For my trip, I am going to leave my gaming rig at home obviously. So I am carrying around a small laptop and want to get some games that could fill in the boring spots.

Some points in mind:

1) the laptop has low-med performance with 1.5 ghz intel M proc, 1.5 ghz mem, and an integrated gpu.

2) it doesn't have soundcard, so perhaps rts, sim etc genre might be better than fps, rpg

3) the screen is small so perhaps gameplay > visuals

Something like the original roller coaster tycoon seems to fit my needs. Other games?

Hello

For the build so far, I have: E6700 2.66, 2 gb RAM 800mhz, and ATI X300.

Quite obviously, the bottleneck is the X300. I am getting a 8800gtx for a good price in June. Meanwhile, however, I need a mid-level card that could run Oblivion on mostly max settings, considering the CPU and RAM I have now. What would that card be? I do not want to spend over 200 dollars on it.

Another question regards buying a hard drive and setting up XP. I will get a new additional HD and want to install a fresh XP on that one, but I want to keep my older HD without reformatting (it already has XP). How would I do that?

The last question is: would running a DX9 game with a DX10 card on Vista be better looking than running it in XP?

Thanks

[QUOTE="shoenberg3"]Almost.. it almost seemed like it would have worked. When I did that on desktop hl icon (640x480) the screen turned black (as if it were starting) then it returned to "preparing to launch" and then, nothing... Hl2.exe started on task manager.mestizoman

try that for your target in properties

Delete the cache of HL2, but make sure to back up your .cfg files and your save games, you can also try to clean the windows register (obviously use an app for that).Gamartto