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Its been a whilst since I’ve bothered with gaming... Wondering if some one could recommend some kind of strategy game to run on a bottom end laptop for a long commute!
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Any of the Civilization series is worth playing. I'm not sure if your laptop will handle Civ IV but either III or II should run. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^] -- modified at 12:36 Saturday 18th March, 2006
Thgat game is evil... it's probably not suitabel for a commute, because of the"just one mroe turn" feature.
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That was close was just about to go out and buy generals! The spec of the laptop is a 1.5ghz 512mb 64mb graphics... :( Cheers!
Actually, Generals WILL run on that system. My laptop is a 1.8 ghz with 512 mb of ram with 64 mb Geforce FX5200 and it runs it quite well on medium. You may not be able to turn everything on, (turn off water reflections, and shadows) but it will run pretty well on that system. Grab the demo here: http://files.filefront.com/Command++Conquer+Generals+includes+Demo/;1249892;;/fileinfo.html[^] Just one thing... it's kinda big at 408 megabytes so you might want to go get a burger once you start the download.
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Thgat game is evil... it's probably not suitabel for a commute, because of the"just one mroe turn" feature.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighistpeterchen wrote:
it's probably not suitabel for a commute, because of the"just one mroe turn" feature.
Good point. My 3d graphics card died so that has cured me of my Civ IV addiction. (for the moment) Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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For a bottem end laptop, I would recommend any game in the Command & Conquer series EXCEPT generals. If you don't have a at least a 128MB graqphics card generals will make you cry. Civilization 3 should also run well.
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Steve McLenithan wrote:
Civilization 3 should also run well.
Depends on how low end it is. On an AMD 1.4Ghz and half a gig, it really didn't run fast towards the end. I'm not kidding you when I tell you that I made tea (including the act of boiling water - no preheated water!) between the rounds. Civ3 requires a lot of CPU once the tough gets going. -- Pictures[^] from my Japan trip.
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That was close was just about to go out and buy generals! The spec of the laptop is a 1.5ghz 512mb 64mb graphics... :( Cheers!
Ok, I'm running Generals on AMD Turion 1.8 + 512mb (of which 64mb is being shared for the graphics) + Ati 200m (x300 chipset with the 64megs mentioned before) .. oh, and it's running at 1400x1050 (the native resolution of this monitor:)) at a very impressive speed! So it's not *that* hard on the specs ;) Regards, Tadej ps: and it's a great game, as well, I recommend it
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Steve McLenithan wrote:
Civilization 3 should also run well.
Depends on how low end it is. On an AMD 1.4Ghz and half a gig, it really didn't run fast towards the end. I'm not kidding you when I tell you that I made tea (including the act of boiling water - no preheated water!) between the rounds. Civ3 requires a lot of CPU once the tough gets going. -- Pictures[^] from my Japan trip.
Tht's true. I remember playing a giant size map with max players... by the end even on a 3.4GHz P4 the turns took 5minutes+
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did u try Commando-behind the enemy lines? its a old one though, but i still like it.
-Prakash
Which one was that - i think there were three? I remember playing the first one about 7 years ago... it got more and more difficult and I never completed it :(. I bought the second one not that long ago, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
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Its been a whilst since I’ve bothered with gaming... Wondering if some one could recommend some kind of strategy game to run on a bottom end laptop for a long commute!
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Any of the Civilization series is worth playing. I'm not sure if your laptop will handle Civ IV but either III or II should run. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^] -- modified at 12:36 Saturday 18th March, 2006
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For a bottem end laptop, I would recommend any game in the Command & Conquer series EXCEPT generals. If you don't have a at least a 128MB graqphics card generals will make you cry. Civilization 3 should also run well.
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Steve McLenithan wrote:
I would recommend any game in the Command & Conquer series EXCEPT generals
I loved the original :-D
Ryan
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Its been a whilst since I’ve bothered with gaming... Wondering if some one could recommend some kind of strategy game to run on a bottom end laptop for a long commute!
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That was close was just about to go out and buy generals! The spec of the laptop is a 1.5ghz 512mb 64mb graphics... :( Cheers!
AJ123 wrote:
1.5ghz 512mb
You call that low-end??? My laptop is 233 MHz... Anyway, try Red Alert 2 (maybe with the Yuri's revenge addon). It is 2D, and very addictive. :)
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i would highly recommend Age of empires 1 & 2 but i doubt you will enjoy strategy games much on a laptop without a mouse (assuming that you won't use mouse while commuting).
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Its been a whilst since I’ve bothered with gaming... Wondering if some one could recommend some kind of strategy game to run on a bottom end laptop for a long commute!
I highly recommend Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun. My kids and I actually preferred it to the rest of the series and still take it for a spin every now and then. (Heck, get the Command & Conquer Collection from your local computer store.) On my main system, I still have Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and Warcraft III installed and still play the former occasionally. Don't know if they run on a "bottom end" laptop though. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke