Games For Low performance laptops

#1 Posted by Leugim (1 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Hi all,

I'm new here and there's one thing i always think about and know a lot of other people also do: I have a normal laptop, a bit old (3 years) and i want to know what games i can run.

Here are my specs:

Memory: 3.2 GB RAM

HDD: 100+ GB

Graphics card : ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 1.6 GB

CPU : Intel core 2 duo 2.4 GHz

I want to know if all these cool games like assassins creed and others can run in this...

Thank you and I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place...

#2 Posted by ThePhantomnaut (5860 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Probably not. There is the OnLive route.

#3 Posted by chocolaterhinovampire (1116 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

TF 2

#4 Posted by Claude (15850 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

I made a list of some games that would play on my laptop that I owned. Some work better than others though.

Games I own that should run on my Wife's 4500 MHD laptop.

Good gaming goodness.

	1. Grim Fandango How about that.
	2. Deus Ex Why not? The laptop has 500gb of memory.
	3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Sure.
	4. The Longest Journey Gotcha.
	5. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way Haven't seen you in a while.
	6. Sid Meier's SimGolf Where's my sequel.
	7. Beyond Good & Evil A good one.
	8. Medieval: Total War A pretty old game, should play on the laptop.
	9. NASCAR Racing 2002 Season Not as good as 2003, but cool none the less.
	10. MVP Baseball 2005 One of the best ever.
	11. Madden NFL 2005 I haven't played a Madden game in a while. Roster sucks, but who cares. Maybe there's a mod.
	12. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
	13. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
	14. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
	15. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
	16. Sid Meier's Civilization IV

#5 Posted by OldManLight (621 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

you probably could do well with some indie type games.

Shatter

World of Goo

Binding of Isaac

Torchlight

Assassin's Creed would probably look bad, run poorly or both but you could check out steam indie games section. Usually in addition to being build for more modest spec pc's they're less of a huge investment.

#6 Posted by mlarrabee (1766 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

The entire Telltale series works beautifully for laptops. On my laptop with specs comparable to yours, Civ V and Starcraft 2 work pretty well; if you don't mind lowering the graphical quality.

#7 Posted by The_Laughing_Man (12135 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Minecraft!

#8 Posted by pwn4g3IEE7 (31 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Starcraft, Counter Strike, Half Life, Basically any game that has to do with the Half Life 1 engine, Unreal tournament, Unreal, The Sims, Diablo 1 and 2, Battlefield 1942, Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, The list Goes on and on and on and on.....

#9 Posted by Zelyre (731 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Torchlight, Torchlight 2, Terraria, Minecraft, Baldur's Gate 1/2, Planescape, Fallout, pretty much everything over at GoG.com.

#10 Posted by SirPsychoSexy (1225 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Minecraft, terraria

#11 Posted by EkajArmstro (338 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

I'm not 100% sure, but you should be able to run League of Legends and Starcraft II.

#12 Posted by mariokart64fan (366 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

san andreas worked on my 10 year old hp xp no problem i can easily point that one out for you, also the sims 2 , it may run a bit slow but it runs enough to play, keep in mind the pc i played sims 2 on was my xp which only had 512 mb so you should be more faster i hadnt tried on my current pc, which is 3 gigs , of ram , and nvidia geforce with cuda

, so ya , pretty much just look at the system requirments for the game , note gta iv dont try , those specs are wrong ,

#13 Posted by SerHulse (648 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

On my old crappy laptop I played Deus Ex no problem (had similar specs to yours I believe) also games like Sid Meier's Railroads and CivCity Rome ran real well.

Basically just aim low, get games from 2005 and earlier, all pretty much guaranteed to work, and there is a significant amount of great games to choose from.

Other than that, smaller games are fine, VVVVVV, Space Chem and Machinarium are pretty low intensity games, so should run just fine.

#14 Posted by Sooty (6708 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Frozen Synapse

#15 Posted by awesomeusername (3169 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Does anyone know if a crappy Acer netbook can play indie games or older games? I remember trying to play the Portal demo and that failed miserably.

#16 Posted by CJCoughlan (166 posts) - 1 year, 5 months ago

Anything on GoG.com that doesn't have "The Witcher" in the title should work...

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Games I own that should run on my Wife's 4500 MHD laptop.

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