Strategy games for low end laptops?

Richeh · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:07

Unfortunately my mate and I abandoned PC gaming over the last couple of years and sold our desktops and replaced them with laptops. I got mine about 18 months ago:

Asus K50IN, Duo T5870, 4GB Ram with a Geforce G102M graphics card running Windows 7. My friend has a similar spec with a slightly better graphics card.

Now we used to play Age of Empires 3 and have just started again, my laptop runs it fairly well at 1366x768 with most things at full. Now were looking for some other similar games that will run well, what is the latest C&C that would run acceptably at medium + deails? Or any other similar games worth looking at?

Cheers for any help.

Judgeneo · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:08

LOTR:BFME2

AshenShugar1873 · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:20

Rome Total War is considered the classic of the series and should be able to run on that hardware no bother. For C&C probably up to and including Generals. Any of the Dune PC games should also be fine.

Howitzer · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:47

Most of the Civilization series should work fine aswell

Great games! (don't try 5 though, it's really high end)

JoeFX69 · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:48

Hey dude...

I know its not the newer ones but did you know you could download C&C and Red Alert for free?

Heres a link with most details.... cant remember if it works on W7, but you can always try

http://www.techmixer.com/free-download-command-conquer-gold-edition/

Knightinator · 6 Jun 2011 at 17:33

Im running a laptop with a 2ghz dual-core and a 8600 gt m. Rome runs great on it and medieval 2 is playable. Company of heroes, dawn of war, warcraft 3. I love dwarf fortress too, not sure if that's classed as a strategy game. Red alert 3 also runs fine, although I uninstalled it as I didn't really enjoy it. I don't have any of the Civ games so I'm not sure about that. From what I can see from a quick google search your card seems to be a bit lower in performance, but you should still be able to play some great games. Of the C+C series my favourite games are both older (RA2 and Generals) anyway, I'd recommend Generals especially. Hope it helps.

chrismscotland · 6 Jun 2011 at 17:43

Civ 4 should run really well, and personally I play Company of Heroes and Red Alert 2 oon my even lower specced machine.

Kosmiche · 6 Jun 2011 at 17:44

c&c games up to and including red alert 2
total annihilation?

VaderDSL · 6 Jun 2011 at 17:45

Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri? Absolutely love that game, should run fine.

Xelene · 6 Jun 2011 at 18:25

VaderDSL said:
Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri? Absolutely love that game, should run fine.

Really good game that one. Going back further in time Master of Orion 1/2 was awesome. Galactic Civ as well.

BigAndy87 · 6 Jun 2011 at 18:42

earth 2150, warzone 2100 (can be downloaded free), warcraft3 and the old dawn of war games are quite good

AshenShugar1873 · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:20

Forgot about Warzone 2100 and Total Annihilation, 2 great games, spent many hours on both replaying the campaigns and skirmishes against the AI.