Good offline CRPG for XP/Vista

[dvvega]

Actually, no. As of May 29, my laptop is probably more powerful than my 7-year-old desktop PC. I've yet to buy NWN2 but I doubt it can run on my laptop, which is not really configured for hardcore gaming.

I own a 1.6 Ghz Laptop with an AMD Turion chip (essentially behaves as a Dual Core under Windows XP). It has 2GB of memory and a separate NVidia graphics chipset.

The laptop is definitely not a gaming machine, however I've successfully played The Witcher at Medium Resolution (except in Act 3 where there are just too many AIs running). You shouldn't have a problem playing anything half-decent on your new laptop.

The key here is the graphics card. If it is an onboard one then you will generally have problems, but if you have a card (or chipset) that has a GPU (like mine) then you should not have problems.

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[drothgery]

I thought Mass Effect is a pay-2-play MMORPG. Don't think would work on my laptop. Hopefully I will upgrade my desktop soon (probably going with AMD multi-core CPU).

No. It's a KotOR style RPG (though in Bioware's own universe, rather than Star Wars).

 

[Bront]

most never to bother listing whether they work on multi-core PC.

That's because they don't need to. There were only a few games that had consistent problems with dual core PCs, and those were fixed with patches. Even if you didn't patch it, you can solve it by setting the program to only use 1 CPU manually, so it isn't an issue.

 

[stonegod]

I tried to install my old favorite, Arcanum, but the cursor won't move. Touchpad or mouse, it doesn't work. Had to bring up Vista's Task Manager just to shut it down.

Ah, Arcanum. My idiot savant half-orc technologist who made his own friends makes me smile (and I'm still playing version of him in D&D)...

As for getting to work on Vista, I've heard running it as Admin under Compatibility mode *should* would. My want to check some of the patches at Terra-Arcanum as well.

 

[JediSoth]

If you have any questions as to whether or not your computer will run a specific game, check out System Requirements Lab. It has yet to steer me wrong.

JediSoth

 

[Grog]

Have you played Planescape: Torment? Best PC RPG ever made, even though it's almost 10 years old now.

 

[stonegod]

Have you played Planescape: Torment? Best PC RPG ever made, even though it's almost 10 years old now.

That's a strong claim... though not wrong.

Torment, Arcanum, and the original Fallouts are my top ones.

 

[stonegod]

If you have any questions as to whether or not your computer will run a specific game, check out System Requirements Lab. It has yet to steer me wrong.

But Arcanum is not on there.

 

[Grog]

Torment, Arcanum, and the original Fallouts are my top ones.

The Fallouts are good too (well, the first one, anyway; the second one was good too, but was hamstrung by being buggy as all get-out), but I don't think they've aged as well as Torment has. Still worth playing if one hasn't played them before, though.

 

[silvermane]

If it is an onboard one then you will generally have problems

I bought one of those (GeForce 7050), and boy am I screwed. The salesman lied to me that the played NFS Carbon on it with no problem. Well, he may have *played* it, but conveniently forgot to mention that it froze after 10 minutes or so. I can't even play Doom 3, NWN or any older 3D game without freezing, not to mention newer ones.