Question What are some FPS games that are playable with a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz and an ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 3650 AGP?

[TZN850]

I bought a HD 3650 for my old Pentium 4 machine, upgrading it from a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 Rev. A00. I want to know what games will be playable/run good. I also have 2 GB of DDR ram on Windows XP Professional SP3 x86. Looking mostly for offline/singleplayer games, but any recommendation is appreciated.

Games that I played with FX 5200 that were playable: Halo CE, Far Cry- Low/Medium, Battlefield Vietnam/1942, IGI2, all GldSrc games, and Half-Life 2.
(Left 4 Dead would run but there were WAY too many graphical errors to consider it playable, I am sure it is playable with my new card now though.)

 

[Eximo]

Borderlands 1?
DX 10.1, so you should be able to do Unreal Tournament 3, and all the ones below. That would have also been around the Doom 3 era I think?
There is Quake - Quake III
You've got early Battlefield covered. Check out Forgotten Hope mod for 1942, puts in all the historical vehicles that 1942 missed (or got wrong, which was a lot)
Dues Ex?
Max Payne was famous for doing bullet time.

I'm sure there are plenty out there that I don't know about, kind of the golden age of FPS and strategy games.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Perhaps these would be of help;
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ATI Radeon HD 3650 - Game Requirements

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Moved thread from Graphics Cards section to PC Gaming section.

 

[Kreploon9]

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Original + DLC's.
Maybe Skyrim with VERY VERY low settings and it must be the Original DX9 version.

Call of Duty 4 - MW2. Originals.

 

[TZN850]

Thank you all for your suggestions. CoD 4:MW and MW2 are games own on Steam, so I will be checking those out. Borderlands 1 looks like a game I might try.

 

[TZN850]

Borderlands 1?
DX 10.1, so you should be able to do Unreal Tournament 3, and all the ones below. That would have also been around the Doom 3 era I think?
There is Quake - Quake III
You've got early Battlefield covered. Check out Forgotten Hope mod for 1942, puts in all the historical vehicles that 1942 missed (or got wrong, which was a lot)
Dues Ex?
Max Payne was famous for doing bullet time.

I'm sure there are plenty out there that I don't know about, kind of the golden age of FPS and strategy games.

I'll check out Forbiden Hope.

 

[TZN850]

I was wondering what PC games would run well on my system.

SPECS: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (No HT)
Radeon HD 3650 AGP
1.75 GB DDR
Windows XP Professional SP3

Already have Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/2, Halo CE/2 with XP patch, FarCry, Half-Life/2/2E1/2E2, and IGI/2.

 

[Tolis_GR]

Obviously games around 2010 era

 

[BFG-9000]

I would say all games up to 2005 except the shader-heavy F.E.A.R. which would only run 30fps if you had more CPU. All of your examples are from this era, except Left 4 Dead is from 2008.

The better GPU only allows more eye-candy at the same low fps, so it's not like it's going to let you play much more demanding games even if you had the fastest-ever AGP card HD3850. But if you are used to playing the original PS1 then 30fps with occasional drops to 15fps should be considered OK/acceptable.

The HD3650 prevents you from dual-booting into Win9x or DOS to play the very wide selection of games that have never worked in any NT Windows, as there are no drivers. You could use the FX5200 for that.

 

[TZN850]

I would say all games up to 2005 except the shader-heavy F.E.A.R. which would only run 30fps if you had more CPU. All of your examples are from this era, except Left 4 Dead is from 2008.

The better GPU only allows more eye-candy at the same low fps, so it's not like it's going to let you play much more demanding games even if you had the fastest-ever AGP card HD3850. But if you are used to playing the original PS1 then 30fps with occasional drops to 15fps should be considered OK/acceptable.

The HD3650 prevents you from dual-booting into Win9x or DOS to play the very wide selection of games that have never worked in any NT Windows, as there are no drivers. You could use the FX5200 for that.

Thanks! CPU-wise, would I be able to upgrade to a Pentium 4 Northwood 3.0 GHz (with HT) and if so, any upgrades in performance?

 

[Eximo]

Would need the specific motherboard to say if that is possible.

I believe the Northwood has a different FSB speed to the older Pentium 4, so not all boards will support it.

 

[punkncat]

Doom?

Perhaps some of the early Hitman titles, but not certain on that.

Early Crisis titles? I recall the long running joke "will it run Crysis" but don't recall which title that was about.

 

[TerryLaze]

Doom?

Perhaps some of the early Hitman titles, but not certain on that.

Early Crisis titles? I recall the long running joke "will it run Crysis" but don't recall which title that was about.

Doom 1 (not doom 2016)
That was the first crysis and a pentium is gonna have a really bad time with that game, but also the GPU since a lot of what makes the game heavy is graphics.

 

[Eximo]

Crysis 1 might do okay at lower resolutions. The reason it was so hard to run for so long was they built the engine around single core chips when Intel was intending to pursue 10Ghz. That didn't happen, and multicore chips didn't do much for Crysis. They did also build the graphics engine to be able to use pretty cutting edge stuff, so you can make it do a lot.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/powercolor-hd-3650/7.html

24 FPS at 1024x768, so not amazing. They did use a Core 2 Duo at 2.33Ghz though.

 

[punkncat]

24 FPS at 1024x768, so not amazing. They did use a Core 2 Duo at 2.33Ghz though.

YIKES!

 

[Eximo]

It was a common resolution at the time. I think I ran it at 1280x1024 with an 8800 GTS, I recall something like 40 FPS. But my card was a standard blower of the time, so heated up quite quickly and I didn't really play that game for fear the card would die. Also not really my kind of game, still isn't.

 

[TZN850]

Would need the specific motherboard to say if that is possible.

I believe the Northwood has a different FSB speed to the older Pentium 4, so not all boards will support it.

The CPU in it now *is* a Northwood. And the motherboard has an Intel 865PE chipset, but I don't know the exact model, it's just the one it came with from 2003.

 

[Eximo]

CPU support is BIOS specific, so you would need to check what it actually is. But generally that chipset should be good for it.

 

[BFG-9000]

i865 was the most flexible P4 chipset family ever, and i865g equipped Asrock 775i65G even works with Core 2 Quads (with DDR1 and AGP!) if overclocked to the stock 1066FSB for those. It was way more popular to use a (Core 2 dual-core based) Pentium E5800 in it though as its stock-for-i865 800FSB did not suffer from extended POST time.

That doesn't help you though with a mystery socket 478 board you refuse to name, as this obviously requires BIOS microcode support for Core 2, and while there are adapters to put S478 chips into LGA775 sockets there never were adapters to go the other way. LGA775 added more pins for greater power delivery for the expected 7-10GHz Pentium 5 Tejas chips.

If you have an overclockable board with voltage controls, I would suggest a 3.06HT as it has a lower stock 533FSB and higher multiplier, set to run at about 3.45GHz. Back in the day this exact configuration delivered ~40fps in F.E.A.R. using the internal benchmark and X850XT (with things like soft shadows disabled), and I even switched all of my Pentium 4 laptops over to 3.06HT as well from 800FSB HT models as they just seemed to run more stably and cooler (especially vs the Prescotts! Whoever decided to put those into laptops was a moron) with restricted cooling.

Note that depending on what exact 2.4GHz non-HT P4 you have now, you may need faster RAM to do this, as there actually was a 400FSB model too