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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - First person shooters for windows 7 ?

Posted: 9/18/2017 6:35:09 PM EDT

Disclaimer: I am not much of a computer guy. Sorry. Ridicule me if you must.

The woman brought home a computer from her office they didn't want anymore.

I was looking for games I could install on it just for something to play. Doesnt have to be a fps, but that's what I had in mind. Years ago I liked playing stuff like quake 2 and unreal. I'm sure I'm dating myself lol.

Windows 7 is on it and
Interwebz search didn't turn up much good.

I put the original version of half life in my amazon cart thinking that would probably work. I honestly haven't even had a pc at home for years, so my standards aren't real high.

Any suggestions? Flame suit on.

Posted: 9/18/2017 6:47:11 PM EDT

[#1]

Download Steam, and there's tons of good games to get. I recommend The Orange Box for starters, it's got all the Half Life you'll ever need. I can't recommend the Half Life games enough.

Posted: 9/28/2017 9:39:59 AM EDT

[#2]

Can you list your hardware specifications? Things like processor, graphics card etc.

Insurgency is a dps based on the source engine that's a lot of fun. It would probably work on an unknown pc?

Posted: 9/28/2017 9:44:12 AM EDT

[#3]

Hardware is more important than operating system.

You dont have the latest directX without Win 10, but that might not matter.

What video card is in it? Memory? CPU?

If it's from work, it's probably a shit video card that can only (barely) do two screens 2d well and will absolutely shit the bed doing 3d.

Posted: 9/28/2017 1:20:34 PM EDT

[#4]

Nothing wrong with Q2 and Unreal.

I STILL play Q2, there are still servers running and players in deathmatch games all the time.

As stated above, just sign up for a Steam account and start browsing FPS games there's a category in Steam you can search through for these.

Quake 2 is available along with most older FPS games.

Just keep asking questions in this thread and we'll answer them.

Posted: 9/28/2017 5:13:02 PM EDT

[#5]

We'd need to see your hardware specs to be sure, but if it's like most work computers, it won't play shit for FPS games unless they are 10 or 15 years old. Most work PCs are built to handle things like word processing, not handle graphics intensive games.

Posted: 9/30/2017 1:53:31 AM EDT

[#6]

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Download Steam, and there's tons of good games to get. I recommend The Orange Box for starters, it's got all the Half Life you'll ever need. I can't recommend the Half Life games enough.

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This.
Get HL out of your Amazon cart, and stop thinking about buying physical copies (unless you want collector's editions).
Steam is all that matters in PC gaming, for pretty much the past decade.

Also we're going to need system specs, and also they will help you determine what you can run.

I'd guess since it was a machine brought home from "work" it probably has shit hardware, and would benefit greatly from upgrading the video card (if the motherboard/case will allow it).

Posted: 9/30/2017 2:24:35 AM EDT

[#7]

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Download Steam, and there's tons of good games to get. I recommend The Orange Box for starters, it's got all the Half Life you'll ever need. I can't recommend the Half Life games enough.

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You can even get the good stuff like Shadow Warrior and Duke Nukem 3D

I've been playing a lot of Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim lately. It's always nice to relax and explore in those games.

Posted: 9/30/2017 11:58:44 AM EDT

[#8]

The first fallout is free on steam right now. Keep an eye out for steam sales, during the last big sale I got a valve box for like $5. It included Half life 1 and all the DLCs/extras, counterstrike 1.6, left for dead, etc etc.

Posted: 10/6/2017 8:02:45 PM EDT

[#9]

Downloaded steam and got all the half life games.

Sorry to be dumb but how do I see other specs you want to see?

Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor 3.10GHz
Installed Memory (RAM) : 4.00GB (3.75 GB Usable)
System Type : 64-bit Operating System

Posted: 10/6/2017 8:42:44 PM EDT

[#10]

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Downloaded steam and got all the half life games.

Sorry to be dumb but how do I see other specs you want to see?

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Press the start button and type dxdiag in the box on the lower left of the screen. All of your system info will be there.

Posted: 10/6/2017 8:47:33 PM EDT

[#11]

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Downloaded steam and got all the half life games.

Sorry to be dumb but how do I see other specs you want to see?

Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor 3.10GHz
Installed Memory (RAM) : 4.00GB (3.75 GB Usable)
System Type : 64-bit Operating System

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Already answered but the ancient processor isn't exactly exciting me regarding games you can play.

Posted: 10/8/2017 12:10:40 AM EDT

[#12]

steam has a few dozen free to play games, Hawken was free not sure if it is now as I had it already. mechwarrior as well. might have to dial back settings though.

Quake live should play fine, its just q3 made to play in the browser basically.

Quake champions might run like crap if it even runs.

Posted: 10/8/2017 5:46:17 PM EDT

[#13]

Day of Infamy

It's on steam, it's a world war 2 infantry simulator.

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