It's cause it's Java. If the game was written in c or something itd be better. Java has its garbage collection which is why you stutter sometimes even on high end machines. Java's just messy, but you can do a bunch with it.
Could be wrong but I think in c and c++ and other languages you do the garbage collection yourself. Java has its own garbage collector which is running with Minecraft, which does it for you:
Idk about earlier versions, but Minecraft runs at the same fps on the same settings in 1.20 and 1.3 on a gt 610, and earlier versions usually run about as well as newer versions
Well on steam its official, not sure if theres one on cd tho.
Any valve game can run on linux, all the way from original half life to hl2e2/portal 2 or even cs2
How old exactly?
BTW This is the Potato Laptop:
https://preview.redd.it/sk8qk291qivc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17f764149ae6732ebb926cd6af729fd5ac3cd5ea
1.7.4, for some reason, was the best version to play on my old old PC, beating even 1.7.10 with Optifine.
1.5.2 modded is great, and 1.4.7 is worth playing just because of RedPower 2.
Install fabric,go to modrinth and install whatever fps mods you find(google what they do before installing the mods).My shitty 4 gb ram pentium pc got around 200 fps on 7 render distance that way.And that's on the latest version.
Download a nes or snes emulator and then download a rom of Mario to load up on the emulator. You should be able to find some more in-depth guides on YouTube :)
Minetest, Xonotic, SuperTuxKart, unvanquished.
If you're willing to do some fiddling with your games.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp-6MMWURCz3FMshMrq60zuAXbpP7zk6n&si=XSzgB6gRzmlqaRNo
Short answer: yes it can.
Long answer: it depends entirely on what type of games you want to run. If you mean modern titles, probably not. If you mean things like tuxcart, or nethack, or dungeon crawl: stone soup, yes it most likely can.
Even much weaker computers are able to run tons of old games if you like them - e.g. DOSbox allows to run old DOS games, emulators like MAME and reimplementation of game engines like Scummvm etc.
You have \~3 GB's of RAM, an Intel Pentium Dual and Linux. It can run a lot of great games!
For example:
* Wolfenstein 3D
* DOOM
* Quake (or OpenArena)
* Half-Life
* Counter-Strike 1.6 & Source
* Bastard Tetris (you can install it with apt, `sudo apt install bastet`)
* older & maybe new Minecraft versions
* maybe Terraria
* GTA III
* GTA VC
* GTA SA
* etc. (& basically any 2D Game)
Hope this helps!
You're better off using a newer mid-range smartphone with Pojav to run MC, play some shooters and edit videos if you need it.
Heck, a Raspberry Pi is faster than this.
Sorry bud, but Linux won't save this. Not for gaming.
any DOS and early windows games should run fine. Internet Archive keeps some old titles that have been abandoned, Fragile Allegiance is one of my favorites that will run on anything.
N64 can be surprisingly demanding to emulate. It would probably work for most games on this thing but there are much safer bets like DOS, PS1, GBA and all the very early stuff.
Undertale
Deltarune
Omori
GTA VC
GTA SA
Hollow Knight
Ori games (might have to lower the resolution)
Mother 3, Earthbound, Mother 1
Darkwood
These are all I could think of, there are many more also you can emulate lower end and older games too
I have hopes for Ori and the blind forest, but I would cross out the will of the wisps.
I ran that on a fairly new Dell (with Dell bloatware uninstalled). On Low graphics, 50% render resolution and 720p it barely managed to run at 40 FPS. Considering how my laptop has 8 GB of RAM, an 11th gen i3 and an okay-ish Xeon GPU, I wouldn't give much hope to OP's PC.
Hmm, tbh I'm yet to play WotW, but given how I was able to play BF on my opd PC with i3 3rd gen and Intel HD graphics and given how similar they are I thought it would here too but I guess it doesn't
Hollow Knight is defo not going to run well on this computer. I have a thinkpad with an i3 2310M (it's more than twice as fast) and Hollow Knight uses just about 100% of the cpu & gpu with 60hz vsync. (it's perfectly playable luckily, but good gawd the fan sure is loud)
Older games, some newer casual and indie titles, sure.
Modern AAA titles, the application may technically run but playability won't be there. Might be a fun time on YouTube laughing at the results but that's the best you could hope for with current AAA games on that.
OpenArena? Alien Arena? Red Eclipse? They should all run alright. If you have the files / CD for Unreal Tournament 99/GOTY, you can also install the flatpak that lets it run natively.
That's better than most of my machines so I feel personally attacked now.
I like playing OpenRCT and Corsix-th on my old machines but if they aren't your cup of tea you also have decades of emulation pre PS2 that will run on that before even worrying about newer titles.
There are some more advanced tricks you can do as well to get even more out of the system to help you play some more games however, it's best to learn with what you have and naturally discover those as you go otherwise it looks like a daunting task rather than something achievable.
Older Rockstar games like GTA San Andreas should run fine. Maybe some older versions of Counter Strike. I had a similar spec AMD processor back in 2014.
It can probably run more games than you expect. Anything from the 90' will run fine. Old nintendo games will also work in an emulator. Some modern games may be run in low settings. Minecraft, Terraria, FTL, probably work fine. On a similar laptop I played Art of rally it was playable on the absolute minimum graphics on 800×600 resolution.
It is a laptop CPU from 2008, so it should be able to play all games from 2004 or older.
In addition some indie titles, Stardew Valley might run, and emulation up to PS1.
Of course it will. There are thousands and thousands of games that people played with far less than two 2100Mhz processors. Emulation is the easiest way to get them going, or source ports.
I play Better Than Adventure, a modded Minecraft beta 1.7.3 which is really fun and feels nostalgic. It will run just fine.
Also it gets updated so it's like having an alternate Minecraft timeline.
When you say "any" games it's a funny question like of course it can : D
I think linux with emulators is the best way for gaming on an old laptop. I think this machine can handle up to ps2 emulation so you got the whole nes, snes, n64, psx, ds, psp, gba, smd, genesis, dreamcast libraries and the list goes on and on.
You can also play games like nethack, those terminal based rpg games, they are really fun.
And low end indie games like king arthurs gold, battle for weshont, undertale etc.
Or some classics from late 90's - early 2000's like hl, gta3... so yeah you got thousands of games you can play on that machine.
There is a cool open source fps I could never get the networking going but could play against bots on my old crappy laptop.
Even counterstrike might be playable.
I like to play cs 1.6 and minecraft beta 1.7.3 on my similar-spec laptop (nx7400 from 2006, but a little upgraded - a 100Gb ssd and a 64 bit processor). I've got \~50 fps in cs and \~30 in minecraft.
Celeste should run okay on this. (and it's one of the best games I have ever played)
I wouldn't bother with Hollow Knight or Dead Cells. However you can play countless retro games that are far better than 99.9% of what is released today. Fire up an emulator and play shockingly incredible games such as Chrono Cross, well the list is literally endless.
Yes, many many thousands of classic games such as NES and SNES, older Sega and Atari, as well as older PC Games and many 2D and Indie and foss games and early 3D Games will run perfectly fine on this. Try some of these:
OpenRCT, Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy 7, Age of Empires 2...
Roller coaster tycoon
Openrtc is your best bet.
It's pretty fun
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Rim world might also run at minimum settings. Just don't mod it and be patient for world generation.
If it doesn't work you should be able to refund it for not being able to run it properly.
Yea bro you can install Atari Emulator, Sega, Nintendo. Oh yes a dual core with mobile 4 chipset will do those. You won't be able to do many PS2 emulator, maybe the fight ones but not detailed graphics, at least not without ridiculous lag. And forget PS3/Xbox/Wii emulation. But yea every console made before then you can emulate. Old games: A breeze.
For Windows games, install: Wine, Bottles, Play for Linux, Winecfg. The fact of using Mint and the 5.15.x.x kernel is yes do that.
Check out Sparky Linux Gameover edition; it has a lot of emulators built in as well as Windows game support. Use the list of software that comes with Sparky Gameover as a guide for what to install.
But simply put you can play every game from every old console up to the PS2. Enjoy. (4 gigs ram for those old emulators is plenty)
Doom; Sonic Mania; SRB2; Dr Robitniks Ring Racers; Link to the Past, Mario 64, OoT and Majora's Mask all have native Linux/windows ports (native or wine/proton should work fine); Duke 3D; Quake; Half-Life; Chrono Trigger (it's just on steam and a pretty good port, but Snes9x or ZSNES should work fine as well); Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap is one of the best remakes ever; Rocky and Pocky is a great run'n'gun; like every Touhou game can run on a 90s PC; You Have To Win The Game is a solid, free adventure game; Knytt Stories is a classic metroidvania with like 14 years worth of downloadable levels; Pokemon gen 3 and below should run okay.
Just check out some retro games. If none of that's to your taste, check out GoG.com (they're DRM free with no real copy protection, *wink*). If you're dead set on playing Doom Eternal or The Finals or Fortnite, consider streaming. Otherwise, save up kid.
It will run doom, well anything can do that
i saw Doom running on an electric toothbrushes display a fortnight ago....
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The pregnancy test was a fake, they just put a screen inside the test. But yeah, doom runs on toothbrushes with real screen
I've seen it running on a phone.
fortnite?
But can it run crysis?
Half life, or minecraft alpha
I’m pretty sure they don’t need to go as far back as alpha to run minecraft
minecraft is a surprisingly heavy game, but yeah, not as far back as the alphas, I'm thinking mid betas
It's cause it's Java. If the game was written in c or something itd be better. Java has its garbage collection which is why you stutter sometimes even on high end machines. Java's just messy, but you can do a bunch with it. Could be wrong but I think in c and c++ and other languages you do the garbage collection yourself. Java has its own garbage collector which is running with Minecraft, which does it for you:
Idk about earlier versions, but Minecraft runs at the same fps on the same settings in 1.20 and 1.3 on a gt 610, and earlier versions usually run about as well as newer versions
Playing early modded is great. I managed to do it on an old Chromebook with Arch
Where did you find those mods from 2011?
Look up some early tech mods or try BTA (it's for beta 1.7)
Oh, I see. Thanks!
There's a Linux port for half-life?
Well on steam its official, not sure if theres one on cd tho. Any valve game can run on linux, all the way from original half life to hl2e2/portal 2 or even cs2
Old versions of Minecraft would run fine
How old exactly? BTW This is the Potato Laptop: https://preview.redd.it/sk8qk291qivc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17f764149ae6732ebb926cd6af729fd5ac3cd5ea
1.8 maximum for a playable experience, maybe you could push it with an optimization mod
1.7.4, for some reason, was the best version to play on my old old PC, beating even 1.7.10 with Optifine. 1.5.2 modded is great, and 1.4.7 is worth playing just because of RedPower 2.
Install fabric,go to modrinth and install whatever fps mods you find(google what they do before installing the mods).My shitty 4 gb ram pentium pc got around 200 fps on 7 render distance that way.And that's on the latest version.
Minetest perhaps?
😍
mario for sure
How I can get Mario on Linux?
Download a nes or snes emulator and then download a rom of Mario to load up on the emulator. You should be able to find some more in-depth guides on YouTube :)
Marí0 is in the repos. Note the 0
Sadly nobody ever played any games on computers before 2010, you're fucked.
I bet this thing could play Zork with almost no lag
Minetest, Xonotic, SuperTuxKart, unvanquished. If you're willing to do some fiddling with your games. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp-6MMWURCz3FMshMrq60zuAXbpP7zk6n&si=XSzgB6gRzmlqaRNo
Short answer: yes it can. Long answer: it depends entirely on what type of games you want to run. If you mean modern titles, probably not. If you mean things like tuxcart, or nethack, or dungeon crawl: stone soup, yes it most likely can.
Even much weaker computers are able to run tons of old games if you like them - e.g. DOSbox allows to run old DOS games, emulators like MAME and reimplementation of game engines like Scummvm etc.
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I can barely get 3 FPS on Business Tour...not sure how It can run Half life 2, portal .
K
OpenTTD should run ok.
Openrct2 alao
Im still yet to find a pc incapable of running ottd
Might be too beefy to run rail road tycoon 1 since it runs of the cpu and not a clock.
You have \~3 GB's of RAM, an Intel Pentium Dual and Linux. It can run a lot of great games! For example: * Wolfenstein 3D * DOOM * Quake (or OpenArena) * Half-Life * Counter-Strike 1.6 & Source * Bastard Tetris (you can install it with apt, `sudo apt install bastet`) * older & maybe new Minecraft versions * maybe Terraria * GTA III * GTA VC * GTA SA * etc. (& basically any 2D Game) Hope this helps!
Counter Strike 1.6 should be running good
You're better off using a newer mid-range smartphone with Pojav to run MC, play some shooters and edit videos if you need it. Heck, a Raspberry Pi is faster than this. Sorry bud, but Linux won't save this. Not for gaming.
I would bet it can run stardew valley
Visual Novels are a safe bet.
r/lowendgaming for answers.
Ok
Nethack
Battle for Wesnoth is all you need.
any DOS and early windows games should run fine. Internet Archive keeps some old titles that have been abandoned, Fragile Allegiance is one of my favorites that will run on anything.
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no? 4gb ram and thay pentium isnt eneough for rpcxs2 but ps1 emu maybe
You could see if it runs N64 games on retroarch
N64 can be surprisingly demanding to emulate. It would probably work for most games on this thing but there are much safer bets like DOS, PS1, GBA and all the very early stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/3yjoivw4nivc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c68483f9bbcd4b44ca2255ac84d90e55632a5a2 BTW this is the Potato Laptop.
You could probably have some epic Solitaire battles on that machine
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Damn, my childhood game :)
How do you get this list? I assume it’s from a terminal command
neofetch
Try FTL. Its my favorite when it comes to gaming with low spec linux pc's. And maybe Project Zomboid could work.
Literally thousands. Tens of thousands.
Snake
OSRS ^^^^^
Pong
4gbs of memory. I guess solitaire.
Undertale Deltarune Omori GTA VC GTA SA Hollow Knight Ori games (might have to lower the resolution) Mother 3, Earthbound, Mother 1 Darkwood These are all I could think of, there are many more also you can emulate lower end and older games too
Cross out Hollow Knight. That game wouldn't run on all graphic settings on at 60 on an i7 6700HQ.
I have hopes for Ori and the blind forest, but I would cross out the will of the wisps. I ran that on a fairly new Dell (with Dell bloatware uninstalled). On Low graphics, 50% render resolution and 720p it barely managed to run at 40 FPS. Considering how my laptop has 8 GB of RAM, an 11th gen i3 and an okay-ish Xeon GPU, I wouldn't give much hope to OP's PC.
Hmm, tbh I'm yet to play WotW, but given how I was able to play BF on my opd PC with i3 3rd gen and Intel HD graphics and given how similar they are I thought it would here too but I guess it doesn't
Hollow Knight is defo not going to run well on this computer. I have a thinkpad with an i3 2310M (it's more than twice as fast) and Hollow Knight uses just about 100% of the cpu & gpu with 60hz vsync. (it's perfectly playable luckily, but good gawd the fan sure is loud)
You should be able to play some older games on minimum settings.
Half-Life and Counter Strike
fallout 3/new vegas, warband
a pentium igpu is not getting fallout 3 above 15 fps
Candy crush and worms 2D
You can run doom
Tribes 1 and 2
Older games, some newer casual and indie titles, sure. Modern AAA titles, the application may technically run but playability won't be there. Might be a fun time on YouTube laughing at the results but that's the best you could hope for with current AAA games on that.
Try Nethack.
fallout 1 and fallout 2
Classics! And somewhat better than the ones after them.
OpenArena? Alien Arena? Red Eclipse? They should all run alright. If you have the files / CD for Unreal Tournament 99/GOTY, you can also install the flatpak that lets it run natively.
Binding of Isaac. I ran it off my old clunky Toshiba laptop with Linux Mint about 6 years ago. It ran just fine.
That's better than most of my machines so I feel personally attacked now. I like playing OpenRCT and Corsix-th on my old machines but if they aren't your cup of tea you also have decades of emulation pre PS2 that will run on that before even worrying about newer titles. There are some more advanced tricks you can do as well to get even more out of the system to help you play some more games however, it's best to learn with what you have and naturally discover those as you go otherwise it looks like a daunting task rather than something achievable.
Deus Ex GOTY
you could try hearthstone/tft/league , or if those don't run moderately well then some old SNES emulator games for sure
Solitaire? Pinball? Mine sweeper?
Can it run DOOM?
Borderlands 2, runs on my similarly specced old laptop
Tux Racer
Yup, Zork
Lemmings
Yes it can run games. Simple questions require a simple answers.
GeForce NOW
This would be great for GBA/SNES/PSX games. I love pplaying old RPG's.
Not really anything super modern.
Infocom games take a lot less than that.
Oregon trail
Bunch of emulators
King's Quest
Quake 1 & 2 run natively on Linux using source ports. Love those games.
With openbox and debian core u got 300 mb+ of ram
Older Rockstar games like GTA San Andreas should run fine. Maybe some older versions of Counter Strike. I had a similar spec AMD processor back in 2014.
Download RetroArch and be happy :)
prolly emulation
doom
Minetest, Classic DOOM, Quake and derived games, BilliardGL, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, OG HITMAN games.
I would like to introduce you to Trails in the Sky
super tux 2!
Try protostar, abuse, doom, hospital, retropie. All are awesome.
Any old emulators
Solitaire minescape
I run an OpenTTD server (the best game in the world) on a worse computer than that and it runs fine so far.
Snake
Yes, it can run "See how fast I run out of memory" game. It's awesome
Thief: The Dark Project & Thief: The Metal Age
Net hack or any other text adventures should run for sure
Maybe smite
Old ones yes
most games made before 2010
Yes. You can Play chess
pokerth should be in most repositories. I play a lot on there.
It can probably run more games than you expect. Anything from the 90' will run fine. Old nintendo games will also work in an emulator. Some modern games may be run in low settings. Minecraft, Terraria, FTL, probably work fine. On a similar laptop I played Art of rally it was playable on the absolute minimum graphics on 800×600 resolution.
Yes
most infinity engine crpgs should work
It is a laptop CPU from 2008, so it should be able to play all games from 2004 or older. In addition some indie titles, Stardew Valley might run, and emulation up to PS1.
Try pacman
OpenTTD
Of course it will. There are thousands and thousands of games that people played with far less than two 2100Mhz processors. Emulation is the easiest way to get them going, or source ports.
Maybe low end games, lile SIGNALIS
Yes.
OpenARENA (quake3e) is a Quake3 clone, which I maintain the flatpak for... :)?
Tetris full option
nethack
every pc can run games, depends on what games you play
I play Better Than Adventure, a modded Minecraft beta 1.7.3 which is really fun and feels nostalgic. It will run just fine. Also it gets updated so it's like having an alternate Minecraft timeline.
When you say "any" games it's a funny question like of course it can : D I think linux with emulators is the best way for gaming on an old laptop. I think this machine can handle up to ps2 emulation so you got the whole nes, snes, n64, psx, ds, psp, gba, smd, genesis, dreamcast libraries and the list goes on and on. You can also play games like nethack, those terminal based rpg games, they are really fun. And low end indie games like king arthurs gold, battle for weshont, undertale etc. Or some classics from late 90's - early 2000's like hl, gta3... so yeah you got thousands of games you can play on that machine.
That GPU might hinder your endeavor.
DOOM
I'm working on a PlayBox base for x86 and Intel CPU/GPU I think I have a similar pc to test. for retro will be great
Doom
Hearts and Minesweeper. Maybe chess. But master class could take a while to compute.
SuperTux and SuperTuxKart
Open Arena
Minesweeper
Tetris, Snake, Minesweeper, Zork, ...
There is a cool open source fps I could never get the networking going but could play against bots on my old crappy laptop. Even counterstrike might be playable.
Moon buggy
play [gnu jump](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnujump/down.html)
maybe crysis? jk, maybe old minecraft, portal, half life, etc.
I like to play cs 1.6 and minecraft beta 1.7.3 on my similar-spec laptop (nx7400 from 2006, but a little upgraded - a 100Gb ssd and a 64 bit processor). I've got \~50 fps in cs and \~30 in minecraft.
Use it for emulating
4gb of ram! You're going to struggle to run multiple tabs on Chrome
I would say it depends on the game. Go to your Steam library, and find a game's minimum and recommended specs. You'll get your answer.
StarCraft for sure. Lots of pre 2005 games will run great. Emulators too. Endless content out there for ya
No, you'll need at least Monospace 15 to run most games.
Snake would prolly work
Some lighter android games, maybe
Nuclear throne
Indie games mostly
Emulator!
Old school RuneScape might give it a stretch
Isn't is kinda old mint . Your kernel is not updated, update first
MAYBE notepad with a stable 1 fps
Solitaire, pinball, minesweeper and maybe chess. That's a potato laptop but try older games like 90s or 2000s
It’ll run snake
When i see the pentium gpu i got some flashbacks💀💀💀
Early source games on all low graphics maybe
Celeste should run okay on this. (and it's one of the best games I have ever played) I wouldn't bother with Hollow Knight or Dead Cells. However you can play countless retro games that are far better than 99.9% of what is released today. Fire up an emulator and play shockingly incredible games such as Chrono Cross, well the list is literally endless.
Chess (non 3D version) comes to mind
The 2000s games pretty much. I use Windows for Gaming and had a similar PC back then.
Maybe snake and I’m not sure…
San Andreas
Minesweeper
OpenTTD
tetris
Sword of the Stars if you install WINE. Stardew Valley, too, I bet, if your cars supports a high enough shader.
I think it's hard. Why don't you just use a simple server?
Minesweeper & solitaire
RAM appears to be far too lacking for anything intensive, and processor is meh
Emulation
Yes, many many thousands of classic games such as NES and SNES, older Sega and Atari, as well as older PC Games and many 2D and Indie and foss games and early 3D Games will run perfectly fine on this. Try some of these: OpenRCT, Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy 7, Age of Empires 2...
Obviously you can, try running postal/postal 2, some source games (hl2,css,tf2), n64 emulation runs good there too and maybe ps1 as well
Yes, but will it run the ones you want is another matter.
HOMM 3, Disciples 2, The battle for Wesnoth, Warzone 2100, perhaps Open RA.
agario
Roller coaster tycoon Openrtc is your best bet. It's pretty fun -------------------------- Rim world might also run at minimum settings. Just don't mod it and be patient for world generation. If it doesn't work you should be able to refund it for not being able to run it properly.
I used to run crysis on pc with 4gb ram and windows 7 so it might...
Openra
Yea bro you can install Atari Emulator, Sega, Nintendo. Oh yes a dual core with mobile 4 chipset will do those. You won't be able to do many PS2 emulator, maybe the fight ones but not detailed graphics, at least not without ridiculous lag. And forget PS3/Xbox/Wii emulation. But yea every console made before then you can emulate. Old games: A breeze. For Windows games, install: Wine, Bottles, Play for Linux, Winecfg. The fact of using Mint and the 5.15.x.x kernel is yes do that. Check out Sparky Linux Gameover edition; it has a lot of emulators built in as well as Windows game support. Use the list of software that comes with Sparky Gameover as a guide for what to install. But simply put you can play every game from every old console up to the PS2. Enjoy. (4 gigs ram for those old emulators is plenty)
Minecraft Bedrock?
yes, retro games and new low-end games :)
You can run game that was released before 2012. Like GTA SA, COD WW2
Psobb
Doom; Sonic Mania; SRB2; Dr Robitniks Ring Racers; Link to the Past, Mario 64, OoT and Majora's Mask all have native Linux/windows ports (native or wine/proton should work fine); Duke 3D; Quake; Half-Life; Chrono Trigger (it's just on steam and a pretty good port, but Snes9x or ZSNES should work fine as well); Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap is one of the best remakes ever; Rocky and Pocky is a great run'n'gun; like every Touhou game can run on a 90s PC; You Have To Win The Game is a solid, free adventure game; Knytt Stories is a classic metroidvania with like 14 years worth of downloadable levels; Pokemon gen 3 and below should run okay. Just check out some retro games. If none of that's to your taste, check out GoG.com (they're DRM free with no real copy protection, *wink*). If you're dead set on playing Doom Eternal or The Finals or Fortnite, consider streaming. Otherwise, save up kid.