I have a netbook. Any good games that will work well on it?

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hannan4mitch

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So, yeah. I have a HP Mini netbook (the older one), and was wondering if the Escapist community knows a few good games that would run well on it.
 

Episode42

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Well i've got a Samsung netbook (1Ghz, 1Gb RAM) which has Steam installed onto it. While it can't run anything too fancy, it'll run Half Life pretty damned well, aside from some minor lag in online deathmatches. Most games from around the same era will probably run, although do check first.
Anything before about 2000 is almost a guarantee. Steam has lots of low power indie games for low low prices which will be suitable as well.
I also have a Mega Drive emulator running on it.
I would suggest more, but Half Life is pretty much all i need on it for now.
 

hannan4mitch

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Ziadaine said:
MAYBE Minecraft?
Nope, FPS sucks balls.
Jumps around like a grasshopper on speed.
chaosyoshimage said:
I heard Torchlight has a netbook mode, so there's that...
Knew that already, but thanks.
Episode42 said:
Well i've got a Samsung netbook (1Ghz, 1Gb RAM) which has Steam installed onto it. While it can't run anything too fancy, it'll run Half Life pretty damned well, aside from some minor lag in online deathmatches. Most games from around the same era will probably run, although do check first.
Anything before about 2000 is almost a guarantee. Steam has lots of low power indie games for low low prices which will be suitable as well.
I also have a Mega Drive emulator running on it.
I would suggest more, but Half Life is pretty much all i need on it for now.
Thanks, I bought Dungeons of Dredmore on Steam a few months ago (which probably works, haven't installed Steam on my netbook yet), and I am thinking of using emulators.
 

Triangulon

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I play a lot of Football Manager on mine but also:

Frozen Synapse
Atom Zombie Smasher
Baldur's Gate/Planescape Torment
Desktop Dungeons
Dino Run
Fallout/2
DOOM
 

chaosyoshimage

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Well, um, I think a lot of old school RPG's that you can find on Steam and Good Old Games should work. I'm personally partial to Fallout 2...
 

GeneUnit

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Starcraft would probably run fine, also Mechwarrior 4 Mercs. might, you can get it free here http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html