I love to take the netbook to travel due to size and weight, but a weak intel atom processor and intel graphics card does not allow you to run most of games.

What Steam games do you play on a netbook? Who can share their experiences?)

Specs of this monstro:

OS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Processor / Chipset

CPU Intel ATOM N280 / 1.66 GHz

Chipset Intel 945GSE Express

Memory RAM 1024.0 GB

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I have a gaming netbook so... not sure. I'd say flash games?

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I'm more interested in the Steam games)

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Oh, how old is your netbook?

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Looks like 2009 :)

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Faerie Solitaire? Eufloria?

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Point'n'Click adventures. They do not depend so much on resources.

Mini RPGs ("Cthulhu saves the World" for example. And check out "Mad Father") are also fun.

Simply stay away from Shooters and other games that depend on rendering huge 3D worlds (though I am able to run Max Payne 1 + 2 good on my 8 year old notebook, which also has only an Intel graphics chips).

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I can play Penumbra Overature alright on my HP Mini 110, it's made by Frictional (the developers of Amnesia), as long as the graphics are set to as low as they can go.

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LOL
Gaming on a notebook,Nearly Died.

In All Srs Indie Games Like LIMBO Braid Or Mostly All 2D Platformer's Will Run I've Seen Some gameplay of Fallout New Vegas On

Notebook so,you should post specs

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He said netbook.

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The Binding of Isaac works great

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Strangely, for me it lags like crazy.

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hmm...that's strange. it worked fine for me

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It depends on your processor, most of the time Atom processors don't go above 2GHz, which is not enough to run The Binding of Isaac.

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yep, atom can't handle isaac

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Same here.

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Frozen Synapse runs quite well, if you're into that sort of stuff. Also, Diablo II and, with some reduction in graphics settings, Morrowind. Those games can suck up quite a lot of your time.

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Dude, did you read his posted specs? Morrowind will in NO way run on his machine. It is an absolutely amazing game, however, so I applaud you for your taste.

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I run it on a netbook, albeit with an Atom N450. It's quite playable.

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It should be okay if you don't opt for the Overhaul and whatnot

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plants vs. zombies, binding of isaac, also trackmania should also be ok

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Anything from Spiderweb Software if you like RPG's. Not only are they AMAZING, but they are nostalgic and they will run on your rig.

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You could try FTL.

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Torchlight is notebook friendly. I also get Spacechem to work fine - you gotta adjust the res of the game cos it gets cut off due to small screen size.

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I think you'd do well with Terraria. It's mad cheap, runs well on really weak hardware (pretty sure you'd be able to run it) and is a HUGE time sink.

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Everything from before 2000, in my 5 year old netbook I can run Half Life and its sequels at 60 fps with everything on high.

Also Deus Ex.

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I can't guarantee they will work, but Ys games have low requirements, you could give them a shot.

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that's a classic netbook right there, have one of those too

i plan to check out what works and what doesn't during vacation, so i'm downloading a bunch of those small games on an external harddrive.
i know 'And yet it moves', and 'atom zombie smasher' works so far, i know deus ex 1 works too, but probably without mods.

Games like braid or binding of isaac doesn't work. Terraria also kind of dragged so it was unconfortable to play.

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Bejeweled 3 on lowest settings :D

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Barely playable. He'll still have frame rate issues. ;)

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I don't have a netbook, but I think you should try Onlive for the games that have more requirements. That said, you should check this thread out.

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His beast of a machine doesn't meet the Onlive requirements. =)

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I have basically the same netbook as the OP (ASUS Eee, 1.66Ghz Atom N280, 2GB RAM). When I was on vacation and couldn't sleep, I played FEAR 3 on Onlive. The picture quality of the stream won't be at maximum but it does work and it's perfectly playable. Onlive will warn you that it's not an optimal setup (and I also only had 1GB RAM at the time), but I found that picture quality has more to do with your internet connection than with your hardware - even on a low spec netbook.

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Visual novels? Indy games? That's about it.

I got it. Zork on highest settings.

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Chip Challenge might work :)

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What about Torchlight? It has a netbook mode. I have a netbook but I don't have the game so I can't test it.

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I've personally played the Sims 1, GTA III and Vice City on my netbook (same specs as yours). I suspect most of the games on GOG.com would also work. You can also give Onlive a try (though it's more expensive). Like I replied to someone above, it will say that your specs are too low, but I never had a problem with it. Any degradation in picture stream quality was more about my net connection than netbook specs.

There's a huge list on this this site:
Netbookist

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Wow, thanks for this link :)

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Add Avadon: The Black Fortress to that list

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Yeah, someone in the comments on that site mentioned Avadon being a good netbook game.

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ah cool. I didn't get as far as the comments section.

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No biggie, it was kinda buried in there, so no worries. :D

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You're welcome, when I first got my netbook I wanted to find out what games I could play on it, too. Especially since I'd be mainly using it during travel and wanted to be able to have fun while killing time. :D

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Same here, free wifi at hotel or train and nothing to do)

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I might also suggest upgrading your ram to 2GB if possible. If you have an Eee like mine, it's a simple process and the RAM is pretty inexpensive (around $30).

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Yep, it's Eee pc 1005ha
Have to check ebay for RAM :)

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Also, definitely check out the comments on that link too. People mention what games they got to play on their netbooks.

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GTA vice city

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FTL!

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+1, but you may not have a large enough resolution. If you don't look around on the internet. There are programs to fake a higher resolution.

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Also, throw some GNU/Linux on there to have more of the power geared toward the games.

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Fortrix.

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Counter Strike: Source with a few config tweaks or Counter Strike 1.6 should work fine. :)

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I've tried CS 1.6 with all the settings as low as they can go, but it tends to lag a lot. I don't know if it's because Valve is still updating it and that means parts of it are more modern and unfit for a low-end netbook or I just haven't tweaked it enough. Do you have any suggestions by any chance?

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The only way that CS:S will run on that is if everything is set to LOW with no skins and you might possibly get 30fps.

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Yeah, that's what I figured. I tried it once and then decided to keep CS on my fancy PC and stick with the less taxing stuff on the netbook. :D

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