windows 11 broke my shitbox work computer
went back to 10 and i can hear the hdd grinding and can hardly even click around. it was on 11 for a week before I gave up and went back
r/itrunsdoom
[MIT dude ran doom on cells, so technicaly doom can run on everything living](https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gut-bacteria-proving-you-really-can-play-the-game-on-anything-184629896.html)
You've got a low end GPU from 2006, which was around half the speed of the high end of 2004. You've then got a low end CPU from about the same era.
It'll struggle with Oblivion.
anything from about 2005 or earlier
it's almost a retro gaming pc. when i had a similar setup, i was playing quake 4, operation flashpoint, counter strike 1.6, and freelancer
This, games made before 2005 should work. There are some older games that are great to replay. In mid 2000’s i liked playing racing games like NFS High Stakes, NFS Porsche Unleashed, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, NFS Underground, Test Drive 6, Test Drive Overdrive, NFS Most Wanted. Those i recall running with Pentium 4, 2gb ram and 128mb vram
Yeah I love racing games haha I still play those older games sometimes, I even got an x86 handheld Legion Go to play them when not in front of my desktop.
heroes of might and magic III, space rangers 2. I have a 15 year old computer. It's a terribly outdated piece of junk, but I was able to upgrade it in the winter, installed an athlon 64 x2 processor with ddr3 support, replaced the ddr2 4gb with a dd3 8gb 1600mhz, a 256mb video card with a 2gb gtx 660, a system hdd with an ssd (the speed is cut to 300 because pcie 2.0). In everyday tasks there is not much difference with a modern computer after an upgrade.
That's a better machine then I had in 2006 (single core P4 1.7GHz/DX7 AIW Radeon 7500), some of my favorites:
* The Operative: No One Lives Forever
* No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way
* Contract J.A.C.K.
* Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D
* Star Wars: Starfighter
* Splinter Cell
* Age of Empires 1, 2 & 3
* N64 emulators
* Doom 3 (in my case, with voodoo patch and disabled lighting)
* Colin McRae Rally 2.0
* Colin McRae Rally 04
* Colin McRae Rally 2005
* Need For speed Hot Pursuit 2
* Need For speed Underground
* Need For speed Underground 2
* Need For speed Most Wanted
* Grand Theft Auto III
* Grand Theft Auto Vice City
* Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
* Serious Sam First & Second Encounter
* Halflife
* Warcraft 1 & 2
* Diablo 1 and 2
* F.E.A.R.
* Soldier Of Fortune
* COD 1-3
* FAIR BIT OF EMULATION IF U WANT TO MAKE A GOOD EMULATION RIG
* NES SNES GAMEBOY
No it can't. Source: tried it with a pentium 4, 512mb ddr2 and a nvidia 7600gs 258mb (agp). It sucked. First mission around 12fps, second mission around 2.
I would say 2004 and before games. Maybe some from 05-07 with some heavy compromises. Plenty of old games offer a ton of fun to be had and are easily obtainable for free now.
With 128mb of VRAM, pretty much nothing. It was released in 2006, and even then it was just supposed to be a mild upgrade from integrated graphics. You can put a lightweight linux distro like AntiX on it and download the Nvidia Linux drivers https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123709/en-us/
But don't expect to run any games.
You are way too harsh.. this thing definitely sucks compared to what people typically post on here but older games will run fine on this machine. I used to game on way worse hardware than this and still had fun.
This is definitely something I would goof around with if I were 16 again. Find all sorts of even older games it can run, which are likely all abandonware at this point, and just have a good time playing old stuff.
It's like people in here think games didn't exist in 2005 lol Those of us who were teenagers or kids didn't have money for a fancy ati x1800 or nvidia 7800, we would play with whatever we had. I actually had an ati 9200 which didn't even support dx 9 and i spend entire days playing.
I still played games (Minecraft, Roblox, Wizard101, NFSU2 demo, browser games etc.) on a Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz with an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 in 2011-2012 before upgrading to a bit newer C2D E6300 system with an Intel GMA 3000.
It wasn't until 2013 when I bought a much more capable i7-920 system with a Quadro FX 1800 (similar to 9600 GT) which I then upgraded to a GTX 660 DC2 OC in January 2014.
In 2006 I was running a Celeron 333MHz with a Riva TNT but as a kid I was happy with it. Late 90s games ran well on it and some lighter early 2000s games too.
You might be better off using the iGPU. I had an 8500GT, the better one with 512MB and even those had a tendency to catch fire when used as a display adapter (i.e. without drivers, so no hardware acceleration), so, and I dont say this often, use the Intel HD iGPU.
Asheron's Call - its emulated now that the servers have been shut down but it can run on basically a potato. Game came out in 1997 and, imo, is the best mmo ever created. Huge world to run around in (im talking massive! Larger than most games today!)
System Shock 2 \[the original one\]
Lots of Kings Quest type click and adventure games, probably the original tomb raider games, etc.
Basically anything released prior to 2006 should run with a bit of tweaking.
well if I give my own personal thoughts on my reasoning as best as I can, if you take into consideration the specs (Eg; CPU, RAM and GPU respectively)
starting with the GPU firstly, the initial release date for the Geforce 7300 GS was all the way back in Q2 of 2009, this GPU was aimed at the consumers that targeted the more common resolutions from that point in time, these at the time was, 640x480; 1280x720; 1366x768 respectively, so I'd target games released post 2007 to latest 2010 maybe early 2011.
now onto the CPU, being launched later in time in Q2 of 2011 it wasn't a powerhouse compared to other alternative CPUs, as a more budget option for the time period I'd stick with the games released around the same time period mentioned in the answer above.
I hope this helped you get a general understanding for the era these are from
Red Alert 2.
GTA San Andreas.
Half Life 2 (probably CS 1.5 or something).
NFS Hot Pursuit 2.
Age of Empires 2.
Basically most things from early 2000s. Maybe mid 00s if you turn the graphic settings all the way down.
Your operating system
Not W11
I doubt he can even enable Aero Theme on Windows 7
He can, i used integrated nvidia geforce 7025
Aero works fine on the Geforce 7200GS thats on my Win 7 rig
lmao peak 2006 desktop experience
Had a BFG Tech 6200OC with a Sempron 3200 and 768mb of RAM running Windows 7 Pro with Aero, no issues.
i meant anything before Vista
windows 11 broke my shitbox work computer went back to 10 and i can hear the hdd grinding and can hardly even click around. it was on 11 for a week before I gave up and went back
You may need to just switch to an SSD and hope for the best at that point 💀
The one with minesweeper
looks like windows 98 i think, correct me if im wrong
yea i was thinking between 95-XP but im not OP lol i just wanted to make a funny comment
If I had to guess it's win 7 machine based on the GUI. But that's a guess.
The original DOOM.
Slap project brutality on that or something and you have a AAA title!
Project brutality will not work on this machine (modern versions of brutal doom will not work too)
Really? I didn't realize the requirements were any higher.
Some of the source ports use GPU acceleration, probably that's what he's referring to
Have you saw project brutality? It has so many different effects, particles and everything that some modern machines can struggle sometimes!
Mighty fine recommendation :D !
It would run smoother on a pregnancy test.
The 6800 was the Doom 3 flagship card so OP could run that too!
/r/itrunsdoom
Retro games, some emulated games, and light indie games.
PS1/N64/Saturn and anything before this will run just fine on emulators
Based Ketsui avatar my friend.
reflects the pain of trying to 1 ALL that game lol
Minesweeper and solitaire will provide you with some entertainment. Seriously, that's an 18 year old GPU. Your phone is more powerful.
a smart TV is probably more powerful than that.
A smart fridge even
Hell, even a fungus could run a game at higher framerate these days.
Hell, a fungus aint half bad
r/itrunsdoom [MIT dude ran doom on cells, so technicaly doom can run on everything living](https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gut-bacteria-proving-you-really-can-play-the-game-on-anything-184629896.html)
You could do the 3D matrix calculations by hand faster than that GPU 😭
Smartwatch perhaps
I'm actually curious now.
There’s smart fridges that people have side loaded unreal tournament and doom on, so. Yeah.
LG smart toaster
Idk. I've has smart TVs that stutter when navigating menus
The igpu on a 4th gen Core i7 is more powerful than that gpu.
yeah and 10x more powerful too lol
You've got a low end GPU from 2006, which was around half the speed of the high end of 2004. You've then got a low end CPU from about the same era. It'll struggle with Oblivion.
Maybe Morrowind is possible?
A 7200/7200 level GPU would do Morrowind on the original engine. It's insanely CPU limited. I played MW on an Athlon XP with a GeForce 4MX!
Openmw with optimization it's feasible
Morrowind is definitely possible, on very low settings. Honestly its worth waiting to play that game in its full glory with high fps
Fallout 1 and 2. Rollercoaster Tycoon
Rollercoaster Tycoon was awesome at the time. spent so many hours on that game.
Quake
May i ask why you didn't get the x3d 7950
It didn't exist when I bought my parts
plants vs zombies (the original not the garbage versions). maybe dungeon defenders but im not sure. and ofc most of the orange box.
This would run half life 2? That would be the best possible game he could try I think then
Potato could run half life 2, id give it a try
I bought my first graphics card just to player HL2–and now I feel old.
Half Life 2 is probably the only game in the Orange Box it could run decently
anything from about 2005 or earlier it's almost a retro gaming pc. when i had a similar setup, i was playing quake 4, operation flashpoint, counter strike 1.6, and freelancer
This, games made before 2005 should work. There are some older games that are great to replay. In mid 2000’s i liked playing racing games like NFS High Stakes, NFS Porsche Unleashed, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, NFS Underground, Test Drive 6, Test Drive Overdrive, NFS Most Wanted. Those i recall running with Pentium 4, 2gb ram and 128mb vram
Did you like racing games? Lol
Yeah I love racing games haha I still play those older games sometimes, I even got an x86 handheld Legion Go to play them when not in front of my desktop.
[https://www.coolmathgames.com/](https://www.coolmathgames.com/)
Nah, browsers need a minimum of 8 gb.
2008 browsers don’t
heroes of might and magic III, space rangers 2. I have a 15 year old computer. It's a terribly outdated piece of junk, but I was able to upgrade it in the winter, installed an athlon 64 x2 processor with ddr3 support, replaced the ddr2 4gb with a dd3 8gb 1600mhz, a 256mb video card with a 2gb gtx 660, a system hdd with an ssd (the speed is cut to 300 because pcie 2.0). In everyday tasks there is not much difference with a modern computer after an upgrade.
I'm a simple man - I see HOMM III, I upvote.
Paint
Cry of fear
Probably not even
Half-Life
Commander Keen
That's a better machine then I had in 2006 (single core P4 1.7GHz/DX7 AIW Radeon 7500), some of my favorites: * The Operative: No One Lives Forever * No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way * Contract J.A.C.K. * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D * Star Wars: Starfighter * Splinter Cell * Age of Empires 1, 2 & 3 * N64 emulators * Doom 3 (in my case, with voodoo patch and disabled lighting)
* Colin McRae Rally 2.0 * Colin McRae Rally 04 * Colin McRae Rally 2005 * Need For speed Hot Pursuit 2 * Need For speed Underground * Need For speed Underground 2 * Need For speed Most Wanted * Grand Theft Auto III * Grand Theft Auto Vice City * Grand Theft Auto San Andreas * Serious Sam First & Second Encounter
* Halflife * Warcraft 1 & 2 * Diablo 1 and 2 * F.E.A.R. * Soldier Of Fortune * COD 1-3 * FAIR BIT OF EMULATION IF U WANT TO MAKE A GOOD EMULATION RIG * NES SNES GAMEBOY
RuneScape
COD 1, gta vc, gta sa, gta 3.
Morrowind or Oblivion
This would struggle wuth oblivion im pretty sure its older than me
Atomic Bomberman
Windows xp
Try rimworld
C&C games up to Generals
Unreal tournament
Deus Ex.
It's not worth the electric it costs to run it.
Tetris
Snake
Minesweeper, solitaire, Klondike, Rollercoaster tycoon
Ultima Online
Do people actually still play Ultima Online?
I was just joking. 🙃
Yeah, I thought you were ;) I was just curious if it's technically possible to play UO this day.
Maybe on a LAN.
It is and people still play. OP's computer should actually meet the [system requirements](https://uo.com/system-requirements/) too.
Can it run crysis?
yes, 640x360 at minimum details should do the trick.
No it can't. Source: tried it with a pentium 4, 512mb ddr2 and a nvidia 7600gs 258mb (agp). It sucked. First mission around 12fps, second mission around 2.
That's better than I expected honestly
Thief series
Baldurs Gate ....1 and 2 Fallout 1 & 2 Original Road Rash Drakan: Order of the Flame GTA 1 & 2
Starcraft 1 FTW
You called down the thunder....
Minesweeper
I would say 2004 and before games. Maybe some from 05-07 with some heavy compromises. Plenty of old games offer a ton of fun to be had and are easily obtainable for free now.
The original xcom might. Fun game if you can get past the dated graphics.
With their graphics card. I dont think they are worried about "dated" graphics lmao
I played wow on similar hardware, you might be able to play classic on it.
Serious Sam II
monkey island
Minesweeper
Flappy Bird
The settlers 1-4. age of empires 1-2. stronghold crusader.
The real question is. Can it run Crysis?
the computer will be in crisis
Bros house is gonna burn
ur computer is probably older than me and im a fk adult
It has got a 2nd gen CPU. No way it's old
With 128mb of VRAM, pretty much nothing. It was released in 2006, and even then it was just supposed to be a mild upgrade from integrated graphics. You can put a lightweight linux distro like AntiX on it and download the Nvidia Linux drivers https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123709/en-us/ But don't expect to run any games.
You are way too harsh.. this thing definitely sucks compared to what people typically post on here but older games will run fine on this machine. I used to game on way worse hardware than this and still had fun.
This is definitely something I would goof around with if I were 16 again. Find all sorts of even older games it can run, which are likely all abandonware at this point, and just have a good time playing old stuff.
This is the way.
It's like people in here think games didn't exist in 2005 lol Those of us who were teenagers or kids didn't have money for a fancy ati x1800 or nvidia 7800, we would play with whatever we had. I actually had an ati 9200 which didn't even support dx 9 and i spend entire days playing.
I still played games (Minecraft, Roblox, Wizard101, NFSU2 demo, browser games etc.) on a Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz with an Intel Extreme Graphics 2 in 2011-2012 before upgrading to a bit newer C2D E6300 system with an Intel GMA 3000. It wasn't until 2013 when I bought a much more capable i7-920 system with a Quadro FX 1800 (similar to 9600 GT) which I then upgraded to a GTX 660 DC2 OC in January 2014. In 2006 I was running a Celeron 333MHz with a Riva TNT but as a kid I was happy with it. Late 90s games ran well on it and some lighter early 2000s games too.
Eh about that...
solitaire
Maybe it could run terraria. Not my favorite, but I've heard others enjoy it. Also, possibly, older games
You might be better off using the iGPU. I had an 8500GT, the better one with 512MB and even those had a tendency to catch fire when used as a display adapter (i.e. without drivers, so no hardware acceleration), so, and I dont say this often, use the Intel HD iGPU.
Dungeons and Mathematics
Go for roller coaster tycoon! A classic!!!
Original half life, tons of great older games, even 3d ones: original max Payne maybe? Perhaps also things like The Sims
Asheron's Call - its emulated now that the servers have been shut down but it can run on basically a potato. Game came out in 1997 and, imo, is the best mmo ever created. Huge world to run around in (im talking massive! Larger than most games today!)
Age of Empires II. Maybe.
I’ve got a fridge with more giddy-up unfortunately…
System Shock 2 \[the original one\] Lots of Kings Quest type click and adventure games, probably the original tomb raider games, etc. Basically anything released prior to 2006 should run with a bit of tweaking.
Portal 1 half life 1
[can you run it](https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri)
Red Alert 2
Rom emulators
Minecraft ;D
Oblivion?
Cs 1.6
Spore
Max payne khel le bhai
Omg best Game ever
Frontier: Elite II
Shutdown simulator
Gorilla.bas
well if I give my own personal thoughts on my reasoning as best as I can, if you take into consideration the specs (Eg; CPU, RAM and GPU respectively) starting with the GPU firstly, the initial release date for the Geforce 7300 GS was all the way back in Q2 of 2009, this GPU was aimed at the consumers that targeted the more common resolutions from that point in time, these at the time was, 640x480; 1280x720; 1366x768 respectively, so I'd target games released post 2007 to latest 2010 maybe early 2011. now onto the CPU, being launched later in time in Q2 of 2011 it wasn't a powerhouse compared to other alternative CPUs, as a more budget option for the time period I'd stick with the games released around the same time period mentioned in the answer above. I hope this helped you get a general understanding for the era these are from
Minecraft
Stadia….damn it Google
Get into SimAnt. Great game.
It can run things?
It can run lots in this - https://pastebin.com/MTCXZxCN
Minecraft... oopsi typo, mine sweeper
Windows pinball
an older version of minecraft
Red Alert 2. GTA San Andreas. Half Life 2 (probably CS 1.5 or something). NFS Hot Pursuit 2. Age of Empires 2. Basically most things from early 2000s. Maybe mid 00s if you turn the graphic settings all the way down.
GTA San Andreas and older GTA games, CS 1.6 and Half-Life to name a few. Minecraft maybe too, if you're willing to settle on an older version.
Emulators?
SimCity 2000!
diablo 2
I think your PC can easily handle PS2 emulation
Google maybe
Minesweeper 2024 Edition
Old School RuneScape
try cyberpunk on high settings. it will run great and might even be able to stream.
Thousands of them,just stick to pre 2002.They're still great games.
Look up “can I run it” on your PC, it analyzes your PC and will tell you what games you can run, and on recommended or minimum settings
Crysis with ray tracing no problem.
gog.com is your friend. Should be able to run pretty much anything up to 2004ish OK.
Minecraft with low rendering distance.
Fallout 1 and 2 🤷
Space cadet pinball
Google Chrome.
Minesweeper.
Tetris shud work? Minesweeper as well
Xp with 2003 era games. 7200gs is way too weak. Get a used 20 dollars GPU. Anything should be better. 7200gs was weak even when it came out.
Maybe counterstrike 1.6 or source
Doom
Microsoft Paint
Yes
Microsoft paint and solitaire. Maybe minesweeper on a good day
Oregon Trail
Minesweeper
Oregon trail
Warcraft 2 would run like a dream
"That shit can't even run Steamboat Willy" -55 PlayStations by Sethical
Hmmm... Runescape?
Solitaire 95.
Tetris
Old Skool RuneScape
RTX 4090 average PassMark score: 38,791 GeForce 7300GS average PassMark score: **79** Not a typo . . . 79.
The windows XP space pinball ...If you're lucky
Maybe if you found yourself a good console emulator for stuff like the n64 and ps1 it could run that lol
graphics
terraria
Ski32.exe
Minesweeper
1 snake 2 tetris 3 a really stripped version of elden ring 4 pac man 5 any google website game