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    Another, "will my notebook play this game?" thread

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by BuckeyeFan, Jul 26, 2007.

  1. BuckeyeFan

    BuckeyeFan Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok i got the system in my sig and borrowed oblivion from a friend.

    Oblivion looks great, but i have another game or two which promise to be MUCH better. It's called Lords of the Realm. The system requirements are as follows:

    " Requires: 386 or better; 4 megs of ram; VGA graphics; MS-DOS 3.31 or higher; hard drive; Microsoft-compatible mouse; MPC-compliant single speed CD-ROM (150K/second transfer rate).
    Recommended: Double speed CD-ROM (300K/second transfer rate).
    Supports: Adlib; Adlib Gold; Sound Blaster; Sound Blaster Pro; PC Speaker; Roland; Aria; Hayes-compatible modem."


    The other option is Empire Deluxe Scenarios(expansion), requirements are:

    " Requires Empire Deluxe DOS or Windows Versions IBM/PC 286 and 100% compatibles
    Requires 640K, Hard Drive, 2 MB RAM Recommended
    Supports: All Major sound cards and windows multi-media
    Contains: 1.44 MB 3.5" HD Disks."

    Just a couple of options, these seem to be the 2 best games I can find laying around. The first game requires 4 Megs RAM, but i only have 2x 1 GB. :( Will i still be able to play these even if the FPS is bad? Is there FPS in these games? :confused:


    Just found these covered in dust and figured I'd post them, i played them some, but I was a little to young for 'em. I was born in '88, my brother played these a lot though. ;)
     
    BuckeyeFan, Jul 26, 2007
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  2. Mr._Kubelwagen

    Mr._Kubelwagen More machine now than man

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    Hahaha... LoR FTW! I don't know, your system may not be up to par.
     
    Mr._Kubelwagen, Jul 26, 2007
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  3. MrWhereItsAt

    MrWhereItsAt Notebook Evangelist

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    Mate, this post is AWESOME.

    ...OK, I'll bite. You realise 'Megs' means approximately a million, and 'GB' means approximately a BILLION. You have 500,000x the memory needed. o.0

    If you can play Oblivion, your hardware can play this game about 50x simultaneously. At least. The irony is that because newer versions of Windows (say Win Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT or even '98) don't always support games this old, you may in fact not manage to play them.

    Good luck though - let us know how it turns out.
     
    MrWhereItsAt, Jul 26, 2007
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  4. BuckeyeFan

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    I never realized floppies were HD Disks.
    My favorite part is the requirment "Hard Drive". I think this could be a major problem to a lot of people. ;)
     
    BuckeyeFan, Jul 26, 2007
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  5. clester

    clester Notebook Enthusiast

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    ...OK, I'll bite. You realise 'Megs' means approximately a million, and 'GB' means approximately a BILLION. You have 500,000x the memory needed. o.0



    Uhh you mean 500 don't you?

    unless you have 2 Terabytes of ram.. which would probably need Vista 64 bit i'm guessing ;)
     
    clester, Jul 26, 2007
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  6. jedisolo

    jedisolo Notebook Deity

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    The 1.44 mb HD disk means High Density disk.
     
    jedisolo, Jul 26, 2007
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