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  #21  
Old 08-29-2006
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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?
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Old 09-16-2007
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Thread updated with a few more games. Check them out and have fun everyone!
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Old 09-17-2007
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Rainbow Six series and Rogue Spear series.
Midtown Madness 1-2 and Motocross madness 1-2
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Old 09-17-2007
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Thanks for the suggestions. List updated.
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Old 09-17-2007
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Great idea Rage, this will really help people out.
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Old 09-17-2007
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Loki for the PC

graphic kinda crappy when running on high even its a 2007 (Dialobish 2) game xD
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Old 09-18-2007
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Area 51 is one to add, and Project Snowblind.
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Old 09-18-2007
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Would those work on a PIII and a GeForce MX440? Let me know and I'll add them to the list.
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Old 09-18-2007
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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.

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Old 09-18-2007
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Wolfenstein? 3d
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Old 09-19-2007
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Great list Rage

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/
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Old 09-20-2007
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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.
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Old 09-20-2007
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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
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Old 09-20-2007
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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!
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Old 09-21-2007
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@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 )
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Old 01-16-2008
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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?
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Old 01-16-2008
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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 .
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Old 01-16-2008
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Nice one SNGX, thanks for the suggestion. List updated. Any others?
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Old 01-16-2008
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Giants: Citizen Cabuto
Ah, what a lush game!

Rage what about Final Fantasy 7 & 8?

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Old 01-16-2008
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Great list everyone. I just noticed this thread and wanted to compliment you on a pretty diverse and extensive list of games.
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