14hour Flight, 10 hour battery, EEE, which game to beat!?

[paperfist]

I'd be surprised if you could run Civ IV on a Atom based unit. What's it have for a graphics chip?

If it could run it you would def get well more then 10 hours of gametime with that title.

 

[Seeruk]

Civ games would be perfect - I definitely second those! Anything up to civ 3 should run great with out killing your netbook and I have sat down to play for civ for 'an hour' and realised the next minute that 6 hours has gone by many many times, so theoretically your flight should only seem 2 - 2.5 hours long

 

[WildW]

I'm fairly sure Defense Grid won't run well on an Atom. . . it has a surprisingly beefy CPU requirement. It feels mighty wrong to me on a trackpad too

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 runs well on my netbook (Atom+Intel 945), so long as you're using GMABooster. That series is a good time-eater.

If you're going to try a flight sim, there's nothing so fun and well-suited to Atom as the awesome Crimson Skies.

 

[Dankk]

I'm fairly sure Defense Grid won't run well on an Atom. . . it has a surprisingly beefy CPU requirement. It feels mighty wrong to me on a trackpad too

If Defense Grid shouldn't be played on a trackpad, then might as well not play Civ either. Both rely heavily on cursor control, no?

I didn't think that Defense Grid had a hefty CPU requirement, but then again I have a pretty hefty CPU so I guess I wouldn't notice. Even then, I can't imagine it would be that bad.

 

[WildW]

If Defense Grid shouldn't be played on a trackpad, then might as well not play Civ either. Both rely heavily on cursor control, no?

I didn't think that Defense Grid had a hefty CPU requirement, but then again I have a pretty hefty CPU so I guess I wouldn't notice. Even then, I can't imagine it would be that bad.

Just tried it on my netbook with Atom overclocked to 2.0 and GPU overclocked with GMABooster. . . at 640x480 on lowest details and first level, everything is very slow Turned up the resolution to max (1024x600 on my screen) and it didn't seem to slow down visibly, so I suspect it's a CPU limitation.

I'm not terribly surprised. The Steam page for it states 1.8GHz minimum CPU and recommends a dual-core. An Atom at 2.0 even is maybe like a high end Pentium 3 in real terms.

As for trackpad. . .yeah, it's playable. . .it just feels weird to me because you don't really have a cursor. . .it's one of those games that has a fixed cursor in the middle of the screen and the whole screen scrolls with the mouse. . . it just feels odd to me

 

[duragezic]

I was borrowing my friends Acer Aspire One netbook a couple weeks ago. I downloaded Steam and installed Torchlight so I could play it while I didn't have the internet. Well I played it but it ran horribly. Even after 640x480 and netbook mode (which barely made a difference if at all) it was very very bad.

So I thought Minecraft would be good, and it doesn't need to run very smooth anyway. That was even worse, like 5 fps!

So it made me realize how slow those netbooks really are for gaming. Well the CPU and RAM was okay, but that Intel GMA was absolutely as bad as I heard them to be. Man I think my Radeon 64 original had more pixel pipelines!

 

[EarthwormJim]

Warcraft 3 was ok on my Eee PC.

 

[insect9]

Another vote for BGI&II.

 

[Pia]

Fallout, Master of Orion, UFO

 

[Schadenfreude]

If it's on a trackpad, I will retract my recommendation for Revenge of the Titans - unless you've got mad trackpad skillz (or, more realistically, a mouse or trackball), it will get frustrating quick.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

The airplane level from cod4 over and over again. Mixed in with the airport level from mw2. Make sure lots of people are watching you.

 

[WelshBloke]

Go get the Intel AppUp thingy and download Angry Birds and the like.

 

[slag]

I was borrowing my friends Acer Aspire One netbook a couple weeks ago. I downloaded Steam and installed Torchlight so I could play it while I didn't have the internet. Well I played it but it ran horribly. Even after 640x480 and netbook mode (which barely made a difference if at all) it was very very bad.

So I thought Minecraft would be good, and it doesn't need to run very smooth anyway. That was even worse, like 5 fps!

So it made me realize how slow those netbooks really are for gaming. Well the CPU and RAM was okay, but that Intel GMA was absolutely as bad as I heard them to be. Man I think my Radeon 64 original had more pixel pipelines!

I had a HP Mini 311 netbook and it played Torchlight great. Very fast, smooth, a good experience. It really depends on what video card/chip you have.

 

[biostud]

prime95+furmark

 

[darkewaffle]

Grotesque Tactics, Recettear, Shank, Braid.

 

[mizzou]

Doom, doom 2, duke nukem 3d and i believe the star wars version alsoi think they all play fine with arrow keys

 

[MustangSVT]

Agreed. Defense Grid is a fun, addicting game.

I think there's a demo if you want to try before you fly.

Tried the demo of d grid and even on lowest settings, its sub 5fps or so.

And this was on the first training level. ocing atom to 2.1ghz didnt help

Its too bad, cause it looks very fun. maybe ill get it for desktop anyway heh.

 

[MustangSVT]

oops dbl post

 

[sandorski]

Achieve 100% with a Minimum of 50 Games of Freecell.

 

[Chapbass]

You could do one of the bigtime SNES rpg's. Maybe not in 10 hours, but maybe.

Chrono Trigger

Secret of Mana

Secret of Evermore

Super Mario RPG

FFIII

 

[DefDC]

Fallout 1 &/or 2. Plansescape: Torment
That'd keep me busy for a while.

 

[Fardringle]

Flight Sim would be funny on a plane, particularly if you are "flying" the same plane as the real plane you are in and can make it follow the same flight path. I bet you'd get some funny looks from the flight crew.