Is my lappy sufficient enough to play heavy weight games?

Flash games and youtube videos for you I am afraid.

Laptops are not game machines and there is nothing you can do to make it so. The deign priorities of laptops (low weight, small size, low power consumption, low cost) are in conflict with the high performance requirements of modern games. To be sure there are the so called "gaming" laptops that attempt to reconcile the differences. But they are an expensive compromise that still doesn't perform as well as a good desktop.

aritra2116 said:

Title says it all. Is my Dell lappy good enough for playing such games? It seems to work fine for most games I have. Check my specs in and reply.

There are a lot of games you can run. However, they aren't games like Farcry 3, Crysis 3, Saints Row IV, Call of Duty, Titan Fall, Witcher 2, Max Payne 3 or any game that requires a lot of power to run either.

I've got a laptop with a 1.8 i5 in it and similar specs otherwise and it'll run Skyrim on the lowest settings at 25-30 fps at the max resolution for my screen, which is the same as yours.

It struggles with Saint's Row 2 though.

It depends on the game. You could run Torchlight and Torchlight 2 all day on a laptop like that. You've just got to realize that you're not going to play the latest and greatest out there and you'll be fine. Most indie titles will run fine on something like that, Doom 3 BFG edition will run great, You'll probably be able to run Serious Sam 1 + 2 HD versions on it at around 30fps, but I run the classic ones myself because the framerates are better.

Other games you can run include KotOR 1 + 2, Jade Empire, Minecraft, Terraria, Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition, Spelunkey, Rogue Legacy, Trine 1 and 2, Burnout Ultimate Box [at lowest settings], Serious Sam Double D XL, Worms Ultimate Mayhem, Worms Revolution...

So you can play games on it for sure. There's plenty you can run on it, but it's not going to compete with a Tower PC or a console and isn't going to play the newest blockbuster releases.

If gaming on a laptop I recommend either plugging in an Xbox 360 controller or plugging a mouse into it. The trackpad is awful for games and there's not much you'll be able to play with it. You probably knew that, but it's worth mentioning just in case.

Just to make something clear for the OP, the prime reason your laptop is insufficient is because of the integrated graphics (Intel HD Graphics). Your CPU, which you wrote is an i3, is more than sufficient for playing most games.