Adventure game for low end laptop

[dern]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend me an adventure/quest type game that would work on a low end dell laptop?

I'm pretty sure the laptop is an Inspiron 15 which will have a ATI Radeon HD 4330 512MB graphics card which obviously isn't that powerful. It belongs to my wife and she used to play games like morrowind and those quest type games and would like something to play on this laptop. It's running windows 7 by the way and she doesn't want to play online.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Mark

[Outbound]

Baldurs Gate 1+2
Neverwinter Nights 1+2

Might get Oblivion working acceptably on there too. (Sequel to Morrowind)

Edited by Outbound on Friday 12th March 11:36

[GT Kodiak]

Stalker would be a good one to try if she likes FPS/RPG type adventure games...

[dern]

Thanks for the suggestions... I'll have a look at those.

[Lurking Lawyer]

Outbound said:

Baldurs Gate 1+2
Neverwinter Nights 1+2

Might there not be OS compatibility issues? I know when I've tried on a couple of occasions to install 10+ year old games on current (XP and Vista) laptops, it wouldn't run them properly.

If not - cool! I loved BG and BG2 and still have them somewhere. Might have to dig them out and install them on the laptop....

[dern]

Turns out she's played the BG games. I think I'll download oblivion from steam and install that on my laptop and then she can use that. I don't use it much and it's a lot more powerful than hers.

It'll give me time to play bf on the xbox

[Outbound]

If you can get the Game of the Year edition of Oblivion on Steam get that, it has all the expansion packs with it already.

@ Lurking Lawyer:

Not sure, though I have heard that Windows 7 has better compatability with XP than Vista had.
I'm still running XP so no troubles here!

I had Baldurs gate running originally on XP so there shouldn't be any problems if ran in compatability mode that cannot be fixed.

[dern]

Outbound said:

If you can get the Game of the Year edition of Oblivion on Steam get that, it has all the expansion packs with it already.

You can so I will - thanks.

With regards to the OS compatibility I guess in the worst case I can always install xp or vista dual-boot with 7 if I have to. I did a quick search on oblivion and it look like some people have had it working fine under 7. I did buy one game recently that ran under xp and vista but wouldn't work under 7 even in compatibility mode... don't know why.

Edited by dern on Friday 12th March 14:45

[Neil H]

Oblivion is brilliant and should run acceptably on that machine as it's been around for a few years now.

[Doug Phillips]

How about downloading ScumVM, then you can play some of the clasic point and click adventures

[joe_90]

Wow will work

[dern]

I downloaded Oblivion from steam on friday evening on to my laptop. I don't use it that much so she may as well make use of the better graphics. It worked straight off the bat on windows 7 and she likes the game very much indeed.

Thanks,

Mark

[Zad]

If it refuses to run properly, something like DOS-BOX may well be able to help. In the past I have run Ultima 7 and Ultima Underworld 1+2 with no problems at all. Depending on how far you stretch the concept of adventure, it might be worth you looking at the Thief series. Broken Sword were also an excellent series of games, although they lost something when they moved over to full 3D.

[Famous Graham]

Different setting, but Fallout 3 might appeal if she likes Oblivion for more than the story.

[ymwoods]

Indeed, Fallout 3 is wicked.

BTW, well done on finding a wife that likes gaming! If only I was so lucky...