same CPU, might give some insight in gaming performance, overall not great, although might be acceptable for light or on-the-go gaming
Zolkrodein
should be fine for older titles or low demanding games like Skyrim (unmoded), Terraria, Portal, Stardew Valley, Half Life (still really fun after 20 year), OG Doom (still awesome after 30 years) and probably some light emulation like PS2 or N64
SimmerOriginal
My friend recently told me his wife got him a gaming computer. So I got him to download Steam and we were gonna play games. Unfortunately, he eventually showed me the specs and he has an Acer laptop with integrated graphics and 8gb of ram. He thought just because it was new he could play anything. He has to play 10 year old games on low with low fps. He plans to get or build a desktop soon thankfully.
an_0w1
Stardew Valley, broforce.
GlitteringEbb1807
Age of empires 2
Interloper_Mango
Usually I’m not a guy who goes around and says install Linux.
But here I’d say you might actually want to consider it. Those specs are… Not great.
Rudokhvist
Half Life 1 (that’s not a joke)
DarwinOGF
He might want to look into emulation….
The_Crimson_Hawk
Probably minecraft
poinguan
DOOM
Correct-One-3249
Stardew Valley?
Unnormaldude
How is 1366×768 still a screen resolution still?
totallyachickfromus
Diablo 2, Warcraft 3
TortelliniJr
Did he consider chess?
vidbv
Stardew Valley
Baronarnaud1995
san andreas?
madmes
Warcraft 3, red alert 2, counter strike 1.6, GTA Vice City
RaptorBenn
Portal 1 would go nicely I think
Internal-Shot
Minesweeper, chess, solitaire
Mr_GSAB
Unreal Tournament 1999.
That’s not a diss btw – yes the laptop doesn’t have the grunt to play a lot of modern games, but UT99 is still great fun IMO and will basically run on a toaster
Effective_Secretary6
Portal 1, stardew valley, Minecraft, Roblox, kingdom two crowns, shovel knight, probably gta San Andreas or bully
karimoo97
Cs1.6 in 4:3 low settings
ValuableWooden8300
Oregen Trail
DoraTheFracker
Mein kräft.
brispower
Windows Update, but the frame pacing will be brutal
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Bottom of the barrel basic games
Thats a browsing and office machine at best.
Very very light gaming. Either very old games or stuff that isnt graphically intense …
OpenTTD is pretty fun
You forgot to add a meme flair
It will run 12+ years old games just fine
Solitaire
Old school RuneScape.
The real question should be what games does he want to play
1366×768 in 2024 💀
I have a 7 year old laptop identical to this (aside from processor gen) and let me tell you, not much gaming to be had on it back then, let alone now.
Heroes of might and magic 3.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED.
Indie titles and emulators.
Arkham Aslume
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds9g2HM5HaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds9g2HM5HaE)
same CPU, might give some insight in gaming performance, overall not great, although might be acceptable for light or on-the-go gaming
should be fine for older titles or low demanding games like Skyrim (unmoded), Terraria, Portal, Stardew Valley, Half Life (still really fun after 20 year), OG Doom (still awesome after 30 years) and probably some light emulation like PS2 or N64
My friend recently told me his wife got him a gaming computer. So I got him to download Steam and we were gonna play games. Unfortunately, he eventually showed me the specs and he has an Acer laptop with integrated graphics and 8gb of ram. He thought just because it was new he could play anything. He has to play 10 year old games on low with low fps. He plans to get or build a desktop soon thankfully.
Stardew Valley, broforce.
Age of empires 2
Usually I’m not a guy who goes around and says install Linux.
But here I’d say you might actually want to consider it. Those specs are… Not great.
Half Life 1 (that’s not a joke)
He might want to look into emulation….
Probably minecraft
DOOM
Stardew Valley?
How is 1366×768 still a screen resolution still?
Diablo 2, Warcraft 3
Did he consider chess?
Stardew Valley
san andreas?
Warcraft 3, red alert 2, counter strike 1.6, GTA Vice City
Portal 1 would go nicely I think
Minesweeper, chess, solitaire
Unreal Tournament 1999.
That’s not a diss btw – yes the laptop doesn’t have the grunt to play a lot of modern games, but UT99 is still great fun IMO and will basically run on a toaster
Portal 1, stardew valley, Minecraft, Roblox, kingdom two crowns, shovel knight, probably gta San Andreas or bully
Cs1.6 in 4:3 low settings
Oregen Trail
Mein kräft.
Windows Update, but the frame pacing will be brutal