The netbook games thread.

Sneaky Peaky · 17 Mar 2009 at 13:30

If you fancy a racing game NFSPU which is one of my all time favs runs like a dream on my Hp Mini 702ea and in native resolution too !

Side5wipe · 17 Mar 2009 at 14:54

Sam and Max
Any of the old Lucas Arts point and click adventures

Socaddict · 17 Mar 2009 at 17:44

X-Com works wonder on my EEE 701, as does Quake III, Warcraft 3, had tribes 2 going on it.

p4radox · 17 Mar 2009 at 18:22

Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 should work I imagine.

Mr Jones · 24 Mar 2009 at 11:19

p4radox said:
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 should work I imagine.

Works perfectly on the Acer One, with all patches and expansions. Even support the 1024x600 resolutions

the_jetsetwilly · 24 Mar 2009 at 12:39

anyone tried dungeon keeper?

Psypher5 · 24 Mar 2009 at 12:45

oblivion

im being serious, theres a low detail mod for it. Worked on my eeepc (first one that came out)

jas72 · 24 Mar 2009 at 13:03

guild wars at lowest settings run ok however some games where you need to keep the disk in cause problems as most netbooks don't have DVD/CD drive.

HL via steam works perfectly

PKR poker doesn't though some options are off the screen and there is no way of changing them it also seems to hang quite a lot on loading screen, even playing in Low detail. Thought it was my wireless so rigged it up direct to router and still had problems.

(NC10 + 2 gig here)

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Blackhawk47 · 24 Mar 2009 at 18:33

My laptop isnt a netbook but its pretty small, 13inch (think its more like 12 though) nice and small yet not cramped. Good speakers, decent graphics chipset (for a laptop) and i can run Counter Strike at 20-40fps

Limenote · 18 Apr 2009 at 04:50

been playing rainbow six raven shield all day on my msi wind and it runs like a treat

HangTime · 18 Apr 2009 at 11:14

There's quite a few suggestions in this thread you might like to consider: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17822833

Quixote · 18 Apr 2009 at 21:12

- The Longest Journey

Begbie · 18 Apr 2009 at 21:31

Beneath a steel sky

melchy · 19 Apr 2009 at 11:36

Pro Pinball : Timeshock works really well. No reason why the rest of the series shouldn't either.

Emulators as have been mentioned run great as well.

Eliot · 24 Apr 2009 at 00:03

plenty of vids on youtube of css working well and hl2 for that matter, check them out.

lay-z-boy · 24 Apr 2009 at 00:51

Audiosurf works well on the lowest settings.

I use project 64 and no$gba mainly, with the odd snes game thrown in for good measure.

"andy" · 24 Apr 2009 at 02:04

duke nukem 3d

wiseyoda · 3 Jan 2010 at 14:20

hi, im know im really new to the forums but lately ive been making a website using piczo with a list of games that ive heard, run on a netbook. http://netbookgamer.piczo.com/

stooeh · 3 Jan 2010 at 14:44

Woah, bit green there

Try putting the list in the centre and cut it down a bit. It's a good idea but needs more info on the titles in the actual list. There's a fair amount of games that I imagine would not run or run very badly on a standard netbook (atom 1.6ghz + intel GMA 950) such as Civ 4.

I have tried NWN on mine (Asus eeePC 901) and it runs at fairly low fps but still playable. NWN 2 would be too much for it. Quake 3 is playable but I imagine some of the modified q3 engine titles might struggle a bit as well. Half life 2 is mission to get running on mine and runs like a dog :rolleyes:

Where are you sourcing this info from ?

wiseyoda · 3 Jan 2010 at 20:01

just searching the net and adding new mentions. ive updated so its not so green

and i need some people to tell me how the games run. ive only tried a few myself