Cyanide911 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz 1GB DDR2 RAM Nvidia 7300LE 256MB (512 with turbocache) I am not much of a gamer, thus the crappy system. I only play Counter Strike 1.6, but now I'm thinking of playing some better games. I bought COD5, but even though my system passes the minimum requirements, it runs verrry choppy on my PC. Also, I must tell you, that I have played Gears of War, and even Crysis on ultra low settings on my computer a few years back. But after a few windows formats, many things have changed, for some strange reason. for eg. I used to play crysis @ 800x600 without any scaling problems, but now if I play ANY game at lower than my native res - 1280x1024, the screen becomes stretchy. Yes, I'm using an LCD monitor, NOT connected through DVI. Also, I clearly remember, I used to play CS1.6 at 1024x768, but one day it became all stretchy and I had to switch the in-game res to 1280. *ahem* So anyways, try and recommend me some games which will run on my system. I know it's tough to tell, but just try :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 half life 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 I've already finished it. Great game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afuchi Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Swat 4 Ghost Recon 1 and extras Ghost Recon Adwanced Warfighter Rainbow Six Raven Shield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 Thanks a lot, I'll try those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkz Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 i'm pretty sure you can play mafia on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 I've played Mafia. Kickass! I'm also looking for games which are fun to be played over LAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afuchi Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 F.E.A.R Combat :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 COD modern warfare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samn9 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Have you tried the Half Life 2 Episodes? Also maybe try Civ4 , Company of Heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompeius Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 rome total war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfunctional Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 You can get some games free off of steam with that Nvidia card- http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/ That comes with Portal First Slice, try it out and if it runs on your system buy the full game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I have already played portal. Though I didn't finish it. But it really is excellent. EDIT: Also, I need some games which would be fun to play over LAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Unreal Tournament 2004. The online community is still alive and kicking, and I've ran it on far worse hardware. Also, a blast to play over LAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasethebase Reporter Posted March 3, 2009 Reporter Share Posted March 3, 2009 Counter-Strike: Source will run, TF2 might. CoD4 is highly unlikely (Hey, I got it going on 2Gb and an old Radeon X600). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 Yeah, I've heard a lot about UT2004. After hearing that even COD4 would have difficulty playing on my PC, I'd like to ask that what should I upgrade to play more recent games on my PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samn9 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 The graphics card and RAM. (to 2 or 4 gigs) As your current card is pretty low powered it's likely that your PC doesn't have a power supply unit capable of handling a decent midrange card, so you may need to upgrade that as well. (I couldn't upgrade the PSU with my old Dell and it ended up frying all my hardware because the graphics card used too much power) The Pentium Ds are also quite old and you'd do much better with a Core 2 Duo, but if you wanted to upgrade that you'd need a new motherboard as well - in which case you may be better off buying a new PC, especially if you intend on doing a lot of gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide911 Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 I guess I'll start saving now, because if I buy a PC now, i'd like it to be mid to high end. Otherwise I'd have to run the same drill after two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanManIt Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 UT2004, Day of Defeat Source, Counter Strike Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph B Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Quake Live. Completely free, and the Firefox addon barely takes up any room. Tons of people. ( Quake 3 on legal drugs basically. ) http://www.quakelive.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srugie Veteran Posted March 9, 2009 Veteran Share Posted March 9, 2009 Half Life 2 is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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