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The best PC games that aren't so demanding graphically

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Any Valve game (1-2)

Bastion (1)

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (1)

Dishonored (2)

Just Cause 2 (2)

LIMBO (1)

The Walking Dead (1)

The Wolf Among Us (1)

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War Thunder.

 

Was easily able to keep myself at or around 60 FPS on pretty high/ ultra-ish settings back when I was still using my GTX 470. Though I lost around 15-20 FPS from just switching to a GTX 560 Ti (which is a very similar GPU, but 280MB less VRAM) so I'd say 1 gig of VRAM is right around the pain threshold.

 

Don't really know how CPU intensive it is though, as my 3570K has never been clocked less than 4.7 Ghz.

 

It's a beautiful game though as it scales really well (I'd say from 1-4)

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Isnt farcry 3 pretty demanding..

 

 

I like this thread. I have a nice computer with the exception of a old GFX card and I mean OLD. All these games help. Do a lot of people still play BF3? I think I will try to run it. I have 8gb ram, a 3570K i5. the only issue is a ATI 1950x GFX card..

But after the 1.01 patch it runs so smooth on a very poor rig. Not very demanding, you can easily play it on 60 FPS at med to high settings.

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COD4

UT2004

Warcraft 3

Starcraft 2

League of Legends

Quake Live

Age of Empires

Dawn of war 

L4D

Bad Company 2

TF2

Killing floor

Mount and Blade

Day of defeat source

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But after the 1.01 patch it runs so smooth on a very poor rig. Not very demanding, you can easily play it on 60 FPS at med to high settings.

 

Are you talking Farcry3 or BF3?

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World of Warcraft

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War Thunder.

 

Was easily able to keep myself at or around 60 FPS on pretty high/ ultra-ish settings back when I was still using my GTX 470. Though I lost around 15-20 FPS from just switching to a GTX 560 Ti (which is a very similar GPU, but 280MB less VRAM) so I'd say 1 gig of VRAM is right around the pain threshold.

 

Don't really know how CPU intensive it is though, as my 3570K has never been clocked less than 4.7 Ghz.

 

It's a beautiful game though as it scales really well (I'd say from 1-4)

that game is very easy on the system I was playing it at 70-80fps on integrated graphics with only 3.5gbRAM usable

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My votes go to

 

Counter Strike series (1)

FTL (1)

Sim City 4 (1)

Europa Universalis IV(1)

Kerbal Space Program (2)

Hearthstone (1)

 

All of those will run on a netbook except for KSP, which runs fine on any ultrabook unless you start building large 100+ part craft.

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Starcraft II and Diablo III. Both a great games that can play on Intel integrated or more AMD APUs

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Old classics:

 

Sacred,

Gothic 1, 2, 2 + expansion. 3 is also nice.

RISEN 1! - it's the real Gothic 4, it rocks the party.

Neverwinter Nights 2.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1&2

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and Outcast

Mount & Blade Warband

Beyond Good and Evil (my personal favorite, a vibrant world by Michael Ancel the creator of Rayman series, the graphics are stunning to this day even though everything about them is outdated, i love it)

Disciples II

Project Freedom (Starmageddon II) - a nice little and rather easy to play 3D space fighter simulator.

 

The above should run on pretty much any graphics card + CPU combo at least on low settings, I don't believe somebody has a problem running Beyond Good and Evil for example. Warband and Risen are pretty new but far from demanding.

 

There are so many more I could recommend, basically have most of those old classics in my Steam Library and besides some indie titles i got by accident from bundles, I can recommend all the games i have in my library.

 

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198023580795/games/

 

Has anybody here played Scrapland? It's one of those little fun 3D games, made by American's McGee. You play as a robot who lands on a world made of scrap (hence the title) and you get involved into the life of locals.

 

Nice list, I just installed Jedi Academy and it seems like a great adventure game! Do you know how long it takes to beat?

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World of warcraft, prolly a 2

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League of Legends -Not demanding

Half Life 2- Not demanding

Counter Strike Series- Not demanding

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GTA San Andreas Anyday ! Even though it has crappy Graphics and Physics,You will never get bored playing it.Thank you

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                                                  World of warcraft, prolly a 2

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Just FYI I went ahead and got Battlefield 3 to try out on my system, I was expecting $19.99, but on Origin it is 70% off so it's $4.99 if anyone is interested.

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Fallout 3 - 2

Hotline Miami - 1

Max Payne 2 - 1

Dark Souls - 2

Rogue Legacy - 1

Far Cry 2 - 2

Half Life 2 (and all mods with Source engine) - 1

Bioshock - 2

Borderlands - 2

Planetside - 1

Bad Company 2 - 2

Just Cause 2 - 2

Deus Ex Human Revolution - 2

F.E.A.R - 1.5

Call of Duty Modern Warfare - 1.5

Bulletstorm - 1.5

Stalker - 2.5

Super Meat Boy - 1

Batman Arkham City - 2.5

The Witcher - 2

Splinter Cell Conviction - 2

Unreal Tournament 2004 - 1

Quake 3 - 1

Doom 3 - 1

FEZ - 1

Dragon Age Origins - 2

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic - 1

Braid - 1

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GTA San Andreas Anyday ! Even though it has crappy Graphics and Physics,You will never get bored playing it.Thank you

GTA San Andreas has amazing GFX for it's time. It aged very nicely.

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Not to derail the thread but my favourite GTA games in descending order:

 

Vice City

GTA V

San Andreas

Liberty City Stories

GTA III

GTA IV (including the two stories)

GTA II

GTA I

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My list of best games not too demanding :

 

Theme Hospital = 1

FTL = 1

Age of Empires = 1

GTA San Andreas = 1

Deus Ex 1 = 1

Deus EX HR = 2

Civ5 = 2

NFS : Most Wanted (2005) = 2

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Skyrim (heavily dependent on what mods you use).

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Anyone who does not have a sister hates the fact that Kasugano Sora isn't his sister.
I'm not insulting anyone; I'm just being condescending. There is a difference, you see...

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any valve game

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There are quite a few I can think of:

 

Super Meat Boy

Walking Dead series

Fez

Dead Space (look really good and is surprisingly easy to run)

Runescape

League of Legends

any of the old Tomb Raider games

Hearthstone

Risk of Rain

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