Gaming...... On a netbook.

Martini1991 · 17 Dec 2011 at 17:08

Hi there, first off we'll start with my netbook spec's

1.5GHZ dual core with HT (Atom N550)
2GB DDR3 1066MHZ RAM
Intel GMA 3150

While I'm waiting on there hopefully being an Intel GMA 3150 booster, or any other way to overclock my GMA 3150 and N550, are there any games that will run fine on the netbook that are enjoyable?

Rome Total War runs fine enough on low settings, even KOTOR to an extent is playable.

I was thinking Indie games on sales, but having just tried Limbo on my netbook, it errors with a shader model 3.0 error, which I was under the assumption that the Intel GMA 3150 had

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Cheers.

Martini1991 · 17 Dec 2011 at 17:46

Hmm.
How would Bastion run do you think?

I'm not used to this low end gaming.

Martini1991 · 17 Dec 2011 at 17:52

bushmins said:
Anything on GoG will run, except the Witcher 2!

I doubt Baston will run, but worth trying the demo first.

And the witcher

Martini1991 · 18 Dec 2011 at 02:05

And for serious gaming I'd just use my desktop.
Onlive is definitely something that I could see myself using.

Martini1991 · 18 Dec 2011 at 12:47

I am looking into Onlive. I am on Virgin Media 50mb though.
But how does it work?
Is it "Buy the games" or "subscription based" or "subscription while buying the games"?

If there was that 1 pound deal going on, I'd just buy X amount of games with Y amount of accounts.

Martini1991 · 18 Dec 2011 at 14:13

Talking about Onlive, it now runs on my Xperia Play.
If they patch in support for the controls, perhaps going to Onlive could be a good thing.