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I ended up bumping the GOG thread earlier this weekend with the same news.
By the by, are there any good tactics to get your existing CD and DVD games on netbooks? A friend of mine suggested running a virtual drive on the machine, but I'm not too familiar with the procedure.
Free and easy to setup.
Damn it, can't find my BG1 disc, got the expansion disc but not the main game. I'm loathe to jump straight to BG2 before playing BG1 (also I've heard that BG2 has issues playing on netbooks).
Just be darned careful as you install, as it attempts (even more than some applications, I'm looking at you, acrobat) to install various toolbars and eff with your home page.
What I do, and I believe the easiest way, is to install them through a network with my desktop and then use a no CD patch. The first part should be easy, the second one might be a little more difficult if you don´t know where to look, but considering the nature of it I don´t think we can discuss it in here.
You might get some extra battery life and a little speed during load times if you have a Readyboost flash drive in Win7 (some say the Vista version just didn't work). I say might because it only really helps for loading data that's been cached to the page file, which in 99% of most computers is your hard drive, unless you have a Readyboost drive to supplement the page file. Data sitting on the readyboost will get accessed faster and use less battery. I have an Eee PC which has a SD flash card slot. I bought a 4GB SDHC and use that as dedicated readyboost. I've noticed an overall performance improvement, but it's more of a general perception than something I've measured.
On the same topic, buying an SSD for your note/netbook would be a huge power saver as well as a big speed boost. But if you're buying a netbook for affordability, this is hardly a practical option.
In Win 7, you can select a power profile that uses less power, usually be a combination of tricks such as dimming the screen, putting the HDD to sleep more often, limiting the speed of the CPU, and a few dozen other settings. Mind you, these things will cause your netbook to be slower in general, but it may get you a couple extra hours of battery time. You might find a good compromise between power & performance that you can live with. You didn't say what game you were playing, but chances are you don't need your netbook to run full throttle gulping down the watts when you're contemplating your next move on Civ3.
If you're not playing online, turn off your wifi. There's no need to power that ethernet chip and transponder if you know you're not going to be using it for awhile (like on an airplane).
Talking about this reminds of the days back when I'd try every trick I knew to get more performance out of an aging x386, creating different config.sys files that would eke out every last bit (pun intended) of that precious first 640K. I think it's interesting that netbooks were probably intended for soccer moms and luddites who just want to surf the net, and geeks everywhere are busy putting them to use for unintended purposes by tweaking the hell out of them.
Diablo 2 and Yahoo Pool is pretty much all we've played up until this point.
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hmmm. quake 3? half-life DM and other games derived from that engine. Oh yes, and starcraft.
You are probably right, then. Anyone have a link to a recent comparison?
DID ANYONE EVER TRY DUNGEON KEEPER 2 or MW3?
they might work precisely because of the shitty intel graphics.
Did you have to do anything extra to get it to run? My Eee PC wouldn't run it at all, it threw an error on startup.
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Pen drives are usually kinda slow, tho, so bigger games with lots of stuff to load will take ages to load.
1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270/N280 processor
Intel 945GSE chipset
1GB DDR2 RAM
160GB hard disk,5400 rpm
10.1-inch (1024 x 576) LCD anti-glare widescreen display
Integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics along with Broadcom’s Crystal HD Video accelerator
problem is that the game is not fitting on the screen meaning there are some options like load game and exit not visible at the bottom...
hoping for a quick reply...