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    Please Recommend Some Games

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ArmageddonAsh, Apr 5, 2008.

  1. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    right my brother has a PC and he was wodnering what games could he get for his computer specs are

    Intel Core 2 1.8Ghz
    RAM 1024 (1GB)
    nVidia 7500 SL

    the kind of games he likes are as follows, but would be open to others, except RTS and Ro Play games

    Fighting Games (exmple Tekken)
    Racing Games (example GT and Rally)
    Shooting games (example Time Crisis)
     
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    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    nfs underground 2
    fear
     
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Age OF Empires 2
     
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    how well would

    doom 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas run?
     
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    Doom 3 would run pretty well. Don't expect too much out of R6Vegas because the game is HORRIBLY optimized. My 6800MGT + 1.8GHz Duo 2 Core can only run the game on 800x600 w/ med/low details/effects.
     
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    okay thanx Doom 3 goes on the list for him as well as FEAR, would NFS MW or NFS Carbon run well on it, are there any decent mods for it adding new traccks, cars ect?
     
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    nfs most wanted shound run on it at low not sure about carbon
     
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    im guessing if MW would run at best on low then carbon wont run at all.
     
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    Shooters (I currently have them installed myself):
    - Half-Life 2 and its following episodes (one and two)
    The Half-Life series is included in the Orange Box sold on Steam

    - Rainbow Six: Vegas
    I can run it on low, so his GPU should do better. The game is horribly optimized unfortunately. Still a great shooter.

    - FEAR

    - Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
    One of the best RTSs I've ever played

    - Age of Empires 3
    A classic.

    - Call of Duty 2 and 4
    Both are great war FPSs
     
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    so how well would they run? low? med? high?
     
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    I'm not sure how NFS MW or Carbon will run on your card, b/c I've only played ProStreet, and it runs pretty darn well on my 8600MGT w/ max resolution and settings.
     
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  13. Bog

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    I can only guess, but based on how they run on my computer...

    Shooters (I currently have them installed myself):
    - Half-Life 2 and its following episodes (one and two)
    The Half-Life series is included in the Orange Box sold on Steam
    All of these should look awesome on maximum settings

    - Rainbow Six: Vegas
    med-high, maybe less (again, this game was very poorly ported from Xbox 360)

    - FEAR
    med-high (this game makes extensive use of shadows)

    - Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
    maximum (I run with everything max except for AA and shadows, which are off altogether)

    - Age of Empires 3
    maximum (may not run AA at max)

    - Call of Duty 2 and 4
    CoD2 should run at very high settings
    CoD4 might run at med-high (I'm very uncertain of this one)

    Maybe some other members can pitch in on this speculation. ;)
     
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    you can try COD4 in low setting, my friend has a geforece go6150 and able to play cod4 with little lag.
     
    lemonbone, Apr 6, 2008
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