Is there any game that is truely playable though?

I have tried several and not much joy with any of them.

The problem is that you need to hear the speech and with some not having subtitles available you have not got a clue what is going on. Thinking Dino Crisis here.

Is there a list of games that run smooth with good speech ( or where none is required )

There is the Team 16 site but that states Silent Hill runs fine and my main sprite disappears on mine!