Found my old as fuck Laptop, vista, 2 gigs ram and a GT9600...

Found my old as fuck Laptop, vista, 2 gigs ram and a GT9600. I managed to tweak the fuck out of it and was yesterday able to play with a friend LAN. Only old gems (non 3D) runs well and do not heat up the faggy GPU.

I need now some recommendation of good old 2D PC games for Multyplayer/LAN. Can user help? Right now we play Anno 1601

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Empire Earth, its my favorite game. Its 3D but the game is very old so don't worry about that.

Diablo1&2, Starcraft1. Doom and doom accesories, Quake 1-3 can probably still work, maybe the earlier Unreal Tournament series.

I don't know what it is exactly but as soon the graphic cards has to render 3D models it goes up to 80-90° and the pc shuts down. Even when watching movies with VLC, after 3-4 hours it's kill. Tested yesterday Assault cube and the gpu heat went allt he way up even on low settings with a resolution of 800x600 but when we played anno1601, nothing, gpu was all the time down at 65° even with high settings and all the shit.

Download Winpatrol and free game booster to see what kind of resources you can free up on your computer so it's not so hot.

Command & Conquer games up to Red Alert 2.

The Battle for Wesnoth.

NES/SNES/GBC/GBA emulators.

Of course, already on it. Took mednafen and emuloader to manage all games. GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, MD, Genesis, TurbografX and a handfull 2D PSX gems.

Seconding RA2. That game is a masterpiece and insanely fun to play at LANs.

If you're a fan of Dragon Ball, check out the following games:

And obligatory, Pokémon of course (first and second generations, as well as the TCG game).

Also:
very fun as well.

i took the nointro packs, have to look whats in there. I have 3100+ console games on it, still have to check what games are there.

sudden strike
stronghold
openrct2?

Post your old porn

Now that is a recipe for failure. I remember installing 8GB of RAM in my PCs before Vista was even out, and Vista was known to be a memory hog even outside of the fact that these days your browser can consume 1GB of RAM by itself just by having a bunch of tabs open and addons active.

The PC you had was flat-out underspecced to run Vista itself, causing the whole thing to be slow and incapable of running anything decent. Which is why you're down to games that are from the 90s and shit. It was a victim of the MS marketing campaign insisting that Vista was light-weight and ran on all kinds of low specs even though MS knew that it would run like trash without strong specs, but hey, they had an OS to sell and were willing to lie about its performance to do it. You'd be better off upgrading that PC to Windows Xp.

The games I'll recommend for LAN play are:
Red Alert 2 (RTS)
Age of Empires 2 (RTS)
Warcraft 2 BNET Edition (RTS)
Quake 3 Arena (classic, very popular FPS with extremely low spec requirements)
Nox (Very fun isometric action hack-n-slash arena, use install Guide: see install guide to activate multiplayer: nox.introverse.net/installguide/)
Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 (Very fun games & the GOG multiplayer guides should work)


kys

Doom is 2D.

i know, i tweaked the hell out of it, now it consums only around 600-700 mb. I will never go online with the laptop, only for LAN. So i went to all the unnecessary services and shit, task scheduling and set the designe to classic. It gets even better, the mobil graphic card has only 512mb.

on it.

perfect

Open TTD
Open RCT2
Age of Empires
XCOM
Elite

I can't think of anything else as there are probably games out there older than I am.

Oh yeah, Shadow Warrior as well and Duke Nukem 3D, which like Doom is pseudo-3D.

512 MB mobile graphics card is actually pretty damn rich for such a shitty PC. Back in that day you had a lot of solid graphics cards with 512 MB VRAM. Since you're on an integrated card that can't do 3D though I'm rather positive that it's not a true 512 MB VRAM but instead does that cancer shared memory shit where it uses your system RAM (the 2GB) as video memory. Might want to tweak your BIOS settings too.

All of those games I mentioned are worth playing btw. And Quake 3 Arena is definitely playable on a toaster if you were worried. That shit was fully playable on computers with less than half the specs your laptop has. It was made by people who understood how to optimize code and keep system requirements low.

For NoX I'd sooner recommend hosting a game online where the both of you are on so you can get more players to join (hell, advertise it here on Holla Forums) otherwise it's dull. I definitely recommend trying out Dungeon Keeper in LAN though.

By the way you can go online with that laptop if you avoid using internet explorer and firewall the hell out of it (which is not hard considering your router probably wouldn't forward any ports to your laptop to begin with). If you want a lightweight windows browser, try installing K-Meleon I guess.


Duke Nukem 3D is great but 2 person multiplayer is a little underwhelming unless you're doing some kinda co-op maps.

I don't mean to discredit you user, but I don't think you know what you're talking about. The Geforce 9600m GT can run Crysis on low-medium with playable framerates. It is also a dedicated GPU. OP hasn't cleaned out the laptop and repasted it and his system is almost a decade old so no wonder why it's running hotter than a dragon's butthole. 2GB can run Vista fine if you disable memory hog services and have SP2 installed.

OP, is your laptop an Acer? If so, it is very easy to open. On a sidenote: You are severely underestimating the *power* of this system. You could play most UE3 games like the first and second Mass Effect on this system fine.

OP said his laptop can't run 3D and it has 2GB of RAM. It seems rather improbable that a low-spec laptop that can't run 3D would have an actual GPU. I'm sooner suspecting intel integrated graphics sharing normal RAM for video purposes. This was a very common stunt at the time and it still happens on today's PCs. And yes, you can tune Vista to run under 2GB (you should also seriously consider upping your windows pagefile space to at least 8GB when your RAM is that limited - a pagefile means your PC uses hard disk space as extra, super-slow RAM, very handy when your RAM is limited), but out of the box you can expect it to run badly, especially as it accumulates windows rot. There's also a number of Windows UI settings you'll want to tweak to remove pointless overhead on eye candy, like having semi-transparent windows or having windows follow the cursor when dragged instead of just producing a dotted gray window outline, etc. These are all ways to improve performance on low spec machines. For the most part my commentary was just a statement about the trash state of Vista.

I agree with your views on Vista user, but he has a 9600m GT. It is a 3D card and it is technically dedicated especially if it's of MXM format. OP either doesn't have the correct drivers installed, or it is either failing or very likely overheating which is causing the card to throttle resulting in terrible performance.

No laptop with a 9000m series GPU supported hybrid switching between Intel graphics and Nvidia until the 100m series was released and even that said only some laptops with 100m's supported hybrid switching. All laptops with 9000m series cards will run off that card and only that card.

Woops, missed the part where he mentioned the 9600GT. It's a bit perplexing to see something like that on a 2GB slow-as-molasses rig. Poor drivers could well be part of the problem, but I suspect overheating is part of the problem as well. One of the major failings of laptops vs computers is the poor airflow and cooling they possess compared to PCs. Instead, laptops are frequently underclocked to keep temperatures low. I know back in the day people with "gaming" laptops would have to either get like an external fan enclosure or resort to ridiculous things like ice packs to keep the laptop running well. You should never get a "gaming" laptop imo. At any rate I'm a huge fan of building my PCs myself. I get good specs that way.

Still, something dodgy's up with his PC. I think the graphics drivers and BIOS settings would be worth looking at. It's also possible the card's failing, of course, but I can't imagine the graphics card would go out first on a rig that was probably barely used to game.

OP said old as fuck, so i guess its an overheating problem. He needs new pasta on his CPU

It's better than what is left of the thermal paste on his system. Probably hard as a rock like uncooked pasta.

A Wonder that it didnt melt

Looks like your laptop needs cleaning. I had the same problem on my old laptop that had the same specs as yours(it was some Acer Aspire model, forgot the number) until it got cleaned up.

Diablo
Sacred
Sattler
Homm

Isn't it obvious, dumbass? Clean the fucking thing and repaste it.

Kek, maybe you should recommend him to get DownloadMoreRam and Bonzi the Monkey while you are at it

Surprised it took this long for someone to mention Heroes 3.

OP here, yeah i know, i need to put some fresh pasta on it, maybe next month. Meanwhile i will try to kill as much bin ware as possible and background services, just killed the retarded media center bullcrap and the laptop is now running much better. So far i manage to keep it 10% cooler, will continue to fix the hell out of it.

Thanks user for all the recommendation so far.

This isn't because it's old. It's either broken or more likely because of too much dust in the ventilation stuff like posted.

I also want to note that VLC runs fine on Windows XP hardware. If you're PC can run Vista bloat then VLC is fine too.

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Worms Armageddon
Total Annihilation
Jazz Jackrabbit 2

And if this does not help you should apply new thermal paste as that shit dries out when old, although that's kinda extreme if you only want to play around with it.

do you know any websites where you would acquire drivers for these laptops? I have a similar problem to OP. This laptop is meant for win vista, but the owner installed freaking windows 8 on it, it runs like shit and going into the bios will make it shutdown from heat after like 5 mins.