Need a good game to play on my old laptop

Nieldo · 2 Feb 2006 at 23:16

Processor: Intel Pentium III, ~750MHz
Memory: 128MB RAM
Card name: ATI Mobility 128 AGP 2X (DELL)

Its old, its only been used to surfing the web wirelessly about the house.

But I think it deserves a good game to play, preferably stratagy (turnbased or realtime).

Any ideas

?

Hades · 2 Feb 2006 at 23:18

The original Command and Conquer?
Total Annihilation?

Kreeeee · 2 Feb 2006 at 23:41

None of the naff games above, play StarCraft. Far far superior even if the 2 above games rock.

leezer3 · 2 Feb 2006 at 23:48

No to all of those

By far the best strategy game ever made (IMHO

) has to be the Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack. After this, Starcraft & C&C seem tame- Just for starters, there are over 35,000 possible unit combinations to play with!

-Leezer-

Nieldo · 2 Feb 2006 at 23:49

is tthere anyway I can sortof stream games that are running on my pC to my laptop ?

Kind of like... remote assistant program but allows you to play games

Its a long shot I know.

HangTime · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:11

Civilization 3

Davey_Pitch · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:18

Nieldo said:
is tthere anyway I can sortof stream games that are running on my pC to my laptop ?

Kind of like... remote assistant program but allows you to play games

Its a long shot I know.

Not that I know of, and it could be on dubious legal ground anyway.

I agree with HangTime by the way, Civ 3 is the perfect laptop game

HangTime · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:23

Streaming games would be a bad idea because the update rate would likely be very low (say 10fps). Theoretically you could probably play windowed games through VNC or something like that, but the poor update rate and increased latency on the mouse etc would kind of defeat the object.

ajgoodfellow · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:30

Civ 2, Civ 3 won't run on that laptop

Otherwise, Alpha Centuari, C&C, C&C: Red Alert, AoE 2, TA

Davey_Pitch · 3 Feb 2006 at 00:38

A good laptop game might be one of the old Champ Manager games, they were cracking and should run perfectly well on that laptop.

gavindo · 3 Feb 2006 at 01:30

diablo 2

warcraft2

used to play them on my old p3 lappy

dbmzk1 · 3 Feb 2006 at 02:07

ajgoodfellow said:
Civ 2, Civ 3 won't run on that laptop

Otherwise, Alpha Centuari, C&C, C&C: Red Alert, AoE 2, TA

I think you will find Civ 2 will run on it just fine, its min specs are a 486/33 and 8mb ram!

ajgoodfellow · 3 Feb 2006 at 02:09

Hence my post :confused:

Someone mentioned Civ 3 - I said that they'd need to get Civ 2 as Civ 3 won't run on that laptop

EDIT: Just seen your edit and now I can see why you thought that! Sorry, it wasn't clear!

EDIT2: Just seen your second edit. Those specs are a lot lower than I thought but in that case, yes it'll run

ajgoodfellow · 3 Feb 2006 at 02:15

Just had a thought - Uplink should run on that. Good game

Got it running on my PII-350 laptop with 128MB ram and an 8MB ATI Rage Mobility card, albeit rather slowly!

dbmzk1 · 3 Feb 2006 at 02:19

Sorry I thought you were saying Civ 2 and 3 wouldnt run.

Oh, and Civ 3 will work just fine too come to think of it. Its min specs are P2 300, 32mb ram.

Selekt0r · 3 Feb 2006 at 08:46

Homeworld would run well on that laptop. One of the best space-based RTS ever

gam3r · 3 Feb 2006 at 09:59

kreeeee said:
None of the naff games above, play StarCraft. Far far superior even if the 2 above games rock.

I was just about to mention that. StarCraft+the expansion pack = total ownage

Ukadder · 3 Feb 2006 at 10:03

Settlers!

MrWhippy · 3 Feb 2006 at 10:30

mame - an older version 0.86 maybe.

should work fine on that spec machine with many games but not the latest ones.
nice bit of retro arcade action,can't beat it.

super pang gets my vote.

MNuTz · 3 Feb 2006 at 14:15

Not strategy but Uplink is a great laptop game