What FPS games work on a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz with an ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 3650 AGP?
What FPS games work on a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz with an ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 3650 AGP?
I purchased an HD 3650 to upgrade my old Pentium 4 system, replacing the Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 Rev. A00. I’m looking into which games will run well or be enjoyable. I also have 2 GB of DDR RAM on Windows XP Professional SP3 x86. Mostly I’m interested in offline or singleplayer titles, though any suggestions would be appreciated.
Games that worked with the FX 5200 and were playable include Halo CE, Far Cry (low/medium), Battlefield Vietnam/1942, IGI2, all GldSrc titles, and Half-Life 2. Left 4 Dead would run, but there were too many graphical issues to judge its quality. I’m hopeful the new graphics card will improve performance.
Borderlands 1?
DX 10.1, so you should be able to do Unreal Tournament 3, and all the ones below. That would have also been around the Doom 3 era I think?
There is Quake - Quake III
You've got early Battlefield covered. Check out Forgotten Hope mod for 1942, puts in all the historical vehicles that 1942 missed (or got wrong, which was a lot)
Dues Ex?
Max Payne was famous for doing bullet time.
I'm sure there are plenty out there that I don't know about, kind of the golden age of FPS and strategy games.
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Original Scrolls Oblivion plus DLCs. Possibly Skyrim at extremely low settings, maybe the Original DX9 release. Call of Duty 4 - MW2. Authentic versions.
Thank you for your ideas. CoD 4:MW and MW2 are available on Steam, so I'll look into them. Borderlands 1 seems like a game worth trying.
I'll explore Forbidden Hope next.
I'm curious about which PC games would fit my system.
System specs: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (no HT), Radeon HD 3650 AGP, 1.75 GB DDR, Windows XP Professional SP3.
I already own Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/2, Halo CE/2 with XP patch, FarCry, Half-Life/2/2E1/2E2, and IGI/2.
I would say all games up to 2005 except the shader-heavy F.E.A.R., which would only run at 30fps if you had more CPU power.
All your examples come from that time, except Left 4 Dead which was released in 2008.
The better GPU lets you enjoy more visual effects at the same low frame rate, so it won<|pad|> can’t make you play much tougher games even with the fastest AGP card HD3850.
But if you’re used to playing on the original PS1, 30fps with occasional drops to 15fps should be fine.
The HD3650 stops you from dual-booting into Win9x or DOS to run the huge range of games that never worked on any NT Windows, since there are no drivers available. You could try the FX5200 instead.
You'd need the exact motherboard to determine feasibility. It seems the Northwood's FSB speed differs from the older Pentium 4, meaning not all boards will work.
Doom? Maybe some of the initial Hitman games, though not definitely. Early Crisis titles? I remember the recurring joke "will it run Crysis," but I can't recall which game that referred to.