Good game that can run on my pc

[beer_nuts]

i used to have a similar set up....cod4 always ran well on it, nothin very pretty, but very smooth,

 

[thenamelessloser]

There is also Onlive.
It's nice, and you don't even have to pay anything untill you really want to.
And all of the games will run, even the most graphic intensive ones. give it a try.

http://www.onlive.com/#1

dont you have to be like 100 miles form a server that on live owns

I don't think the internet works that way... I think you do have to live in the USA but more for legal than technical reasons. If you have a fast stable internet and live in the USA you should be able to play Onlive. I don't get how the 100 miles from a server thing even makes any sense.....

Never heard of ping?

If you're playing a game that's being hosted in say, California and you're playing in the UK or something. Then you're ping is going to be higher than someone playing in Cali as a result of how long it takes the packets to make a round trip.

I would imagine streaming a game would work much the same way.

Hmm, I don't usually play multiplayer. With multyuplayer gamers you're going to have the same problem whether using onlive or not... There would probably a problem with single player with it. But I'm not sure how many areas without fast internet connection in the USA would be that far away from an onlive server (no idea how many there are.) Onlive worked fine for me when I used onlive but I probably live near a server. Not that great though. There aren't that many PC exclusives on it which is stupid. What is the point of having something that makes it so a crappy PC can play newer more demanding games when most of the games available on that thing are old or on consoles anyway.

 

[TheDanielG]

You should really consider upgrading your Graphics card. It's holding you down, trust me, I know. Otherwise GTA San Andreas and Minecraft.

 

[Tesral]

Ohoho. As far as old PC games go, there are some great ones.

-Deus Ex
-Thief 2
-Half Life
-The early Total war games
-Warcraft
-Dawn of war
-Diablo 2
-Unreal Tournament
-X-COM Enemy Unknown
-Black and white
-Starcraft
-IL-2 Sturmovik
-Mechwarrior
-System shock 2
-Battlefield 1942 (if anyone still plays it these days)

Just to name a few. There are probably some really good ones that i've missed out and will be shouted at by old school PC gamers for.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Just go to GOG.com. They have tons of great, older games there for dirt cheap. Of those on the site, I would recommend Baldur's Gate II, Divine Divinity, and Planescape: Torment. Also, I would recommend Warcraft 3, Age of Empires II, and Age of Mythology (even though they are not yet on GOG).

 

[otakon17]

Google "Can You Run It?". It will ask if it can install a client that checks your PC set up to a list of games it has on file. It has a pretty big list, so check it out. Not 100% accurate though. It said I met just below optimal settings to play "The Witcher", but I can barely run it at 20 fps on the lowest settings.

 

[sean360h]

There is also Onlive.
It's nice, and you don't even have to pay anything untill you really want to.
And all of the games will run, even the most graphic intensive ones. give it a try.

http://www.onlive.com/#1

dont you have to be like 100 miles form a server that on live owns

I don't think the internet works that way... I think you do have to live in the USA but more for legal than technical reasons. If you have a fast stable internet and live in the USA you should be able to play Onlive. I don't get how the 100 miles from a server thing even makes any sense.....

ping would kill me ad i live in Ireland anyway so all im getting is eight megs a second (800kbps)

 

[sean360h]

Install a ~90-120 dollar video card and you'll be able to play anything on the market, and you won't have to worry about upgrading until about two years after the next console gen comes out.

I got one but it wont run
the power supply unit is like 350-400 watts im just going to get a new pc and swap the card or build one and use the one gig I have here
want some good games so i can play more than mine craft on my pc

 

[AceTrilby]

The Penumbra series. Honestly, as long as you don't set the resolution too high, it runs nice and smoothly. I can play it on my laptop which has trouble running Minecraft at times!

Also, STALKER surprised me as it runs pretty smoothly too.

 

[L0n3xH4wk]

There is also Onlive.
It's nice, and you don't even have to pay anything untill you really want to.
And all of the games will run, even the most graphic intensive ones. give it a try.

http://www.onlive.com/#1

dont you have to be like 100 miles form a server that on live owns

I don't think the internet works that way... I think you do have to live in the USA but more for legal than technical reasons. If you have a fast stable internet and live in the USA you should be able to play Onlive. I don't get how the 100 miles from a server thing even makes any sense.....

ping would kill me ad i live in Ireland anyway so all im getting is eight megs a second (800kbps)

I actually didn't realize Onlive was just a USA thing my bad. Sorry if I caused any Confusion lol

 

[theSHAH]

You can actually pull off WoW, and maybe even a few more modern games as long as you're content with low graphics settings. I use to play WoW on an old desktop I bought in 2004 before I got my Alienware laptop. And borderlands should run fairly well as long as you have everything on low