Best Games For Old Computers

Starcraft+Expansion

WC3+Expansion

OK, well my computer oficially sucks at playing any of the newer games. What are some of the best games that can run on an old computer with a graphics card that isnt very good? Or maybe a new game that works on old computers.ta11on

What kind of computer do you have? If it's bought during the last few years with an integrated chip, your bets are pretty much all the games before 2004.

how old?inyourface_12

Yeap, it would be good if you specify your computer graphic card, hdd space, processor speed, ram, and others...

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

ta11on

Change to XP, Vista have problems running some things, I don't like it at all...

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

ta11on

That's not a bad gaming option to be honest. Of course, if you don't like to play games on minimum (I do it all the time cuz my computer ain't too good), that could be a problem. I think all the games that was released during the Xbox and PS2's lifespan is a good option.

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

ta11on

Does anyone think the Orange Box might work with this. I heard that is pretty good.

I'll recommend all the good older games I can think of that I've played.

2D Platformers
Abuse
Alien Rampage
Bio Menace (freeware)
Commander Keen (episodes 1-6 & Keen Dreams)
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Crystal Caves
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem II
Jazz Jackrabbit
Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Jill of the Jungle
Mega Man X
Secret Agent
Xargon

First-Person Shooters
Blake Stone
Planet Strike (basically Blake Stone 2, I guess)
Blood
Dark Forces
Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
Jedi Knight 2
Jedi Knight Jedi Academy
Descent
Descent 2
Descent 2: The Vertigo Series
Descent 3
Descent 3: Mercenary
Duke Nukem 3D
Half-Life
Half-Life: Opposing Forces
Half-Life: Blueshift
Half-Life 2 (if you run it in DX7 or maybe even DX8 mode)
No One Lives Forever
No One Lives Forever 2 (probably won't be able to max it out, though)
Outlaws
Red Faction
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Wolfenstein 3D

Scrolling Space/Air Shooters
Major Stryker (freeware)
Raptor
Tyrian 2000 (freeware)

Strategy
Lemmings (all of them in the series)
Red Alert 2
Yuri's Revenge
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Rollercoaster Tycoon: Loopy Landscapes
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
Tiberian Sun
Tiberian Sun: Firestorm
Warcraft 3
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
War of the Ring

Other
Crusader: No Remorse
Crusader: No Regret
Diablo 2
Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
Heartlight
Myst
Riven (best game of all time)
Myst 3
Uru and expansions

My apologies if there's any good ones I played that I forgot to mention (that your computer could run well enough).

Now are all these good game, or all the games you could come up with? Which is best from this list in your opinion?ta11on

All good ones. I left out games like Starcraft and Diablo 1, for instance, because I just don't like them very much.

The best in the list in my opinion is Riven. Despite that it's ten years old, it's the best adventure game, the best older game, the best game of all time, period. I would suggest playing Myst first, though, if you can get it to run properly (if you can't, read up on its story at Wikipedia before you play Riven to give yourself background info).

All right, thanks.

if you haven't played the first UNREAL, you really should - still a classic FPS, with some great scenery - ok it can pall in the last quarter, but thats still means you;ve had a lot of good gameplay (it's a long game)

and after you've played the main game you get a set of deathmatches against some very sharp bots for extra VFM

also the Star Trek Elite Force games are good - i reckon you'd be OK with your machien with those

If you enjoy FPS games then have a look for System Shock 2 and Deus Ex. Both have ancient system requirements and will run well with your computer. The graphics are not fantastic but the atmosphere in both games is electric. If you want to find out what BioShock feels like System Shock is the original (and some say better) game that spawned its spiritual successor. If you like a great story, tension and rpg elements you will love this game. One small problem you might have problems finding this game these days as it is always in the top one hundred classic game charts- and therefore sought after.

Deus Ex is the classic rpg style cyber-punk sci-fi game, where the story is so adaptive you can almost do anything you want. Both games will run well on your 'old school' computer. Hope that helps.

• Heroes of Might & Magic II
• Heroes of Might & Magic III
• Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
• Diablo
• Diablo II
• Dungeon Keeper
• Sanitarium
• Faust
• The Curse of Monkey Island
• Re-Volt
• Ignition
• GTA
• GTA II
• Warcraft III
• Icewind Dale
• Commandos 2
• Worms Armageddon
• NBA Live 2000
• NBA Live 2003
• Baldur's Gate II

Hey!!.....I have an old computer whit this spec: 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, 384 mb SD RAM, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 64 mb. Does anyone know witch games can I play with this spec.....thxImSoHard93

You'd probably have to go pretty far back in order to find games that would run on this machine.

Red faction 2 should also run just fine. The hitman games (all of em should work okay) half life 2 will run, UT99 will work beautifully and is a blast, james bond nightfire, tribes vengeance, GTA 3, Halo, Honestly thts not a bad setup. You should be alright running most of the older games. Any doubt on them a lot of older games had demos. COD1 and 2 should work. I kinda just listed the games i played haha

Hey!!.....I have an old computer whit this spec: 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, 384 mb SD RAM, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 64 mb. Does anyone know witch games can I play with this spec.....thxImSoHard93

Pong. But seriously rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 and uhhh idk. Maybe ut99 and ae1 and sc1

Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus

[QUOTE="ta11on"]

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

ta11on

Does anyone think the Orange Box might work with this. I heard that is pretty good.

Sorry, but the orange box or any source games for that sake won't run on that.

Edit: Oh god just realised this thread is nearly 3 years old.

as added assistance I would direct you to GoG.com They are about old pc classics (well msotly) and most of thier games require very little, and are pretty cheap ^^

Oh Snap :o I just saw that too O.o thread Necromancy :P

[QUOTE="ta11on"]

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bit

ta11on

Does anyone think the Orange Box might work with this. I heard that is pretty good.

Maybe on minimum settings, but TF2 probably won't.

Edit: Oh my godFuhrerGreen, how long did you have to look for this thread?? Seriously, please don't bump when you see the thread is 1 year old or more...

Deus ex

Edit: Oh god just realised this thread is nearly 3 years old.

ventnor

Hell of a first post fuhrer. I cant believe nobody else noticed this :lol: good call ventor

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bitta11on

You need to switch to XP SP3... trust me on that one.

Anyway, as for your list, these games will work just fine on your system, you'll have a lifetime playing them, as they are pretty good:

• Fable: The Lost Chapters (RPG)
  
• Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Torchlight + the mods (RPG)
  
• Baldur's Gate 2 (RPG)
  
• Planescape Torment (RPG)
  
• Gothic 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (RPG)
  
• Half Life + The expansions Opposing Force & Blue Shift (FPS)
  
• Half Life 2 (FPS)
  
• Counter Strike 1.6 & Source (FPS)
  
• Unreal Tournament 2k4 (FPS)
  
• Deus Ex (Stealth/RPG with FPS elements)
  
• Diablo 2 (RPG)
  
• Max Payne 1 & 2 (Third Person Shooter)
• Serious Sam First & Second encounter (FPS)
• Rainbow Six: Raven Shield (FPS)
  
• Call of Duty 1 + Expansion (FPS)
  
• Call of Duty 2 (FPS)
  
• GTA 3, Vice City & San Andreas (Sandbox/Action)
  
• Age of Empires 3 (RTS)
  
• Age of Mythology (RTS)
  
• Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War(RTS)
• Dungeon Siege 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Civilization 4 (RTS)
• Battlefield 1942 (FPS)
  
• Battlefield 2 (FPS)
• Prince of Persia trilogy: Sands of Time, Warrior Within & The two thrones (Action/Adventure Third Person)
• Splinter Cell trilogy (Stealth/Action)
  
• Need for Speed ( every game, up until Most Wanted, pick one)
• Neverwinter Nights (RPG)
  
• Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (RPG)
  
• Rome: Total War (RTS)

All fantastic games, but instead of asking, why not just check any game from 1990-2005 that are critically aclaimed, or that might appeal to you. I'm probably missing a lot of games from that list.

I just noticed that its a 2 year old thread..

*** who ever bumped it.

Try these three:

Thief Gold

Theif The Metal Age

Thief Deadly Shadows

[QUOTE="ta11on"]

Nvidia Geforce Go 6150 128mb

AMD Turion 64x2 1.80GHz

RAM 894mb

Windows Vista 32bitLucianu

You need to switch to XP SP3... trust me on that one.

Anyway, as for your list, these games will work just fine on your system, you'll have a lifetime playing them, as they are pretty good:

• Fable: The Lost Chapters (RPG)
  
• Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Torchlight + the mods (RPG)
  
• Baldur's Gate 2 (RPG)
  
• Planescape Torment (RPG)
  
• Gothic 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (RPG)
  
• Half Life + The expansions Opposing Force & Blue Shift (FPS)
  
• Half Life 2 (FPS)
  
• Counter Strike 1.6 & Source (FPS)
  
• Unreal Tournament 2k4 (FPS)
  
• Deus Ex (Stealth/RPG with FPS elements)
  
• Diablo 2 (RPG)
  
• Max Payne 1 & 2 (Third Person Shooter)
• Serious Sam First & Second encounter (FPS)
• Rainbow Six: Raven Shield (FPS)
  
• Call of Duty 1 + Expansion (FPS)
  
• Call of Duty 2 (FPS)
  
• GTA 3, Vice City & San Andreas (Sandbox/Action)
  
• Age of Empires 3 (RTS)
  
• Age of Mythology (RTS)
  
• Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War(RTS)
• Dungeon Siege 1 & 2 (RPG)
  
• Civilization 4 (RTS)
• Battlefield 1942 (FPS)
  
• Battlefield 2 (FPS)
• Prince of Persia trilogy: Sands of Time, Warrior Within & The two thrones (Action/Adventure Third Person)
• Splinter Cell trilogy (Stealth/Action)
  
• Need for Speed ( every game, up until Most Wanted, pick one)
• Neverwinter Nights (RPG)
  
• Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (RPG)
  
• Rome: Total War (RTS)

All fantastic games, but instead of asking, why not just check any game from 1990-2005 that are critically aclaimed, or that might appeal to you. I'm probably missing a lot of games from that list.

oh man. thats rough

another amazing scroll/ airshooter is Homeworld 1&2 amazing games , also you may need to run it in windows NT 4.0 compatability mode to get open GL to work, , without it the garphics are annoyingFuhrerGreen

Ghost Recon with Desert Siege and Island Thunder. Tons of mods for it too.

Yet another...

if you haven't played the first UNREAL, you really should - still a classic FPS, with some great scenery - ok it can pall in the last quarter, but thats still means you;ve had a lot of good gameplay (it's a long game)

and after you've played the main game you get a set of deathmatches against some very sharp bots for extra VFM

also the Star Trek Elite Force games are good - i reckon you'd be OK with your machien with those

jfsebastianII

Its a 2008 Thread i mean COME ON THats OLD.