The Atom platform has a lot of problems when gaming. First, the cpu isn't very fast (obviously), but the bigger problems revolve around its GPU. On paper it's faster than a Tegra chipset tablet, but the software support is terrible. The other problem you have is (last I checked) the GPU doesn't support scaling, so if you run at anything less than your native res (I'm assuming 1366x768) then the game will not fill the screen.
Mostly, you're going to want to stick to 2D and pre-rendered games. Bejewelled, World of Goo, FTL, etc all play fine. Some 3d games play ok, like Torchlight 1 (on low settings) and the Sam and Max series. The Win8 Store version of Hydro Thunder works but the frame rate is a little bit low on high detail.
Even among 2D games, ones that use full screen panning tend to not work very well. Limbo and Bastion are unplayably slow. Braid works, but slowly. Adventure games like Gemini Rue or Broken Sword work great. Pretty much no even remotely recent FPS titles will be playable.
Older DOS based games mostly play great, but the resolution scaling issue becomes a problem. The original X-Com, Fallout 1 and 2, and a few others are great. Fallout is unplayably slow if you pick the wrong draw mode, but using the correct one it runs perfectly (I forget which mode works).
One more thing to take into account is that many games do not work well with touchscreens and may require a mouse. Touchscreens use absolute positions whereas a mouse cursor's position is relative (where the mouse has been moved to relatve to where it was). This causes problems with some games. Using a stylus -may- help in some games, but not all.
-Byshop
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