I tested Tekken 8 on my i3-1315U. Minimum requirements are “Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti/AMD Radeon R9 380X”.
I couldn’t get more than 5fps on the screen with the EULA agreement. 
Well, thus, generally 
- I’m not basing it on comparing hardware specs, just personal experience. It’s likely that the minimum specs are often “the worst thing that I could find in my closet” - and therefore “runs on 1080” means “the minimum requirements are somewhere between a ZX Spectrum and a 1080 and I don’t know where.”
If you’re into strategy games, Civilization V is a wonderful option for a convertible. I remember playing it on Intel Core i3 2365M and it was OK on a small map. With current hardware it should run smoothly even with a huge map. The thing that I love about it is that it has native multitouch support, so you never need to use a keyboard or mouse apart from entering your name. I remember the early versions used to have a bug where the touch controls wouldn’t work properly if you clicked on something specific while it was loading, or something like that. Right clicking anywhere would fix that, you could use the pen for that. But I think a later update fixed that.
If you want a really, really good RTS that you probably haven’t heard of (and is free) WarZone 2100. It’s a PS1 game that went open source in 2004 and there is a community around it that keeps it updated. It has a Vulkan backend now so it runs really well on modern hardware. I was playing it on a Raspberry Pi 5 / 500 / 500+ and it works very well there so it will be more than fine on a Framework 12. Works on MacOS (arm64/amd64), Linux (arm64/amd64), and Windows (amd64).
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I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the amount of free/open source strategy games out there! For RTS there’s also Zero-K and 0 A.D., and then there’s turn-based stuff like Battle for Wesnoth, Freeciv, etc… I think Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries is another game like WarZone that went open source years after its initial release. There’s some really interesting economy mechanics in that one, it feels very unique.
Octopath Traveller II runs on the i3-1315U, 32GB ram.
In game FPS is between 15-20, but because of game design and old school graphics it doesn’t bother me. I haven’t seen many things which I could recognise as red - so even if a robe or something is a bit orangish it works out for me. Well, after looking at a walkthrough video I think the night lights may be a bit reddish on good displays, but it’s not a problem for me.
Works with Sony wireless controller. But last week I had to restart the laptop, because only 1 game in my steam library worked with the controller and the others didn’t recognised it somehow. Luckily the reboot fixed the issue.
Note: fan is audible. I tested with CPU performance set to balanced. When set to performance the FPS dropped even though the clock speed of CPU increased. So this game might run a bit better with better cooling or on i5. Or just maybe the laptop can’t provide enough power and cooling for this type of workload.
Recently have been playing The Farmer Was Replaced. Works great!
Just found “Root” running fine on the i5.
Framework 12, i5-1334U, 32Gb RAM. Max CPU state in power settings set to 99%.
- Far Cry 2: Fortune’s Edition. Runs well on max settings, native resolution. Use DirectX10 in settings, otherwise on DirectX9 you will get wrong texturing on vegetation and some screen tearing.
- Cold Waters. Runs well on max settings, native resolution.
- Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age. Runs ok on minimum settings, native resolution. Also looks ok on minimum settings. Haven’t tested large naval operations, only few ships at a time.
- Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon 2. Both run well.
- Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition. Runs well on high settings, native resolution.
(Other games will appear gradually here, if I test them.)
Just curios, because I’ve tried running P5S on FW12 (i5 mainboard), and it well, ran somewhat “ok”-ish on Windows 11, on lowest settings, though. (Fedora didn’t let me properly run it as is, and all the proton tweakery simply wasted my time 
, I guess they messed up with activation checks, or something)
What OS did you use, and what FPS (roughly) are you talking about here? (For this kind of games 30 FPS is more than enough, so I guess it shouldn’t be too high 
)
P3R is definitely a no-go (at least on Fedora, once again), because no matter how I liked the game, running around at 10 FPS is no fun at all.
Haven’t tried P5 Royal (with FW12), which could be easier on the hardware then P5S, but I’m not so sure, since they look quite similar.
My previous comment aside, I can recommend visual novels, as others already did, like Slay the Princess, Steins;Gate (series), DDLC, etc.
For something more interactive: Brotato, Isaac, Peglin, Deltarune, Civilization VI (6)[1] and Disco Elysium.
Playable, but wouldn’t really recommend (due to performance):
Zort - playable on Fedora with 526/720p (-ish) resolution (like 30+ FPS in lobby, and 50+ elsewhere?), or on Windows with higher resolution or framerate.
Peak runs more or less “OK” on lowest with 60 (?) percent scale in native resolution, playable (30 or so FPS, and an easy pass of the first location, at least).
Final notes on Persona 5 Strikers, “ok”-ish, is about 30 FPS on lowest in native resolution, actually, I believe I locked it at 30 so I don’t have sudden changes in FPS, if that’s your jazz - you can try it, of course, but beware of the potential OS-related blockers.
[1] - In multiplayer you can only play with same OS AND store (EGS/Steam…), so, just keep that in mind, it’s not related to FW, but just wanted to note that.
The OS is Windows 11 Pro, latest FW12 drivers.
Here is some (quick) average FPS info, that I got with Windows Game Bar.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Anomaly. On DirectX 9 Basic, 1080p, 35FPS.
- Cold Waters. On 1080p and everything high, 25 FPS. On 1080p, no shadows, AA4x, medium ocean details, 40 FPS.
- Far Cry 2. On 1080p, DirectX 10, highest settings, 50 FPS.
- Dune: Spice Wars. On OpenGL, 1080p, high-ish settings, 25 FPS.
- Startrek Infinite (like the 4x game Stellaris - same engine I think). 1080p, 50 FPS in system view (FPS drops on galaxy view). Performance might drop in late game.
- Sea Power. 1080p, lowest settings, approx. 20 FPS. Doesn’t like time acceleration or CPU intensive moments with lots of action.
I would say that things work more or less ok until both CPU and GPU are needed at the same time.
OK, off-topic, but what are those lamps?
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How did you run GW2? I don’t get super great fps at the moment (below 30 while running around), but newer maps tend to do better more power hungry.
I am on Fedora running it through steam.
Edit:
I just Switched to Proton 10.0-2 beta. Works way better than 9.
Windowed Fullscreen and still almost everything on low, but good enough for me.
So my FW12 with i3 finally arrived and I have just finished the first part of Fear the Spotlight (Vivian) that was recently free on Epic Games Store.
I use Ubuntu 24 with Heroic launcher and the game runs without issues.
And the game is great btw! It is similar to Resident Evil but less violence/survival and more puzzles. It has a great atmosphere too and no jumpscares.
yeah, that’s about what I’m getting, I use my FW12 as a backup device for GW2, it doesn’t need to be amazing, just functional when the desktop I normally run it on isn’t available or stops working, though I’ll note the main reason I don’t use it more is the fact that the mouse is all the way over there, not actual performance issues
I never heard of that game before but I love rhythm games, so I’ll give it a try. I do not recommend installing changing to Wayland on Linux Mint, Wayland is still not as rock solid as Xorg, Mint is designed to be stable. if you want to try Wayland you can try Fedora with Gnome or KDE desktops. but to be honest the tearing has nothing to do with that.
I bought that game yesterday with a 80% discount (came down to around €8) on Steam. Waited about month and a half after adding it to my wish list.
After skimming through the EULA I never installed it. Requested a refund.
Well, enjoy it if you like the genre. 
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