What 3D FPS game would work well in my ancient computer?

[MusickMaker]

Its a celeron 2.8 with 512 MB ram, and onboard intel graphics card. I could BARELY play half-life 2.

However, i can play Halo 1 pretty good in it. Also, i can play games like need for speed, NFS3, etc.

What games do you think i can buy that'll play in my computer? Just normal 30 fps would do good. Not looking for fancy stuff or anything. Just a good decent game.

 

[xtknight]

Quake 2 and Quake 3
Maybe Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

 

[MercenaryForHire]

WTH, I came in here expecting a P2-P3 era machine. That's not ancient, it just sucks.

Anything based off the Quake 3 or original Unreal Tournament engine should be fine at moderate details. I suggest Deus Ex if you've never played it.

- M4H

 

[Atheus]

Yea Quake 3 Arena, Dues Ex, Half Life 1, etc.

All you would need to play HL2 at good settings is a low-mid range graphics card. On the front page of newegg's video card section there's a Sapphire X1600PRO for $95 which will play even the very latest stuff, and then there's 5500s, 6200s, and 9600s of various kinds for $50-70.

 

[sonoma1993]

i would say the ol star wars dark forces: jedi knight games. need for speed porsche unleashed.

 

[marmasatt]

The Thief games are all pretty good 1, 2 and then Deadly Shadows. DE 1 without a doubt and even System Shock 2 if you haven't played it yet.

 

[mechBgon]

If you're a BattleMech guy, pick up the Mechwarrior4 Compilation for $20, that's the full MW4 Vengeance, full MW4 Mercenaries, the Black Knight expansion for Vengeance (basically another full-length game) and I think you get the 'Mech Paks to add some extra 'mechs to your options too. Your rig isn't great but it should be OK for these.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Hot Deals forum has a thread on a PCI (not PCI-E) Geforce 6200 card for $30, that's about twice as fast as your intel onboard graphics and would widen your choices.

Doom 1 - 2
Blood 1 (2 only seems to work on 3dfx cards )
Duke 3D

Unreal

No One Lives Forever 1 - 2
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

 

[gorcorps]

Alien vs. Predator 2 was fun, and had decent multiplayer. NOLF2 was awesome and would run fine.

 

[Noema]

Does it have an AGP slot? If it does, you can get a cheap DX9 card and your options will increase exponentially, as well as eye candy. Even a $40 card will be better than onboard video.

Something like this.

You could even play Doom 3 at 800x600 with it, and HL2 would run great at 1024x768.

 

[videogames101]

I have a PII in the basement, just curious, what could i run on that thing?

 

[JBT]

CS

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
Alien vs. Predator 2 was fun, and had decent multiplayer. NOLF2 was awesome and would run fine.

I dunno. I have both of those and while they seem low-end by todays standards, I dont think they would run well on an Intel Integrated chip.

EDIT:
And I support the previous suggestion to slap in a cheap video card. A 9600 will actually play quite a few older games.
Maybe even some newer stuff if you're willing to turn the settings down to minimum.

 

[iamaelephant]

Call of Duty should run.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Mafia and Hitman 2 would probably run great.

 

[Mavrick007]

Do you have a used computer parts place or a pawn shop around there? If so, look for a used AGP card for cheap.
It really depends what you think you can get out of that onboard chipset but most separate cards made in the past 4-5 years
will play stuff decently if you turn down the graphics resolution/eye candy.

 

[AbAbber2k]

TRIBES!!!!

 

[Janet Reno]

Assuming you have a 3d accelerator...

Deus Ex.

No One Lives Forever.

Splinter Cell.

Theif 2.

Half-Life.

Some were mentioned already, possibly over once...I'll remention for emphasis