Spec me a simple laptop friendly game

Egon · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:05

In France for a couple of weeks. Need to supplement my work with some simple gaming. Can you recommend my a game that my poor little lappy will run. Its only got a little bog standard Intel 945 gfx chip and I don't think that will cope with L4D

I was thinking maybe Railroad Tycoon or something similar. Any ideas? Oh, and it needs to be something I can download from Steam etc. !!!

Egon

bloodline76 · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:08

If you like football then Football Manager is always a great laptop friendly game. Plus its available on steam.

Egon · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:11

I do generally. But I've stopped playing FM because I suck at it

Viper² · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:13

Roller Coaster Tycoon.

reflux · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:14

Peggle!

neon.uk · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:16

Viper² said:
Roller Coaster Tycoon.

THIS! Check the thread in this section.

Egon · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:20

Thought about Rollercoaster Tycoon. Might give that a go. Having a quick browse through Civ3 caught my eye. Haven't played that in ages and it costs peanuts.

Not heard of peggle what's that all about then?

reflux · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:22

EgonSpengler said:
Not heard of peggle what's that all about then?

Shooting balls at other coloured balls. Surprisingly fun. Will probably run on a toaster (if the toaster had a screen) so you should be set if it's your kind of thing.

Chong Warrior · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:28

Civilization Conquests

Kyuss · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:29

crysis or elf bowling. Id personally go for something like Civ 3/4 (as said above)

AHarvey · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:40

PopCap games
Uplink
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1
SimCIty 2000
Civ
Transport Tycoon

To name a few, no idea what is available on Steam though as I haven't touched it in months!

I know Uplink is on there though.

Zefan · 6 Apr 2009 at 21:05

AHarvey said:
Uplink

Marky · 6 Apr 2009 at 21:08

I agree! Uplink is AWESOME and it will 100% run on a laptop!

Craig321 · 6 Apr 2009 at 21:09

Zefan said:
AHarvey said:

Uplink

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This.

Phatjayunoi · 6 Apr 2009 at 21:30

If you want some FPS games, then absolute classics like the first Unreal Tournament (Even UT2004 should work fine!) and Quake III would be great choices. These games are available on Steam.

There is also the choice of emulators too

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firthy15 · 6 Apr 2009 at 22:34

UPLINK !!!!

Also warcraft 3.

Behemoth · 6 Apr 2009 at 22:39

Open TTD

randal · 6 Apr 2009 at 22:45

On an x3100 I'm currently playing:

Hitman 1/2/3
Command and Conquer the First Decade (all working fine, including Generals + Zero Hour)
Counterstrike
HL 1 and 2, not so much luck with Ep1/2
Peggle + Nights + Extreme etc...
Diablo 1 + 2
Dungeon Siege 1 + 2
Freespace 2

They're fairly capable IGPs, just need a little tweaking to get the best out of them.

chuck990 · 6 Apr 2009 at 22:47

old zoo tycoon

chuck990 · 6 Apr 2009 at 22:48

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