The netbook games thread.

Agent0range · 14 Oct 2008 at 18:35

C&C - The First Decade (obv not Generals tho) ? It would go great with that low res screen too!

Phat Momma Hoe · 14 Oct 2008 at 19:48

Been having a whizz on Dungeon Seige 2, was expecting it to run awfully but was happily suprised by it. (Advent 4211 w/ 2 gig of ram).

Going to try a few more as I need some gaming on the go when I'm off to egypt next month (bugger all else to do once the sun goes down :-/)

DavidB · 18 Nov 2008 at 16:48

Agent0range said:
C&C - The First Decade (obv not Generals tho) ? It would go great with that low res screen too!

just tried it and most of them work well, generals is a little choppy, but playable at 800x600 (only option). Yuri's revenge is a brilliant game for it , although tiny on highest res settings.

knowlesy · 18 Nov 2008 at 16:55

would the asus with the 9400 or 9600 count lol

tsinc80697 · 18 Nov 2008 at 17:02

Time to get steam on my ONE then! Going to rummage around and find Tomb Raider 2, Im just going for games that dont need a mouse

shep_no_platinum · 18 Nov 2008 at 17:09

Skeeter said:
Steam is a simple download and community application. I would imagine it would run on either machine absolutely fine.

The games however....

i have loads of STEAM games on my NC10. Quake 2, Trials 2, Peggle, Blue Shift, HL1, Opposing Force etc

tsinc80697 · 18 Nov 2008 at 17:27

oh my god! Just installed TR:2! Im like a child in a sweet shop, can't wait for venice and the opera house!

HAz · 18 Nov 2008 at 18:33

HAd warcraft 3 and gta vice city running fine on my Samsung NC10. Loaded up wow and it wasnt too good at only 10fps in iron forge.

HAz · 18 Nov 2008 at 18:36

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IlDmdeTqE9s

Garp · 19 Nov 2008 at 17:26

Don't forget NetHack. Absolute classic game, still in active development.

daz · 19 Nov 2008 at 18:00

www.gametap.com is also worth looking at. Legal source of downloadable games from yesteryear.

Echo · 19 Nov 2008 at 19:02

Emulation is pretty shiny on this NC10 if you don't mind sticking to pre-1995 hardware.

I've got Amiga Workbench running well among other things, and it's going down the pub this weekend for the Wetherspoons free WIFI test

WatchTower · 19 Nov 2008 at 19:17

Audio over mame on my Acer One sucks.

lumpeh · 19 Nov 2008 at 20:45

WatchTower said:
Anyone tried Diablo II on the Acer Aspire One?

tbh it actually runs better than most desktops (nvidia at least) due to wierd stuttering issues in fullscreen. Throw in native aspect scaling by the intel graphics chip and it still looks very nice

Sasso · 19 Nov 2008 at 20:52

get some diablo II on the go

tsinc80697 · 21 Nov 2008 at 16:17

How are you guys playing HL/CS ? CS loads but runs 10-15FPS, so unplayable! Not tried HL1 but I assume the same as its the same engine? I thought HL1 based games would be ok

alex24 · 21 Nov 2008 at 16:30

Anyone got any screenies, it'd be nice to see some running so other people can see what to expect!

zytok · 21 Nov 2008 at 16:48

Garp said:
OpenTTD pwns all

+1

oh and peggle

vickister · 17 Mar 2009 at 12:44

i have world of goo runing on my medion akoya / msi wind clone

also got football mananger 2008 runing use this text sting on the shortcut target properties for it to work ( "C:\Program Files\Sport Interactive\Football Manager 2008\fm.exe" -windowed -small_screen )

Will update with screen shots of everything i have running and what settings

oweneades · 17 Mar 2009 at 13:22

tsinc80697 said:
How are you guys playing HL/CS ? CS loads but runs 10-15FPS, so unplayable! Not tried HL1 but I assume the same as its the same engine? I thought HL1 based games would be ok

HL runs like crap on my Advent 4211 (MSI wind). It looks like the Atom is cause of the performance issues rather than the Intel graphics (my parents laptop which has a Core 2 duo and GMA950 graphics can run HL without any issues.