I have this laptop....

To save money, my dad gave me his old laptop which is a Dell Inspiron 8600 and to my horror it only has a mere 32 MB vram on a Nvidia Geforce Go 5200. So I'm wondering, what the hell I can play this weak weak, WEAK, card? I do have a desktop dedicated to gaming but I'm using the laptop mainly just to pass the time at work, so no responses like play on your desktop! Fairly confident that starcraft, diablo 1 and 2 will work on it. thanks in advance for the responses! =D

As far as the other specs, it has a intel pentium m 1.4 ghz (codenamed 'Banias'), 2 gig of ram (upgrading this week), and a 160 gig HDD (also upgrading this week). I'm also planning to use vista on it.

last issue of pc gamer ran an article called 17 games to run on a netbook. here they are:

1. diablo 2 (& LoD)
2. plants vs zombies
3. world of goo
4. lucasarts classics line [sam and max hit the road, full throttle, etc]
5. trackmania nations forever
6. GTA III, VC & SA
7. Elder Scrolls 3: morrowind
8. dungeon keeper 2
9. audiosurf
10. neverwinter nights
11. the sims/the sims 2
12. ultimate doom
13. deus ex
14. warcraft 3
15. peggle complete
16. geometry wars
17. quake 3: arena

if any of them do take your fancy, i'd still double check the system requirements, just to make sure

Thsi really belongs in the hardware forum. You will get better responses there.

I would definitely reconsider upgrading to vista.. That wouldn't be a good idea and will really bog your computer down. ferrari2001

You could get Counter Strike: Source, it only takes 256 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GHz processor.