My laptop, Need advice

Yeah, HL2 is a bit extreme.

Gimme some ideas WW =0 I know Deus Ex but what else.

The battlefield games are cool. The new gta game might be too good but I might be able to look into vice city or just gta 3. I also want to throw on GTA 1 and 2 just because they are fun to mess around in too.

Its going to be nice having a computer just filled up with like the best games from the last couple years (Except the really graphic ones like hl2 and doom 3).

I didn't know if he was going to eventually upgrade the card or not. I guess not.

Maybe Ghost Recon as well.
Homeworld.
Age of Empires.

Stronghold 2 should work...

It's a laptop. Only the high-end ones have options to upgrade video.

If you're gonna use Dx8, you should get Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (it seems to choke on Dx9). At $2-$5, it's quite a steal. Obviously Morrowind, Deus-Ex, Original HL.

You could find a copy of Doom95 and tell people you run Doom on your machine (of course they will assume you mean 3, but they'd be wrong), as long as you can stand it's amazing (compared to the DOS version) 640x400 resolution. Doom is still a great game for mindless killing, but Serious Sam looks much more spectacular while accomplishing the same purpose.

Hmm thats a good idea with Doom =] I want to install lots of those older games too so I have like lots of choices to play. Ill look into Hostile Waters tho, never heard of it. I was thinking about Serious Sam too, so I will probably get that.

Also will look into Stronghold 2 (Heard of it but no idea what it is) and I will probably get Ghost Recon now as well.

Well since it is your laptop you can do as you want, but i do not recomend installing too many really big games because (on my laptop atleast) it seemed to slow it down, but i had Unreal Tournament 2004, Diablo II LOD, Warcraft III and Frozen Throne, and Baldur's Gate I and II with the Expansions both I&II, along with some other games that were not as big but i ended up taking up about half of my hard drive and it seemed to slow down my laptop. It sped up once again after i deleted some of the games/videos that i had on there. I now have only 2 big games , over 1 gig, installed at a time and it seems to have helped.

Except for Valve games (which like to have Steam running all the time), having games installed is not going to slow your computer down unless you're a moron and

1. Didn't set aside enough disk space for the swap file or
2. Don't defrag your HD regularly

Umm well call me a moron possibly then becasue i dont know what a Swap File is.

Hostile Waters is a very good RTS/Action hybrid that never made good sales due to, IMO, poor marketing and poor box design.

Yeah, HL2 is a bit extreme. Gimme some ideas WW =0 I know Deus Ex but what else. The battlefield games are cool. The new gta game might be too good but I might be able to look into vice city or just gta 3. I also want to throw on GTA 1 and 2 just because they are fun to mess around in too. Its going to be nice having a computer just filled up with like the best games from the last couple years (Except the really graphic ones like hl2 and doom 3).

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