games for crappy hardware

Dosbox and play some old classics?

I would 2nd Age of Empires 2 HD, it's very impressive that this game is still being supported with new patches and DLC given that's it's coming up to 18 years old this year.
 
Zombie driver
Super meatboy
Don't Starve

Maybe a turn based game like civ or endless legend if you can handle turning down some settings
 
Devrij said:
Maybe a turn based game like civ or endless legend if you can handle turning down some settings
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civ is a fave of mine, but unfortunately network config the way it is here lan games are going to be impossible and internet is going to be capped so online is a no no.

suppose i could give civ6 another go, on single player. i'll admit i have up before the end of the early game and went back to 5
 
adolf hamster said:
civ is a fave of mine, but unfortunately network config the way it is here lan games are going to be impossible and internet is going to be capped so online is a no no.

suppose i could give civ6 another go, on single player. i'll admit i have up before the end of the early game and went back to 5
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Single player is worth a go, and civ6 is worth sticking out!
 
I wonder how many of these games will work on my newly-resurrected Radeon X850XT - Platinum Edition, no less! :D

Anyone know how much this GPU would have cost me at launch?
 
ic1male said:
I wonder how many of these games will work on my newly-resurrected Radeon X850XT - Platinum Edition, no less! :D

Anyone know how much this GPU would have cost me at launch?
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Is that the card that looks like a component from a vacuum cleaner?
 
So it can play Portal but not at a locked 60fps with the (*) recommended settings. So this got me wondering.

Has anyone out there made a website for PC gamers that tells you what settings you can reduce, once at a time to get a better framerate. (Ideally on a per basis.) So, for example, you look up your game, max everything out and then gradually reduce something like anti-aliasing or shadow quality until you get the framerate you want. Or do folks just pretty much get on with it themselves? It's been 12 years since I gamed on PC so I'm not sure what to alter!
 
ic1male said:
So it can play Portal but not at a locked 60fps with the (*) recommended settings. So this got me wondering.

Has anyone out there made a website for PC gamers that tells you what settings you can reduce, once at a time to get a better framerate. (Ideally on a per basis.) So, for example, you look up your game, max everything out and then gradually reduce something like anti-aliasing or shadow quality until you get the framerate you want. Or do folks just pretty much get on with it themselves? It's been 12 years since I gamed on PC so I'm not sure what to alter!
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Few things to do first. Ensure vsync is off, then in terms of performance start by turning off anti aliasing m ( a heavy hitter for performance )
 
ic1male said:
So it can play Portal but not at a locked 60fps with the (*) recommended settings. So this got me wondering.

Has anyone out there made a website for PC gamers that tells you what settings you can reduce, once at a time to get a better framerate. (Ideally on a per basis.) So, for example, you look up your game, max everything out and then gradually reduce something like anti-aliasing or shadow quality until you get the framerate you want. Or do folks just pretty much get on with it themselves? It's been 12 years since I gamed on PC so I'm not sure what to alter!
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normally i go anti-aliasing, shadows, draw distance, textures
 
I was just looking for a thread in here where someone detailed everything quite well, sadly I can't find it anymore and it used to be pinned as important stuff :(.
 
Portal 2, Team Fortress 2.

You might even be able to play some more difficult to run stuff if you turn the settings down.

I played through Fallout New Vegas in 1280x720 on low with 45~ FPS on an AMD Turion II dual core, and Radeon HD4530M graphics.

I imagine that's worse than Intel IGP of the Ivy era.

It wouldn't run Crysis very well though. Think I might have completed the demo just about on 20FPS. :p
 
harry5522 said:
I was just looking for a thread in here where someone detailed everything quite well, sadly I can't find it anymore and it used to be pinned as important stuff :(.
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i've been finding with being really limited that it's easier to start the other way, turn everything off then turn on in order the effects you'd like and if one kills your framerate then off it goes again
 
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