• Great games that run on not so great hardware
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I am taking my old laptop with me for a few weeks when i'm travelling, and i'd like to play some good games on it. I already have Vice city and san andreas on my laptop, but i'm looking for some other games that would run on my hardware, any suggestions? My laptop specs: [code]Operating system: MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 Processor: AMD Athlon X2 QL-64 79 °C Griffin 65nm Technologie RAM: 4,00 GB DDR2 @ 333MHz (5-5-5-15) Motherboard: TOSHIBA Portable PC (Socket M2/S1G1) 65 °C Graphics: Generic PnP Monitor (1440x900@59Hz), ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics (Toshiba) Hard drive: 373GB TOSHIBA TOSHIBA MK4055GSX ATA Device (SATA) 45 °C Optical drive: TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633C ATA Device Audio: Realtek High Definition Audio[/code] Thanks in advance!
Fallout 3/NV might run...3 more than NV. Anything on Source will run on it too.
Age of Empires 2
[QUOTE=TestECull;36974423]Fallout 3/NV might run...3 more than NV. Anything on Source will run on it too.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the suggestion, i might try fallout 3, all on lowest settings probably. [editline]28th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=hugarh;36974426]Age of Empires 2[/QUOTE] Not my type of game, but thanks for the suggestion!
Binding of Isaac, Bastion, and Magicka are my recommendations. Though I have no idea if they would run on that hardware.
[QUOTE=VietRooster2;36974461]Binding of Isaac, Bastion, and Magicka are my recommendations. Though I have no idea if they would run on that hardware.[/QUOTE] I've tried binding of isaac before, was a bit laggy, but playable, will try bastion and magicka, thanks! [editline]28th July 2012[/editline] Bastion might work, but magicka requires a better video card, so that won't work for me [editline]28th July 2012[/editline] Talking about vice city :v: [img]http://imghost.nl/download/heh.PNG[/img]
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (The first one's better, but won't run properly on Windows 7)
[QUOTE=hugarh;36974530]Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (The first one's better, but won't run properly on Windows 7)[/QUOTE] That's a great suggestion as well! Thanks!
[QUOTE=rakker;36974430]Thanks for the suggestion, i might try fallout 3, all on lowest settings probably. [/QUOTE] Draw distance will likely be the big killer. Thankfully you can tweak it in about 2054039548 different ways with the launcher before starting it at all.
Any Command and Conquer game.
C&C Red Alert 3 doesn't require too good hardware, I think.
[QUOTE=Camper99;36974986]C&C Red Alert 3 doesn't require too good hardware, I think.[/QUOTE] Red alert 3 isn't really a true red alert game, try red alert 1 or 2.
Battlefield 1942, Vietnam and I think BF2 aswell. Probably with mods aswell. Plus they're all more or less cheap.
[QUOTE=lech;36975156]Red alert 3 isn't really a true red alert game, try red alert 1 or 2.[/QUOTE] It's as much red alert as 1 or 2 man.
[B]Quake.[/B]
Forgot to mention, i can't play multiplayer games as i won't have wifi access most of the time, thanks for all of your suggestions!
All the STALKER games. Set them to Object Dynamic Ligtning since ATI 3100..
Max Payne.
I guess Limbo would work.
Fallout 1 and 2
The Sims?
Thief: Deadly Shadows Battlefield 2 SWAT 3
I'm not sure if it would run because Win7, but it's worth a try. Freelancer.
Deus Ex
call of duty
I made a thread about YSFlight a while ago If you like flight simulators, you should really download it. Also Dwarf Fortress, if you're in to that kind of thing [editline]28th July 2012[/editline] Also, if you're into older games, download this [url]http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/[/url] It's basically DOS-box but with a GUI, so you know what the hell you're looking at. and go to [url]www.myabandonware.com[/url] or any other abandonware site. Then drag and drop the .zip files of games you want into D-Fend. You can get Wolfenstein 3D, Sim City 2000, Silent Hunter, and a bunch of other old games.
Galactic Civilizations 2
Ace of Spades.
Thank you for all the suggestions, they are really helpful!
Runescape :v:
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