Tell me if any games are missing and i shall update the list as frequently as possible. Any games suggested should work on a Pentium IV 1.7GHz CPU and a GeForce 6200 card. Thanks for all the contributions and I hope this helps everyone with a very old pc who wants some good games to play.

Advent Rising
Age of Empires 1 & 2
Age of Mythology + Titans expansion
Alien vs. Predator 1 & 2
Allegiance
America's Army
American McGee's Alice
American McGee's Scrapland
Area 51
Argametron
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Battlefield 1942
Battlefield 2
Battlestation Midway
Beyond Divinity
Beyond Good & Evil
Black & White
Blood 1 & 2 + all expansions
Blood Omen 1 & 2
Breath Of Fire IV
Broken Sword (all)
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Caesar 1-3
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth
Call of Duty (all) + all expansions
Cavestory
Carmageddon(all)
Carnivores 1 & 2
Chaos Legion
Chessmaster (all)
Chromium
CIty of Heroes + all expansions
Cityscope
Clive Barker's Undying
Codename Panzers (all)
Cold War
Combat Mission (all)
Command & Conquer (all)
Commandos (all)
Colin McRae's Rally (all)
Counter-Strike & Counter-Strike: Source(w\dx 7 and dx8\8.1 hardware levels)
Crimson Skies
Crusader: No Remorse
Crusader: No Regrets
Dark Reign (all)
Darwinia
Dawn of War + all expansions
Day of Defeat + DoD: Source
Day of the Tentacle
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Descent (all)
Desperados
Deus Ex 1 & 2
Diablo 1 & 2
Diner Dash
Doom 1 & 2
Doom 3 (only on low settings and with performance tweaks)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Duke Nukem 3D + all expansions
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Dune (all)
Dungeon Keeper (all)
Dungeon Siege 1 & 2
Empire Earth
Emperor: Rise of the middle kingdom
Europa Universalis
Everquest (all)
Evil Genius
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Final Fantasy VII and VIII
Fahrenheit\Indigo Prophecy
Fallout 1 & 2
Fallout: Tactics
Far Cry
Fate
F.E.A.R. including all expansions (good performance only achieved by forcing DX8 shaders)
F.I.F.A. (all)
F.I.F.A. Street (all)
Flatout
Freedom Force 1 & 2
Freespace 1 & 2
Frogger
Full Spectrum Warrior
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight (all)
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
Galactics Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
Geneforge (all)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Globetrotter
Gothic 1 & 2
Grand Theft Auto (all)
Grandia II
Grim Fandango(my personal fave)
Ground Control 1 & 2
GTR (all)
Guild Wars
Gun Metal
Gunroar (get it free at www.sourceforge.net)
Gunz Online
Half Life + all expansions
Half Life 2 + all episodes
Halo 1 & 2
Hearts of Iron (all)
Hegemonia
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2
Heroes of Might & Magic(all)
Hitman (all)
Homeworld
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Icewind Dale 1 & 2
Imperium Galactica (all)
Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis
Keepsake
Kohan (all)
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
Loom
Lock-On Air Combat
Lords of War
Madden NFL (all)
Mafia
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Master of Magic
Master of Orion (all)
Max Payne 1 & 2
Mechwarrior 4 : Vengeance
Medal of Honor(all)
Medieval: Total War (all)
Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2
Midnight Club (all)
Midtown Madness (all)
Monkey island (all)
Motocross Madness (all)
Myst (all)
NBA Live (all)
Need for Speed (all)
Neverwinter Nights + all expansions
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
NHL (all)
No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
Nox
Oddworld (all)
O.R.B.
Pacific Fighters
Pharaoh
Prince of Persia (all)
Populous 1 & 2
Planetscape: Torment
Pro Evolution Soccer (all)
Project IGI
Psi-Ops (all)
Psychonauts
Quake 1-3
Rakion
Radiosurf
Recoil
Rainbow Six 1-3 + all expansions
Red Faction (all)
Resident Evil (all)
Ricochet
Rise of Nations + all expansions
Return to Castle Wolfenstein + Enemy Territory
Rogue Trooper
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2 + all expansions
Rome: Total War
Sam & Max (all)
Sacrifice
Savage (Get it free at www.s2games.com)
Sea Dogs
Second Sight
Septerra Core
Serious Sam (all)
Severance: Blade of Darkness
Shogun: Total War
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Antietam!
Sid Meier's Civilization series
Sid Meier's Pirates
Silent Hill (all)
Simcity (all)
Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
SiN
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sniper Elite
Spider-Man (movie version and comic-based version)
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2
Soul Reaver 1 & 2
Space Empires IV
Splinter Cell 1 & 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Starcraft + Brood Wars
Starsiege Tribes (all)
Startopia
Star Wars: Battlefronts
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Star Wars: Galaxies(all)
Star Wars Jedi Knight (all)
Star Wars: KotOR (all)
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Star Wars: Starfighter
Still Life
Stronghold
Stronghold: Crusader
S.W.A.T. (all)
Syberia 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Team Fortess Classic
Test Drive 6
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
The Chzo Mythos (All, available here (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com))
The Dig
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (free at http://www.elderscrolls.com, needs DosBOX)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (With Oldblivion, available here (www.oldblivion.com))
The Godfather
The Longest Journey
The Lord of The Rings (all)
The Movies + all expansions
The Orange Box (all games)
The Sims + all expansions
The Sims 2
The Yahtzee Trilogy (available here (http://www.fullyramblomatic.com))
Thief (all)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
TOCA Race Driver (all)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon + all expansions
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 1-3
Tomb Raider (all)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (all)
Total Annihilation (all)
Tribes (all)
Tron 2.0
True Crime: Streets of L.A.
Tropico 1 & 2
Uplink: Hacker Elite a.k.a. Uplink: Trust is a Weakness
Unreal 1 & 2
Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition
Unreal Tournament 2003 & 2004
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos + The Frozen Throne
Warhammer 40,000 (all)
Warlords (all)
Warsow
War Wind 1 & 2
World of Warcraft + The Burning Crusade
World in Conflict
Worms 1-3 + all expansions
XIII
X-Men Legends (all)
Zeus: Master of Olympus
All Popcap and Miniclip games.

Awh no tomb raider?

Point taken and list updated TypeX45, thanks.

i wud add
Age of empires 1
and age of empires 2 to the list,

No System Shock 2 ? For shame.

Thank you Didou(I kick myself for missing that really) and Face_of_LA. List updated.

How about SWKOTOR 1 and 2?

Would they run on an MX440 with a PIII 800MHz? I'm guessing not but if anyone knows otherwise, let me know and I'll add them to the list.

How about Homeworld the RTS game? It was game of the year in 1999.

Added that and Cataclysm, thanks mailpup.

Sweet list ,since I havent been much of a PC gamer in the past,its nice to have some reference on games to check out.

Thanks Mechz.
@racer_x_090, u can get the message across without swearing, innit?

Isn't Star Wars: Galaxies the online game ?

Yes, it is.

Have you tried playing CIV4 on a PIII, its not gonna work. Maybe you should specify CIV 1-3

Zeus: Master Of Olympus is also a great game that should run on almost any machine. I used to play it on my PII back in the day :) It's just a little hard to find. Amazon has it though :) :grinthumb

Is there a list of graphic intensive games? I spend a lot of money on a new system and intend to use it to its fullest!

Regards,

Korrupt

Flatout is a good crash & burn type driving game that looks really nice and runs pretty well even on as little as a Radeon 9600. Does that count?

Chromium is a pretty little free shooter available for linux and windows

bought yahoo poker superstars II - very addicting and cheap for $20.00 Been playing it a lot!
Pocket tanks is another and super dx ball.

worms 2, also a fun game. Good luck finding it :evil:

Thank you all, feedback appreciated and list updated accordingly.

@LNCPapa, the minimum requirements for Flatout are a 1.5GHz P4 so I doubt it will even start on a PIII. Chromium looks nice though.

@Korrupt, why don't u try BF2, GRAW, LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth 1 & 2, FEAR, Quake 4 and Half Life 2(Episode One included) if u haven't already. Or why not create a new thread with that topic? ;)

Thread updated with a few more games. Check them out and have fun everyone!

Rainbow Six series and Rogue Spear series.
Midtown Madness 1-2 and Motocross madness 1-2

Thanks for the suggestions. List updated.

Great idea Rage, this will really help people out.

Loki for the PC

graphic kinda crappy when running on high even its a 2007 (Dialobish 2) game xD

Area 51 is one to add, and Project Snowblind.

Would those work on a PIII and a GeForce MX440? Let me know and I'll add them to the list.

I woud like to suggest adding the superb adventure game "The Longest Journey" to the list, which is ridiculously easy to run. If you loved Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island series (which I did, of course) then you'll really enjoy TLJ. In fact, I might even say it's better than both in terms of story, dialogue, and puzzles (which are all balanced perfectly). It only falls short in terms of music and humor, at least in terms of comparison to GF and MI. It's sequel, "Dreamfall," is fairly graphically advanced, but it might just be stripped down enough to fit this list too.

Also for the adventure fan: "Loom," "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis," "Sam and Max Hit the Road" + "Sam and Max Season 1" (6 episodic sequels to "Hit the Road" with another season in the works) "Full Throttle," and "the Dig." (If any of those are missing, that is. I already saw DOTT there.)

I would also like to suggest adding "The Movies" + it's expansion, "The Movies: Stunts and Effects" from Fable's developer.

If your machine can run Fahrenheit, aka Indigo Prophecy in North America (which is an excellent, excellent game in it's own right and one of my all-time faves) then it should run the Movies just fine.

The Movies is a challenging but interesting strategy, sort of a mix between the Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon series, but it's real strength is it's movie-making simulation, in which you can make your own digital films with literally few limits but your imagination and patience. It's expansion improves both aspects of gameplay and adds stunts to the films, played by your own stuntmen trained in the stunt training centers you buy. It's quite fun to see your rising stuntment stars abuse pyrotechnics, torture devices, etc. as training and then see it all come together in the filming of your latest project.

Also from Fable's developer is the excellent duology, Black and White 1+2. The second one is quite graphically enhanced (heavy use of pixel shading), so it might not be right for the list, but the first is a breeze to run.

Wolfenstein? 3d

Great list Rage :D

You should add TES: Oblivion as well, I played it with 512mb RAM and a 6200 pci card, it ran on medium with 20+ FPS ( which is amazingly good ), if your system is worst then my old system then you could download Oldblivion which will make it run on even integrated cards on medium-high!

http://www.oldblivion.com/

Thanks for the amazing suggestions everyone, list updated.
@TimeParadox, I doubt Oblivion will run on a PIII. All the games in the list should run on a PIII 800MHz CPU with a GeForce MX440. I doubt Oblivion is one of them. ;)
If someone knows otherwise though, let me know and I'll add it.

Heres the game I was talking about, Loki xD
I think it has low system requirement?

I made small clip of it =]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhbyAgFQh4

i would add homeworld AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN it looks awesome no matter what the weather or display hardware for that matter. its a beutiful game!

@TimeParadox, I doubt Oblivion will run on a PIII. All the games in the list should run on a PIII 800MHz CPU with a GeForce MX440. I doubt Oblivion is one of them.

Oh well if you were talking about THAT OUTDATED stuff then probably not, but the Oldblivion addon I linked plays with MX440 ( says on website )

I updated the list with some more games and a new minimum spec as well. Anyone have more suggestions keeping the new minimum system specs in mind?

Giants: Citizen Cabuto

I played it on a little better processor, Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz, but I played it on a GF2MX 32meg card. The original release of the card, not the later MX100/MX200/MX400 versions .

Nice one SNGX, thanks for the suggestion. List updated. Any others?

Giants: Citizen Cabuto

Ah, what a lush game!

Rage what about Final Fantasy 7 & 8?

Great list everyone. I just noticed this thread and wanted to compliment you on a pretty diverse and extensive list of games.

I don't know if this helps but...I can run counter strike source, team fortress 2 and world of warcrack on my laptop running a 1.6ghz celeron, 1.4gb ram, and ati 200m graphics. pretty good for a $350 laptop

Flatout and Sim City 4 runs perfectly on my computer, and I have a Celeron 2.4Ghz, 1 Gig of ram, and a fx 5200 (pci).

List updated. Thanks for all the fantastic contributions everyone, keep them coming! :)

The list is fantastic, we are preparing a new poll right now that will link to this thread as a side story.

what about the orginal ghost recon for pure tactical goodness

Hmm yes, I reckon it will do. Thanks for the suggestion SOAD. And thanks to Mr. Julio for the good news. Glad to hear this thread will be able to help a lot more people than before.

Thats like every great game lol

Fantastic :grinthumb

Heroes of might and Magic 1-3
Master of Magic
Dune 2
Warlords 1-3
Avernum 4 (haven't played previous versions)
Geneforge 1-4

I see Fallout 1-2, but "Fallout:Tactics" is not on the list...

Thanks for the suggestions, I've updated the list accordingly.
Any more?

I know the original Dawn of War runs great on my rig, and the expansions should run just as good.

I really like Ground Control 2, but I don't know about anyone else. It runs perfect also.

Also, Doom 3 really should work on slow rigs, because it does on mine, but it is on low, of course. Doom 3 requires low settings, and for premium performance a little tweaking.