About a week ago, I downloaded Steam onto my laptop, for the sake of trying something new and so far I love it. The community integration, the flawless design, the achievements and badges and trading cards, its all pretty awesome and I like that there is a vast community for every game there is. My only problem is that my laptop is extremely old and slow, as I will indicate below.
At the moment I have 1 game, Terraria. I love it but just to give you a perspective of how bad my laptop is, I have to run it at minimum settings at 800 x 600 resolution... on my 1080p display. Its a shame but because its a retro style game, its still playable and I really love the game itself. Its the main reason I decided to start playing games on my laptop as opposed to my console. I did add a few games to my wishlist for when I can afford them, namely Counter Strike: Source, Badland and some farming game. I also have Minecraft (non Steam game) but its become rather mundane.
My specs go as follows, but bear in mind that if you were to buy these components brand new and put them into a case, they would obviously perform better. Its just that my laptop is very old.
Quad core Intel i5 (I believe its a really old one)
4GB RAM
Integrated Intel Potato GPU
AMD Video card (does this even matter?)
I hope there is someone else that shares my struggle that can perhaps point me in the right direction. What games do you know of, available on Steam, that a low-end device such as mine can run? Thank you!
My Steam profile link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/goldminim/
Feel free to add me as a friend.
At the moment I have 1 game, Terraria. I love it but just to give you a perspective of how bad my laptop is, I have to run it at minimum settings at 800 x 600 resolution... on my 1080p display. Its a shame but because its a retro style game, its still playable and I really love the game itself. Its the main reason I decided to start playing games on my laptop as opposed to my console. I did add a few games to my wishlist for when I can afford them, namely Counter Strike: Source, Badland and some farming game. I also have Minecraft (non Steam game) but its become rather mundane.
My specs go as follows, but bear in mind that if you were to buy these components brand new and put them into a case, they would obviously perform better. Its just that my laptop is very old.
Quad core Intel i5 (I believe its a really old one)
4GB RAM
Integrated Intel Potato GPU
AMD Video card (does this even matter?)
I hope there is someone else that shares my struggle that can perhaps point me in the right direction. What games do you know of, available on Steam, that a low-end device such as mine can run? Thank you!
My Steam profile link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/goldminim/
Feel free to add me as a friend.