I have a low end pc
My system isn't as potato as yours (4 years old) but a good tool I use is Game Debate. I find it more reliable than CYRI for telling me whether my laptop will be able to run games or not. CYRI has told me I'd be able to run games before that I wasn't, but GD has always been accurate for me.
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hmm, usually CYRI says i can't run it, while i can ;)
but game debate looks cool, thanks...
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I can vouch for Game-Debate. CYRI said I could not run Dark Souls 3 on Min or Recommended due to my laptop's video card but with Game-Debate it said I could run the game at least on high settings with 45-60fps which is pretty much exactly how it ran (only with a few hiccups here and there). i'm sure it largely has to do with CYRI being more compatible with desktop hardware but i still prefer filtering the hardware from a list of options than having it done automatically.
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I'd say: 15+ year old games.
Really, I'd suggest some of the old games sold at GOG.com (although many are also sold on Steam).
(Even for 15 year old PC, there will be different levels of hardware, so it may be worth mentioning the hardware, but I think you really should just stick to games of that time.)
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As a proud user of Intel HD3000 i recommend this list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oAxgg1E0ONclzVTf5CNpG4bpDM8QEtKfe9WPgjO1PRM/edit#gid=1
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~8-10years old, but yeah, that gpu would feel and act like a 15yr old gpu deffinatly.
that really doesn't change much from the 15year old description i suppose anyways, even knowing its a few years newer, that gpu still puts it back at that ~15year old game range just about.
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With the edited post and specs posted, OP can try https://x3100gaming.blogspot.de/2008/12/games-playable.html
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RPGMaker has a lot of performance issue for a 2D game engine. Even I got crappy FPS in one game and I have a decent computer.
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I guess all the oldies and many retro ones will work fine. You migth wish to mention what genres you like for more precise recommendations. https://www.gog.com/games?release=2000_2004,2005_2009,p2000&sort=bestselling&page=1
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Dungeon Siege, Diablo 1-2, Unreal 1, UT1, Quake 1-2, Tomb Raider 1-4, Rune, Heretic 2
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In fact so fucked is my pc that it wont run games that run on unity at all.
That's not really surprising. Unity games are often poorly optimized, and thus even those that look old might not run well.
And as others suggested, 15 year old games (give or take a few years)
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Also try buying used from someone, check your local buy/sell ads. That's how I got my first PC when I couldn't afford building one.
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Quake 3, Final Fantasy 1 - 9, Max Payne 1, Half-Life.
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I would say anything by Spiderweb Software. The Avadon and Avernum games are great and I think all of them require a mere 256 to 512 megs of RAM. Hopefully they will run on your system.
Avernum: Escape from the Pit
Avadon 3 (Their Newest Game)
Their entire library is often part of the Steam week-long sales and Avernum 2 was part of a Humble Monthly bundle (pretty sure it was the monthly one) a couple months back so if you trade you could probably pick it up for a key at most.
If somehow this old system has 1 GB of RAM, which I doubt seeing as how it's 15 years old, you might be able to run The Final Station which the devs state will run on the GPU equivalent of a built-in toaster (on the Steam Store page down in the requirements section). It is a terrific game and it will run on just about anything, but 15 years old is kinda pushing it.
Aside from these suggestions, there's always something good on sale at GOG.com
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even high end pc's are garbage now if their from 15 years ago
... different story with 10 year old pc's (first dual cores + good gpu's)
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most games on q3 engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_3
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^ that's a good way to go about this,
i'd add -> most games on UR1 engine also.. Unreal Engine Games
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Fallout 1&2 (the good Fallout games)
Imperialism
Diablo
Sim City 2000
Unreal Tournament
Day of the Tentacle
Secret of Monkey Island
and other great Lucas Arts Adventure
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Didn't even think about that, but a 15 year old system might be able to run Diablo (the first one) without doing the crap-ton of compatibility workarounds that you have to do on modern PC's.
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I find it amazing how low the spec requirement for old games were. The last desktop I owned (bar the one I'm currently building) was probably about 15 years ago & that was probably a couple years old too before I fried it on the Spanish electric current. That thing had something like 5GB hdd spread over 3 hdd. 16mb RAM (if I remember correctly) & about 166mhz processor. Can't remember what the graphics card was, but it was nothing special.
It seemed to run all the classic Lucasarts games no problem including The Curse of Monkey Island (monkey 3). & it also ran Broken Sword 1 & 2 as far as I can remember. Nowadays most games seem to require massive amounts of RAM & VRAM & the rest of the nonsense to get them to run ok. Then again you can build a pretty cheap gaming pc these days compared to years ago. Or even buy a complete desktop or a laptop on offer for a few hundred euros.
Unity games are always piss poorly optimized (as someone else mentioned above). They like making the previous laptop I had overheat to the point of turning itself off - that was only after running them for a few minutes. Even the games that looked very basic. They still force my current laptop to run hot too, but I manage to keep it cool with a decent fan tray & a desk fan.
P.S: I would look into emulation. You will probably be able to run nes, snes & sega genesis emulators & roms no problem. GBA maybe, but probably not.
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I think of poor optimization too, especially on textures for 3d games.
Sure they have graphic option to run but, still need big resource.
I saw several simple (i think) games needs GB of storage.
Yes it absolutely can run some emulator, DOS box, GBA & GBC, SNES, Genesis, PSX,
maybe.. NDS and PS 2, they're need bigger resource.
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They said 15 year old potato & I answered before OP added specs to their initial post. So yeah maybe all those emulators would be possible - not sure about PS1 emulator on that much VRAM though. With it being a family chipset thing I assume it is shared graphics memory rather than dedicated. My last cheapo laptop had about 356mb shared memory & was dual core & that didn't want to run psx emu games at all. It struggled with N64 emu as well.
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So hey I m someone with major pc problems.
My potato is 15 years old and cant run shit i need suggestions.
In fact so fucked is my pc that it wont run games that run on unity at all.
Please recommend me some good games.
Specs
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4700 @ 2.60GHz(processor)
Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family(chip 64mb vram)
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