what can i play with this laptop

[Venturanova1]

what descent games could i play on a Sony vaio laptop with a pentium 3 600 mhz 192sdr ram and a 6mb Neo magic Magicgraph256xl video card

[rugbyroy]

Solitaire.

[Sniperboy]

Originally posted by rugbyroy
Solitaire.

It's better than my laptop! :D
You can probably play Quake, Command and Conquer, Warcraft 2, and other games that are about that old.

[MEMex]

Originally posted by rugbyroy
Solitaire.

Nooo! I was going to say that :D

-Doom1 & ][
-DukeNukem 3D (i played that bad boy on a 2mb ISA vid card)
-Diablo 1 & possibly 2 /w exp
-Starcraft and exp
-Full Throttle (for fun)
-That one game that 2 gorrilas on top of buildings throw exploding bananas at eachother :clap:
-Durability (this is quite fun, you take the computer and throw it off of a high spot, preferably a rooftop or a 12ft ladder)
or
-Push a 3d manacin down a flight of stairs and a truck thing.... (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223654)

[Gnerma]

If you're feeling frisky, I'd suggest trying newish real time strategy games. Just be sure to check the minimum v memory requirements since most games will refuse to run if you don't have the minumum. Too bad you don't have 8mb. Most new RTS games require 8mb minimum (like Warcraft 3) : - /
Some I suggest
Empire Earth
Any Infinity Engine game (Baldurs Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, Planescape Torment)
The Longest Journey
Half Life / Counter Strike
Deus Ex (maybe)
Unreal (maybe)
Diablo 2
I could go on and on.. again just look for games with low vram requirements and 2d will be far easier to run than 3d. If you are not too picky you could have a lot of fun with that laptop.

[BigJk-47]

tetris

[Banyan]

i've seen some centon so-dimms onsale for pretty cheap quite frequently at cc etc... may want to keep and eye out on some of the forums out there.

[T20]

Quake1
Quake2


I usta play quake2 all the time with my Acer Travelmate 512T. Was a Celly @ 300mghz, 64 megs of ram, and a 2meg neomagic vid card :D

[Cyberwiz01]

get an emulator and play loads of old NES, SNES and Genesis games! I had an old IBM thinkpad with a 486 and it ran NESticle (an NES emulator) perfectly! I had tons of fun with emulators! Cant get any better than those classic games!

[NOThelagak]

Originally posted by Memex
-Push a 3d manacin down a flight of stairs and a truck thing.... (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=223654)

that stairs game RULES!

[SinsFeelNatural]

ummmm. You guys seem to forget, 600MHZ was king a few years ago.

Check out any of the Command and Conquer series minus renegades or any of the Sim City games up to and including 200.
Also try Unreal Tournament, I used to play that game on my 38-mhz with a 1mb graphic cards on my laptop!

Doom 1 and 2 are kinda played out but those games above will keep you busy for a while

Edit!: I meant 380 MHZ not 38 . Woops!

[Needitcooler]

Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, King's Quest..... Remember when Sierra was king. I really miss Space Quest.

[Gnerma]

Originally posted by SinsFeelNatural
ummmm. You guys seem to forget, 600MHZ was king a few years ago.
I agree. This isn't a 486 as some of you are suggesting.

[AGampher]

Originally posted by rugbyroy
Solitaire.

Holy moly, I laughed for like 2 minutes for that one.

But on a serious note:
I would play Fallout and Fallout 2 on it. By far the best games from that era.

[Cyberwiz01]

Originally posted by SinsFeelNatural
ummmm. You guys seem to forget, 600MHZ was king a few years ago.


Originally posted by Gnerma
I agree. This isn't a 486 as some of you are suggesting.

Hey, a 486 was king a few more years ago. :D

[Zim2411]

Originally posted by SinsFeelNatural

Also try Unreal Tournament, I used to play that game on my 38-mhz with a 1mb graphic cards on my laptop!



:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Thats imposiible!!!! Unreal 1 requires at least 233mhz, and a 4meg card!! Quake 2 cant even run on a system like that!!!

My dad has a similar dell but with a 8 meg ATI Rage card.

Pontifex is fun... build crappy bridges and watch them collapse ( chroniclogic.com )

I think maybe Need for Speed 3-4 might work... High stakes worked quit well on a 500mhz desktop... geforce 2 tho...

Unreal 1 would be great. Unreal Gold is only 5-6 bucks

Quake 2 +1...

Shogo was a good game...

[NOThelagak]

unreal tourny will run on that rig all day.

[SinsFeelNatural]

Originally posted by Zim2411


:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Thats imposiible!!!! Unreal 1 requires at least 233mhz, and a 4meg card!! Quake 2 cant even run on a system like that!!!

My dad has a similar dell but with a 8 meg ATI Rage card.

Pontifex is fun... build crappy bridges and watch them collapse ( chroniclogic.com )

I think maybe Need for Speed 3-4 might work... High stakes worked quit well on a 500mhz desktop... geforce 2 tho...

Unreal 1 would be great. Unreal Gold is only 5-6 bucks

Quake 2 +1...

Shogo was a good game...
:rolleyes:
Unreal tournament has software rending mode compatible with any graphics card.

System Requirements

PowerPC 603e/180 MHz or 604e/132 MHz
System 7.6 or later
64 MB RAM
120 MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive.


Notice they didn’t mention a graphic card. :D

[cursor]

CIV 3 baby! THAT's a game...

[Venturanova1]

first game im goign to run on this laptop is unreal tournament, ill try to get my hands on some of the other suggestions thanks for all the help

[Banyan]

Originally posted by SinsFeelNatural
ummmm. You guys seem to forget, 600MHZ was king a few years ago.

yep, just going on two years (?) ago i was playing C&C Renegade on my PIII...

[SinsFeelNatural]

Everyone including me forgot half life and system shock 2!

[fiji]

cmon!


starcraft

[TheFrag]

Originally posted by fiji
cmon!


starcraft

Dammit, I was gonna say that :(

You should be able to play Half-life/mods, you can even find low poly models for better fps. Also look at C&C Red alert 1/2, TIberian Sun, and ummm yeah.

[mx-6*]

UT runs fine on a P3-600 laptop with 4mb or video memory that I own. Just cant turn up the visuals

[Zim2411]

Originally posted by SinsFeelNatural

:rolleyes:
Unreal tournament has software rending mode compatible with any graphics card.

System Requirements

PowerPC 603e/180 MHz or 604e/132 MHz
System 7.6 or later
64 MB RAM
120 MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive.


Notice they didn’t mention a graphic card. :D

Thats a for a mac.

But since you meant 380mhz and not 38 i take back that post about bleh. And were you playing that on mac?

[Too Smart]

Age of Empires II

[OC Noob]

I had the exact same laptop with the exception of 128 mb of ram instead of the 192 that you have.

It would run HL and anything lower. 2D games are probably the best for it unless you can take looking at 640 x 480 then you have tons of old 3d games to choose from.

[Wraith]

Honestly, on that laptop, you can play any of the following

Unreal
Unreal Tournament-Any mods
HalfLife- Any mods
Rainbox 6
if that cards dx 8 then WC3
Diable 2
Hmmm, gimme time t othink of more stuff i played on my 400 mhz laptop.

[SlaughterUall]

One thing that you can play that does not require much CPU power is Paper Weight.

Slaughter

[OC Noob]

Originally posted by Wraith
Honestly, on that laptop, you can play any of the following

Unreal
Unreal Tournament-Any mods
HalfLife- Any mods
Rainbox 6
if that cards dx 8 then WC3
Diable 2
Hmmm, gimme time t othink of more stuff i played on my 400 mhz laptop.


It won't play WIII. I was really hoping it would, but the Neomagic card just won't run it.

[Wraith]

If your very, very lucky,try UT2k3, at the lowest res u may be OK.

Did you install DX 9? DX 9 may let you play, it let my play battlefield 1942 on a radeon 7000.

You can run just about anything on that laptop, just not the newest games, anything a year old will run perfect.

[TUK101]

Starcraft, D2, WCII, Motocross Madness 2. Some of these games would drop the fps down pretty low, but with low graphics details you should keep the fps at acceptable levels. The sad thing is that you are very limited by your graphics card. The cpu really isnt an issue.

[OC Noob]

Originally posted by Wraith
If your very, very lucky,try UT2k3, at the lowest res u may be OK.

Did you install DX 9? DX 9 may let you play, it let my play battlefield 1942 on a radeon 7000.

You can run just about anything on that laptop, just not the newest games, anything a year old will run perfect.

I had DX9, the problem is the vid card is like an S3Virge when it comes to gaming. Very weak. BF1942, MMO, WIII and newer games like that wouldn't even initialize (is that a word?). An r7000 is way way way way way way way better then the Neomagik card. It was barely DX compatible.

I wish this Presario 700 gfx was upgradable. The S3 Twister gfx is better, but not by much(edit: I'll take that back w/ 32 mb thw twister ain't bad).

It would be sweet if you could just swap out vid cards like on a desktop system.

[Venturanova1]

I was wondering if this vid card woul be upgradable but i guess not, and like u said Oc noob newer games wont even initialize, i guess its good for older games. One more thing i was wondering was if there is anyway i can connect my laptop to the tv if there is anything i can buy for that atleast use it as a dvd player and presentation like stuff.