Good games that could work smoothly on a P2 400mhz?

[Y i K i]

i know, it's pathetic... but common! there's gotta be people with machines as slow as mine! what do u guys play? any advice? hell i'm bored... :(

FIY my system spec's:
Video Card: ATI RADEON VE 32mb
RAM: 256mb

[mSYL]

Unfortunately, not many new games will run well if at all with that proc, so you'll have to stick to the golden oldies.

A lot of classic FPS's should run on your PC... Quake, Unreal, maybe Q2 and UT even.

[reep]

i'm writing this on a p2-300, 192mb ram, matrox g200 millennium - and will play warcraft 3 in a minute!
of course, it's only running at acceptable speeds @ 640x480 and without all the details - but hey, at least it's playable at all.

[getyogrooveon]

I use a simialr spec machine as a DVD/ Games machine with a ATI Radeon card with video out. At TV resolutions (800x600) game play is perfectly acceptable with all but the most demanding games. With older systems, it is the video card that makes all of the difference, perhaps a cheap (2nd hand) video card would give a great improvement on performance with very little outlay.

[Ar-K-Ique]

you could run linux on it and make a small web server....

uhm........

Quake 2 should run ok as well

[Hodgemeister]

quite a lot of stuff will run on reduced detail at 800*600, but it depends on what you are prepare dto give up in visuals for gameplay.

[Kuma]

hehe YIKI, i know what you mean, i only got a 500........

[Bane39]

The Longest Journey is a good one..
THPS 2..

[Dustcounter]

There is alot of good games... Do you like RPG'S? Like Baldurs Gate!? Planescape Torment, FALLOUT 1 & 2 !! (oohh)... Those for you can play... Or do you mean 3D shooters?

[entrails]

I use a celeron 5000 as my kids pc...runs any game they want but they cant see u wanting to play my little pony and barbie.....LOL

[Hodgemeister]

wow entrails...a celeron 5000..that is some serious overclocking. You cooling it with liquid nitrogen?....LOL

[entrails]

LOL mate paid £40 for it and its a great pc so i dont have the kids playing their games on my pc.

[Hodgemeister]

but check out your processor speed entrails...lol

[Mork from Ork]

Hmm that speed must be using the British system of registering chip Mhz LOL

As per this thread, If you can find UT it would play fine :cool:

[Visser]

Starcraft

UT and Q3 plus any HL mod will run fine.

[Magic]

Diablo II might run. good game. very good.

again, starcraft, half life.


above all else:

TRANSPORT TYCOON!!!! :D

[legends71]

I think the same what older RPG's will run fine on your p00ter

[Juu]

You can play loads of good games, i had a celeron400 and a voodoo3 and i could play those games with good results: half-life, starlancer, baldur's gate, icewind dale, commando, .... i could tell you more but i would need to have a look at my CD collection :D

[DR_SP0CK]

Get yourself a gf2mx400 (or better) they cost about $50 here and you can play a whole lot of new games (i played max payne on my 400mhz without any troubles , ofcourse on the lowest resolution but still) im not sure about the radeon though.

[Y i K i]

Thx for all the replies buddies, :)
i guess rpg is the stuff to go for, plus i really like them. so guess i'll check out some of those i haven't played yet, like icewind dale, planescape torment ...etc. maybe i should try max payne at low res, too... i remember it not working on my old video card, and i haven't tried it on my new radeon yet...

thx again, keep those coming if u can ;)

[vizion]

AOE 1, 2, HoMM- ne1 but the latest release...n if u really want to play something different get an mame arcade emulator n some of the best fighting games[roms] from neo geo or capcom n that's it.
I got a p2 300 with 320 ram and 32meg elsa card. Works good, n i even get to do some 3d stuff.

[Raptor1]

i am running a p3 500.. and thinking of getting a new 1 already..
lolz..
dammed.. now if only i have the $$$

[SERGIO]

swat 3 or Hidden&dangerous, FIFA and NHL series and so on run fine..

[Dijital]

counter-strike and diablo 2 will run fine. i used to play those on my old p2-400.

[dephier]

I have a cel300 with a 32mb GeForce2 and I can play most games, such as GTA3, Max Payne etc. Just tone down the detail and you should be fine.

Plus, I used to play HL, UT etc on my PII266 with 4mb Voodoo1 (In fact it still gets used for UT langames) and as long as everything is turned down it looks and runs fine. I don't see the need for all the eyecandy if you are playing the game to play the game (if you know what I mean)

[dr0ap]

I also have a PII 400 MHz and 256 RAM. I used to have an TNT1 GFX card, but I changed it to a GeForce 2 64MB. Before the change the most I could play a game at was 800x600, with my new card I could go upto 1024x768 and I got faster speeds than at 800x600 with my old card.

I can play lots of game well on my comp, here's a list of games you should consider playing. I haven't played any recent games other than GTA3, so the list is definatly outdated.

Alice, American McGee's
Anachronox
Battlezone
Battlezone 2: Combat Commander
Black And White
Civilization 3, Sid Meier
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos: Beyond The Call of Duty
Cossacks: European Wars
Delta Force: Land Warrior
Deus Ex (Highly Recommended)
Earth 2150
Evil Islands
Final Fantasy VII
Gangsters 2
Ghost Recon, Tom Clancy's
Ground Control
Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy
Gunman
Half-Life
Half-Life: Blue Shift (includes Op. Force)
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Hitman: Codename 47
Homeworld
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Imperium Galactica 2
In Cold Blood
Kingpin
Max Payne (AWSOME)
Mechwarrior 4: Vengence
Moon Project, The
Nocturne
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Oni
Project Eden
Rainbow Six
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Red Faction
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Rune
Septerra Core
Serious Sam
Soldier
Soldier of Fortune
Star Trek: Away Team
Star Trek: Elite Force
Starcraft
Starcraft: Brood War
Startopia
Sting, The
System Shock 2 (Good)
TechnoMage
Theif 2
Total Annihilation
Total Annihilation:Battle Tactics
Total Annihilation:The Core Contingency
Tropico
Undying, Clive Barker's
Unreal Tournament
Ward, The
Warzone 2100
X-Com Enforcer
Z2: Steel Soldiers

[znow]

well, dr0ap has a nice list for you :)
i'd like to add:

Anno 1602
Commandos 2
Worms (all)

[DKjojoe]

400Mhz..I got one myself Q2 Q3 will run UT works as well...you may be able to run some new games at very low res
but really..what we need is a new computer :D

[Y i K i]

whoaw, thx tons dr0ap!! i'll try them ;)

ps. does GTA3 work well on your pc?

[djfxp]

i have a 400 p2 with 384 megs of ram
Geforce 2 with 32mb ram

I can run any new game thats out, just doesnt run the fastest or best detail in resolution and optimization..

I learned that if u upgrade your video card drivers to current ones, at least with geforce cards, games run a lot smoother! Especially Warcraft 3, i noticed scrolling through the screen was a pain, till i updated the drivers and it all runs fairly smooth..

I hope this helps some! :)

[Y i K i]

again, thx all for helping out! ;)

[blackhawk]

.anything before 1998 should work on you machine ?

[dr0ap]

GTA3 works excellent after I installed my GeForce2 Ti 64 MB. It was somewhat playable with my TNT1, but it lagged SEVERLY! Driving in a police car full speed slowed it down so much becuase the CPU was concentrating on graphics instead of loading the map and reaction times. When I turned MP3's on, it got twice as laggy and the music skipped. Now with my new graphics card my computer still has a little more life in it. Best $60 I ever spent. I won't have to upgrade again for maybe another 6 months to a year.

[Sellitna]

First-person shooters are going to be the biggest problem on old hardware, but even some of the older ones are worth playing and with the modding community that developes around the good ones (eg, HL, UT) you can keep getting new material for them. If they're your cup of tea, then a bunch of strategy games would work well too - The Sims, SimGolf, Railroad Tycoon II, and so on forever. Also, I'm not certain but I'd say something like Medieval might run fine - I'm playing it at the moment on my Celeron 667 with a TNT2 and have absolutely no issues at 1024x768. And, as other people have suggested, most RPGs will do reasonably well - Neverwinter Nights might be one exception, especially in large areas, but some of the older Bioware and Black Isle games would be fine and will occupy plenty of hours.

[Y i K i]

big thx to dr0ap and Sellitna ;)

[Crowebert]

I'd say go with some good old legacy FPS game (UT, Q2/3, HL and it's mods), definitely some great RPG stuff (Baldur's Gate, Planescape, Fallout), adventure games should run just fine (Monkey Island (the new one), Longest Journey, Grim Fandango) and finally, can't go wrong with THPS2

hope this helps!

[Huntsman]

I have a 333mhz Celeron, 192mb RAM, Stealth 3 32mb video card and my PC will run most games pretty good. One game it won't run is Army Operations.

[wy3]

anything pre 1999 lol

[captainneo]

GTA 3 should run well using the latest Radeon Catalyst drivers (2.2 I think..) and that much RAM. (more would be even better though) I play Mechwarrior 4 on one of my gaming boxes with a similar setup. Also Motocross Madness 2 and Supreme Snowboarding (AKA BoarderZone) should run well. I love that snowboarding game on any machine by the way, but if you havent tried it on a 2gig+ PC your missin a helluva ride!

Driver is great fun at lower MHz too, so dont miss that one. Oh ya and Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed should look great on that machine too. It might play Empire Earth too, but if not that then Age of Empires 1 or 2 would be good for an RTS fix.

Im sure I will think of 20 more once I stop typin, but those are some of my all time favorites.