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Started by Josh likens | | 25 answers
What games can run on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4?
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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October 15, 2014 4:54:29 PM

Shadow Warrior and some Visual Boy Advance ROMs should work on an Intel Pentium.
October 15, 2014 4:51:19 PM

If you want to play something that isn't too outdated you need to run it on a system that isn't too outdated
Minimum for playing newer games now is probably a Core 2 Duo
October 15, 2014 4:43:33 PM

It was like a Intel 82845G or something. Are there games similar to Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare? (that aren't TOO outdated)
October 15, 2014 4:34:11 PM

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.
October 15, 2014 4:07:00 PM

Alright, we're trying Call Of Duty 4, but it keeps on saying "UBYTE4N" error or something. Swiftshader makes things worse, forces me to reboot the PC manually. Any suggestions? .-.
October 9, 2014 6:23:03 PM

pretty sure, none of my old PCI-E or AGP cards would fit.
October 9, 2014 5:55:05 PM

And you certain that it doesn't have AGP or PCI-E?

PCI is very slow which will reduce performance even further
October 9, 2014 3:48:24 PM

Yeah, I searched "graphics card" and "video card" and chose PCI for the slot.
October 9, 2014 3:37:46 PM

If you re-search eBay for 'pci gpu' then refine and use 'by socket' , pick pci, not pcie.
October 9, 2014 3:22:30 PM

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...

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