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Hey there! I'm really hoping some of you can help me out. Let's see here...
I purchased a netvertible (a netbook / tablet pc hybrid) recently in lieu of an actual laptop or desktop; I figured that I'd still be able to play some of my favorite GOG's, and I'd remove the temptation of online gaming (I'm trying to finishing college with a good GPA, heh). Now I find that a lot of my GOG's just simply demand too much from my system, so I'm going backwards to find still older games. Now, I know that GOG has such games, but I've never heard of most of them, so I'm asking GOG's marvelously friendly community (that's you! :D ) to lend a hand!
First off, my system specs, although I can certainly check stuff myself, just in case there's someone as OCD as I am that doesn't like recommending stuff I won't be able to play:
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Asus Eee T101MT -something or other
Intel Atom CPU N450 running at 1.66GHz 1.67 GHz (I'm not the most experienced computer guy around - why the heck do I have two different processing speeds listed?)
Windows 7
1.00G Ram (which I"m going to upgrade as soon as I figure out how)
32-bit OS (apparently matters, not sure why)
Max Screen Resolution is 1024x600, and it seems to have trouble running things in full screen mode at 800x600, not sure why, but it just squishes them oddly instead of putting black bars on either side.
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I'm interested in most kinds of games, I'm really not picky, but I do try to keep away from the stuff with a lot of profanity (you tend to pick that sort of thing up, and I have younger siblings). I actually purchased Divine Divinity and haven't been able to get it to run on my system. Thank you in advance for your help, and I'm looking forward to your responses!
This question / problem has been solved by Krypsynimage
The Netbook Playability Thread should help you a bit. Unless you've already read it of course, and didn't find anything useful.
Post edited June 13, 2010 by Miaghstir
Simon the sorcerer 1+2, heroes of might and magic 1-3, master of orion, infact most the old adventures games should work like gabriel knight 1+2. Fallouts should work, tropico. Tons of games should work all of the above I can recommend as great games though.
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Miaghstir: The Netbook Playability Thread should help you a bit. Unless you've already read it of course, and didn't find anything useful.

I hadn't seen it - thanks! Not sure that'll be helpful though, my system's not really as powerful as the netbooks they're using; being a hybrid, a lot of the system's taken up by the tablet functionality.
I love Morrowind, Gothic 3, and Oblivion - I'm thinking Gothic will be a good option for me? :D
I am not 100% knowledgeable on netvertibles, but video would seem to me to be the major limiting factor (I am guessing that was the issue with Divine Divinity?). If that is the case, I would say anything that doesn't require a video card in the game's minimum reqirements should run fine.
Ralackk named some good games that fit that requirement. So if one of those is from a genre you like, I don't think you can go wrong. If none of those interest you, what type of game are you looking for?
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Krypsyn: I am not 100% knowledgeable on netvertibles, but video would seem to me to be the major limiting factor (I am guessing that was the issue with Divine Divinity?). If that is the case, I would say anything that doesn't require a video card in the game's minimum reqirements should run fine.
Ralackk named some good games that fit that requirement. So if one of those is from a genre you like, I don't think you can go wrong. If none of those interest you, what type of game are you looking for?

Oddly, I couldn't get Divinity to run in the proper resolution - other than that it seemed to work fine, but it refused to cooperate, and wouldn't run widescreen even if I chose one of the defaults.
And all of those sound interesting - I was hoping for something fairly open and non linear that I could play for quite some time - I can't afford to buy new games very often, and since I don't actually have anything now that will play on my computer, I want to make the few games I acquire last :)
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Runehamster: I love Morrowind, Gothic 3, and Oblivion - I'm thinking Gothic will be a good option for me? :D

System requirements for Gothic seem to be very similar to the requirements for Divine Divinity, so your system may choke on it. However, I really enjoyed Gothic and if it will run on your system, I would recommend it.
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Simul-posting for the win. Well, if DD worked for your system, then Gothic should as well. I would still be wary of video glitches (like happened in DD), but your processor power and memory is certainly good enough.
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Seems the site imploded for about an hour. Anyway, I thought I recalled being able to tune Gothic's resolution to my widescreen fairly easily, so I found the post about it here on the GOG forums. It is as simple as changing an ini file. So, you should be able to avoid the stretchy/squishy troubles you had with DD, if that was the main problem.
Post edited June 14, 2010 by Krypsyn
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Runehamster: I love Morrowind, Gothic 3, and Oblivion - I'm thinking Gothic will be a good option for me? :D
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Krypsyn: System requirements for Gothic seem to be very similar to the requirements for Divine Divinity, so your system may choke on it. However, I really enjoyed Gothic and if it will run on your system, I would recommend it.
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Simul-posting for the win. Well, if DD worked for your system, then Gothic should as well. I would still be wary of video glitches (like happened in DD), but your processor power and memory is certainly good enough.
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Seems the site imploded for about an hour. Anyway, I thought I recalled being able to tune Gothic's resolution to my widescreen fairly easily, so I found the post about it here on the GOG forums. It is as simple as changing an ini file. So, you should be able to avoid the stretchy/squishy troubles you had with DD, if that was the main problem.

Hmm...I think I might try Gothic, then! I was trying to find a demo, but no luck :P
Thank you very much for your help, everyone!
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Runehamster: Hmm...I think I might try Gothic, then! I was trying to find a demo, but no luck :P
Thank you very much for your help, everyone!

Another thread that might be of help is the Demo links for current GoG games. Keep in mind that the demos hasn't ben given the same treatment as the full version GOG sells, so they may or may not function on current systems.
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Runehamster: Hmm...I think I might try Gothic, then! I was trying to find a demo, but no luck :P
Thank you very much for your help, everyone!
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Miaghstir: Another thread that might be of help is the Demo links for current GoG games. Keep in mind that the demos hasn't ben given the same treatment as the full version GOG sells, so they may or may not function on current systems.

Thanks! I actually dug up the old Gothic 1 demo on fileplanet, and it runs like it was made for my system, so I"m pretty sure the tweaked and updated version here is going to be great!!! :D
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Runehamster: Hmm...I think I might try Gothic, then! I was trying to find a demo, but no luck :P
Thank you very much for your help, everyone!

Glad to help. One word of warning, though. There is at least one game-breaking bug in Gothic. I won't spoil anything, but make a save before pulling any switches in the Silverite Mines. It is probably best not to pull any switches there unless directed to by the plot.
Here is a link to a Gamefaqs thread discussing the bug that is very light on spoilers, if you are interested. Nothing in the page will ruin anything about the overarching game plot, but it does give away the particulars of the buggy quest.
HAHAHA! It runs! So far it looks much better than Gothic 3...now if I could only figure out how to attack...
*downloads the manual*