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Team Fortress 2 should run near max (or close enough to not know a difference). Not sure on the other ones, but that is what the graphics settings are for.
 
Oh yeah, and I agree with Hitman. Your CPU is what's going to bog you down. Unless of course you have a 5400rpm Hard drive, then that would be the bottleneck. 2GB of Ram should be enough unless you're playing MMORPG's then you need a lot of RAM. Your graphics card should be able to run most new games at at least medium setting, maybe higher with AA off and shadows low. I remember running Crysis kind of high on a 8800GT 1GB.

if you don't fall asleep playing Bauldurs gate, then how the hell could you fall asleep playing any other game in the world? Personally, DA:O had me the moment I double clicked the Icon in steam. Maybe you're just burnt out on RPG's?

That is an amazing advancement! Damn too bad I already have a Geforce 285. (sadface)

That is an amazing advancement! Damn too bad I already have a Geforce 285. (sadface)

I think this "$40.00 is too much, I'm not buying it" might come from the console generation never actually having expansion packs. I'm probably wrong, but I've been dealing with expansion packs since I started playing PC games back when I was a kid. For me it's the opposite, where I feel funny paying $15 for DLC where I'm fine paying $40 for an expansion. 
 
Some of the features of the expansion included 5 more party member, and it showed some clips of recruits drinking the blood cup. I'd have to say that it is going to be a full on expansion and not a little DLC addition like shale was. Also, the sub title is called awakening isn't it? Sounds like it could be the part 2 of Origins. Not just some side quest but a part of the main story. Maybe this could be considered the Dragon Age 2? Too soon to tell though.

I don't know why everyone said you PC is not any good. It looked to be just fine (minus the onboard graphics). 

What is hardware tessellation?

Interesting. Maybe your scaling get set to off. Usually it defaults as letting your monitor take care of image scaling, but you can turn it off if you don't want you games looking stretchy.  You can change it for Nvidia by going 
 
right click=>Nvidia control panel=>under display option select Adjust desktop size and position. 
 
Then from there you can choose from a couple of options like use NVIDIA scaling or do not scale (which it might be now).

I could help further if you could give the specs of the computer you're using. Just an FYI also, you can always drop the graphics settings in PC games way down. Dropping the resolution will help with the strain on the graphics cards. Disabling shadows can really boost performance. Disabling Anti Aliasing (AA removes the jaggies from the corners of objects) and Anisotropic filtering (I think it helps retain texture quality with distance so basically you see the hi res dirt texture for a further distance before it gets muddy) helps. When in doubt, just turn all the graphics to bare minimum and increase them a little at a time until you get where you want in FPS and quality.

" I might as well ask this in this thread... but Ive playing some games and I love machinarium, braid and portal... Are there any other games like those? "