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Arx Fatalis - Works perfectly. Resolutions supported 640x480 (16 and 32bit variants) and 800x600 (16 and 32bit variants)
possibly more/higher resolutions supported in the gog 1.19 version.
retail version (which i found lying in my box of ye olde games in the loft) tested using 1.17 patch.
the version on gog is 1.19. this fixes more bugs and helps improve performance even more.
Post edited December 05, 2008 by custardcream
Has anyone tried Darkstar One on a netbook? I know it's a newer game than most on GOG, so I was wondering if it had any problems.
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custardcream: this is one of the major reasons i have signed up to gog and got some games.
- for my Samsung NC10 netbook -

Same here, for my Asus 1000HE and I want some great games to play during traveling. Beats a movie any time. I shall post a list of games that work soon too, I still have to receive my netbook and install the games I bought so far.
ok, i play gogs almost exclusively on my eee pc 901. here is my list that i have tried on it with comments on playability.
Stronghold - Plays great
Arx Fatalis - plays strangely well, despite the combination of a notoriously buggy game and integrated graphics card
Fallout - works pretty well
MDK 2 - plays and looks great
Pro Pinball Timeshock - strangely slow
duke3d - get eduke32 otherwise it plays terribly
Manhattan Project - works great, find a widescreen hack
Sacrifice - plays, gets a little slow with lots of units
Cannon Fodder - works fine
Giants: C K - works perfectly
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising - works well, a little cramped
BGAE - slow
Earthworm Jim - works great
Oddworlds - great on netbooks
Painkiller - no.
Unreal Tournament - perfect for netbooks
Flatout - not playable
The Guild - plays pretty well
Descent 1+2 - slows at higher resolutions
Shogo - smooth, plays great
messiah - plays well
Broken Sword 2 - amazing, love it. play it on your netbook.
Descent 3 - plays well
Septerra Core - smooth as hell
Jagged Alliance 2 - plays perfectly
not gogs:
deus ex - plays and looks amazing. highly recommended for netbooks!
jazz jackrabbit 2 - just get it
rogue spear - plays great, search for 205 patch for xp/vista
shadowflare - fun, plays well
bullet candy - surprisingly slow
hitman 2 - plays well, fun
ricochet extreme/infinity - perfect for netbooks
dungeon siege - plays pretty well
battle realms - works great
always look for widescreen settings on widescreengaming.net for the best experience
and check out the comprehensive eee pc game compatibility wiki here:
[url=http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:games?s=games]http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:games?s=games[/url]
Thanks for this great list, captfitz! I bought some not listed yet, hopefully my netbook will arrive soon and I shall post how they run too
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Sophia: Thanks for this great list, captfitz! I bought some not listed yet, hopefully my netbook will arrive soon and I shall post how they run too

which netbook did you get? im assuming they all run pretty much the same considering they mostly use the same hardware, but im curious to see if any of them perform better with games for some reason
I'm getting the Asus 1000HE... it has a slightly updated chipset, but according to tests it doesn't make that much of a difference with the other models.
captfitz, great list! This helps out plenty of people.
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Sophia: Thanks for this great list, captfitz! I bought some not listed yet, hopefully my netbook will arrive soon and I shall post how they run too
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captfitz: which netbook did you get? im assuming they all run pretty much the same considering they mostly use the same hardware, but im curious to see if any of them perform better with games for some reason

asus n10j same as the rest but has a geforce 9300 and gma950 that you can switch between
Well I have been playing Help! Aliens! recently on my ACER netbook which I got for my birthday. It works fantastically well as far as I'm concerned. I didn't expect you could even play games on netbooks. Mine is an ACER netbook with Windows XP on it. I suppose the only thing is you can only play games that you can download off the internet since there isn't a CD drive. But anyway I wouldn't like to fill up my little netbook with gigabytes of games.
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movamoo: But anyway I wouldn't like to fill up my little netbook with gigabytes of games.

lol ive got 320gig of games on my nc10.
very useful for playing in bed. (no, not that kind of playing!!)
It is important to say that ANY game running with DOSBOX will be absolutely UNPLAYABLE on an ATOM. I tried SCREAMER 1 on a Sempron 3600+ and a Geforce7000M and it was slow as hell.
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Acreo_Aeneas: I own the Acer AspireOne netbook.
There's actually not many games you can run on it. Any game that requires hardware transform and lighting will either be unplayable or won't even run.

although you're right that any game that requires hardware TnL won't run, i think it's misleading to say there's not many games you can run on a netbook.
i've also got an acer aspireone.
here's a partial list of games i have installed that run just fine on the little bugger:
Baldur's Gate 1+2
Civ 2
Commander Keen 1-6
Darwinia (low settings)
Day of the Tentacle
Deus Ex
Diablo 1+2
Doom 1+2
Dungeon Keeper 1+2
Monkey Island 1/2/3/4
Fallout 1+2
Full Throttle
Grim Fandango
Sam N Max (All of them)
Riven
Grand Theft Auto 1/2/3/Vice City
San Andreas (absolute minimum low settings)
Heroes of Might and Magic 1/2/3
Hexen
Morrowind (low settings)
Neverwinter Nights + expansions
Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee
The Pandora Directive (with dosbox)
Under a Killing Moon (with dosbox)
Peggle
Pro Pinball - Timeshock (thanks GOG! awesome pinball series)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Simcity 4
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
System Shock 1 (dosbox)
System Shock 2 (dear god, getting this game to run is insane.)
Star Control 2: Ur Quan Masters
PlaneScape: Torment
Uplink
Xcom 1/2
Warcraft 1/2/3
Pretty sure GTA:SA on min settings is the about the best this netbook can do, as far as 3d graphics go. But other than that there's tons of classics out there just begging to be replayed..
If you're having trouble on netbooks with TnL and other really annoying graphics-related errors and glitches, I suggest 3D Analyze, if you haven't used it already. Granted, an Atom isn't the fastest thing out there, but it tries its damndest to emulate graphics cards and their fancy stuff like TnL, and just the card itself, since some games won't even run because you have integrated graphics (even if your system is perfectly capable of running it).
For anyone who is in the market for a netbook to play games on, I'd suggest looking for one using the Nvidia ION platform (especially if you want your netbook to be able to run Call of Duty 4...).