What games can my pc play?

[Crato26]

Hi everyone . I'm new to PC gaming and was wondering what kind of games will my computer support or handle

I have a Dell Inspiron Windows 10 Home

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4150 CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz

Ram 6.00 GB

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Intel HD Graphics 4400

That's all I know about my PC

I bought GTA 5 from steam and yea it's very laggy

Was also thinking about buying a new laptop for gaming what would you recommend?

[DevaVictrix]

Not many… Age of Empires 2 maybe? Life is Strsnge (non remastered). Both worth playing regardless of system.

[✨Saint✨]

You can play things that are not too demanding, on the store page you can also see the system requirements you need to play certain games.
I would not invest in laptop, instead get a decent desktop depending on your budget.

[Karumati]

any that's available through geforce now.

[andreasaspenberg575]

you could go a long way by installing a graphics card and by upgrading your ram. your cpu is a haswell. if you upgrade to for example a broadwell i7 you will get a fairly good boost.

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[☄️⁧⁧Sneakydude555]

You could Try GMOD and the Older Valve games like Portal and Half life.
2d games you play RPG maker games Like Omori and OneShot im pretty sure. You could also Try Sonic Mania and Sonic Orgins.

Otherwise Intel HD graphics isnt really good.

[andreasaspenberg575]

you should upgrade your pc but, there is games that you can play. the warcraft games should work well. diablo 1 and 2(not resurrected). metagal should work just fine. also any rpg maker based games.

[GGcake]

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[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Direct x 9 title, old ones at that. No direct x 11 hardware acceleration on those Intel graphics. It's also very slow, even running games with native dx 10 support (like gtav for example).

[The Traveler]

I had a 3360 with HD 4600 graphics and 8 GB RAM. Managed to run older titles from MCC, Bioshock 1-2 (original versions), Doom 3 (I'll think even BFG edition), Left 4 Dead 2 and I'll think any Source Engine Valve Half-Life, Portal, L4D, TF2 titles should run with fair settings - not CS2, since last years updated to Source 2. Above someone mentioed Age of Empires games I-II, but maybe the star Wars game Galactic Battlegrounds has better chance, also many old Star Wars titles run fine like Jedi Knight series, KOTOR, The Force Unleashed, Republic Commando.
Also, some older classic like Broken Sword games 1-2 surely runs, just like Beneath a Steel Sky which is free by the way. Alien Shooter and Zombie Shooter games. Middle Tomb raider games maybe like Legend, Anniversary, Underworld. Dungein Siege games, frist one surely, it ran on my Celeron build.

If you buy a gaming laptop buy one which has 16 GB RAM and GPU like RTX 3050, 4050 at least. Older GPUs are OK, but since a laptop can't upgraded like a desktop PC buy laptops with better specs.

[andreasaspenberg575]

it supports feature level 11_1. upgrading what you have is cheaper than investing in a new pc. i do not however know what gpu your motherboard supports. your cpu supports 32 gigabytes of ram. your power supply is unknown to me. you would need to buy a graphics card with a small form factor and likely a low power drain. and for the rest of you talking of laptops: the pc is a desktop, obviously. it is a desktop cpu.

[Illusion of Progress]

Those were the specifications of my old laptop when I bought it eleven years ago, except mine had a 4010U CPU with a much lower clock speed and no boost capability, so it was much worse off than yours.

On one hand, a lot of games from current times won't play well on that. It was low end ten years ago, and it didn't get younger, so to speak.

On the other hand, the CPU gaming library spans decades, so you can technically run more than you can't.

Giving you a list of stuff it will/won't play is impossible as both would be too much, and different people have different thresholds of "playable". It's also hard to put a year range on it because games from the same year can vastly differ in hardware needs. Roughly speaking, older stuff needed less so your chances increase if it's older, but since it lacked a real graphics capability even ten years ago, expect anything remotely demanding from the last decade and a half (or even two) to possibly not fare so well on it.

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

you could go a long way by installing a graphics card and by upgrading your ram. your cpu is a haswell. if you upgrade to for example a broadwell i7 you will get a fairly good boost.

That platform is too old to be worth investing money into multiple parts. The performance you gain won't match the cost, and there's the added consideration that those older platforms aren't going be officially supported in a year unless Microsoft extends the support of Windows 10.

[andreasaspenberg575]

in any case you have gog, which will not drop support for older systems.

[Andrius227]

Is this a laptop or a desktop? A desktop could be upgraded for basically nothing to run games well enough. A laptop would need to be replaced.

Next time make sure to get a desktop. For the same price you can get a 2x faster desktop than a laptop. You can keep the old laptop for work or school or whatever if you need something portable.

[_I_]

general rule with intel hd/uhd, aim for games 10+ years older than the cpu its on

i3 4130 is from 2013, so games from 2003
ut tk4 may be ok on it