Games for a low spec PC?
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I left my type of game vague because I wouldn't mind trying something a bit different on the PC to what I normally play on the xbox. (I say normally play, I haven't even switched the thing on in 2 weeks
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Generally though I like first person shooters, racers, GTA type games.
I left my type of game vague because I wouldn't mind trying something a bit different on the PC to what I normally play on the xbox. (I say normally play, I haven't even switched the thing on in 2 weeks
)Generally though I like first person shooters, racers, GTA type games.
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Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Evil Genius are all you need. 
Thanks for the suggestions.
I left my type of game vague because I wouldn't mind trying something a bit different on the PC to what I normally play on the xbox. (I say normally play, I haven't even switched the thing on in 2 weeks
Generally though I like first person shooters, racers, GTA type games.
I played Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay on an AMD 2500+ Barton core, 1GB RAM, 128MB 6800LE. It ran fine so, so your system should handle it, unless the Celeron is worse.
Resisting the urge to say Red Alert...blatently failed there.
I think COD4 will run on your system as well, albeit on low settings. I'd also recommend the pre-TF2 source games (CSS, DODS). Left 4 Dead may also run, but I'm not 100% sure of that one. Same with TF2, no guarantees.
Actually, TF2 should run but l4d I don't think so, reason is l4d is made for good ( dual core) cpu's, not a microsoft word cpu
. While TF2 can work ( and it did until a recent update) on a single core reasonably well.
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Was about to recommend that, pretty sure that worked maxed out on my 6600GT
I wonder if in a few years the same will be said for Crysis.
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Actually, TF2 should run but l4d I don't think so, reason is l4d is made for good ( dual core) cpu's, not a microsoft word cpu
L4D can run perfectly well with everything on low settings. Afterall it is a Source engine game and they can scale pretty well for lower end systems. Hell even I ran it once on a Celeron D, 1GB and a 6800GT. It will look like crap, but is still very playable throughout the entire thing.
I'm running an NF7-S mobo/Athlon XP2400 processor with Windows 2000.
A couple of years ago I upgraded the memory to 2GB - I believe your spec is only 1GB. Going up to 2GB on your PC will make a massive difference to the way games play on your PC. I can't stress this enough. If you have enough memory to avoid disk swapping games run an order of magnitude better.
I put in an AGP factory overclocked 7600GT a while ago.
Finally I upgraded my disk drives to 320GB jobbies, last year.
With this setup I can play WoW, Lotro at very high resolutions - much better than you might expect. Oblivion is fine. Clearly I am not geting the silly frame rates a bang up to date PC would give but for Oblivion for instance, around town and in dungeons, I am at high thirties, out in the wild it drops a bit mostly due to grass, but it is almost always a playable 20+ (turning grass on and off to suit the occasion is a trivial thing in oblivion).
Games that are fine with no caveats, and I'm looking at a pile in the corner of my room right now, include CIV IV, Homeworld I, Pax Imperia, Diablo II, The three Kohan games, Sid Meier's Railroads, Temple of elemental evil, Conquest (a Ubisoft space game), American Conquest, Empire Earth II, Emperor battle for Dune, Majesty, Dungeon Keeper II, Imperium Galactica II, The GalCiv series, Space Empires IV, Darwinia, Command and conquer generals series, C&C Tiberian Sun, Rise of Nations series, Total War series and Masters of Orion series (except III which is poo). I have played Unreal Tounament (II?) but it's not really my type of game.
But really, as people have said, practically anything about which is not too up to date should fly on your PC if you put more memory and a MAYBE a decent(ish) cheap(ish) modern low(ish)-power grahics card in there
A couple of years ago I upgraded the memory to 2GB - I believe your spec is only 1GB. Going up to 2GB on your PC will make a massive difference to the way games play on your PC. I can't stress this enough. If you have enough memory to avoid disk swapping games run an order of magnitude better.
I put in an AGP factory overclocked 7600GT a while ago.
Finally I upgraded my disk drives to 320GB jobbies, last year.
With this setup I can play WoW, Lotro at very high resolutions - much better than you might expect. Oblivion is fine. Clearly I am not geting the silly frame rates a bang up to date PC would give but for Oblivion for instance, around town and in dungeons, I am at high thirties, out in the wild it drops a bit mostly due to grass, but it is almost always a playable 20+ (turning grass on and off to suit the occasion is a trivial thing in oblivion).
Games that are fine with no caveats, and I'm looking at a pile in the corner of my room right now, include CIV IV, Homeworld I, Pax Imperia, Diablo II, The three Kohan games, Sid Meier's Railroads, Temple of elemental evil, Conquest (a Ubisoft space game), American Conquest, Empire Earth II, Emperor battle for Dune, Majesty, Dungeon Keeper II, Imperium Galactica II, The GalCiv series, Space Empires IV, Darwinia, Command and conquer generals series, C&C Tiberian Sun, Rise of Nations series, Total War series and Masters of Orion series (except III which is poo). I have played Unreal Tounament (II?) but it's not really my type of game.
But really, as people have said, practically anything about which is not too up to date should fly on your PC if you put more memory and a MAYBE a decent(ish) cheap(ish) modern low(ish)-power grahics card in there
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Battlefield 2.
I bought bf2 new from a supermarket online for £7.90 inc all addon packs
I bought bf2 new from a supermarket online for £7.90 inc all addon packs
Battlefield 2.
I bought bf2 new from a supermarket online for £7.90 inc all addon packs
I used to really be into this. I'm sure my account is gone by now (and thats if I can even remember my password) but I assumed everyone had moved on from it by now
I'd deffinately be re adding that to my collection
