Bought a cheap laptop - any games I can play on it?

[alltorque]

Bought this at the weekend which I thought was a bit of a bargain. Primarily it's for surfing the web around the house and playing music etc. However, it'd also be cool if I could run a few modernish games on there for when I'm at my parents or something.

Not been playing games for a few years. Can anyone recommend some non-graphically intensive strategy type stuff that might run ok. Would C&C Generals be ok? Anything similar?

Cheers, Marc

Edited by alltorque on Monday 14th August 14:10

[Luca1973]

Doom?

[alltorque]

Luca1973 said:

Doom?

ok, maybe not quite that ancient! Now Duke Nukem.....

[thepassenger]

Half-Life, Unreal Tournament (possibly Unreal Tournament 2003). Might even be able to do more modern games but with some serious turning off of the goodies.

[FunkyNige]

Medieval Total War will work fine, I imagine C&C Generals will run OK as it's a 128MB card and the C&C style games aren't that grpahics intensive compared to Half lIfe 2 , Doom 3, etc.

Whilst searching for the spec of the graphics card I found this

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showt

Hope that helps.

[Scraggles]

Faster cpu than this one, and regular play fps games like halo and often win, most modern games should be ok, u might get demos first, rather than rushing out and buying. The graphics card worth looking at upgrading, with possibly more system ram if cheap....

[panclan]

Luca1973 said:

Doom?

I can play Doom on my iRiver H340 MP3 player

I would think most games that are over 3 years old should run on the laptop. GPL anyone

[bez_uk]

I had the ati xpress 200 chipset in a PC some time ago... it didn't like thinking to hard which ruled out nice graphics but micromachines v4 will work fine it's addictive and very annoying at the same time.

Generals should be fine. Just make sure you have latest drivers.

Edited by bez_uk on Wednesday 16th August 22:27