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Yes, would there be any way of inputting your computers specs and it filtering to games you can run? Sort of like "can you run it" but in bulk vs doing a single game at a time.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tobiasbielefeld.solitaire

No permissions, no ads, 17 different styles of solitaire, lots of customization, my favorite solitaire app out there.

Edit: and free

Pre-built old desktop like this for $79.99 free shipping:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-8200-SFF-Intel-i5-2400-3-10GHz-8GB-250GB-Windows-10-j/123544970044?hash=item1cc3daa33c:g:W4UAAOSwOuFb5hzp

~~(8gb ram needed for new vegas if you use many mods, which this PC does have)~~ vegas has 4gb patch

And for graphics:

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Profile-Graphic-02G-P4-6333-KR/dp/B071LGVBDM/

for $69

Its 15$ but Binding of Isaac is really neverending fun. Please get beyond the graphics. the gameplay and versatility of this is incredibly deep. There are all those combinations of items that make every run unique and all kinds of unexpected things happen. It really only started losing its fun when I had some few hundred hours in it and knew it inside and out

Please, Don't waste your money. Those cards are way too low end.

550ti, 660, 660ti 750 and sometimes 750 TI's run between $30~70 on ebay. All of them are double the gpu that you're looking at for the same price.

Here's a GT 740 from EVGA themselves for $44. If you're patient too, higher cards pop up in the B stock all the time at reasonable prices. http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=01G-P4-3742-RX

I'm not too versed in AMD's lineage before the 200's but I'm sure there's something cost effective from them as well.

Check out Flashpoint, it's an archiving project with a pretty hefty collection of 90,000 flash games and counting. It's got games from armor games, newgrounds, kongregate, lots others. I'd recommend the "Infinity" version so you can play as you go and not have to download all 800 GBs

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/

Cave Story! Available here!

A GREAT platformer featuring a great story, multiple endings, satisfying weapons and an awesome soundtrack that is also available on the website!

https://www.amazon.com/Syntech-Adapter-Thunderbolt-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B07CVX3516/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2HGR5FR47KKA9&dchild=1&keywords=usb+c+to+usb+adapter&qid=1627484822&sprefix=usb+c++to+%2Caps%2C326&sr=8-3 this is just an example but you could aquire a USB C to USB adapter and be able to use a mouse had to get one myself when I got loaned a MacBook for my graphics design class

Two items out of the CYRI FAQ:

• Why does the video card requirement fail when CRYI shows that all the video card features (i.e. VC RAM, Pixel Shader, etc) pass? This means that your video card failed the model test. The individual features that we show an analysis for are not the only important parts of the video card. An example would be if you had the GeForce 8500 and the requirement was set at the GeForce 8600. The 8600 is more powerful than the 8500, so in this situation the test would fail, even though VC RAM, Pixel shader, Vertex shader all pass.
• Why does my Intel GPU almost always not pass the requirements? Currently, Intel only makes integrated video cards. Most games don’t mention a minimum model for integrated cards because most games are written to make use of a dedicated video card. Many publishers do not support integrated video cards because they are usually less powerful and the drivers are updated less frequently.

Basically it failed because it's the Intel iGPU. Since the publisher of the game did not include Intel as a recommended GPU source it failed the check. Your system will more than likely run it but the CYRI tool is rather conservative when it comes to go/no-go recommendations.

$15.25 USD for every Valve game ever made

Includes Half Life 1 & 2, Portal 1 & 2 , CS Source and other low-end-friendly classics.

 

For every other remotely vintage game, better to wait for the next GOG.com sale. ;)

Do you have the pc's link you are talking about ? I found a few alarco pc on amazon and they are looking like a really bad value.

I run a laptop cooler when I game.

Some people say "well those can't work!" but I can tell you that the case is cooler to the touch if nothing else. And most reviews I've watched (and my own tests) show that they do drop temps by at least a few degrees C (and sometimes quite a bit more than "a few").

I like this design :

Link

...that pulls air in from the sides (or back if you can find one) rather than the usual from the bottom design. These work better when my laptop is on my lap and they don't have the adjustable (and usually flimsy and easily broken) legs/easel thing.

A shot in the dark might be dragon age: origins. It'll be worth checking thispage first. If your looking more for the immersive story rather than the combat of Fable or Skyrim, then the final fantasy on steam could be a solution.

That sucks. If you can somehow convince them, this one doesn't even look like a "gaming laptop". It's the one my sister got for her studies. There's also this one with both a 5500u and 1650 thats from the same lineup of non-gamery laptops.

If not, don't worry about it. The 5500u is a decent step up from your old cpu.

If you have any computer that came out in the last 8 years you can most likely run Morrowind, since the game came out in 2001.

I do however recommend that you install OpenMW. It's an engine rewrite that makes the game much more stable and easier to run on modern computers, and I think it would help on yours too.

Have fun, Morrowind is one of my favorite games of all time. If you have any further questions, feel free to pm me, or reply to this comment.

Holy crap, go grab Jade Empire while it is free. A great 3rd person RPG. It is a sorta sequel to KOTOR / prequel to Mass Effect (in game play, not story).

Have you tried the Matrix mod? The kung-fu moves are a ton of fun.

PS. For nostalgia-holics, here are all the graphic novel parts from Max Payne 1 & 2.

That processor just isn't going to cut it, and consequently turning down the resolution won't make a difference.

My suggestion? Get Counter-Strike: Source. It's much less demanding and doesn't have any of the microtransaction crap that plagues its successor.

I've used Open Broadcast Software on my i7-3615QM with Intel HD 4000 graphics, 16 GB of RAM for a while with decent success. I had OBS set to capture only at 1440x900 with 30-45 FPS. I got better results by scaling up from 720p.

You can use the OBS estimator to see what you'd be looking at if you're going to be streaming

Maybe Nox? I don't think it quite meets the unique loot that you get in something like Diablo or Torchlight, but it was the hold over game between Diablo and Diablo 2 back in the day. It's currently a free download, so no loss if you do not like it. Personally I thought it was great, at least back then.

• Go to settings and search graphics settings. In there select browse, navigate to the exe file of your game. That will be found where you installed steam or where you set your Library if you set it to a different location. Once you do that it should show up in the list below. Click on it, select options and set it to maximum performance.
• If you are using a laptop, only play when your laptop is plugged in. Playing on battery is not a good idea.
• on the bottom right of the task bar, there should be a battery icon. click on it and make sure the slider is set to better performance.
• Make sure battery saver is off.
• If all of this doesn't help, then open your task manager and check RAM, CPU and GPU usage when not running anything and when running a game. Check for any process that's taking a lot of resources.
• It's possible that your laptop is having heating issues which makes the CPU and integrated card/dedicated card throttle to prevent permanent damage. Use something like Hwmonitor to check your CPU and GPU temperature.

Xonotic Arena FPS

Can be modded through its .cfg and console commands for FPS. Game is like a modern Quake or DOOM, super fast-paced, there are bots you can play with, too. Also, visit the unofficial subreddit at /r/xonotic!

-Xonotic
>Pentium II 266 MHz
>4 MB video card or AMD K6-2 350 MHz with 8 MB video card >64 MB of RAM

-Linux, Windows, Mac
-No Steam
-Free
-Super fun and comes with a lowend package for even worse computers!

Also, Super Crate Box is great if you like the old, retro-y arcade games. The weapon design could be a bit better, in my opinion, but it's still a fantastic game. It's out there in flash version on places like Kongregate, or you can DL it here

> I've also heard it can destroy ur Graphics card or something

The only issue with laptops is they tend to have poor airflow, and heat is what degrades components. However, it's not as if you run a game that's "too heavy" and break the GPU - you'll just get unplayably bad framerates or won't be able to launch the game at all.

Just download some form of temperature monitor software - something like Open Hardware Monitor will work fine - and keep an eye on CPU and GPU tempatures. Google around and see if the manufacturer/knowledgeable people have recommendations for operating temperatures, then just make sure your temps are at or below that. If they're below what's considered "healthy," you're fine. If they're above, either know you run the risk of reducing the lifespan, or skip playing that game.

There are some sales on Amazon you can check out.

This one has Intel HD5500 graphics. This one has HD520 which are better.

Those will even run things like Rocket League, which I've player on a laptop with a i5-3370u and HD4000 graphics.

You can probably run the same stuff as I can, our comps are pretty similar.

A list of games I currently have on PC:

Morrowind

Torchlight

Max Payne 2( 1 would run also, of course)

Deus Ex (first one)

Diablo 2

Freelancer

Halo 1

The Sims 3 (surprisingly)

STALKER series

Vampire the Masquerades Bloodlines (low detail, still choppy at times)

Minecraft (optifine installed)

can you run it? tells me I can't run a lot of the games I play, since I have integrated graphics, but you can still use it to see if you have enough ram.

• You could try the first Divine Divinity (2002) It's an action role-playing game
• As already mentioned Civilization 3-4 are pretty chill.
• Anno 1602 - 1998
• Anno 1503 - 2003
• Anno 1701 - 2006
• Anno is business simulation with city building elements. But real time strategy. Maybe not so chill.
• Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe - open source - business simulation
• The Battle for Wesnoth - open source - Turn based strategy with rpg elements

• Go to settings and search graphics settings. In there select browse, navigate to the exe file of your game. That will be found where you installed steam or where you set your Library if you set it to a different location. Once you do that it should show up in the list below. Click on it, select options and set it to maximum performance.
• If you are using a laptop, only play when your laptop is plugged in. Playing on battery is not a good idea.
• on the bottom right of the task bar, there should be a battery icon. click on it and make sure the slider is set to better performance.
• Make sure battery saver is off.
• If all of this doesn't help, then open your task manager and check RAM, CPU and GPU usage when not running anything and when running a game. Check for any process that's taking a lot of resources.
• It's possible that your laptop is having heating issues which makes the CPU and integrated card throttle to prevent permanent damage. Use something like Hwmonitor to check your CPU and GPU temperature.
• Update drivers or rollback drivers if they were recently updated and give issues

Depends on your budget. $70 for this card is a rip-off. You should try to find a better card.

Found this. You can buy it used for $86 and it's waaaay better than the GT 730 you've found. Actually just going to Amazon and searching for graphics cards that are $50 - $100 with GTX in their name should be fine.

Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon Minimum Requirements

• CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 --or-- 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+

• RAM: 2 G

• OS: Windows XP (SP3) / Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8

• Video Card: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c–compliant

• Sound Card: Yes

• Free Disk Space: 3 GB

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/Requirements/far-cry-3--blood-dragon/11627?p=r

If your computer can handle Far Cry 3, then it should handle Blood Dragon.

I second the Speccy recommendation. Nice simple program to show you more detailed hardware info:

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

First of all, 4gb RAM is ok. Don't worry about that for average games.

Your processor is a lot weaker than a good i5 processor. It indicative of some limitations. Like, skip the shiniest new FPS games. You'll be fine playing indies I think (depending on graphic card).

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+E4600+%40+2.40GHz

If you have problems running the older games check the PCGamingWiki for possible solutions. I haven't run into any games that I ran on 7 that don't run on 10, so shouldn't be a big deal imo.

I use a Windows 98 virtual machine so I can run Missionforce: Cyberstorm, a game that is legendarily unfriendly to newer operating systems, and for Dark Earth, also a game that has problems running on newer systems... It's not exactly a dedicated Win9x machine, but it's close enough in my view.

Origin have a scheme called "On The House" where they give you a free game to keep every few months....
I managed to pick up Battlefield 3, Dragon Age: Origins and a few others through it

Obviously you need an Origin account and the "App" installed

http://www.gearbest.com/iphone-game-accessories/pp_247390.html

10 bucks and will do all you need

If that is too small, spend a little more and get this http://www.gearbest.com/video-game/pp_167775.html which is amazing

Yeah, fair point.

You could download Xpadder, it's free and you might be able to re-map the buttons enough that you could play some of the games you couldn't before. I use it all the time.

Edit: Didn't see that ogami1972 had already suggested that, I'll leave the link up.

FTL doesn't work well with a mouse because touch events and mouse events are different. Game wasn't made to handle it. I think somebody made a mod for FTL to improve that though.

edit: http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26647

Nethack, the classic dungeon crawl, has more depth (no pun intended) than most games.

Don't forget to eat the corpses of the creatures you vanquish to gain their intrinsic powers. Just make sure they're fresh, not poisonous, and wouldn't be put to better use as sacrificial offerings. Tin them if you want them to last. Train your pet to protect you and steal from shops, polymorph junk (or yourself, or your pet) to make it into something useful, and write on the floor with your wand to help identify it. Elbereth is there to help if you need it, and that's just scratching the surface.

I use it as well but there is a down side. With CPU you can compare them almost directly but be aware that AMD architecture is different and might performe a little slower. With the GPU's always check for benchmarks. Do this because the software they use (which you can download to test your machine) is a synthetic benchmark, so games might run as expected or not.

FM2/AM3’s rectangular aluminum stock cooler fits the AM4 stock bracket. The only thing that changed was the mounting hole spacing on the motherboard, not the bracket arm diameter.

In point of fact, the AM4 A6/A8 etc box cooler is the same one previously used for the FM2 apus. The only thing thats obviously against you is that the box cooler is pretty loud as far as the cooler options for AM4 goes and its likely to have less thermal mass than even the wraith stealth. Having held both in my hands, the stealth is a little but heavier and has a beefier fan, which might cut into your turboing ability a little but by no means dangerous to the chip itself.

If you eventually want to push 4ghz on that chip, something like this for $22 will work nicely:

EBTOOLS CPU Cooler Computer RGB Cooling Fans, 6 Heat Pipes CPU Radiator 12V 3Pin Colorful LED Cooling Fan for AMD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JQLK26N/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_CXZA1Q8Z67EBE9T1CHV9

Your current platform is still fine for the games you want to play, so here's what I would do:

• Buy the 570 and install it in your current system and see if that fixes the problem, if not:
• Buy a new PSU and see if that's the issue. You don't need anywhere near 850W btw, even 500W is plenty for most machines. If that still doesn't work:
• Get a Ryzen/mobo/RAM combo and reuse the other parts. Right now Amazon is selling the new AF (ie Zen+) Ryzen 5 1600 for $85 shipped, pair that with a B450 board and 16GB of DDR4-3200 ($120-150) and you've got a great system now and an even better one down the line if you upgrade later.

Here's a link to some popular games, that you may be able to run on your laptop, based on the video card, scroll down to see the games.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500.125586.0.html

You can also use this: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri - you need to install a small app to use the site, but it'll tell you if your computer can run a specific game.

Your video card is powerful enough to play some FPS or similar games, as far as I can tell, and even some newer ones.

/r/buildapcsales + patience

Use their filters to search for the thing you want sorted by top over the past month or so to see what kind of prices to expect, compare it to amazon and the other places. If you're patient, often deals repeat themselves. If you just REALLY need one thing and (like me) simply must feel like you got a good deal, you can set up IFTT to notify you when certain things are posted to the subreddit.

It's saved me so much money it's just ridiculous.

750 ti i think is the latest and greatest low profile card atm. However, if you feel bold, If you aren't afraid of cramming you could go for a pci-e extension cable and find a place suitable to put a short card in sideways. Then you can also get an hdmi/dvi extension cable (there are short ones out there) and extend it to the back. You'd have to remove the gpu expansion plate and place it in the back of the case, attach the cable to it, etc. You might be able to fit something like a gtx 1050

this is all speculation though. There are a few issues with this other than just space. You have to worry about heat dissipation and such.

Edit: latest low-profile gpu is a 1050 ti

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/assassins-creed-ii/10927/?p=r

This shows minimum requirements for AC2. Their auto detection tool isn't 100% accurate, but it will give you some guidance. You can find COD on here too.

Another okay site, game-debate.com

A link might be useful, OP.

Making me search things on Google? Unbelievable. ^^/s

Thanks for the info, though :) I've been salivating over it for a while now, waiting for a good price drop.

False positive according to the developers that is common.... https://www.moddb.com/mods/wolfendoom-blade-of-agony/downloads/blade-of-agony-chapter-2-v20-standalone/page/2#comments

Caveat Emptor, etc etc.

Looks like RA2 + YR is still free on Origin.

Red Alert 2 with Yuri's Revenge

I got it a month or 2 ago. I used to just have RA2, both allied and soviets (blue and red disks). 7 year old me was psyched that I had coloured CDs. I don't know what happened to the cds. I must have lost them when I moved house.

Anyway the game is brilliant and there are plenty of servers still running to play online. (CnC net.org is good)

Also, I removed my old post because it wasn't a text post, but Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge are still available for free on Origin as well.

It's typically indie games, most of which will work on lowend systems. Every once in a blue moon will come something that goes beyond that, but usually few and far between. And yes, each update pushes the older content back one page. As you flip back in pages the direct links in the article go away but most of the games listed can be found at itch.io.

0 AD has 1v1 multiplayer.

https://play0ad.com/

It will run on that platform, and is the closest cousin to what you listed.

Stepping off into Sci-Fi puts you inline for: https://zero-k.info/ Zero K

1.6 is popular among some Latin American and Russian players, you might be able to find a small community that plays it.

EDIT: Did a quick search, there are lots (10k) of active servers on GameTracker. Source has about 2k and GO has around 40k.

ArmA: Cold War Assault formerly known as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The built in mission editor and a million mods released in the last 14 years make this game endlessly playable for me. Especially if you can play with friends. Designing a mission you all play together is awesome.

hey sorry to bug you again, one last thing

I was trying to see if I could run Smite on at least 40 FPS with minimum settings, I checked here http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/smite/11514 but don't really 100% understand yet if " ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher). " means mine is good enough for the minimum 40 FPS with lowest settings - the Smite subreddit immediately deletes such questions, do you think that would work? (it also was not on your list)

>[games] that combine strategy with a storyline

Not on Steam, but Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and StarCraft both have phenomenal single-player campaigns.

Dumb question, feel free to downvote but I can't get the game. I clicked "Download" and it lead me to a page with 2 buttons, Standard and Deluxe.

https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/mass-effect/mass-effect-2/standard-edition#description

The game doesn't start downloading no matter how much I mash the "standard" button.

How do I start the download for this game?

It seems like for that price you can find some refurbished i5-5200U or A10-8700P. A very quick look around tells me the intel is a better CPU but the AMD has better iGPU in the Radeon R6. There's youtube videos of people running League of Legends and Rocket League in those machines.

EDIT: you can even find some Skylake laptops with Intel HD520 graphics too. I would try to look for videos of people playing the games you are interested in those machines, but it does seem doable to play League and Minecraft in 720p or 900p low.

Something is really up with your machine if you cannot run GTA V higher than 800x600 (and you have a 750m). You effectively beat the minimum system requirements and basically meet the recommended ones. Here's a benchmark video with a similar machine.

You might want to check your Nvidia settings to make absolutely certain the 750m GPU is being used for the game (Right click Desktop -> Nvidia Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings. Look for GTAV settings) . Newer machines have switchable graphics, which default to the onboard Intel GPU to save power. Since the i7-3537U comes with Intel HD Graphics 4000, that might explain why you have poor performance. The 750m might not be loading.

To be blunt, a 750m is at best still a mid range/mainstream card (albeit it at the lower end of that segment). I have played a number of games on it with everything maxed at around 720p resolution. I seriously doubt your machine isn't powerful enough to run GTA V at around 720p, if using the 750m.

You might also want to look at reloading your computer to factory settings (back up your data first!). If you've been running this machine for a while you might have a malware infection causing some issues too.

You need to host it in somewhere like imgbb.com and provide a direct link. Also, I wouldn't recommend throttlestop if you don't know what you are doing, and it seems you don't - that's why BSOD. Look up some tutorial and master it before meddling with CPU voltages.

So I was checking a few more threads, one says to uninstall any webcam software (this sounds ridiculous but I'd make sure nothing is running just to make sure).

Another fix was to keep pressing enter on the EA logo (?). Worth a shot.

I remember having this issue myself a while back but I can't remember how I fixed it unfortunately.

Here is a wiki page on fixes for startup crashes that may help:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Burnout_Paradise#Game_crashes_on_startup

Depending on which version you are messing with, you dont need to update JAVA, they bundle their own custom JAVA into the game. If you are using an older installer.. Windows 10 might hate it... right click, check the properties of the launcher and ensure it is not using a compatibility setting and launches as admin.

You can also use the alternate launcher... might help: https://minecraft.net/en-us/download/alternative/

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If you are not married to the idea of Minecraft, you can also run Minetest - same game, no Java, will run very well.

> Intel linux drivers don't provide OpenGL 2.0 support as only some of it is available in hardware

That's what this fixes, you might want to give it a shot. It gives my GMA 900 OGL 2.1 support where previously it only had 1.4.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock Lots of info available here! BioShock Tweaker would probably help.

In general, shadows and anti-aliasing are the first things to go. Anisotropic filtering and resolution are the last things to go. Texture quality depends on your VRAM consumption. Everything else is more variable and takes trial and error. Not knowing BioShock myself, I'd imagine that the post processing, reflections, and shaders settings are taking a lot out of your poor GT 210.

Forcing the game to run in DX9 instead could help, but I found that's surprisingly not always the case.

Valkyria Chronicles should run just fine @ 720p, though it's been known to have some issues, especially with vSync, check the PCGamingWiki should you have problems. From what I've seen if you lock the frame rate to 30fps it should be smooth. Company of Hereos is old enough that it should run just fine with your iGPU. GTA IV, checkout LowSpecGamer's video how to run Grand Theft Auto 4 on a low end PC, that'll get you to playable.

>Missionforce: Cyberstorm

That's what it was called!

Christ. I've been trying to remember the name of that game for almost ten years. I must have been about eight years old when I last played it.

I can't stay away from Dwarf Fortress! Its just too full of !!FUN!! moments. A new version was just released and Dwarf Therapist has JUST been updated along with it. You need a good CPU for all that number crunching and scripting goodness, but no GPU is required. Plus its free...

/r/dwarffortress reddit community, and the creator's home site with download.

Wait...What am I doing here? I need to go back to managing those pesky/fantastic dwarves!

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a third-person open world shooter that has some of the best environmental destruction I've ever seen in a video game. While I don't have enough information to comment on your particular case, it is significantly less demanding than Battlefield 4.

Dosbox runs .exe files just fine as as I know, ive never seen compatibility issues personally. Where did you get teh download it could be corrupt? I dont know anything about conversion but abandonware sites like http://www.abandonia.com/ are the best place

I found this one of the subreddit before. But, I'm not sure if it's the same thing. Razer game boost looks like it does the same thing... Or similar at least.

Hardware-wise you should be good to go. If you run into problems running it in modern Windows take a look at the PCGamingWiki for possible solutions.

You shouldn't have any problems running FO1/2/Tactics. FO3, hardware-wise, you should be alright for. It does pose a challenge to get running on newer versions of Windows though, to that end I recommend looking at the PCGamingWiki should you experience problems running it. You may also experience some texture problems due to the video driver being sub-par but shouldn't detract from the overall game iirc.

> AoE 2 HD

Try manually setting the scaling mode: (From PCGamingWiki)

• Go to the installation folder (<path-to-game>)
• Right click on Launcher.exe and choose Properties.
• Go to the Compatibility tab and check Override high DPI scaling behavior.
• Set Scaling performed by to System.
• Note: Do not choose System (enhanced) as it breaks the input.

> Starcraft Anthology

I think the problem there is that the 3150 maxes out at OpenGL 1.5 and (someone correct me if I'm wrong) SC v1.18+ needs at least 2.1. That's a hardware driver issue since Intel is no longer updating the drivers for 3150.

Looking through the games it seems like you meet the specs required, so tough call. Aside from /u/blacknight153's suggestions of ensuring your system is up-to-date and clean, I have a couple more areas to check out. First would be the dual graphics. Check in your Radeon control panel to see if it's enabled. If it's not, enable it; if it is, disable it. Then give the games a try and see if that helps. Some games don't like the AMD dual graphics or may not be able to take advantage of it and run into problems. It's suppose to be fairly seamless to the games but doesn't always work out that way in practice. The second one is RAM. This one is more of a look at usage, use something like MSI's Afterburner and use the on screen display (OSD) for CPU/GPU/RAM usage and see what's being hammered. If the RAM is running maxed out then you may be having the lag due to resources having to be pulled from the page file.

dust your pc. open it up and use q tips and some compressed air or something to dust it.

ive used many programs like malwarebytes and ccleaner and avast and all that but i found IOBIT advanced system care to be the best. it cleaned my pc and made it start up way faster. better than malwarebytes and ccleaner. u can get the pro version on filehippo for 1 week

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this is what ive done n my pc is a core 2 quad. so really old. n it still runs

There's Urban Terror, which is built on the Q3 engine. No single-player at all, but still quite a few servers running. I'm part of a clan that is usually active two or three nights a week, but there are plenty of others out there.

This. Fucking. Game. http://sauerbraten.org/ Amazing FPS, i ran this on a computer that was struggling to keep up with XP and it got 30+ all the time. Instagib is awesome and exciting, and you can get into the coopedit scene and make awesome maps from scratch. If you do good enough it might even be good enough to be included in the next release! Trailer: http://youtu.be/EsTkLZhMI0I

Rimworld is a colony-building game with a middling learning curve that is similar to Dwarf Fortress. Again, kinda spendy but an amazing game that gains depth with every update. However, like Dwarf Fortress, it's easy to have your colony fail - so it requires a somewhat high tolerance for failure. In the genre, these failures are called FUN! especially once you've learned to take them with a sense of humor. It really is fun to kinda watch your colonist's lives play out.

Project Zomboid is an open-world survival game set during a zombie apocalypse. It has an in-depth crafting and health system with quite a bit of effort needed to keep your character sane and healthy in the face of the apocalypse. It's awesome.

I am not sure how did you overclock it but I assume you force your cpu to run at its maximum frequency, for 2330m it is its base clock 2.20ghz. Do you experience lag in other games ? I think you are having thermal throttle. Monitor your temperatures with hwmonitor during gaming.

Your fan should exhaust out the back according to this.

A good utility to monitor temperatures if your don't already have something, is Speedfan

That said, with most electronics the cooler you can run them, the better it is for them. Heat stresses and kills pretty much everything over time so as long as it's not blocking or working against your laptops airflow a cooling pad is a good idea even if it isn't overheating yet.

assuming that everything is set to "performance"

I'm thinking it may be a thermal throttling issue.

Download gpuz, click the "sensors" tab (set the sensor update rate to around 3-5seconds) and recreate the lag in LoL. As soon as it's lagging, use alt-tab to return to gpuz (probably in system tray). See if there is a drop in the core clock.

If your looking for good media center software, two good options to consider would be Kodi and Plex, although there are hundreds of other options available. If you interested in either of them, here are the links to their respective websites:

Plex

Kodi

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

EDIT: Fixed a word because autocorrect is stupid.

Audacity should run okay, given that it's able to run on my Raspberry Pi and that it's open source, it should be okay for a lower end computer, and it's free so there's no loss in trying! http://www.audacityteam.org

cracks knuckles OK, you want a horror game, huh? Dungeon Nightmares is the scariest game ever. It's free, go right ahead. Turn off the lights, put your headphones on, turn up the volume... try not to scream too loud.

Edit: Important: since it appears to be playable in your browser now, I recommend that you click the download link on the page instead, and play it full screen. The dim lights button sucks, and you've gotta get that extra immersion.

What's about temperatures? Is it okay? Any other problems with other games? What about the older versions of Minecraft? Have you tried running 1.7-1.8 versions with/without optifine? Try checking out the Bedrock version if you can. It's a laptop right? I have no idea about HP itself as well as it's products... Use a cooling pad if it is a laptop. Try clearing the fans, hot air exhausts. If you can't trust yourself, leave it at a service to let them do the job for you. You can also use something like this.

That's all I can think as far as I can right now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.patience.revisited&amp;hl=en_US

Closest thing I've found to kpatience for android. If I wasn't lazy I'd look into what it would take to actually compile kpatience and run it on android. Since I first found it on a KDE Linux distro years ago it has been my favorite and puts Microsoft Solitaire to shame, in my opinion, but patience revisited is very nice as well.

There's a clone, but I've never played it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmdsoftware.starjumper&amp;hl=en

A few that won't even cost you money:

• Leage of Legends
• Sim City (Free on Origin - you should check the "on the House" section frequently, a few weeks ago they had Wing Commander III for free)
• OpenRA
• this Archive (https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2)

on Steam (for a few Bucks):

• Age of Empires II Gold
• Age of Empires III
• Half Life (and all Mods/Expansions)

Just for you I looked, it's this one

The current Humble Bundle includes Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. The Steam releases are souped-up OpenGL versions that you may or may not be able to run, but the original DOS versions are also included.

Half-Life 1 and its expansions.

Star Wars: Dark Forces and Jedi Knight.

Old id stuff (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Hexen).

You can get about 35 FPS on Intel HD 4600 (According to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a88Qz9pzQJY )

You also only need a "2 GHz DUAL CORE (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz)" processor (According to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/Requirements/battlefield-3/11211 )

So, you should be fine (If you are okay with 30FPS)

FO3 has some issues with running on newer OS & hardware. If you give the game a go grab the GOG version, they stripped out the GFWL so you don't have too. Past that there's a tonne of tweaks, mods, and fixes that can be tried should you run into problems. See the PCGamingWiki for more. I have the original retail disc release and had it working in W10 so it can be done, though I was using an nVidia GPU at the time.

To answer you question as stated, no. Quoting Kotaku, "Sega has confirmed it will have higher resolutions and improved textures, as well as graphics options for PC players." That "improved textures" could put it out the reach of low spec hardware. Though the "graphics options for PC" could mitigate some of that. But we will not really have a good guess until it's closer to release and they start talking specs, even then post release is when you really find out.

What's your budget?

$18 Gets you a processor bump from your dual core to a quad Q6600.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-86-Q6600-SLACR-Desktop-CPU-Processor-2-40-GHz-1066-MHz-SHIP-NEXT-DAY-/252273239899?hash=item3abca8275b:g:sRYAAOSwG-1Wuf4o

Then hunt down a GPU. You can squeak out a 750ti without needing additional power from the PSU. I see you're a Dell, someone here can correct me if I'm wrong but upgrading your PSU would also require an adapter since they use proprietary connectors.

Here's EVGA's b-stock. Factory refurbs and trade ins for their step up program.

http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=8

For ~$100 you can play on low-med

> It's not anecdotal, It'd be a lot harder to find someone who isn't multitasking on a computer

I'm not sure if you know what anecdotal means. You said it's not anecdotal, then proceeded to make another anecdotal statement.

> something dual cores just aren't as great at anymore. In terms of gaming we are looking at lower minimum framerates and unstable framerates with dual cores.

This statement is simply ridiculous. There's huge variety in dual core processors out there. The dual core i3-7350K outperforms your Athlon 860K in every benchmark. You simply can't make a blanket statement about dual cores because it's highly depended on the actual chips being compared.

>This shows how ancient you're thinking is that you still think indie games are considered a recent surge despite being around for a decade by this point.

This is just an attack, and you dodge addressing the underlying truth in my statement about indie games being more single threaded and not taking advantage of quad core processors.

>Cutting costs should be done on the GPU within reason, it's a lot easier to make up for a GPU bottleneck than a CPU bottleneck. And your CPU bleeds into everything else on your computer whether its day to day tasks, your motherboard or limits on what GPU you can make effective usage out of.

This is a complete red herring. I'm talking exclusively about the CPU and what to prioritize when buying cpus. If you want to skimp on your GPU to beef up your CPU then fine, you're still going to have to make a decision regarding what processor to buy and what I'm saying is still relevant.

Yup, very true. Your new CPU will be faster than your old one. Check it out:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Duo+E8200+%40+2.66GHz

vs

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-5005U+%40+2.00GHz

Clock speed is just one part of CPU performance. Your new CPU is a newer design and can run more threads at once.

Just upgrade graphics card to a gtx 960 and have 45-60 on medium highish settings. At least thats what I get.

Also, this post might get removed because of the rules in the sidebar, I recommend going to a site like http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri but sometimes the requirements seem a bit wonky.

Here is where I would start.

There is also a somewhat recent discussion about it over on Bleeping Computer's forum.

Hope those help!

Yes, the hw requirements for those games are very low compared to what you have. The only way I think you may have a problem would be running the older games in a modern OS, to that end if you run into problems checkout the PCGamingWiki for possible solutions if you encounter an issue.

There was an issue with the AMD drivers at launch but that was fixed. You shouldn't have any issues, PCGamingWiki has a few fixes if you do though.