MS Surface Pro9 for gaming? Looking for advice.

[rjantzi]

Hi all,

I'm considering upgrading my old MS Surface Pro for the newer Pro 9 version and was wondering if it will be able to play the games I have. I know it doesn't have a discrete GPU but my gaming tastes don't run to the high end FPS so I'm thinking that I may be able to play these on the Surface. My gaming collection includes multiple WDS games, Matrix Games (CMO, Flashpoint Campaigns Southern Storm, Field of Glory II, Shadow Empire, GG War in the East II, etc.) and Steam games (The Troop, Hex of Steel, Tank Warfare Tunisia 1943, Attack at Dawn North Africa, etc.). Have any of you had success with these games on a Surface Pro? If so, what processor (i5 or i7) and amount of RAM do you have?

Any advice or feedback would be appreciated.

[d714]

You would be pleasantly surprised how many games it can run. I had a surface pro 4 with only 4GB on an i5-6300U CPU. With that it ran everything I got in terms of Matrix Games. Strategic Commands (old and new), Field of Glory games including Empires, Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm, Order of Battle, Campaign Series, also Combat Missions it ran at lowered specs. Scourge of War was an exception, it worked but the FPS was so slow as to make it unplayable (I simply reverted to my old Take Command game and it ran no problem). It also ran without problem the older Total Wars games - Empires, Napoleon, Medieval II Rome...it struggled on Rome II. EU4 and CKII also no problem. It was so nice to play with something so light. I used a programmable multi-button mouse, not the touch features, and was able to replace most of the often used keyboard keys.

That laptop was a 2017 model. Today's model with todays CPU you should have no issue with.