Some fun, classic, easy to run, games for a laptop.

[L8Rgator]

I just got a laptop for college so it's not geared towards gaming. However, I do enjoy some classic games like "Half Life: Opposing Force", "Jagged Alliance 2 1.13", "ARMA Cold War Assault", "Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl", "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", and the original "X-COM UFO Defense" from the 90's. Will any of these games have trouble playing on a Laptop that isn't geared towards gaming? Also, a friend told me that he thinks steam broke 2 of his laptops because it's frequent updates kept building up without deleting old dataand crashed his hard drives. Is this really a possible issue with laptops because I know plenty of people who play on laptops, but I don't want to risk it. Thank you, and have a Happy New Year.

[bruunos]

Well my core2duo 2.1 ghz, gforce 8600gt from 2007, has played HL2,e1,e2, portal 1-2, bioshock 1-2, and even shadow of chernobyl, so you might get lucky, but im guessing you got a crappy intel gfx in your lappy, so im not entirely sure.

[L8Rgator]

So... does that mean the original Half Life from the late 90's might work?

[bruunos]

Im sure the steam version does

[bruunos]

oh mi lappy also play fallout3 and NV

[ronr42]

It would help if you posted your pc system specs including what GPU you have.

Even on a low end laptop you shouldn't have any trouble playing Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition, which will provide you with up to 150 hours of fun on your first playthrough and you have to do at least 3 playthroughs with that game inorder to do all the game has to offer. Just be VERY careful with any mods you decide to download for it. Many of the mods are CPU and GPU intensive and a low end laptop will not run them.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. Steam will NOT hurt your laptop in any way!!!

Edit; those are all older games that you listed. Your laptop should run them fine except for that XCOM game from the 90's. It may be too old to work with Win8/8.1. With the rest of them if you have any trouble running them on Win7 or 8, usually going to the individual games forum page and posting your system specs and the problem you're having will get you a players answer to how to get the game running on a newer OS.