Revenant
- Act of War: Gold
- Technobabylon
- Pacific General
- Albion
- Anno games, especially 1701 A.D.
- Sea Dogs

Thanks!

edit: also sorry for a little necroposting but hey, useful thread!

The new drivers changed them for the better I think. Nowadays it seems to me that for e.g. GOG Windows games, an Intel HD 4000 GPU might have even a bit better success rate than e.g. mobile NVidia Geforce GPUs (just the feeling I get for trying several of my older GOG games on both mobile chipsets).

So if you e.g. have a laptop with NVidia Optimus (ie. it has both a Geforce and Intel GPU inside) and you have issues with some older games, it might be well worth it to tell the NVidia control panel to let the game use the Intel HD GPU instead for that particular game. It might actually work better with it.

One exception to that rule might be OpenGL games, so if an old game uses that and doesn't have an option for Direct3D, Intel HD might not be the best choice? Quite many games offer both OpenGL and Direct3D though.

Thanks, pal. A lot!
I'm actually with 2 laptops and only one of these has this dual gpu deal, both nvidia and intel hd. It's a nice thing actually, but somehow "troublesome", as I've personally witnessed an hdmi issue when connecting it to 2 different tvs. It could be a little more out-of-the-box, you know? Especially with the intention of gaming.
The other one, so far, didn't show any issues with older games so far. If weird is what we're dealing in here, Giants: Citizen Kabuto didn't run as smooth as I wanted :P
I'll test some more and post the results in here.

Yep. Just tested some of the ones I've mentioned and performance seemed ok. I wonder how these would run under one of those ultra cool displays, such as the retina one -nope ain't buying no mac in here- and similar ones