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isgleas, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Those specs seems decent at first glance, but my bet is that the bottleneck will be the storage, if you are using a hard drive still. If you use an ssd, or change to one, then your performance may be greatly improved

I think you could run Steam on that build, I used to play Supertux cart, and have not played 0AD in ages

windowsphoneguy,
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What? Intel HD is easily the weakest part. HDD will only cause longer loading times.

Rooty,

Highly recommend SSDs for everyday use and HDDs for backup, an old laptop I had turned from a barely usable machine to a pretty decent one just by swapping out a HDD for an SSD.

ProdigalFrog, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

lemmy.world/post/14336843

pixeltree, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
Haaveilija,

Therapist: “The terror tubbies aren’t real, they can’t hurt you.” The terror tubbies:

Haaveilija, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I used to have this symbian game that had a small dragon as the main character and accidentally deleted it from the phone it was on. Never found it again :(

fraksken, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Commander keen

Tonava,

You can get them as a bundle on steam!

fraksken,

😍

Edit: thank you for making me spend my money so recklessly. Thank gabe for the winter deala tho.

fraksken,

And they have carmageddon! Omg. I have been living under a rock!

Bigfishbest, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

-Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well.

-Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization.

-Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I’ve played them since the 90s.

-Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don’t remember much about it, except that it’s good.

-To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things.

-Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman.

-Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.

Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.

drgeppo, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

not an online game but Moonring is an amazing and underrated retro RPG that will run on anything! itch page with the Linux executable

YiddishMcSquidish, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

I still play Dawn of war and new Vegas on a cheap 2 in 1 tablet with an intel atom

thermal_shock,

I love new Vegas, but none of the mods I found fix the 1gb memory leak error. Crashes so often, it’s unplayable for me.

GerardsGuitar, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
@GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com avatar

This post prompted me to finally go work out what game I’ve been thinking about for the past decade and I’ve determined it was called mini mogul!

slappyfuck,

Best news I’ve heard all week!

dukemirage, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results. And which game was it?

Lembot_0006,

Fiddling with the script engine can lead to unexpected results.

I am a programmer myself and have an overall understanding of what can happen unintentionally. I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

And which game was it?

“Fear the spotlight.”

anon5621,
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Other idea increase ur health using not game console but with using cheat engine ,find pointer to ur health

Lembot_0006,

The game has red-yellow-green health scale, not 0-100%. It would have taken too much effort to experiment while looking for the correct value.

anon5621,
@anon5621@lemmy.ml avatar

Value if u know how much damage to boss with exact value it can be filtered much faster ,or u can find own health and freeze it

dukemirage,

As a programmer you should know that wonky single-purpose software like a game engine may react chaotically to state changes. I wishlisted the game though.

Kelly,

I don’t see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

en.wikipedia.org/…/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balanc…

takeda, do gaming w He does it so fast

Yeah, it looks like a glove, but maybe it supposed to be skin folding when you hold gun on the belt/stomach level? The skin will fold similarly if you do.

dual_sport_dork,
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He’s definitely wearing gloves. You can also see it on the plasma gun recoil sprite:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0df745cd-c679-4fb6-a5c1-bfb80e9d2bdd.png

The shotgun:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6504c75c-db9d-4201-8546-2cfe2c51bbf2.png

And especially with the super shotgun in Doom 2:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b8e94362-89cf-4178-a1c5-3987e6aaa20c.png

And for good measure, these uncropped pistol sprites are in the “vault” thingy that came with the latest Bethesda rerelease:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c1321e4e-bd3e-490b-9c2e-33e0f247e870.png

wjrii,

plasma gun

One of the first “aha” design moments I ever got was the Doom plasma gun. There was a kid’s toy version of the American M-60 Light Machine gun that I had. The back half was pretty cool on its own, the typical thumper machanism to make noise, but it also had secondary triggers in the stock and a little gear that would advance a belt of soft plastic ammo. Didn’t do anything except move, but the effect was cool.

The front actually came off, and was a pretty decent quality suction-dart shooter. However, if you turned it around and used the the mating surface as the “muzzle…” BOOM! (or “ZAP” I guess… lol) Doom plasma gun, down to the exact number of ridges.

takeda,

You’re right. My bad.

Thanks for explanations and including the art from the game, nice to see it as I haven’t played it literally in decades.

Clearwater, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

toeblast96, (edited )

what platform? pc/ console?

I know pcgamer had a demo on pc but not sure if that sounds like your description

Clearwater,

It was PC. I’ve tried the PC gamer demo and the “North Carolina” seed for all probable game versions (1.3 to 1.6), and the base world generation just doesn’t match. There is a hill nearby which could be close, but the biomes are all wrong.

There is a chance, albeit not very high, that it was a cracked version of the game using a seed I simply forgot with time, but it would be quite difficult to brute force that since I would then need to figure out both the version and seed. Given I am fairly certain I generated the same world a few times, it’s possible I might be able to guess it.

faintwhenfree, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

If you like FPS

XONOTIC will be great

AlsaValderaan, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

A puzzle game where each (2D) map spawns with lasers and corresponding targets, and sometimes mirrors etc. You get to place some mirrors, T pieces, beam splitters etc. and have to fulfill each target.

There are so many clones of this out now it’s nigh impossible to find, especially as the game is literally just called Laser. This one’s also a clone I think but I just love this particular one.

I did recently finally find it again after more than a decade of looking.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Technically, every game is free as long as you know where to find it.

And any game made before 2010 is likely to run perfectly on these specs.

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