Netbook Games List

help, can u give me the aom installr for my netbook

Nico,

There is no "installer" per se. I just copied the CD contents onto a USB drive and installed it off of that.

The big thing with Age of Mythology is once you install it, it will crash on start-up as it's set for 1024x768 by default. So you need to select *start -> programs -> AoM safe mode*, then you can set the resolution to 800x600 and play the game.

I think I had to use a no-cd fix on that one one too, but I can't remember now, it's been 6 or so months since I installed it.

torchlight doesn't work? strange.. i played it on my stock asus eee901xp and it ran pretty well..

Well, Torchlight *works*, it just runs like complete crap. I mean, there are areas were you may get 15 FPS, but in any instance with multiple enemies and in some locations, it's completely unplayable.

Interesting though, how deep did you play into it?

I'd love to see a video of someone playing Torchlight on a netbook with an Intel GMA950... and see it running smoothly, even with everything set to low and in "netbook mode", it plain sucks.

It's annoying to me b/c I've seen literally dozens of tech sites recommend the game for netbooks, and I can tell these reviewers never played the game on a netbook, they're just vomiting the Runic games company line.

There is a massive thread on Runic's Forums here, dedicated to the craptastic results everyone has playing the game on a netbook;
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1387

Keep in mind we're not talking about the new ION or Radeon powered netbooks, this game was released prior to the release of any of those.

That said, the game is fun, and I played it for a while on my desktop just fine.

I have multiple shooters on my aspire one, Tom clancys rainbow six 3 raven shield works incredibly well, as does CS condition zero, land of the dead, deus ex, and anything with the half life engine

XP sp2
1 gb RAM
intel gma 950
Intel atom n270
160 gb HDD

does acer netbook work on audition dance battle game? i tried n it kept sayin error!

Hi Alice, I'm not sure. Looking at the wiki entry for that game, it's probably a matter of the graphics card doesn't have the meat to run it, they're calling for an Nvidia 6600+, the GMA950 doesn't cut it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition_Online

i use a1ctl to change screen res. pretty good little free app.

i have only 1 gb

i play:
age of empires
rise of nations
civilization 4
spore

havent tried:
call of duty 2

doesnt work:
sid meiers railroads

Hello there.
Can you check something for me? I want to buy netbook that will run ePSXe emulator properly. Can you try to start it with Gran Turismo 2 games on psx) game on your netbook?
I do apologize for my poor english.
Regards ;]

Dede, I don't have Gran Turismo 2, any of the 2nd+ generation netbooks should run the emulator, but the game ROMs themselves would have to be tested. heavier modern 3D games would have more trouble.

GT 2 is ancient,.I don't see why it wouldn't run.

I checked it today in a shop. GT2 had some troubles with six cars on a screen. Other lighter games run perfectly. Anyway, thanks ^^

I think your site is pretty cool. I wish there were more general interest in netbook (pc retro?) gaming than I've found. I view netbooks pretty much as Nintendo DS's for PC and Laptop gamers. :-P

For Retro PC Gaming the GMA 950 and GMA 3150 are pretty capable cards (I think they're somewhere between a TNT2 and a Geoforce 4 MX 300 in power...not too bad when I think of all the great games I played full-speed on my lowly TNT 1 with 16 mb of onboard ram!). And I've read that the Atoms are about as powerful as a Pentium 3 (Pentium D) at 1.2 Ghz.

Generally I think most games 2004 or earlier would work unless they're graphic/processor intensive (Doom 3, Morrowind, etc.). A good place to find others are older back copies of PC Gamer and Computer Gaming World at your local library.

I managed to get Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines working on my Eee 1005HAB. You have to use the respatcher (google it) and set your resolution to match your desktop (mine is 1024x600). First start up takes a long time but it indeed runs.

I have an Asus Seashell 1.66Ghz, 2Gb Ram, Intel 3150 integrated graphics, Win 7.
Some of the games that I have installed now:
-Dawn of War & Winter Assault
-Torchlight
-Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition
-Etherlords 2
-Battleforge
-Mech Commander 2
-Titans of Steel: Waring Suns
-Diablo 2
-Divine Divinity
-Temple of Elemental Evil
-Star Wars Knights of the old Republic
-Quake 3
All the above listed games run great on high graphics settings. I also run a freeware program when I play games called GameBooster.

Here is a somewhat wide list of games for netbooks. Some may not run on certain netbooks or certain configurations.
* 4x4 Evo 2
* Age Of Empires 2
* America's Army
* Aquaria
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
* Baldur's Gate
* Balls of Steel
* Bejeweled 2
* Blade & Sword
* Black & White
* Blood Rayne 1 (use 3D Analyze to emulate TnL)
* Call of Duty 1
* Carmageddon II
* Carmageddon TDR 2000 (>30 FPS)
* City of Heroes
* Colin McRae 2
* Colin McRae 3
* Colin McRae Rally 04
* Combat Flight Simulator 3
* Command and Conquer
* Command and Conquer: Generals
* Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
* Command and Conquer: Renegade
* Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun
* Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Works OK, but Shader MUST be set to medium or game will crash)
* Crimson Skies
* Curse of Monkey Island (tested OK in ScummVM)
* Darwinia
* Dawn of War (Platinum edition checks out ok, need to choose 'safe mode' on first run)
* Day of the Tentacle (use with ScummVM)
* Deer Hunter 2005
* Defcon
* Delta Force
* Deus Ex GOTY (~30 FPS@1024x600 HD)
* Diablo II/Diablo II Lord of Destruction (~25 FPS@800x600)
* DOSBox (running very well)
* Doom
* Doom 3 (low frames)
* Drakan: Order of the Flame (~50 FPS@1024x600, High Detail)
* Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (~30 FPS@800x600, High Detail)
* Dungeon Keeper 2 (1.7+XP Fix, ~30FPS@800x600(No Shadows, HD))
* Dungeon Siege
* Dungeon Siege II
* Etch A Sketch
* F.E.A.R (v1.08 works better)
* Far Cry
* FIFA 08
* Final Fantasy XI Online
* Football Manager 2008 (requires tweak, see link)
* FlatOut
* FlatOut 2 (15-30 fps)
* Fallout
* Fallout 2
* Ford Racing 3
* Ford Racing Off Road (select 'Simple Graphics' setting. Don't set complex graphics as this crashes it)
* Fusion
* FreeCiv
* Freelancer
* Freedom Fighters
* Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich
* Frets on Fire (15-20 fps @ minumum details and resolution)
* Giants Citizen Kabuto
* Gladiator Sword of Vengeance
* Gothic 2
* Grand Chase
* Grand Theft Auto (free version from rockstar.com/classics)
* Grand Theft Auto II (free version from rockstar.com/classics)
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
* Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
* Grim Fandango
* Guild Wars
* Guitar Hero III
* Gun
* Halo (~15 FPS@1024x600 LD, No Shadows, No VSYNC)
* Half-Life (also playable: Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, and other mods)
* Half-Life 2
* Heroes of Might and Magic V
* Hitman 2
* Hitman Contracts
* Homeworld
* Imperium Galactica II (800x600 @ ~60 FPS, 1024x600 results in anomaliesâ?¦)
* Incoming (very high frame rate)
* Jaws Unleashed
* Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver I and II
* Lego Indiana Jones
* Lego Racers
* Lineage 2
* Lionheart
* Live For Speed
* Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth
* Mafia (Choppy at times)
* Manhunt1
* MapleStory
* Max Payne
* Max Payne 2 (1.01 1024x600 ~20fps)
* MechCommander 2 (<30 FPS@800x600)
* MechWarrior 3 (15-40 FPS@800x600)
* Medal of Honor Allied Assault
* Medieval: Total War
* Mobile Forces
* Monopoly Tycoon
* Morrowind
* Motocross Madness 2
* Neverwinter Nights (14 FPS@1024x600 ' Low Graphics settings)
* Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
* Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
* Need for Speed: Underground 2
* Nexuiz 2.4.2 (all 3 OS's)
* No One Lives Forever 2 (Requires TnL emulation)
* Oni ' 800x600 32 bit high quality
* Operation Flashpoint (1024x600)
* Peggle
* Perfect World (Mmorpg ' optimized video config button)
* Peter Jackson's King Kong (Some low framerate)
* Planescape: Torment
* Postal 2: Share The Pain
* Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
* Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (15-25fps)
* Project64
* Psychonauts (borderline ' choppy framerate)
* Puzzle Hero
* Quake
* Quake 2
* Quake 3 (edit ini file to get 1024x600)
* Quake III Arena (60 FPS @ 1024x600)
* Railroad Tycoon 3
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein
* Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
* Rome: Total War
* Rune
* Sacrifice
* Sam & Max ' Season 1 & 2
* Sauerbraten
* ScummVM (an emulator, runs old LucasArts quest games)
* Second Life
* Severance: Blade of Darkness
* Sid Meier's Locomotion
* Sid Meier's Pirates
* Sim City 4
* Simon the Sorcerer 2 (ScummVM)
* Snes9x
* Soldier of Fortune
* Space Rangers 2
* Spore
* Spore Creature Editor
* Star Wars: Empire at War
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight II ' Jedi Outcast
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight ' Jedi Academy
* Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic ' 800x600 low details, no shadows, no grass. A bit choppy but playable.
* Starcraft
* StepMania
* Street Wars: Constructor Underworld
* System Shock 2
* The Hulk
* The Incredible Hulk
* Theme Hospital
* Total Annihilation
* Tomb Raider: Legend (borderline ' playable but quite choppy)
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
* TrackMania
* TrackMania Nations
* Transformers The Movie Game
* Tropico
* Turok
* Tux Racer
* Unreal
* Unreal Tournament (40-60 FPS@1024x600, with newest Patch you neither need to edit ini for the res nor the CD for starting)
* Uplink
* Virtual Skipper 5 (free version, see link)
* Warcraft III (Low frames, don't expect to play DotA)
* Wall-E
* Winning Eleven 8 International
* WinUAE (Amiga emulator, FPS is depending on WinUAE settings, highest settings work perfectly)
* Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
* World of Warcraft
* Worms Armageddon (800x600)
* ZSnes

Thanks Kalindo!

Hi Matt.....No questions, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to put this site, and this info together....By far the most coherent, and user friendly....and obviously a lot of time and a lot of work....Great info to have all in one place....Thanks again.....Kenny

What i have installed....all run smooth after a little tweaking
Superbike 2001
Medieval total war viking invasion
AOM
Hearts of Iron
RUNE (old but one of my favorites and runs with high settings...graphics are dated but still good.)

good rule of thumb. i've had success with anything 2004 and older

I have an ASUS Eee PC 1015PE netbook which has 1.66ghz Intel Atom Processor, Windows 7 Starter, and 1GB of RAM. I recently intalled Giants: Citizen Kabuto and game works OK ( a little choppy in performance). Would upgrading to 2GB RAM help resolve this issue?

Thanks!

Hi Peter,

I'm surprised that game runs choppy, it's quite old. I highly doubt additional memory would have much impact, though as cheap as memory is, I would probably bump it up to 2GB if it's easy enough.

I bumped my Aspire One to 1.5GB and I have the early 8.9" series, it was a mess to upgrade, but definitely worth it. I just wouldn't expect massive improvements to your gaming.

Games are typically CPU/GPU dependent, these little netbooks have never been extremely strong in either arena, though your 1015PE is leagues ahead of mine. Good luck!

Also add Galactic Civilizations 2 to the list. You may to tweak ini files to make it run. Runs OK on Intel 3150 (roughly same as 950). Probably the best game to play on a laptop as it is turn based strategy with super awesome AI. You don't have to click fast to play this game.
Though I love Real Time Strategy games (like RON) but playing RTS on laptop is an straight invitation to carpel tunnel syndrome. You have been warned!

I have a Asus Eee PC Netbook:
1.66Ghz N450
2Gb Ram
160Gb HD
Intel GMA 3150
1024 X 600 Glossy HD display

A great program I found that helps with some of the games that you experience "choppiness" with, or even games I couldn't run at all, is called "Game Booster". Check it out, it has a free version.

thanks everyone,really need this

why my netbook cant play games??....any ideas!!...please

A little vague there luqas... what make & model of netbook do you have? What games are you trying? What exactly is happening when you try to install/run the gameS?