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tube82 said:
besides the fact that your PC is not really fast, the great thing about pc gaming is that no matter how old your pc is, there are more than enough great games available that run perfectly fine. you just gotta look back a few years... there have been gems every year for about 2 decades now!

how about some of the blizzard games? have you ever played diablo 2? if not, get it now!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! diablo 2 and Lord of Destruction. If you want you can have my Cd-keys just torrent the file and use my keys legit for online let me know if you want them



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The computer is old and probably won't run anything made in the last 5 years very well. But it will run some great games that you may have missed from the last gen. Look for games like jade empire, knights of the old republic 1 & 2, neverwinter nights, marrowwind, beyond good and evil, fallout 1 & 2 and fable:the last chapters.



1) Start from the beginning. Go download DOSBox so you can emulate all the really old games that are impossible to find or purchase anywhere.

2) Get StarCraft. You could play it for 12 years like they did in Korea. It's really cheap and amazing.

3) Get a Steam account and see what they have for free or on sale. Right now you can get GTA 1, 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas, 4, The Lost and the Damned, The Ballad of Gay Tony, and Manhunt, Bully, and some other Rock Star stuff, all in a super Rock Star package for $43. They also have some cool free and/or really cheap indie games.

4) Get The Orange Box. Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2. IT'S THE BEXT!



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defiantly get a steam account and brows the sales just look for older and inde games. as for specifics the original mount & glade should run fine and probably warband would run to, starcraft and warcraft 3 are good options, Diablo II as well, you could try one of Spiderweb software's games (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/) they are shareware so you can play a good part of the games for free.



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Voltaire said:

Well the title says it all. I recently bought a "newer gaming" PC of some guy from Craigslist. Its hooked up and works great, a hell of a lot better than my old PC, but i dont know what games i should (or can) play on it. I dont want to support or even put up with some of the more rigid DRM systems such the 3 install limit. Heres what i got (as far as i can tell):

-AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+

-2.01Ghz, 1GB RAM

-Radeon x300/x550 graphics card

I think thats my hardware, but if it sounds wrong just let me know. Ive always been interested in the MAss Effect games, but apparently ME1 has some nasty DRM, so thats out of the question. Bioshock, Dragon Age, and WarHammer all look like somthing id like.

So, any recommendations?

The Steam version of ME has no DRM whatsoever.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17460/



Gametap has lots of classic old games too, if you just want to do the subscription thing. That vid card is good enough for some great games that to this day still kick the crap out of newer releases.

Try Quakelive - free; starcraft is cheap, but SC2 is just around the corner. And of course there's plenty of servers and players for CS1.6/CS:S. BF2 is still good.

Lots of great RPGs and RTSs too if you are into that. Then lots of PC centric addictive games like Civ IV - absolutely nothing like Civ:R.

And of course MMOs like WoW if you are into that.



Mutedperson said:

thats the inside of my case

 

Gaudy and ugly. It's the computer equivelent of what 17 year olds do to their mom's Honda Accord.



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I hate to break it to you, but this was not a smart decision.

The computer looks VERY old (a dinosaur by PC standards). You will not be able to run anything new, period. A $300 emachine from target is better than this (and emachines are terrible).

Also, I doubt your motherboard has PCI express meaning you can't upgrade the graphics card with anything worth buying. And your motherboard has an old CPU socket (I presume) so you can't upgrade to any new CPU. 1 gig of ram isn't enough, 4 is the bare minimum if you plan on running Windows 7 eventually with any newer game. The inside of the case looks very cluttered as well with a lot of useless lots sucking up power and keeping people awake at night.

Odds are the components of this PC brand new would not be worth $200, add in that they are probably several years old and it should be free almost.


Get your money back if you can, and put that money towards a brand new computer. Computers are one of the things that you CANT go cheap on, you will regret it. Save up more money, buy a PC later that, you will be much more satisfied.



You need to replace the system. Get a new CPU, motherboard, graphics card and RAM. They're quite cheap these days, for something probably ten times as fast as your system. The graphics card being ancient.