Gaming is Great on a Netbook

December 29, 2008 8 Comments

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Gizmag have done a little research on which games run perfectly well on a netbook – games that don’t need the resources to play them that netbooks generally don’t have.

The netbook they used to test the games out is the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 which should mean any Atom based netbook using the Intel GMA 950 graphics module will run the games with no problems also, allowing gamers like myself to enjoy some light gaming relief on our netbooks.

Obviously, you won’t be playing games like Crysis, which is hugely resource intensive, on your netbook but, there are some great titles that Gizmag have noted as working on their S10 including Beneath a Steel Sky which is a free classic adventure game, popular MMORPG Eve online and a handful of Steam titles. Of course their list isn’t exhaustive, there are many other games that a netbook can handle and if any of our readers know of any other working games and would like to add to the list we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Paulo

    Beneath a Steel Sky is a great adventure game… I played it a lot on my Amiga, many years ago…

    Good old times :)

  • Corey

    I have been able to run WoW off an external and with even better results when I bumped my mini9 up to 2gigs of ram and a 32Gb sata SSD. Granted it’s tiny, but runs pretty well all things considered. I did not install it out of desperation or even with the intent of using it, just purely to see if this little atom 1.6g could handle it, and surprisingly it did quite well. I’m thinking I’m going to load the Zork Anthology Collection as a way of losing many hours of my life all over again. Other titles I plan to load are:

    Tie Fighters
    Diable I&II
    Fallout
    Starcraft
    Baldur’s Gate
    All should run perfectly fine from an external and be decent for the small screen.

  • http://www.marjupi.com gruber

    I used to love Beneath a Steal Sky on my Amiga 600. (Them were the days!) Anyway, to the future… Currently on my netbook I have been playing Help! Aliens! (www.marjupi.com) which is a pretty cool 3D game. And the basic things like Tetris, Snakes etc.

  • Misan

    ROSE online
    EVE
    Anarchy Online
    Ragnarok
    Dungeon Siege I & II
    Ultima Online
    Red Stone Online
    Icewind dale I & II
    Unreal Tournament 1, 2, 2003, 2004
    Starwars jedi Academy
    Warcraft 3
    GTA vice city
    GhostX
    ZU-Online
    Phoenix Dynasty Online
    Chaos Online
    Destiny Online

    all work on the eeepc :) i have em’

  • http://alainblog.com alain

    Counter strike!

  • Scooby

    Maybe you’ve got some tricks up your sleeve, but I couldn’t get Counter-Strike to run acceptably. I’ve got an AAO150 with XP and 1.5GB RAM, GMABooster on max, all unessential processes closed, Game Accelerator at max, running CS 1.6 in a window at all lowest graphics settings, and still got around 15 FPS average. Plenty of older games run fine though, I love Civ, Colonization, the Ultima games, and all my old SSI and Event Horizon point-and-click games. Go abandonware!

  • vanessa k

    I am so excited to get RoseOnline goin on my new eee pc, but it wont install :(( The setup wizard always errors saying it cant find an .msi file o.o I have tried running as admin, and getting the NETframework pack. Still same error. Any other advice anyone?? thx

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