I know what you may be thinking, especially if it applies to you: No, not all
employees are allowed to install and play games on their company machines.
But the possibility is there for many others. Especially in a time when remote
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ready to play your favorite games. Corporate machines may be chained down in
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have IT teams locking down what you can put on your laptop.
This also applies if you travel for work (that is, when business travel resumes)
and can play games in your downtime without having to bring your own laptop.
If your employer provides a PC for work, and you thus can’t justify buying an
expensive laptop just for gaming, it’s a middle ground that costs you nothing
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“free” by many users, because everyone else has to buy their own new machine.
- NOW, EVEN ESPORTS HOUNDS CAN GET BY WITH INTEL
GRAPHICS?
Iris Xe has shown especially good improvements in multiplayer gaming
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and as such were playable on machines with integrated graphics before.
Competitive gamers are fussier than that, though. Merely “playable” is not ideal
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victory and defeat, and the new-and-improved Iris Xe graphics go well beyond
60 frames per second (fps) in Counter-Strike at 1080p. Considering Intel’s
previous integrated graphics barely reached even 30fps at 1080p resolution,
this is a massive jump in how smooth these games will look and feel to play.
CS:GO is an intentionally easy-to-run game, though, so not all titles will hit
these heights. Still, competitive multiplayer games are generally less demanding
so that gamers can see higher frame rates and run them on a wide variety of
machines. This also syncs up well with the free-to-play revolution in gaming,
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course Fortnite are entirely free to play. If you already have one general-use
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