Best quality games for NVIDIA GT610 / i3 3220 ?

I was looking and testing some games on this machine... I know such video card isn't much appreciated in the gaming community, but it's fine to my standards. I've already tried RE5 and it runs pretty well at 720p at highest details settings even if the benchmark says "C" as evaluation, with 25-30 fps which still look good to me (guess I'd go crazy at 60fps....). I would try GTA5 myself... but a 100gb installer is just the most outrageous thing I've ever seen. So, what are some good games to try on this video card ? I mean good looking games which can be played decently at highest settings. Asking the community this because benchmark sites often fail: sometimes they're overstimating the user's settings (maybe a commercial tactic to sell such games), some other times they understimating it (for the sake of "high standards" or stuff like that).

thanks, it has 20GB RAM, common 3.5" sata hard disks, P8H77-M motherboard

about the concept of modern... it's really relative to one's ability or reluctance to sped for nowadays stuff (which is outrageously expensive for me). For me "modern" is anything done around 2010... usually '09 games are difficult to play at high settings (and logically lame, as I prefer older games)... honestly, everytime I hear the word "modern", my brain hurts, lol

I just want to push the current PC to the best it can.

If you use Steam there are a ton actually. You can see the date when the game was added and go from there. YOU think GTA V is massive, Ark and COD are eve bigger!

What kind of gamer are you? First person shooter, strategy, massive roll playing, etc?


The revamped Command & Conquer on Steam is not bad. I think Generals is available via Origin. Just recently on Steam all the GTAs were on sale. You shouldn't have any issues with GTA San Andreas, III, and Vice City.

You can most likely play many games if you turn off all the pp effects
i mean just an example it does not look very nice but its playing games.



Tripple A games like COD, counter strike and many others like these set the net wide because they want their games to run on anything so that they can make heaps of money so they will run good on low spec computers etc. Games like Warcraft are in the same boat and also as the other person mentioned RTS games are less taxing so can run on low computers too.

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its a catch 22 because you are asking what good looking games will run but your GPU cannot do good looking in most cases, it will do fuzzy slide show no worries though.

RE5 like you mentioned works well and is a good example of AAA game that will run on anything and play + look good.
Look for games like this its hard to describe if you don't know but most seasoned gamers will know how to spot them. Linear on rail type games are the sort of games you are looking for vs true open world and ones made by big name companies as they will have fast optimized code etc.

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look at easier games maybe like 2D ones there is plenty of fun 2D games and even isometric games as they are often pseudo 3d.
Minecraft can go a long way?

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mulambo said:

thanks, it has 20GB RAM, common 3.5" sata hard disks, P8H77-M motherboard

about the concept of modern... it's really relative to one's ability or reluctance to sped for nowadays stuff (which is outrageously expensive for me). For me "modern" is anything done around 2010... usually '09 games are difficult to play at high settings (and logically lame, as I prefer older games)... honestly, everytime I hear the word "modern", my brain hurts, lol

I just want to push the current PC to the best it can.

You are holding this computer back with a GPU like that, you would want to aim for 1080p you could put at least a 780 on it and it will play most games reasonably or well if you know how to min max your setup properly or you could put a 960 or even 980 on it and it will be good for most things.

You could even put a 1660 or a 2070 and up on it and it will do everything all though RTX cards you will be missing some of the feature support because legacy system but they will still work fine and play all games.

This website will give you a good indication of what games will run on your computer.

Can You RUN It
Can You RUN It | Can I Run It | Can My PC Run It

F22 Simpilot said:

If you use Steam there are a ton actually. You can see the date when the game was added and go from there. YOU think GTA V is massive, Ark and COD are eve bigger! What kind of gamer are you? First person shooter, strategy, massive roll playing, etc? The revamped Command & Conquer on Steam is not bad. I think Generals is available via Origin. Just recently on Steam all the GTAs were on sale. You shouldn't have any issues with GTA San Andreas, III, and Vice City.

I mostly like shooters, action, fighting/brawlers, racing (only 3d... unless it's Mario Kart series), some puzzles... kinda an arcadeish gamer type. I do like RPG's and stealth too, as long as they don't require farming. As regards open world games... I tried Saints Row 3... it goes not like I expected (I think I'll go with the previous episode). It seems like anything made after 2008, except Resident Evil 5, will be a pain for my PC so I'll just adapt to that year as limit. Yeah, I "completed" (not to the fullest) the gta series till 5 (when my ps3 was ok)... unfortunely can't enjoy the "definitive" edition, I'd replay that as well as it looks gorgeous but meh, better luck next machine...

MisterEd said:

This website will give you a good indication of what games will run on your computer. Can You RUN It Can You RUN It | Can I Run It | Can My PC Run It

Yeah, I know that site, I also know this one System Requirements which doesn't require exe benchmark applications and it's pretty realistic/detailed (as it tells you what specific resource your pc lacks of), but its database lacks of certain old titles I looked for (they're all mostly very well known or modern games).

This is my list. Is kind of a mix bag.
All of them runs with an Nvidia GT710 (2GBvram)
And with just 4GB RAM.

You probably should be able to run almost all of them.

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20 Minutes Till Dawn
60 Parsecs
100 Percent Orange Juice
A Monsters Expedition
A Planet of Mine
Aarklash Legacy
Across the Obelisk
Active DBG Braves Rage
Active Neurons 2
Age of Empires 3
age of mythology extended edition
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alice Madness Returns
Alien Isolation
All Quiet Roads
Amber City
Ankora Lost Days
Anno 2070
Anno 1701 A D
Anvil Saga
APICO
Arctictopia
Armello
Arrows
Art Of Gravity
Artist Life Simulator
Ash of Gods Redemption Digital Deluxe Edition
Assassin`s Creed III
Assassins Creed
Aurora Hex Pattern Puzzles
AuroraBound
AVP 2010
Baba Is You
Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance
Banners Of Ruin
Batman Arkham Origins The Complete Edition
battle chasers nightwar
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Beacon Pines
Bedlam
Behind the Frame The Finest Scenery
Between Time - Escape Room
Bitburner
Bleep Bloop
Blood Bowl Chaos Edition
Bomb Chicken
Book Of Demons
Borderlands 2
Braid
BridgeFix 231
BroForce
Bugs Must Die
Bully Scholarship Edition
Burnout Paradise
Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth PC
Call of Duty - Black Ops
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Candy Disaster - Tower Defense
CARRION
Castle of Illusion
Catherine Classic
Cats in Time
Celeste Farewell
Chambers of Devious Design
CHANGE A Homeless Survival Experience
Chef A Restaurant Tycoon Game
Child of Light
Circuits
Civilization 4, Warlords expansion
Clive Barker's Jericho
Clocker
Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
Cold Fear
Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars (2007)
Concrete Jungle
Condemned criminal origins
Connect The Dots
Constructor Plus
Cotrio
Craft The World
CrossCode
Crypt Of The NecroDancer
Crysis
Crysis 2
Cubetastic
Cult of the Lamb
Cultist Simulator
Cuphead
Damnation
Dap
Dark Devotion
Darksiders II
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Dead Space
Dead Cells
Deaths Gambit Afterlife
Defend The Rook
Delivery From The Pain
Democracy 4
Disney Dreamlight Valley A Festival of Friendship
Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Dodgeball Academia
Dont Starve Alone Pack
Donut County
Door Kickers 2 Task Force North
Dorfromantik
Double Cross
Dragon Age - Origins - Ultimate Edition
Dragon Age II
Dreamfall - The Longest Journey
Dreamscaper
Dungeon Encounters
Dungeon Siege III Treasures Of The Sun
DYSMANTLE
Eastward
Prince of Persia trilogy
ENDER LILIES
Enter the Gungeon A Farewell to Arms
ethereal
Eufloria
Evergate
evolution the video game
EXAPUNKS
express thru
F E A R
Fable The Lost Chapters
Factorio
Factory Town
Fahrenheit
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Far Cry 2
faster than light
Feist
Fell Seal Arbiters Mark
FEZ
Fluffy Cubed
Galactic Civilizations III
Geometry Dash
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Golf Club - Wasteland
Good Company
Gordian Quest
Greak Memories of Azur
Greedy Bunnies
Grey Hack
Griddlers Tale of the Mysterious Creatures
Griddy
Griftlands
Grim Dawn
GRIS
Grow - Song of the Evertree
GRUNND
GTA IV - Complete Edition
Gurumin A Monstrous Adventure
GWENT Rogue Mage
Half Life 2
Hanoi Puzzles Flip Match
Hell Architect
HELLGATE - London
Hellslave
Heroes of Hammerwatch
HEROish
Hitman - Contracts
Hohokum
Hollow Knight
Hotline Miami 2 Wrong Number
Human Fall Flat
Hundred Days Winemaking Simulator Napa Valley
Idle Spiral
Idolzzz
INSIDE
Into the Breach
Intravenous
INVERT
Iratus Lord of the Dead
Iron Marines
Irony Curtain From Matryoshka With Love
Island Farmer Jigsaw Puzzle
Isle of Arrows
Jack Move
Jets n Guns 2
Jupiter Hell
Jurassic Park The Game
Just Shapes & Beats
Katana ZERO
KEPLERTH
Kingdom Rush Vengeance Tower Defense
Kingdom Two Crowns
Knight Swap
Kynseed
LASER CHESS
Learning Factory
Left 4 Dead 2
Legend of Keepers
Legends of Kingdom Rush
Legion War
Levelhead
Limbo
Little Inferno
Little Red Lie
Loop Hero
Loot River
Magnesium
Manhunt 1
Manhunt 2
Mark of the Ninja - Special Edition
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Men of War - Assault Squad 2
Milliopoly
minetest
Mini Metro
Mini Motorways
Mini Words
Minimal Crypt
Mirror's Edge
Moonlighter Between Dimensions
Murder Mystery Machine
Muse Dash
Mystery Solitaire Grimms Tales 4
Nebuchadnezzar
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Need For Speed Underground 2
Nexomon Extinction
Niche a genetic survival game
Nobody Saves the World
Noita
Northgard
Not a hero
nowhere prophet
Oakenfold
OCO
Omno
One Dreamer
Ooblets
Opus Magnum
Orcs Must Die 2
Order of Battle World War II
Package Rush
Painkiller Black Edition
Papers Please
Papetura
Patricks Parabox
Pharaoh
Photographs
PlateUp
Please Fix The Road
Poly Bridge 2
Poly Bridge
Polychromia
Portal
Portal 2
Portal Reloaded
Potion Permit
Prison Architect
Prose & Codes
Puzzle Expedition
Puzzletronics Analog Eletronics
Rail Route
Railbound
Rain World
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
reky
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil RD
Return Of The Obra Dinn
Reverie Knights Tactics
RGB Rush
RimWorld
Rise Of Nations 2 Rise Of Legends
Rise of Nations Extended Edition
Rogue Trooper
Rogue Empire Dark Heroes
RUNNING WITH RIFLES Build
RYB
S T A L K E R Shadow of Chernobyl
SAMUDRA
Sands of Salzaar
Scrabble™ Interactive 2009 Edition
Scrapland Remastered
Serious Sam - Tormental
Serious Sam II
Shadow Tactics - Aiko's Choice
shadowland
Shadows Over Loathing
Shape Palette
Shellshock 2 Blood Trails
SHENZHEN IO
Shotgun King The Final Checkmate
Shovel Knight Dig
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Sigma Theory Global Cold War
Sizeable
Skul The Hero Slayer
Sky Rogue
Slay the Spire
Sleeping Dogs Pack
Slidetracked
Sliko
Slipways
Sludge Life
Snakebird Primer
Sniper Elite Berlin 1945
SOLAS 128 v1 03
SOMA
Song of Farca
Songs for a Hero
Sons of Valhalla
Source of Madness
Spaceland
Spec Ops - The Line
Spelunky 2
Spelunky HD
Spiritfarer Farewell Edition
Splatter Zombiecalypse Now
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Splitter Critters
STALKER Call Of Pripyat
Star Wars Republic Commando
Stardew Valley
Stealth Bastard Deluxe Complete Edition
Stereo Boy
Strange Horticulture
Streets of Rage 4
Streets of Red Devils Dare Deluxe
Streets of Rogue
sundered eldritch edition
Sunless Sea
Sunless Skies
Surviving Mars
Svens SudokuPad
Swat 4
Tales of Monkey Island
Tales from the Borderlands
TDU2
Terraria
Terrorist Takedown 2
Tesla vs Lovecraft For Science
Tetragon
The Darkness 2
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
The Last Cube
The Last Friend
The Rewinder
The Room 4 - Old Sins
The Vale - Shadow of the Crown
The Wonderful 101 Remastered
The Battle of Polytopia
The Binding of Isaac Repentance
The Colonists
The Devils Calculator
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
the messenger
The Red Strings Club
The Settlers 2 10th Anniversary
The Signal State
The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe
The Survivalists
The Treehouse Man
The Walking Dead 400 Days
The Walking Dead Michonne
The Walking Dead Season 1
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana
The Stillness of The Wind
The Wolf Among Us Complete Season
There Is No Game Wrong Dimension
THIEF - Definitive Edition
This War of Mine - Final Cut
Three Kingdoms The Last Warlord
Ticket to Earth
Time Master
Tiny Robots Recharged
Tinytopia
Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition
Tomb Raider Legend
Torchlight
Torchlight II
Touhou Luna Nights
Townsmen A Kingdom Rebuilt
Train Valley 2
Train Valley Germany
Travellers Rest
Trine 2 Complete Story
Trine Enchanted Edition
Trombone Champ
Turing Complete
Turmoil
Two Point Hospital
Ultra Street Fighter
ULTRAKILL
UnderMine
Undertale
Unit 404
Unity of Command II
Unlock the Block
UNO
Unpacking
Vagrus The Riven Realms
VELONE
Voxel Tycoon
wandersong
Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War Collection
warhammer quest 2 the end times
Warriors of the Nile 2
WH 40K - Shootas, Blood & Teef
Whateverland
Where Cards Fall
While True Learn
Wildermyth
Wizard of Legend
World in Conflict Complete Edition
Wraithslayer
wrath aeon of ruin
Wylde Flowers
XCOM - Chimera Squad
Yoku's Island Express
Youropa
Youtubers Life
Ys Origin
Ys The Oath In Felghana
Ziggurat 2
Zombo Buster Rising
Zombotron

That's a good list. F.E.A.R had some of the best AI back then...

I'll add Golf With Your Friends, Ghost Recon, Monopoly, 7 Days To Die, Age Of Empires, Risk and Supreme Commander. Those are some of the games currently in my Steam library hat you should be able to play with that GPU.

7 days to die will struggle on a GT610 i would be surprised if it even makes it past the loading screen on a GPU like that, the game is not optimized very well and it is also at the pinnacle of Voxel games.

Side note: I have spent hours testing this game and looking over it mainly for ways to improve its performance though self diagnosis. Through my findings i noticed It has a memory leak as it does not release memory very well between games as demonstrated by these two pictures. Going from playing the game actively and then quitting back to the main menu we would expect that any performant game releases that memory but it does not meaning its got a memory leak.