What games can run on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4?

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Hi, I have a old pc for my little brother, and it has no graphics card, a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 and 1GB of RAM. AssaultCube works fine, Sims 2 works at 20 FPS, Any GOLDSRC engine game runs smoothly, GTA 3, Vice city work at 20 FPS, Minecraft runs at 10 fps. All games have been set to the lowest settings possible. He wants to play Garry's Mod but the game closes on startup. I've tried swiftshader but it just makes the window all green. If I open task manager it's borderless, has no title, can't close, needs a logoff to close. Can games like Call Of Duty 1 work? The OS is Windows XP.
 
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Games from its era might work, but with no graphics card you are going to be extremely limited. If its the Intel IGP its not going to do well, if its got an nVidia chipset it may do better, but really you are going to be restricted to games from ~1998-2003... There comes a point where its time to just get a cheapo $300 HP, it'll do better and not be a gaping security hole in your network.
Games from its era might work, but with no graphics card you are going to be extremely limited. If its the Intel IGP its not going to do well, if its got an nVidia chipset it may do better, but really you are going to be restricted to games from ~1998-2003... There comes a point where its time to just get a cheapo $300 HP, it'll do better and not be a gaping security hole in your network.
 
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We got the pc with 512mb ram. it's from a garage sale. we got it with a tv, a safe and a modern printer for 30$. I put win7 then win xp on it (i removed win7).
 

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ok. i pressed "pick as solution" by accident >.<
 

That is going to be truely unpleasant. 512MB of RAM is just enough for XP but 7 needs 1 GB minimum
Really P4 sucked when they were new. Unless its a 775 system where you can put a C2D in it, it is worthless


Only REALLY old games will run on it.

BTW to fix the task manager missing title bar, just double click any gray part of the window
 

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Games like Counter Strike: Source crash at startup, probably because the older games allow Software mode and the Source engine based games don't. I saw a old picture of a older version of Steam running on Reddit. http://i.imgur.com/nRTmEv8.png . Would getting that OS speed the computer up?

 

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yeah, it's windows 98. the recycle bins are identical. 98 or 95 or whatever had that weird recycle bin.

Steam automatically updates, and contacting their support is like talking to a tree. Do you know if Call of Duty 1 would work?
 

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COD 1 works good, 30~ fps on everything lowest. It takes PCI cards. I have like 6 AGP cards but they aren't compatible. :(.

So, would Windows 2000 be compatible with games like COD 1, Half-Life 1, assaultcube, gta 3 work?
 

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I don't think my brother would like me to replace Windows XP with something older, he'll complain.

I looked on ebay, all I found were ATI 8MB cards, 200$ pci-e cards (I chose PCI in search), 200$ PCI cards, etc. I saw some good cards on Newegg but their expensive...
 
CoD4 not gonna happen. It requires at least a decent graphics card and a P4 will not cut it

You might pull off CoD 2 if you graphics card is at least a Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500

If you just want to do it for proof of concept like when I ran Simcity 3000 on a 486,
then you will need a socket 478 motherboard with AGP and you would need to buy a decent AGP card
(I think there are some AGP radeon 3xxx available)

But if you just want to play it and are not a vintage enthusiast then there isn't any point in trying.