I’m looking for titles that will run well on my only computer. Which is a 5-year-old 13" convertible laptop attached to a docking station with a 24" 1920x1080 screen. It’s got Intel internal graphics.

For reference, Skyrim runs well on it at 1920x1080 and high settings.

What would you recommend? Mostly interested in open world RPGs.

Specs:
Intel Core i5-10210 (4 cores, 8 threads, 4.2GHz)
8GB LPDDR3 (2133 MHz) RAM
Intel UHD Graphics w/ HDCP support. DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5
shared memory

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Such laptops are at the low end. But, if you have a really good Internet connection, you could expand your options a lot with GeForce Now. Basically a paid service to use cloud servers to render your game; surrendering an often-unnoticeable delay in response time. They have a free tier worth trying.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    You can get a lot of games running well for that. Almost every 2D game will run great, and a bunch of 3D titles too.

    I picked up Parking Garage Rally Circuit in the sales yesterday because I’ve followed the dev on tiktok and it’s quite fun. A dreamcast-style time trial game!

  • TheOakTree@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Not an RPG but is open world: Hyper Light Drifter

    I’ve run it on a potato laptop before, so it should run fine.

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    22 hours ago

    It’s not an RPG, but I always recommend PowerWash Simulator. It’s one of those games where you don’t have to pay too much attention to the game and can watch stuff on your phone.

    Aside from that, maybe World of Warcraft private server like ChromieCraft.

    There’s also Starbound, Terraria, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, the Portal and Borderlands games, Half-Life 2 just received an update.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Not really an RPG, more of a action adventure, but Far Cry 3 will probably run well enough. I played it on a much worse laptop when I was in highschool.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    2 days ago

    I built a $3,000 performance desktop a few years back, and the main games games I ended up playing on it were things like FTL, Shovel Knight, SNES emulators, and other games that could be run on an overclock ham sandwich.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        A few years back, a really nice graphics card was like $650, so $3,000 got you a lot of performance.

        • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Unlike these days when it looks like 3000$ will get you a GPU and a water block for that GPU, if you want to spread your budget as thick as possible.

          Wasn’t the original Titan like 1000$ and considered a ludicrously expensive piece of luxury tech?