Windows Game Advisor is a great resource for determining if games will run on your system. It benchmarks your system and automatically determines if certain games are playable on your computer. It doesn’t have a comprehensive list of games, but it is pretty extensive.
I used it to find out what is compatible to my laptop very recently and am getting Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Warchest for Xmas without worry of incompatibility.
Actually, I am starting to worry now. :smack:
I am now unsure of the graphics capability of my Laptop and whether it will run Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. I don’t mean to hijack this thread but can somebody tell me if I got enough graphics juice for this game? I really don’t know much about this graphics card business.
The graphics requirements for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (Warchest) states that the following is needed:
[ul][li]16 MB OpenGL capable video card using an NVIDIA™ TNT2, GeForce™ or greater; [/li][/ul] [ul]
[li]ATI Rage 128, Radeon or greater; or PowerVR Kyro II with OpenGL and DirectX 8.0 compatible driver; [/li][/ul]
I have a Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family on this computer covering my graphics. The Intel game compatibility list for my chipset does not list MOHAA one way or another.
Whaddya think? Am I screwed or what?
Thanks Ferret Herder, that sounds like my kind of game. 
devilsknew, I’m know computer expert, but according to the specs for your graphics card here, it looks like you meet the requirements. I could be wrong though, so hopefully somebody else will answer.
MOH:AA uses a modified version of the Quake 3 engine, so if you can run Quake 3 well then MOH:AA should work. Of course, for an even better WWII game with a modified Q3 engine, check out Call of Duty.
www.the-underdogs.org has lots of information on old games and ways to get them to run.
I just ordered the Fallout 1/2 bundle and Planescape. Yay for me. 
Thanks, TalonKarrde[. I already ordered the game and I thought it was going to be useless. I really don’t know my way around the Graphics technicalities, it’s all Greek to me and I have never had somebody explain it adequately or found a really good one-stop guide on the internet.
Yes, it was a toss-up between Call of Duty and MOHAA, I can evidently run both on my system, but I played MOHAA a little one night at my friends when it first came out and I was never able to make it off the beach in the beginning D-Day mission. I really liked the weapons physics and realism, not to mention the challenge of the grudge I have against it. I guess I just went with the one I knew.
Speaking of old games that won’t run on XP, I have the old Microprose, Magic the Gathering Game and the expansion pack Spells of the Ancients for PC. I loved that game! But unfortunately it will only run on Windows 98 or lesser. It was great to play Magic on the PC solo like that. The AI was even pretty good! I really miss it… I even came up with a pretty playable red and white deck in that game, my “Yeti deck”. Because it was literally the computer version of the Magic Card Game it never got old and boring and was infinitely playable. Damn you, Microprose for making such a buggy and short-lived game! (It was very buggy in the actual adventure game mode.)
MOH:AA assault is still a great game. You’ll really enjoy it, I think.
The D-Day beach scene is lots of fun, and also really hard. It’s never really frustrating though, to me at least. You just have to keep trying to run at it in different ways and different combinations of staying down and moving. There are also a few guys along the way that’ll give you a medkit.
The part of that game that a lot of people find frustrating is in some of the levels where you’re in a city and there’s snipers on the rooftops. It will take a lot of dying and reloading, but that part wasn’t too bad for me.
Some of my favorite games wouldn’t run on the newer machines at all. Things would whiz so fast you couldn’t get to press a button. Then I bought a couple of “slow down emulators” meant for those, and still no luck. Every time I see a old computer in a thrift shop I think “for $40 I could play those games one more time”, but the thought of an extra dust catcher in the house is too much for me.
Get a KVM switch and you can at least spare yourself the hassle of a second keyboard, monitor and mouse.
Of course, the switch’ll probably cost you more than the old computer, but how much is your pleasure worth to you?
In fact, I have a KVM switch for my computers. I have a Win98 SE and a WinXP Home, and they share a keyboard and monitor quite happily. Apparently they had severe conflicts about who got to have control of the mouse, so I have a second mouse. But I’m very, very happy. My old computer has quite a few games on it, and my new computer is wonderful for surfing and playing internet games.
Well, the games have all arrived by now.
I first tried the first Fallout. I installed it on my WinXP computer and it ran just fine. But after playing it for a few days I’ve decided that I don’t really like it.
So now I’m playing the second one. MUCH better.
I’m playing as a character with high intelligence, speech, and stuff like that. The thing is, in RPG’s I always choose thief type characters, even though I never use the thief skills, so this time I’m finally not doing that.
The guy at the end of the temple in the beginning was really hard. The one that you fight hand to hand without any items. It took me several tries, but what I’d do is attack twice, then move away one square and end my turn. When he moved he’d use up one AP and could only attack twice, and my extra AP drove my AC up by one.
If I knew that was coming up, I would have spent more points on hand to hand, instead of on melee weapons at my last level up.