Laptop games

General Ludd · February 12, 2004, 22:08

Recomend me some good games for a laptop - sepcifically, a pentium 300 (

or is it 200?) with no 3D graphics acceleration. It has a good bit of RAM, and also windows XP (

Which'll make dos games difficult )

I already have Transport Tycoon and X-Com picked out, and Master of Magic, if I can get it to work. Dominions 2 runs decently, but the battles go at a snail's pace even on the lowest setting. And King of Dragon Pass is a perfect Laptop game, of course.

I can't think of what else to try. Europa Universalis, or another Paradox game?

I think the processor is too weak for that. What about Baldur's gate, icewind dale, ect... how do you think those would run?

Spiffor · February 12, 2004, 22:23

Unreal Tournament (the first one) would run quite well on your machine. It demands very, very little from the graphic Card, everything from the CPU and RAM.

quantum_mechani · February 12, 2004, 23:50

Try Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM), a very good RPG that will run on almost any computer.

duke o' york · February 13, 2004, 06:45

The first Baldur's Gate is very old (in games terms) and should run. I've just got it (admittedly for my brand-new laptop), and I'd expect it to work on yours. I got it new for £15, but if you check out eDonkey then you'll find it sells for more than that so if it doesn't work then you could still make a profit on it.

DrSpike · February 13, 2004, 07:58

Civ2!

General Ludd · February 13, 2004, 10:15

Ah, just thought of another good game for the laptop: Uplink.

I don't think unreal tournament would run well at all, but I wouldn't want to play it anyways.

And Civ2... a novel idea.

Jamski · February 13, 2004, 10:24

If Civ2 runs, then SMAC probably will too. How about MoO2?

-Jam

Urban Ranger · February 13, 2004, 10:46

Railroad Tycoon (the original)

Spiffor · February 13, 2004, 12:28

Well, I had a laptop with a P2 400 and 128 Mb RAM, and it ran fine, despite the graphic card sucking horribly (2.5 Mb video RAM and no 3d acceleration at all).

Also, I could play Civ3 on that computer, but I couldn't play on maps larger than standard without insane waiting time between turns.

duke o' york · February 13, 2004, 12:33

To be honest, you could probably play most of your favourites on that laptop, but, as Spiffor said, they'd suffer in speed and graphics. If you use a custom install for these games then maybe you could trim some memory off them and make them run faster, but it's not something I'd dare do.

Spiffor · February 13, 2004, 13:11

Oh, and uninstall WinXP on this machine. With such a CPU, chances are the RAM is vastly iferior to 256 Mb, so I would advise certainly not to use XP.

You should rather use Win98 SE. It works fine with all the games of that time, and you'll experience a much faster performance

Main_Brain · February 13, 2004, 14:54

Mahjjong.

Jamski · February 13, 2004, 15:37

Quote:

You should rather use Win98 SE. It works fine with all the games of that time, and you'll experience a much faster performance

For once I agree with Spiffor on an issue

-Jam

General Ludd · February 13, 2004, 16:24

It's not actually my laptop, so I can't install 98.

It has enough ram for XP (256, I'd guess) and it runs alot better with XP then it did with 98, anyways.

Eli · February 13, 2004, 16:28

I'm getting my brand new laptop in about a month... Physics and Calculus be damned, it's Morrowind time!

Az · February 13, 2004, 17:43

Are you Atidim?! Well, I'll be damn, poor underpriviledged boy from the Peripheria my ass.

Spiffor · February 13, 2004, 22:40

I've never encountered any "Atidim" in Morrowind, even in poor villages like Ald Velothi. What exactly is an "Atidim" ?

Urban Ranger · February 13, 2004, 23:33

Oh, and Master of Orion, of course.

Eli · February 14, 2004, 08:17

Quote:

Originally posted by Azazel
Are you Atidim?! Well, I'll be damn, poor underpriviledged boy from the Peripheria my ass.

Shut up and dont bother me to exploit the system.

Quote:

I've never encountered any "Atidim" in Morrowind, even in poor villages like Ald Velothi. What exactly is an "Atidim" ?

The IDF has a ROTC-like program. I'm there, Azazel is there. And there is a sub program called Atidim that encourages students from the periphery and poor regions to join. And it's open only to people who live in cities(towns, whatever) far from the center, or poor cities.

Depending on your parents' economical condition, they give monetary assistance during the university years. Not depending on anything, they give you cool new laptops. :drool:

Azazel lives in Haifa. No Atidim for him. I live in Ashdod, which is part of the program. So I get a laptop. Nya.

Nostromo · February 14, 2004, 16:21

I have a toshiba laptop with a K6-400, 192 meg of ram, 4 gig hd and WIN98. Not exactly a laptop for gamers...

Baldur's gate 2 and Icewind dale 2 were O.K., but it wasn't a smooth ride. It didn't crash or anything, but it felt "clunky". Loads of loading screen. Some framerate problems. Very irritating...

I'm sure Fallout 1 and 2 would run fine.

Civ 3 runs o.k. EU 2 too. I don't know about HoI or Victoria.

bipolarbear · February 23, 2004, 22:51

What's that really cool downhill slalom gmae that used to be the sampler on every computer at wally world(wal*mart), adn fred meyer(fred meyer)? That was alwasy a good way to let the brain rot, and be able to feel it too.

Rasbelin · February 24, 2004, 08:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Spiffor

You should rather use Win98 SE. It works fine with all the games of that time, and you'll experience a much faster performance

I agree.

Only a nutter runs Win XP on that laptop PC.