PC games you want to play... but can't

[ExileNZ]

Bioshock.

STILL.

Sacred 2
Stalker
Gothic 4
Hell, Gothic 3

I'm getting a new lappy soon and it's about bloody time. I can still use this one for work afterwards.

 

[kayisking]

Well I wanted to go back to some oldies and got ***** smacked by the multicore issues:
- Beyond good and evil (after thousands of compatibility tweaks,it will run but never in any sort of playable fashion)
- Dungeon Siege (will crumble every few seconds)
- Diablo 2 (wont even finish loading)

Seems I haveto go and put one of my old machines together, quite a hassle for these few games.

There is a working version of Beyond Good and Evil on gog.com. You only have to turn down the AA, no futher tweaking required. Runs on practically any machine. You should definitely buy it.

 

[kayisking]

Well I wanted to go back to some oldies and got ***** smacked by the multicore issues:
- Beyond good and evil (after thousands of compatibility tweaks,it will run but never in any sort of playable fashion)
- Dungeon Siege (will crumble every few seconds)
- Diablo 2 (wont even finish loading)

Seems I haveto go and put one of my old machines together, quite a hassle for these few games.

Diablo 2 runs just fine on my Dual Core machine running Windows 7 64 bit. Just make sure you're running the fully patched version. If you can't get it to load far enough to get to the auto patcher, Blizzard has a manual patch on their website.

On gog they have a version of Beyond Good and Evil that works great once you turn off the anti-aliasing. It´s great, it really is, check it out.

You quoted the wrong person; only the person whose post you're immediately quoting gets a notification, nested quotes don't do anything for the people higher up in the chain. You might want to re-quote the guy, just to make sure he gets the message.

Thanks for the tip, I've done that.

 

[gg4u2]

Napolean total war isnt on mac so im pretty much screwed there

 

[Dfskelleton]

I've always wanted to play System Shock 2, but I can't find the thing anywhere, which makes me a sad panda.
Also, Blood. Yes, I know it's on GOG, but I would like to know more about the site. Yes, I'm a litte paranoid, but still.
Oh, and I suck at using DOSbox.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I can't get the first Rayman to work on my PC. Makes me such a sad panda, never completed that game either. I should really get it from GoG one of these days.

Also, I fear that Battlefield 3 won't run properly, even on my modern-day machine. It just looks so goooooood. The devs said that if you could play Bad Company 2, and I can smoothly, you can play BF3, but I'm just not so sure.

Byond good and evil

the game should be renamed "dual cores are evil"

Got that from Steam for like 3 euros, works perfectly on my quad-core PC.

I've always wanted to play System Shock 2, but I can't find the thing anywhere, which makes me a sad panda.
Also, Blood. Yes, I know it's on GOG, but I would like to know more about the site. Yes, I'm a litte paranoid, but still.

No need to be, GoG is a fantastic site. There'll be a crapload of people here who'll agree with me.

 

[Hobonicus]

Crysis 1, and Shogun 2: Total War

Not because my computer is way too advanced to run them (I fucken wish), but because I'm ghetto and it's not beefy enough to run them.

I think the thread should be altered to accommodate games you'd need to upgrade to play as well.

Crysis! Which isn't saying a lot because Crysis is computer Jesus impossible.

I obviously have no idea what computer you have, but Crysis actually has a fairly low threshold if on low settings. It's gotten popular to call it an unoptimized monster that barely works on NASA computers, but it really only gets difficult to run when getting up in the highest settings.

 

[arealperson]

... I tried ACT some time ago on X-Com ...


...If you get any Color Errors...

In reference to X-Com, can you confirm this is the issue where large black rectangular fill (larger than pixel size... say a twelfth of the screen) consumes the screen and the game seems to freeze alongside being impossible to play? I've got the Steam release and play it in Wine (on a Mac OS...). I ask because the issue doesn't seem to produce what you gave as an example in your screenshot and I'm wary of my inexperience. I have some doubt that your fix will work with Steam and the Wine explorer, but since the Wineapp database didn't seem aware of the problem, anything you address would be helpful.

One game I have is Star Wars galactic battlegrounds and when I got my new laptop in the summer of 2009 I tried playing it but my computer was apparently too advanced for it to play.

I can run it on a fairly current Mac, but that might be because Aspyr ported it for Mac OS X. I gave up on that game anyways, because multiplayer is absolutely impossible from what I gathered from Google. Aside from AI issues (some skirmish teams would just not even try) I had quite a bit of fun with it though, so good luck running it.

Other games I can't run any more (or can't be arsed to run emulators/reformat/learn) are anything from classic Mac. SimCity 3000 was one game that died even while I had access to it, likely due to some files I downloaded that were never meant to run on my machine. If I could find the disc to try it again some time, that might help too.

 

[Nazulu]

I really want to play Company Of Heroes but I refuse to buy it because of the ridiculous DRM. There's another one as well but I can't remember the name right now.

The DRM requires you stay online all the time and searches your computer for certain software the creators believe to be made for burning or some shit.

 

[Titan Buttons]

Lemmings paintball, it was on floppy disks

 

[Ninjat_126]

Prince of Persia (2D) and Half-Life: Blue Shift don't work on my laptop due to compatability issues.

Anything newer than Half Life 2 or Doom 3 drops frames. And by "frames", I mean "every frame".

Seriously. This is why PC gaming is "dying": "real gamers" would rather spend money on games than on upgrading their graphics cards so they can run games.

Bioshock, TF2, Brink, Metro 2033, Killing Floor, Shattered Horizon... All play horribly even on lowest settings.

Brink in particular plays on something like 1 or 2 FPS all the time, and even less when I play on an outdoor map.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

The first two thief games. I almost got the second one to work but it kept crashing everytime I finished the first mission.

 

[Yossarian1507]

Alan Wake.

This is the only reason why I wish I would have an X360, but I'm not going to buy another console just for one game.

 

[Jonsbax]

Stubbs the Zombie apparently doesn't work on Windows 7, and it was pretty much the only game I was really looking forward to when I finally got a computer that could play something more advanced than Liero without crashing.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Witcher 2. I even got the game, but it seems that my PC could only play it with 15FPS on the lowest setting. That kinda sucks, but I am already working on buying a desktop PC right now, just trying save up some money on it. Well, guess i'll live with bread and water for a couple of months now

 

[similar.squirrel]

..Minecraft. I can't wait to get a decent PC or laptop.

 

[GideonB]

Popstage.
Damn KSSN rules.
Oh and Vindictus, because I live in the EU