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ChaoticNeutralCzech, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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I’m looking for the name of the 3D racing game my classmates used to play on the school club PC. It came out in the 2000s and ran natively on Windows. The first track in the career mode (as far as we ever got) was dirt and inside an nighttime arena. There were crowds and even some onlookers behind barricade blocks around the track. I don’t think the cars could be damaged, and there were intended jumps over lower tracks sections, that could be enjoyed by driving from below to jump really high. Several views were available including one with a rear-view mirror, and a “blimp” aerial view in replay mode. It looked a lot like the nighttime arena tracks in ATV Offroad Fury (pictured) but with closed-cab vehicles.
https://www.gamegrin.com/assets/game/atv-off-road-fury-4/screenshots/atv-off-road-fury-4-screenshots-45.jpg

kindred,
ChaoticNeutralCzech,
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You are correct! Thank you!

How did you find that?

kindred,

I went down a retro pc gaming rabbit hole a while ago. It was the one game I couldn’t get working on my machine. Feels good that something useful came out of it

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

I think the free Ascii version of Dwarf Fortress should run fine.

Dvixen, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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That’s me and this robot-like C64 game. You did levels and took over robots so you could take over stronger robots.

I do remember Seven Cities of Gold, but only because the game crashed so often I saw the loading screen more than the game itself

SavinDWhales,

I played that. Paradroid, right?

Dvixen,
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It is!

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

I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft

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

Emulate GBA and PS1.

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

One of my earlier memories was playing a strange game I haven’t been able to find again. All I remember is: you control a car (I think it has flower decals on it?) and can drive through a desert/canyon area. You can also press a key which makes a rotor come out of the top of the car, allowing you to fly it like a helicopter.

I have no idea what the gameplay was beyond that, but I’d love to find it again.

gustofwind, do gaming w Is there a trick to controllers that I'm missing?
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No trick. It’s just harder on a controller and you need to practice

Hate to say it but….this is literally a skill issue lol

blackris,
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“Gamepads work significantly worse than kbm for this task, so you’re the problem. LOL.”

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.

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