Laptop games

[General Ludd]

Recomend me some good games for a laptop - sepcifically, a pentium 300 ( or is it 200?) with no 3D graphics acceleration. It has a good bit of RAM, and also windows XP ( Which'll make dos games difficult )

I already have Transport Tycoon and X-Com picked out, and Master of Magic, if I can get it to work. Dominions 2 runs decently, but the battles go at a snail's pace even on the lowest setting. And King of Dragon Pass is a perfect Laptop game, of course.

I can't think of what else to try. Europa Universalis, or another Paradox game? I think the processor is too weak for that. What about Baldur's gate, icewind dale, ect... how do you think those would run?

[Spiffor]

Unreal Tournament (the first one) would run quite well on your machine. It demands very, very little from the graphic Card, everything from the CPU and RAM.

[quantum_mechani]

Try Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM), a very good RPG that will run on almost any computer.

[duke o' york]

The first Baldur's Gate is very old (in games terms) and should run. I've just got it (admittedly for my brand-new laptop), and I'd expect it to work on yours. I got it new for £15, but if you check out eDonkey then you'll find it sells for more than that so if it doesn't work then you could still make a profit on it.

[DrSpike]

Civ2!

[General Ludd]

Ah, just thought of another good game for the laptop: Uplink.

I don't think unreal tournament would run well at all, but I wouldn't want to play it anyways.

And Civ2... a novel idea.

[Jamski]

If Civ2 runs, then SMAC probably will too. How about MoO2?

-Jam

[Urban Ranger]

Railroad Tycoon (the original)

[Spiffor]

Well, I had a laptop with a P2 400 and 128 Mb RAM, and it ran fine, despite the graphic card sucking horribly (2.5 Mb video RAM and no 3d acceleration at all).

Also, I could play Civ3 on that computer, but I couldn't play on maps larger than standard without insane waiting time between turns.

[duke o' york]

To be honest, you could probably play most of your favourites on that laptop, but, as Spiffor said, they'd suffer in speed and graphics. If you use a custom install for these games then maybe you could trim some memory off them and make them run faster, but it's not something I'd dare do.

[Spiffor]

Oh, and uninstall WinXP on this machine. With such a CPU, chances are the RAM is vastly iferior to 256 Mb, so I would advise certainly not to use XP.

You should rather use Win98 SE. It works fine with all the games of that time, and you'll experience a much faster performance

[Main_Brain]

Mahjjong.

[Jamski]

You should rather use Win98 SE. It works fine with all the games of that time, and you'll experience a much faster performance

For once I agree with Spiffor on an issue

-Jam

[General Ludd]

It's not actually my laptop, so I can't install 98.

It has enough ram for XP (256, I'd guess) and it runs alot better with XP then it did with 98, anyways.

[Eli]

I'm getting my brand new laptop in about a month... Physics and Calculus be damned, it's Morrowind time!