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Good RTS games for my laptop?

Recommend some games with low computer requirements.

  • Recommend a computer game that will work smoothly on my computer. I have a pretty low power IBM laptop (integrated graphics card, but alright RAM and processor), but I want some good games to play. I tend to like strategy and RTS. Shadow President, Capitalism Plus, Civilization 2, C&C Red Alert are among my favorites.

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    http://www.openttd.org. Bonus: If you can, uh 'find' the .GRF and SAMPLE.CAT file from an original Microprose Transport Tycoon Delux game, it's free. TTD is now 'abandonware'.

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Worms2 is a late nineties turn-based strategy game that meets your requirements.

Jeff Howard

If you like turn based strategy, I would recommend Dominions 3 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/1.htm http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/postlist.php?Board=dom3 The graphics are dated (which good for you), but the gameplay is great and the vastness of the game is amazing. The game models just about everything that has ever appeared in a fantasy book, from LoTR to Camelot to Beowulf to Lovecraft to the Three Kingdoms to The Black Company. All it is lacking is cat-people, and that's probably a good thing.

Balna Watya

I have a 2.4 Ghz, 1 Gig of RAM, and a (rather weak) 128 meg graphics card. Your graphics card is key. 128 is the bare minimum for a lot of newish games, and anything higher is better. Some of the newest games I try don't work at all or are very sluggish. But some games run surprisingly well. I have an nVidia card, and some games are made to run best with that brand. FarCry and Half-Life 2 ran perfectly on my machine, but Doom 3 was sluggish as hell.

zardoz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper_2 is great, but might be too old...

Martin E.

Total Annihilation is a) a ground-breaking RTS that's a hell of a lot of fun, and b) pretty old and ran on a Pentium 600 with no graphics card if I recall correctly.

EndsOfInvention

Definitely seconding Total Annihilation. You can get it very cheap, and if you look around there are still plenty of free add ons available for download.

tomble

Get into emulating old game consoles/computers. The emulators don't require a powerful machine, but the games are still very playable today.

humblepigeon

http://spring.clan-sy.com/ is an open-source recreation of Total Annihilation. Unfortunately, single-player just isn't really there yet, and it focuses on multiplayer, but it is a lot of fun.

kdar

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