Hello there...

Hello there. I am looking for recommendations of games that can be played on low spec computers (Intel i5 2520M CPU + Intel HD 3000 graphics).

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Skyrim can run on it

Sehh, not interested in Skyrim. Played it to death already. Thanks for the suggestion tho

flash games
Most 2d games
older 3d games on lowest settings

What I meant was, if it can play Skyrim that means you can figure out what kinds of games you can play

Deus Ex
Baldur's Gate
Neverwinter Nights
Thief 2
Gothics

morrowind then

Super meat boy runs perfectly fine on my T420. Darkest Dungeon runs, just not really great.

Source games on lower resolutions.

STALKER trilogy, using the DX8 "Static Lighting" mode.

Max Payne 1-2

Silent Hill 2-4 (PC ports) + 1 via emulator.

Medal of Honor AA
some people even still play it online

Battlezone 2

I have an X220T with the same specs.

2d games are fine spelunky, shovel knight, hollow knight, binding of issac 100%OJ

Old 3d games.

Stalker,EYE, Deus ex.

Don't try recen 3d games it's going to run horribly. Overwatch,bayonetta,vanquish,resident evil 4.

>mfw I had to finish bayonetta with 15fps because someone gifted it to me and I felt obligated to finish it

Please don't do this.

Try Space Station 13 if you have enough autism. Dwarf fortress too

have you ever tried emulating gamecube/ps2 on x220? how does that hold up?

South park: the fractured butthole

Stellaris runs pretty well on my shitty laptop.

Zachtronics games, except for Infinifactory.

GameCube games emulate alright running in native res on my T420

I've tried emulating GameCube

2d games like the classic megamnan Collection work.

>time splitters 2 and FP
Too stuttery
>melee
Low fps
>Mario kart DD
Nah


Don't try to emulate something from GameCube or ps2 it will stutter and get mad framedropps.

isometric RPGs work great on low spec laptops

Any comfy ones you can think of

Darkest Dungeon

The PS1 Final Fantasy ports can run on anything (FF7-9) and are all really good IMO.

Chess

Ugh #GroanZone

Quake.

Yeah I've emulated gamecube games and played them without issues.
Only problem was MGS which had laggy audio and dropped a few frames.
Everything else runs smoothly.

Dragonfall

Bullshit. Which computer do you have? I had massive framestutter on GameCube games

Found a new game on Steam called "Caveblazer". Runs well in WINE as to be expected.

Anyone played it?

you can emulate gamecube on android pretty easily now, your computer must be pretty old

I've got the same ThinkPad, though I'm gonna upgrade the CPU in the future and get an eGPU.

You can try playing:
>Undertale
>Stardew Valley
>Doki Doki Literature Club!
>Papers, Please
>Rogue Legacy
>Cuphead
>The Banner Saga
>FTL

T420
I have a GPU too but I usually just have it disabled.
Are you playing with native resolution?

I'm running megaman BTN 6 on the MGBA and it's mostly fine but it has some framedrops every 5 seconds or so that really fuck up the music

Borderlands 1.

Also I'm running linux

Why did you even buy a thinkpad if you intend on playing games?
That's retarded.

I've spent at least 800 hours playing games on mine, mostly emulation.
They're pretty decent honestly.

You can get waaaay better hardware for cheaper.
We're not in 2012 anymore.

We're specifically talking about OPs computer which I also have.
No I'm playing at the GameCube res which was around 360p

Why are you assuming that's why I bought it?

>literally the same laptop that I'm using now
Thinkpad masterrace

maybe he bought it for other reasons and just wants to know what he can play on a trip?
I own an ultrabook I use for work but I sometimes play low requirement games on it if I'm away because I can't take my desktop with me.

It's a great laptop for the price. I'm running Debian on mine

A shame the screens are shit, huh

1600x900 is decent for a 14" screen

The actual quality of the display though is not good. Bad viewing angles and piss-poor colors. You use them for the amazing keyboards.

Gee, I wonder why would ANYONE buy a portable machine with i5 or i7, 16GB RAM and 2GB Nvidia card, for 300 bucks...

is a T420 a good PC for college work?
1st semester going into buisness

depends on how you'll use it.
I own a thinkpad as well as a xiaomi ultrabook and I can say the thinkpad is a better typing experience but obviously much heavier and bulkier.
If you're carrying it around to lectures and classes you may appreciate a lighter machine.
Otherwise if you're mainly going to use it in your dorm I guess that doesn't matter, although you could just plug a mech keyboard into any ultrabook in that case.

Swap with Alienware M14X R2 screen for way better colors and viewing angles

I'm currently at a community college and will be for the next 1 and a half years
I'm also cheap as fuck and I want to get a good PC

Get an X220 or X230
Comfy smaller machine

A tablet is enough for most majors, very few actually require a laptop
>$2000 MacBook to browse Pinterest in psychology class
The thinkpad I had was able to handle autocad and other engineering software, so I'd recommend it

OG X-COM (with OpenXcom)
Jagged Alliance 2

look you're got a few options.

spend shitloads on an expensive gaymur laptop, regret how heavy it is but at least you can play vidya while not studying.

spend less on a thinkpad, still have something heavy but a solid typing experience and street cred on Sup Forums.

spend less on a chinese ultrabook, be able to play modern games on low and caqrry it around effortlessly but have lower battery life and a less satisfying keyboard.

or spend the minimum to get a decent chinese apollo lake small laptop, the cheapest and lightest option with hardly any gaming potential at all.

That's above my pay grade

i.e. im retarded

>ctrl+f
>doom
>Phrase not found
Fuck all of you. Doom 2 provides infinite entertainment with the sheer amount of mappacks out there for it.

Yes it's great. Nice keyboard (water spill protection), good for writing papers, surfing the web, etc.

It's easy. Thinkpads are made to come apart easy. And the Alienware screen is a drop-in upgrade

You literally just unscrew the 4 screws of the old screen, unplug the ribbon cable, swap the panel, replug the ribbon cable, screw back the 4 screws

Hmmm I might give it a shot then. Is the screen a higher resolution also?

FTL: Faster than Light. I can't believe I spent almost 200 hours on a $10 game

Sadly no, still 1600x900
I think the resolution is fine though. Any higher and you'd have to use DPI scaling to be able to fucking read anything. And the color/angle improvements are indescribably better

Cool thanks for the help dude :D

If y'all don't care that this is only really feasible at your desk, get yourself an eGPU setup

>GDC Beast PCI-Express to expresscard adapter: like $30
>Dell DA-2 power supply: $10
>your choice of video card: $???

Now you all can run Doom 4 at full 60 FPS on your T420's.
You only get like 80% of the GPU performance you would in a desktop but it's still a pretty great upgrade if you want a decently capable gaming machine for poverty money

When this meme about old laptops being able to play only super old 2d/simple 3d games just cause they're not the best spec wise will end?
All of the games mentioned in the posts i replied to(with the exception of Cuphead) run fine on my fucking 10 years old netbook(1.6Ghz Intel Atom N280, 2GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics).
OP's pc is perfectly capable to run all these games and far more recent ones, most PC ports/versions of PS2 games will run at max settings with no problems(NFSU2/Carbon/whatever else, Beyond Good & Evil, Psychonauts, Red Faction, and so on), even more recent PC games should have no issues such as Fable Lost Chapters(which even if at unplayable 15-20 fps, runs even on my netbook, so OP's laptop wil have no issues at all), Portal 1 and 2, and most games released around that time(2005-2011) should have no issues either.

Every single time someone asks for games to run on an old laptop that can't run games form 3-4 years ago, people just jump back to the early 2000 and 2D pixel games.
There's a huge amount of games released in that time frame that can run on any i3/5 laptop with any level of Intel HD graphics with little to no issues even at high settings.

A bunch of older RTS games (aka all of them)
Prison Architect
TIS-100 / All of the games from Zachtronics pretty much
Stardew Valley

I'd just stay away from the last five-ten years of 3D games. Heck, my laptop with slightly better specs struggles with CS:GO for heaven' sake.

Baldurs Gate 1 and 2
Gothic 1 and 2
NOX
Diablo 2
Half Life

Emulation of 16 bit and below
Isometric RPGs (Black Isle games, Neverwinter Nights, etc.) should all be fine
SimCity 4 and expansions
Aliens vs Predator 2
Call of Cthulu
Stardew Valley
Cuphead should run but a controller is pretty much required

>I'd just stay away from the last five-ten years of 3D games
as far as 10 years old games go, they should run just fine, sto giving false information.
>my laptop with slightly better specs struggles with CS:GO for heaven' sake
that's literally of no indication regarding 10 years old games.

>Emulation of 16 bit and below
PS1 and N64 will be perfectly fine too, they run fine on my netbook i've mentioned here

This is pretty close to my specs and I can run some PS3 games like Resident Evil 6.
My personal recommendations
>Torchlight 2
>Undertale
>Darkest Dungeon
>Nova-111
>Portal 1&2
>X-COM
>Infinifactory

Because PC master race are retards who couldn't optimize shit

Nothing

>Every single time someone asks for games to run on an old laptop that can't run games form 3-4 years ago, people just jump back to the early 2000 and 2D pixel games.
Nigger, that's because those games are good.

STALKER and Max Payne are now "simple 3d games" ?
Yet you go boasting about being able to play equally old PS2 era games in the next sentence.

I actually own a 6yo craptop with intel HD graphics 3000, and it really doesn't do well with 2010s games.

Did I say they're not?
I havent commented on the quality of the games suggested, i just said is dumb to suggest only games from early 2000(and older) while skipping on an entire generation of games and some relatively recent ones based on the false assumption that they won't run on OP's laptop.

Suggest some.

pretty much anything from mid-2000s PC downward.

You are set man, games became largely derivative garbage after that so no loss.

What's the price point I should be looking for these? Holy shit I will use my thinkpads way more often with these fuckers in there.

you underestimate how shit integrated graphics are

Factorio
Rimworld
ToME4
Anything by Zachtronics

Valdis Story

Seconding ToME4 as well.

I have the same laptop but with the nvs4200 video card. Shit runs hot on most modern games. I suggest downloading the thinkpad fan control too and messing with the fan curve. But i mostly play my old school shit on there or source engine/SOME modern games but at 1024x768. But my main rig is for comp multiplayer stuff or super nice graphics for singleplayer muh immersion. Btw, nice thinkpad.

I'm autistic about chronological orders, any point in playing 1-3 at all?

>STALKER and Max Payne are now "simple 3d games" ?
>cherrypicking among all the other games i was referring to
Point is not how old those games are, rather that it's absurd to limit the suggestions to those games when said games do run fine even on my netbook which is greatly less capable than OP's laptop.
On this netbook i can play max payne and stalker, i just finished playing red faction 1 and it ran at 60fps with no issues, same goes for THUG games and NFSU2.
Sure, to get 60fps on NFSU2 i had to play it at 800x600 at low settings, but again, this netbook is utter crap even compared to OP's laptop.

>I actually own a 6yo craptop with intel HD graphics 3000, and it really doesn't do well with 2010s games.
doesn't mean it will do shit on ALL games from that era or a couple years earlier, no need to limit suggestions to much older games.
Also, my brother's gf has a HD 3000 too(no idea on what i3 CPU) and can run Arkham games fine at 30fps.
>inb4 30fps is shit
Poit is it can be played on HD 3000, and I only used it as a comparison of what kind of games COULD run on it without having to go decades back

I did in my first post

I have integrated graphics user, a fucking GMA 950 on an atom N280, and I can run 99% of the games that were suggested in the posts i replied to in my first post.
integrated graphics are shit, I'm not denying that, but an HD 3000 is and performs a lot better than a GMA 950

>HD 3000 is and performs a lot better than a GMA 950
perhaps the hardware is better, but often the lack of drivers / support makes games unplayable on them (is what I heard)

HEY GUYS LOOK AT MY GUN AREN'T I COOL? I BET YOU FAGS DON'T HAVE GUNS.

pillars of eternity?

Its a rouge-like with story that doesn't really matter that much outside of lore. Plus the previous iterations are early versions of ToME 4.

No. The 4 indicates which version of the engine one is referring to. In this case it's "T-Engine 4", Tales of Maj'Eyal.

Historically there was AngBand -> ZAngband -> PernAngband -> Troubles of Middle Earth (ToME1) -> Tales of Middle Earth (ToME2) -> ToME3 -> Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME4).
While ToME1,2 and 4 are different games of sorts and use different concepts and assets the last one is mechanically the most interesting of them, completely standalone in terms of content, and the one you should play. Roguelikes are very similar anyways and in case of ToME4 it comes with a few campaigns and modes by default and you could then download a few custom ones for the T-Engine4 if you ever want anything fresh. Make sure to install a decent tileset like OldRPG if you aren't used to playing roguelikes in ASCII. Try to avoid weird classes with time travelling or other complex buffs and swap mechanics early on until you know the basic mechanics. I'm not sure anymore what is locked by default but unlike other roguelikes and more akin to modern games you unlock classes, spell schools and races in a playthrough for the future. This means if you want to be a skeleton or necromancer you'd have to play another class/race first to unlock them.

That shit looks autistic as hell

There's no way a HD 3000 has worse drivers/support than a fucking GMA

Kinda but its not too hard to understand when you get to know what indicates what. It also has a tutorial mini campaign in it as well to help you understand it. Its really addictive.

says the fag who doesnt have a gun

Not into cyberpunk aesthetic?

I have no idea about lack of drivers or support when it comes to HD 3000 cause I don't have one, but as i said in my post, arkham games do run well on it, so there's no reason to assume similar games(or slightly earlier ones) won't run just as well if not better than those.

Just for the sake of clarity, this is not me.

No, I'm not into unregulated guns which are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people which could have easily been prevented if not just anyone could get their hands on them

>guns
>unregulated

Wow, gay AND retarded.

I'm biting the bait, but all of my guns are licensed to me and I have had to pass background checks on all of them. But you should try shooting sometime, you don't seem to know much about it and it's a really fun hobby just like video games or driving fast cars.

Play Mountain Blade, m8.