Hey Gang,
I can play games at work, on my work machine, in my down time, breaks and on lunch.
What recommendations do you have for the ol' Steam Library?
Have:
Stardew Valley
Hyper Light Drifter
Age of Empires II
Edit:
Card in Question.
GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, Perhaps IV (depends on the card, I do know that IV doesn't like 2+GB ones so you're probably good)
Buy them as a bundle during a Rockstar publisher weekend or during the upcoming winter sale.
Plague Inc is also a good one, although your co-workers may call the cops when you start talking to yourself while coming up with new ways to wipe out mankind.
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Do you know specifically what card you have?
I've run Ori and the Blind Forest on a Radeon 7770 with no problems whatsoever. Visually speaking, that's the best game I've ever played so far. If you can get to play it on a 75Hz CRT monitor, it's even better.
Factorio is also another great title that will run on potato hardware.
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Right,
I had to look it up and got caught up in a task so I'll edit the OP and add this too.
Not an awful little card.
It's the workstation version of a 7750. Should run it fine.
Good deal. I haven't had time to look into the card/system much yet. I installed the new card yesterday and started here last week.
The question I have is do you actually need the "Workstation" benefits of said card? cause if not? that card is a horrendous waste of money.
I would consider this
Lots of indie games.
I quite enjoyed this one:
Pretty much anything from Valve:
Not sure how SFW this one is, but:
This is assuming you're playing at 1080p. All these games should run fine between medium and ultra settings, barring driver issues.
@Kat It's his work machine. He doesn't have much of a choice. Did you even read OP?
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This is my work PC. No say in it. They said something about having us build our own systems for fun sometime, but as of right now I was given an Dell OEM machine and added the card to resolve a triple display issue my machine was having. Card was ordered before I arrived as well. :)
@SgtAwesomesauce Yeah, 1080p - thank you!
@KemoKa73 Definitely been hyped for Ori too.... How pick-up-able is it? Can I set it aside and pick it back up pretty easily?
No problem. IDK what your atmosphere is at work, but if they're not extremely relaxed, you'll be better off not playing Saints Row. It's definitely one of those games where anything goes and you can run around beating people to death with a giant purple dildo.
My recommendation is look through the on-sale and "indie" sections. They'll usually have some good ones there and most indie games can run on anything starting at intel graphics. (my xps 13 can run SPAZ just fine, just gets kinda warm)
Check out this listing
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Okay so? he mentioned it was a Dell OEM? so he just needs a powerful card that uses low wattage. if that's the case he can use an Nvidia card within that price range. not a workstation card with performance from a card 3 or so years ago.
I was given the computer - it's a work computer owned by my company - and I was given the graphics card - it was ordered prior to my official start-date. :)
The point is that the card is already in the machine. He's not looking to upgrade. This is about recommendations for what would have a good experience.
So most Indie games. Visual novels, and games from 2005 and below.
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save anytime, exit and pick right where you left off later.
Sounds great! :) Thanks.
-- Anyone have any experience with FTL? Any good?
FTL is good, it's a quick game, but definitely good. Not sure how people feel about replay ability. It's still $10, which is not a bad price, but not great either in my opinion.
Also, keep an eye on Humble Bundles. It's usually got some pretty good deals.
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If it helps your search in a non specific way, my brother is using a 7850 with 1gb of vram and no game had given out about it yet and we are playing up to killing floor 2 and overwatch. Nothing super stressing but nothing has outright said no about running on the card
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Overwatch runs on it? Interesting.......... >:)
Edit: Blizzard is pretty good about optimization though.
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Check out red alert, or OpenRA today, not on steam but it's a classic and free.
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