3-Day Gaming Marathon: What Works on Pentium E5800 + Integrated Graphics?

[Gun Striker]

Hey everyone! I'm visiting my friend soon and we want to play some games together, but we have a pretty big hardware mismatch.

I've got an Intel i5-1135G7 (11th gen) laptop which is decent but my friend is stuck with an old Intel Pentium E5800 system with integrated graphics.

We're looking for co-op, versus, multiplayer, or local co-op games that can actually run on his older hardware. We're open to games that can be played on one PC with two controllers, or one keyboard + one controller setup, basically any way we can both play together!

I'm only staying for 3 days. So we want games that are fun, addictive, and not too long - we're hoping to try as many different games as possible during my visit!

The Pentium E5800 is definitely the bottleneck here, so I'm thinking we need games from around 2010-2012 or earlier, or maybe some simple 2D indie games that aren't too demanding. We're totally open to retro gaming and classic titles too, sometimes the older games are the most fun anyway!

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation where one person has way newer hardware? What games have you found that work well on older systems with integrated graphics but are still fun to play together? Any suggestions would be awesome!

 

[nobitakun]

First things first, you need to know what GPU does your friend have. Pentium E5800 has no integrated graphics.

If paired with a decent GPU, you could play games even from 2014-2015 without many issues, tweaking between 720-1080p depending on the game.

For emulation, up to PS2 you would have not many problems as long as you play on native resolution and some upscale for easy to emulate games.

 

[JPchicre]

PSX is fairly easy to emulate, and Crash Team Racing is really fun. As for PC library, Dont Starve Together is supposed to be fairly light on PC, also castle crashers and towerfall.

 

[Zerpina]

Diablo 1 would run fine on his System I'm thinking.
Possible Diablo 2

From google
Yes, an Intel Pentium E5800 processor can run the original Diablo, according to GOG.com's system requirements for Diablo + Hellfire, Diablo's original system requirements, and a Reddit discussion on playing Diablo 1 today. The Pentium E5800 (released in late 2010) is significantly newer and more powerful than the original minimum requirement of a 60 MHz Pentium processor.

 

[moonbits]

Neverwinter Nights
Diablo 1-2
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Swat 3
Baldur's Gate 2

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Battle Realms an RTS that doesn’t really demand too much hardware power.

 

[moonbits]

Starcraft could also work. It's free if I'm not mistaken

 

[moon200218]

you can try super smash flash 2, unreal tournament 1999, also look into gta san andreas multiplayer!

 

[Gun Striker]

First things first, you need to know what GPU does your friend have. Pentium E5800 has no integrated graphics.

If paired with a decent GPU, you could play games even from 2014-2015 without many issues, tweaking between 720-1080p depending on the game.

For emulation, up to PS2 you would have not many problems as long as you play on native resolution and some upscale for easy to emulate games.

He has no external gpu, It has the Intel g41 express chipset in the motherboard, which has an Intel GMA X4500 igpu. Based on that, what are your recommendation?

PSX is fairly easy to emulate, and Crash Team Racing is really fun. As for PC library, Dont Starve Together is supposed to be fairly light on PC, also castle crashers and towerfall.

Thanks for the recommendations. Yeah Crash Team Racing is really fun, also considering to play mario kart wii using split screen. What else are there for PSX?

Neverwinter Nights
Diablo 1-2
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Swat 3
Baldur's Gate 2

Diablo 1 would run fine on his System I'm thinking.
Possible Diablo 2

From google
Yes, an Intel Pentium E5800 processor can run the original Diablo, according to GOG.com's system requirements for Diablo + Hellfire, Diablo's original system requirements, and a Reddit discussion on playing Diablo 1 today. The Pentium E5800 (released in late 2010) is significantly newer and more powerful than the original minimum requirement of a 60 MHz Pentium processor.

Thank you very much for the recommendations. These really very good games to play. I was thinking about playing Diablo, but It is very long to complete. As I will be staying there only for 3 days. So I don't think we can finish these games lol. Also open to more recommendations.

Battle Realms an RTS that doesn’t really demand too much hardware power.

Starcraft could also work. It's free if I'm not mistaken

We haven't played any RTS game. Good call. We will try these.

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you can try super smash flash 2, unreal tournament 1999, also look into gta san andreas multiplayer!

For fighting, We will be playing Street fighter 3: 3rd strike. I don't think FPS games will be fun to play locally and also GTA SA will be boring there. Thanks for recommending

 

[nobitakun]

He has no external gpu, It has the Intel g41 express chipset in the motherboard, which has an Intel GMA X4500 igpu. Based on that, what are your recommendation?

Ok, now we have more info. That CPU has no integrated graphics whatsoever, so the GPU comes from the motherboard's chipset then.

With that GPU you can only play old as heck 3D games such as Quake 3. You can get better luck with 2D games as some people have said.

I think you would take more advantage by using it for emulation, playing nice co-op games from snes or PS1 era :)

EDIT: Ohhh, I forgot, you can play Obscure games with that GPU, those are a lot of fun co-op games if you like horror :)

 

[Gun Striker]

Ok, now we have more info. That CPU has no integrated graphics whatsoever, so the GPU comes from the motherboard's chipset then.

With that GPU you can only play old as heck 3D games such as Quake 3. You can get better luck with 2D games as some people have said.

I think you would take more advantage by using it for emulation, playing nice co-op games from snes or PS1 era :)

EDIT: Ohhh, I forgot, you can play Obscure games with that GPU, those are a lot of fun co-op games if you like horror :)

Yea I am interested in horror also. Although he mentioned He had played Batman Arkham city with low settings which gave him 15-20 fps.
Edit: Checked Obscure 1+2, added to our playlist. Thanks you so much. We are open to more recommendations.

 

[pingugaming]

i guess castle crashers might work! it's not a particularly hard to run game even with very old hardware

 

[Zerpina]

Yea I am interested in horror also. Although he mentioned He had played Batman Arkham city with low settings which gave him 15-20 fps.
Edit: Checked Obscure 1+2, added to our playlist. Thanks you so much. We are open to more recommendations.

What I would do is look up games from a year before the laptop was made.
Since it says the CPU was made in late 2010. Look for games made around that time or earlier.
That way, the CPU will probably handle them fairly well, since we don't know the amount of RAM (guessing DDR2 from the time period of the laptop's CPU age) and guessing integrated graphics. Probably, Going to be generous here and say 512 megabytes to maybe 1 GB.

So I would take @nobitakun's advice and try some PS1 emulation on it. That's about all you're going to get out of the old girl, even if it was running a lightweight Linux distro.

Hell, even Batocera on a USB stick.

Good luck, though. Have fun!

 

[nobitakun]

Yea I am interested in horror also. Although he mentioned He had played Batman Arkham city with low settings which gave him 15-20 fps.
Edit: Checked Obscure 1+2, added to our playlist. Thanks you so much. We are open to more recommendations.

Wow, but that's not playable at all. The game would run at 640x480 and everything on low to get that framerate. Obscure is going to run way better as the game uses mostly static cameras and simple models, from PS2 era.

I've brought PC's way better than that to the recycling center near my home because they have no use for me, as I am obsessed with low power consumption devices. I don't know where your friend lives, but in here a PC that can run GTA V over 30fps 720p could cost around 50€, and I am including an SSD and the monitor as well in the price.