Gaming is Great on a Netbook
Posted in: MSI Wind, Netbook, aspire one, asus, competitor, tags: crysis, games, Netbook, steam
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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Beneath a Steel Sky is a great adventure game… I played it a lot on my Amiga, many years ago…
Good old times :)
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.
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.
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’
Counter strike!