Good games for PC? Please HELP!!

Well I ordered a Dell Studio 15 yesterday without thinking about playing games on it because I have a home console but they said it can handle "mainstream games." So I was wondering if anyone can give me any ideas about what games I CAN play on my laptop, (shooters, stratigy, puzzles, action, ect...) But the more games you guys can list based on my laptops build listed below the better and I'll greatly appreciate your time and help. Thank you.

My laptop's build is as follows: Intel Pentium Duel Core T3200 (2.0GHz/667Mhz FSB/1MBcache). Memory: 3GB Shared Duel Channel DDR2 at 800MHz, Video Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, with a hard drive of 320GB. ANY GAMES THAT CAN BE PLAYED ON THIS WILL HELP ME ALOT haha.

Pretty much anything from Valve, specially the Orange Box (5 great games for 30 euros).

Oblivion doesn't have much depth but it's a huge game (easily 100 hours long to get 100% on the Vanilla version) and has a great modding community so it's worth a try (GotY Edition under 40 euros).

Relic makes great RTS games like Dawn of War (10 euros) and Company of Heroes (10 euros).

There are more games but those alone should keep you busy for a long time, and I think you can maxed them.

I'm mostly interested in Real-Time Stratigy games like Command and Conquer and War Craft, Those were always my personal favorites for PCs...LordImperius

I'm looking at some games right now for the PC, what is Video Memory? And does it say what my Video Memory is in the information I provided at the top of the forum?

I'm looking at some games right now for the PC, what is Video Memory? And does it say what my Video Memory is in the information I provided at the top of the forum?

LordImperius

Core speed - 533 MHz

Shader speed - 533MHz

Video memory - 384mb

thats what i found for your graphics card, it won't play mainstream games maybe valve games will work on low.

I just went to the wikipidia and found that my Intel GMA 4500MHD max video memory is 512 MB? I don't know if I read the chart wrong, heres the link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_x4500

Intel GMA 4500MHD.

[QUOTE="LordImperius"]I'm mostly interested in Real-Time Stratigy games like Command and Conquer and War Craft, Those were always my personal favorites for PCs...Pinkyimp

Yeah Gog.com is super sweet as well as Steam.com. Yeah that card is a bit slow...but older rts games should be good.

Try Sins of A Solar Empire.thusaha

There is the THQ Collector Pack from Steam that has Company of Heroes and Dawn of War + Expansions.

Edit: Sorry didn't look at your spec's. I don't know how well they will run on that. Maybe someone else could help out.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-4500MHD-GMA-X4500MHD.9883.0.html It sucks, especially since it can't even play Doom 3 or FEAR. You can always try StarCraft. Very nice RTS. bedram793

Your video card will not work very well with modern games and it should be noted that your video card was not designed for any sort of gaming or heavy 3d work. You can still play older stuff, and I am sure you can play some games on low settings but to be honest, you are wasting your time except for maybe RTS's which dont need to look great to be fun.

You can definitly play games like WC3, Starcraft, & AOE. Sins of Solar will probably kill your video card. I think the guy was just kidding when he recommended it. Galactic Civ will probably work but that is turn based strategy and single player like Civilizations. You can definitly get stuff like Diablo 2, Sacred I, NWN I (RPG but can be diablo like online), and RPG classics like Baldurs Gate I & II, and KOTOR I & II.