has the netbook only got one gig of ram?
what gfx chip has the machine got?
i used to have an nvidia ion chip in mine, and it could play source games like half-life 2 fine on low quality settings, but then again i did upgrade it to 3 gigs of ram (and perhaps surprisingly played quite a bit better in xp, so i kept a dual-boot config).
the trackpad wasn't great for fps gaming though.
Yes. 1 GB of RAM:
HP Mini 110-3000SA Netbook (Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, 10.1-inch LED display, webcam, Bluetooth, Windows 7 Starter 32-bit): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
I am planning to bump it to 2 and get an SSD.
I found GameBooster very handy, in fact, especially because, once I set it up and tweak it a bit, it stops all the services I don't need during gaming but are too troublesome for me to turn off manually. When running some games that require a lot better specs than mine, those disabled services seemed to do the trick.
This may not actually give you better game performance, but it can, however, have an impact on the games' stability.
Portal 2 repeatedly crashed to the desktop for me until I dragged the .exe into GameBooster; same thing happened with Sims 3 Medieval. I couldn't actually have better performance, but they were a lot more stable.
If you're unsure about using it, just try it, it's free and doesn't really pose any threat if you install :)
Not sure what games you're looking to play on that netbook, but for the most part if it is anything much beyond Solitaire then I would forget about it. You can see how well it doesn't perform here,
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 - Notebookcheck.net Tech
Well I can run just about Minecraft & Terraria (get around 40FPS with Optifine and low settings on Minecraft).
ye you won't be able to play much, only 3d game I can think of that will run without or minimum lag on that netbook is GTA Sandreas and Vice City or stuff like portal,half life or something of similar requirements
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