directx and ancient laptops

[0nion_man_LV]

So imma begin with that i have a laptop that's made in long way back year 2001. It's specs are worse than Huawei phones (surprisingly) and it's performance is very low by today standarts BUT as i got it to run minecraft (best game i have made it to run so far) i want to step it up big.

Can i run Directx7 games without it or with even lower directx?

That is one quesiton i never seem to understand the answer for so i would love if someone knew.
If anybody knows i would like link to tutorial or just copy-paste it there in comments as my wish now is to get CS:S, Gmod or Half Life 2 to run. FPS is not a problem, i know that i will have more like slideshow than a game but i want to make it run for fun.

if not then...

Maybe list specs?

Yep, sure!
Packard Bell EasyNote E2

*Windows XP Proffesional 32 bit

Processor-
Intel Pentium M

RAM-
2 GB DDR 177mhz

Motherboard-
NEC COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL Rhea B

Graphics-
Digital Flat Panel (idk if it's even a video card)
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (Packard Bell B.V.)

Storage-
74gb Toshiba

Optical drive-
Matshita DVD/CDRW

Audio-
Realtek AC'97 Audio

If you have suggestions for good games that could run on those specs, also minding that it's a laptop, please leave them down in comments as i would love to test them. :D


And no, it CAN'T run Crysis nor GTA:VC.

[0nion_man_LV]

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You did update the directx to as far as it will allow?
Theres an old OpenGL setup file you should also have at least from win98se to xp.

Youre probably looking at DOOM and the like to run on that, if.
Old flight games or dungeon crawlers, those were popular on those things, normal people couldnt get their head around technically and so was left to the 80s nerds.
Anything 256 colours should be ok or even force 256 colour if possible.
Talk about a challenge

gonna look at them, so far i have succesfully got working cs1.6, Rise Of Nations, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Thief 2 Metal age, Minecraft, Unreal tournament, Sims, Half Life and HLDS which for some reason doesn't work on my main pc but works on freaking ancient laptop.