Decent games for some fairly old hardware.

[iMin3Ra1n]

Hey peeps. I built a real cheap system (which altogether costed me ~$250.) it consists of a Pentium 4 3.2GHz, HT enabled, 2GiB of DDR2 ram (interface not ideal but will be upgraded). Oh, and a cheapo PNY GeForce GT 630. It can play FC2 pretty well as well as portal. I was wondering if there are any /decent/ games out there much alike the two i listed. Got ideas? shout 'em

 

[clutchc]

What resolution is your monitor?

 

[iMin3Ra1n]

It's a 1280x1024 monitor. Optiquest Q7b.

 

[clutchc]

Well, as you probably already know, all the Valve games that use the source engine would be good with your limited system.
http://www.giantbomb.com/source-engine/3015-751/games/

Have you played the Half Life series of games? Portal 1 and 2? There are lots of mods based on those games if you do a google search.

If you upgrade your gfx card and double your system memory, you can squeeze some more performance out of the system even with the old single core P4.

 

[iMin3Ra1n]

Well, while I did say Far Cry 2 works, i forgot to say half like and hl2 works beautifully too. I only own Portal 2 and HC2. Reason I'm shouting about is it is mainly because it's got HT, so its kinda considered dual core. Yeah, I'm aiming for some more system memory, and a 640 costs ~equally the same, just dont have another $120 atm. But thanks for the help anyway!

 

[clutchc]

I see you already played the original Half Life. I was going to recommend the new remake using the later source engine; same engine used to make Half Life 2 EP 1 and 2. (I presume you already played episodes 1 and 2)
Black Mesa: http://www.blackmesasource.com/
They did an amazing job on it.

Yes, HT does allow the single core to execute 2 threads in the same clock cycle. But it wasn't very efficient back then. Not like HT today. And the older games don't utilize HT anyway. Which socket does your board have? Is it a 775? There are still some Pentium 4 Dual Cores floating around on ebay.

 

[iMin3Ra1n]

Sadly, no. stuck to a 478. Saw that socket actually had alot of potential, so i grabbed the Biostar 945-GCM4. Mainly because it had a wide variety of tech - legacy ports, IDE + SATA, PCI-E and PCI, newer ram, etc. Plus, I didn't have a core 2 quad laying around.