BurningSheep: @terrapin/zavarj:
At least your notebook is still working. My old Fujitsu notebook (4GB Ram, GT240M, don't remember CPU) died after five years recently and after I had the mainboard replaced (insurance paid for it) it died again after a few months. I didn't exactly have a lot of money lying around at that point, so I had to go with something cheaper, when buying a new laptop. The GPU (GT820M) is basically on the level of my old GPU or possibly a little better and the CPU is probably a bit better too, but hard to say. Also no clue if the CPU helps all that much with most newer games.
I can play "Shadow Warrior" (actually got it recently for 6,00€ on gog just before it went on sale for 3,00€, :D) on 1280x720 and medium settings without too many performance issues and "Far Cry 3" actually plays well on high settings, though there is very clearly lag when putting everything on highest. Just mentioning this here, because I, like apparently some other people can completely forget about even trying "The Witcher 3". You have my sympathy.
Oh, by the way, does anybody know how "Metro: Last Light" compares to "Shadow Warrior" in terms of hardware requirements. I got it yesterday in the steam-sale, but I am still playing other games, so I'm just asking out of interest.
Oh, and concerning dust. I'm not sure why, but with my old notebook, the ventilation was completely clogged after just two or three years. The notebook was constantly shutting itself down because of heat and it only got better as soon as I realized that all of the dust was stuck in the lamellar and not in the fan itself.
Edit: I thought this was a recent thread :D Why are people still posting here?!? Psh yours does a better job than mine in that regard. Shadow Warrior (2013) or Far Cry 3 would make my computer melt into a puddle of shame LOL. I stick to games before 2008-9 and even then it's a tough gamble whether they'll run or not. I can just
barely run The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection with a few of the settings lowered. Big no-no on moving a sim into an apartment lol.
My fan vent was completely caked. I took the fan out, disassembled it and went to town on it with a wet q-tip. I am astonished on how quiet it runs now and how it can play games I wouldn't THINK of playing can run now. Like I said though, just barely haha. If I had to do anything in BIOS settings or run safe mode, it would overheat and force shut down all the time.
As for Metro: Last Light... not sure how it stacks up against Shadow Warrior's system requirements, but the gameplay is amazing. Best single player story imo (before The Last of Us was released). Portal 2 was a great one for a good storyline as well.