Netbook Games List
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Note: This article is an adaptation of Acer Aspire One Games List, as most netbooks offer similar hardware and resources. Perhaps that article should be merged into this one.
This wiki page is about games that run well on a netbook - and tweaks to make them better.
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General Notes
Most games in this list will benefit from a RAM upgrade, especially to 2GB (the max supported in most current netbooks). They will often also benefit from overclocking the Intel Atom processor, especially a 24% overclock, that is possible with a bios upgrade in the MSI Wind U100, and possibly others.
Native - Free/Open
AssaultCube
realistic team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube engine
- runs with little slowdown out of pacman
- Tweaks:
- not yet added
Blood Frontier
Team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube2 (Sauerbraten) engine
- low-fps on big maps. Kinda playable on small maps in duel mode
- Tweaks:
- Set all to low, disable all special effects
Counter-Strike 2D
2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod
- runs without any troubles out of aur
Cube
realistic team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube engine
- runs with little slowdown out of pacman
- Tweaks:
- not yet added
Doukutsu
AKA Cave Story, addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer
- runs perfectly, out of the box from aur installation
Netpanzer
Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.
- runs perfectly out of aur
OpenArena
fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine
- runs ok, you just have to adjust some graphic settings
- my graphic settings (you can experiment with that):
- my graphic settings (you can experiment with that):
Video Mode: 1024x600
Lighting: Vertex (Low)
Flares: Off
Bloom: Off
Geometric Detail: Medium
Texture Detail: 60%
Anisotropy: Off
Simple Items: Off
Always show weapons: Off
Marks on Walls ... High Quality Sky: On
Sync Every Frame: Off
Sauerbraten
Next-generation Cube Engine
- runs with slowdown out of pacman
- Tweaks:
- set all params to low
- avoid huge maps
Quake 3
Just quake 3 =)
- runs perfectly, out of pacman with quake3 or ioquake3
Teeworlds
a fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter
- runs perfectly, out of pacman
Urban Terror 4.1
modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine
- runs decently when most graphics-related options are low, but still looks great even with low-quality settings
- available from AUR
Warzone 2100
Warzone, GPLed and rewritten. RTS
- runs with problems
- Tweaks:
- disable sound
- set texture size to minimal
Widelands
slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2"
- runs perfectly, out of the box from aur installation
Native - Commercial
Rune
3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay based on ut'99
- runs great from box installation
Sacred Gold
Hack'n Slay Roleplay Game like Diablo
- runs little laggy, but still very enjoyable
- start in windowed mode
- The Game has fixed resolution at 1024x768 so you either want to play it on external monitor or you can't see the skill / action bar. You can move the Window pressing alt+left_mouse. So you can see the action bar. But then you can't see the health bar anymore. Email Michael from linuxgamepublishing.com and ask for a fix for that!!!! - would be really great if we could fully enjoy this game on the netbook!
UT'99
First Person shooter
- runs perfectly from box installation
Emulation
Gens-20080323-2
Mega Drive / Genesis emulator
- runs perfectly, install from aur or archlinuxfr-repo
- activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched
- use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones
Mupen64plus
Nintendo 64 emulator
- most games are running with little slowdown (NTSC games have about 56fps instead of 60fps)
- Tweaks:
- disable "frame skipping" to avoid flickering in games
ScummVM-0.12.0-2
Virtual machine for old school adventures
- runs perfectly, just install from extra repo
VisualBoyAdvance-1.7.2-5
Game Boy (Advance) emulator
- runs perfectly with vbaexpress (available in aur). visualboyadvance is available in the community repository
ZSNES
Super Nintendo emulator
- all tested games work perfect
- set video mode to "640x480 ODS F" for using full screen (but streched) or "800x600 ODS F" for using max height (non-streched)
- video filters: bilinear filter and hq filter activated here working fine, but that's your choice
PCSXR
PlayStation emulator
- all tested games (mainly jRPGs) work perfect
- no tweaks needed
Wine
World of Warcraft
MMORPG
- runs with very low fps, but only on aspire one with at least 1gig of ram
- Tweaks:
- not yet added
Diablo 2 + LOD
Hack'n Slay
- runs perfectly without any additional tweaking
Warcraft 3 / Frozen Throne
Strategy
- little laggy, but playable (at least singleplayer)
- runs smoothly with 24% CPU overclock, such as that offered in the MSI Wind series.
- Tweaks:
- start it with:
wine "Frozen Throne.exe" -opengl or wine "Warcraft III.exe" -opengl