A list of working and playable games on the Samsung NC10

Heres a list (in no particular order, although i might go through later and sort it into alphabetical) of games that work for me on a Samsung NC10 with Windows XP SP3.

If you want to know how to get games onto a machine that doesnt have a dvd drive then you can use something like magicdisk (freeware) to create iso images that can be transfered via network or flash drive. (or you can network your desktops dvd drive and install from there)
If you want to know how to play the games without the need for a disk - www.google.com

I seriously suggest that users who dont know how to get around disk requirements purchase compatible games from www.gog.com or www.steampowered.com

Some games on this list may require the use of a program called 3danalyze.
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/index.php

Regular games
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Audiosurf - works, but im not really convinced that its playable even at the lowest settings
Alien shooter vengeance - works. mild slowdown at times
Aquaria - works but there is some slowdown. turn off reflections and other stuff.
Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura - works very well
Arx Fatalis from gog.com - works very well
Ballance - works very well
Baldurs Gate 2 - works very well
Beyond Divinity - works very well
Beyond Good & Evil - works but theres major slowdown. probably unplayable as a result. lower resolutions might help - i tried 800x600.
Black & White - works very well
bullet candy - works but theres major slowdown at times.
Clive Barkers Undying - works very well
Darwinia - Works
Deus Ex - Works and plays really well
Descent 3 from gog.com - works well
Diablo 2 + expansion - works really well
Discples 2 from gog.com - works very well
Divine Divinity - works really well
Dungeon Keeper 2 - works
Dungeon Siege + Legend of Aranna - works very well
Eschalon Book 1 - works
Fallout 1 & 2 - works really well
Fate - works. lowest settings for minimal slowdown
Feeble Files from gog.com - works very well.
Final Fantasy VII - works well.
Final Fantasy VIII - works well. use ff8 launcher to get higher resolutions
Flatout 1 & 2 - works but you arent going to have stellar framerates.
Freelancer - works very well
Freespace 2 from gog.com - works very well. download tool from fsoinstaller.com to get it working even better on the NC10.
Future Boy - works very well
Giants Citizen Kabuto from gog.com - works well
Gothic from gog.com - works very well
Gothic 2 - works very well
Grand theft auto 3 - see Vice City comments.
Grand theft auto Vice City - works and gets fairly playable framerates (15-20) for mild play
Grand theft auto San Andreas - see Vice City comments
Grandia 2 - works
Gun - works
Gunman Chronicles - works very well
Half Life - Oppposing Force - Blueshift - Works and works very well.
Haegemonia - works
Hinterland - works well
Homeworld 2 - works
Hostile Waters - works very well
Jack Orlando - works
Lego Star Wars - works well. requires 3danalyze to run properly. settings i used in 3danalyze are - anti-detect settings both ticked - force SW TnL - emul HW TnL caps
Lionheart - works
Max Payne 1 & 2 - works well
MDK 2 - works
Mr Robot - works well
Neverwinter Nights - works well
Noone Lives Forever 1 & 2 - works very well
Oddworld Abes Exoddus - works well
Planescape Torment - works well
Sacrifice from gog.com - works well. some mild texture flickering on the landscape. probably driver related.
Septerra Core - works well
Shadowman - works
Sid Meiers Pirates! - works well
Simon the Sorceror 1 & 2 from gog.com - works
Sin 1 - Works
Soldier of Fortune 2 - Works very well
Space Trader - Works
Spore - Works amazingly well considering its so new. lowest detail settings needed and its playable.
Starcraft - works well
Starlancer - works but may be prone to crashing every now and again.
Star Trek Final Unity - works but there are heavy speech playback problems.
Stonekeep from gog.com - works very well. some mild slowdown probably caused by dosbox emulation.
System Shock 2 - works well. needs to be in compatibility for windows 2000 to avoid a black screen on level load + turn off visual themes aswell just incase.
Tachyon The Fringe - Woah thats a big gun!
Templay of Elemental Evil - works
The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind GOTY - works surprisingly well at low detail settings.
The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion - works. needs oldblivion mod and lowest settings for everything to be mildly playable. dont expect too much..... but it does run and you can do stuff!!!
The Longest Journey - works very well
Toca Race Driver 2 - Works at lowest detail settings and is playable for the most part.
Tomb Raider Anniversary - works but the framerate renders it pretty unplayable unless you angle the view towards the floor.
Trackmania Nations Forever - works, but its fairly slow even on lowest details
Ultima IX Ascension - works very well
Unreal Gold - Works really well
Uplink - works really well
Vampire the masquerade Redemption - works very well
Warcraft 3 + expansion - works well
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War - playable
Wizards and Warriors - works
World of Goo - works well
XIII (13) - works very well
X-Gold - Works well


Massively Multiplayer Games
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Angels Online - works
Dungeon Runners - works
EuDemons Online - defaults to a resolution thats greater than the native nc10 res. can be played and played well but will need scrolling of the screen to see all.
Eve Online - works. classic mode used. playable but dont expect to be engaging in fleet warfare.
Flyff - works
Guild Wars - works. fairly playable at lowest settings.
Maple Story - works well
Seal Online - works but its a little slow.
Shaiya - works ok at lowest detail settings @ 800x600 16bit
Shin Megami Tensei Imagine Online - for performance see Shaiya
Trickster Online - works
Vendetta Online - works. game is quite scalable.
World of Warcraft - works well enough for general leveling. dont try any raids on it.

 

Thanks for the listing. I was recently curious what kind of games I could stick on my NC10 for on-the-go casual gaming. The list is quite helpful

Question -- how "lightweight" is MagicDisc/MagicISO? Aside from it being free, is there any reason to prefer it over something like Alcohol 120, which I've previously used?

 

not sure about magiciso because i believe that its a retail product. as far as magic disk goes its very lite on resources from what i can tell.
i dont have magicdisk running all the time in the tray, although the drive for the virtual drive is always on until i disable it at some point when im done transfering all my retail games across.

one thing i will note is that magic disk, and possibly magic iso aswell, is useless at creating iso's from copy protected disks. even ancient games like x-gold and mdk2 it has majors problems with.
which i suppose is the idea of the protection in the first place. but hey, thats discussion for another time.

i se no reason to really use magic disk if you already have alcohol. i simply use it because its freeware and i dont see any point in my buying a product like alcohol or magiciso that im not likely to use outside of my netbook.

glad you like the list and hope it makes your life a little easier when picking out which games to choose.
its not 100% as it doesnt list games i know do not work on the machine at all. ive tried lots of games that just dont like the machine at all.
probably the drivers being the big problem, or being integrated graphics at least.

 

How did you get FF7 to run on the NC10?

Doesn't it require a ton of drivers so the game doesn't crash? Also, what do you do without a numberpad?

Also, does Warcraft 3 run smoothly without any hiccups?

 

Thanks for this very helpful list. All I know is that Solitaire also works well, but there are others who want more of their NC10 and this provides an excellent resource.

John

 

only driver i installed was a high resolution patch so i could get custom resolutions. otherwise the game sticks itself into 640x480 which looks blocky and blurry.

a good resource for ff7 related stuff...
http://www.ff7-universe.com/Download.html

i play the game with a joypad (as i do with FF8). but the number pad can be accessed using the Fn key + various keys on the keyboard i would have thought.

warcraft 3 runs. i only played a couple missions of the dark reign campaign and i didnt encounter any slowdown. if i recall i was using 800x600 (dont think the game goes any higher by default) and maximum detail settings.

 

Warcraft 3 is only 15-23fps. 23fps is MAX, 17-20 is average (Dota). I tried Marvel Ultimate Alliance but there is a character display bug that I'm not sure whether is related to driver or not (and I'm not willing to reformat to try w/ a clean install).

 

Is 17-20 average frames per second considered smooth?

 

I might be "playable" but will be noticeable. 30fps should be the target for smoothness, anything above that (60+) should be gravy.

 

Isn't there a running man icon that can improve the performance of a program? Would that increase the frames per second?

 

Thats subjective. I think its perfectly smooth and playable.
warcraft 3 is not exactly a fast paced game anyway which requires lightning quick movements and reflexes.
The framerate dropping is much more noticeable on a shooter or something like Audiosurf where precise and perfectly timed movements are rendered almost impossible. However, again, where i think Audiosurf is unplayable others might not. Subjective.

 

Technically no, in first person shooters you need a minimum of 25 frames per second. But then again, in a real time strategy like Dawn of War you can get by with 15+.

 

What about Civilization IV BTS? If that's too much, I'm sure FreeCiv would work.

 

I havent tried it myself, it works apprently but i read elsewhere that it was very very slow especially as the map got more settled.

apparently civilization 3 works very well, but i couldnt get it working for varying reasons.

 

Hmmm, quite a naive question of you...
I quickly scanned the list to seek for any 'Civilization' entry to no avail. But tbh, all we could possibly hope for is the C3C - last expansion to the 'III' series.

Anyone caring to check it up for us - some strategy game lovers?

Cheers,
AdiQue

 

some more games added to the list over the last few days.

 

I full heartedly recommend purchasing guild wars for some great(FREE) online action.

once you buy the game you dont have to pay monthly. I just got the trilogy pack a little while ago with threee GW games so much fun!

 

Would Age of Empires II work?

 

AoEII works great as does its Star Wars clone Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. 40-60fps on high settings.

 

Anyone has a ready guide on how to create ISO files from game cd's and then install on NC10 using usb? Thanks.

edit: Never mind. Got it done

 

Thanks mate! I've been seriously considering buying an NC10 and AOE II is still my favorite game. :laugh:

 

Actually, Vice City gets about 25-35 FPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlDmdeTqE9s (it bogs down to 15 when there's a lot of objects on the screen)

Here it is running GTA2, a SNES emulator and some other games that I'm not familiar with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV79CIkdLPM

Any word on how the pSX emulator runs? I'm talking games like Chrono Cross and FFIX.

This list should apply to similar netbooks like the MSI Wind and the EEE PC, as they have the same hardware.

 

How does Dosbox work?

Anyone try Wolfenstein 3d xp version

 

wow san andreas and vice city thats decent those are still two fun games on on the go thats great

 

Thanks for the list! really helped me with my Asus N10

 

lol if you have an N10J you can probably play 4 times as many games as these

 

Could be N10E.

The 650$ netbook version with no video card.

 

Wolfenstein 3d works more testing later.

Tried dosbox 0.72 and I got Harvester to show but, its really slow. Tex murphy games it asks for vesa driver.

 

im really interested in seeing a successor to this notebook but it seems that nothing is one the way...

 

Hey thanks for the list.

I dunno if its been mentioned but if you're a fan of the x-com series you may want to try out "UFO alien invasion" its an open source version of the original.

http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/

There is also an open source port of Streets of Rage 2 out there, I've got it on my desktop but its busted atm and I cant remember the link. The game is pretty cool though.

Warcraft3 and its expansion are really good on this laptop, you can set up a custom resolution of 1024*600 by editing two registry keys but you will have to google the specifics.

I really wanted to get KOTOR2 running but no matter what I try i cant get it to run. Also sim city 3000 doesn't work for me as all the no-cd patches I have tried just crash the game.

 

Oh crap you can play gothic 2 on the nc10??

One other comment is that I dont see the point of buying an N110 no difference at all except the trackpad being a little bigger + the glossy display (I love matte).

 

Any screenshots of games on the NC10. How is the detail on the matte screen?

 

Will some of these games work better on the N120?

 

Hi.

Has anyone made a list like this for the NC20?

Also, are there any websites where you can download (preferably free) some of the "classic" games such as Tetris?

Cheers.

 

WHAT ABOUT FM AND CM?

 

On youtube they have a TON of videos you gotta check there

 

Will battlefield 2 run on the NC10 ????

 

American McGee's Alice runs very well on the NC10/N110, with everything on high.

 

At least Football Manager 2008 runs ok. Only requires starting the game with command line options --small_screen --windowed. Not sure about FM2009 which has the 3d match engine, don't really remember if that requires something that the nc 10 doesn't have.

 

Anybody knows if Battlefield Heroes or S4 League will run on this netbook?


both are free games!

 

How is it for parties, though?

I'm really interested in getting this because of its price and portability, but the WoW thing has me stuck. I've seen videos on youtube of the framerates it gets when you're soloing and when you're in major towns, but I haven't seen any party videos.

How bad are the framerates when you party with a group in caves or instances? Is it playable?

 

i have the nc10 with wow on it and i got 20 fps all on min settings on my own, i wouldnt go into an instance and want to be of any use as it is simply too slow

 

there are also a couple of other games that i have found will run well too.

Star Trek Starfleet Command.. Flawless
Star Trek Awayteam... Flawless
Star Trek The birth of the federation... Flawless
Sim City 4...Flawless
Commandos 3 Road to berlin... Flawless
Sid miers pirates... Flawless
Rome Total War... Flawless

 

whenever i run starcraft, the screen flickers and sometimes alt/tabs itself back to desktop and when i return to starcraft, the colors are like.... purplish... something i haven't seen since 256color pallettes on windows 95 lol.

anyone edit their display properties settings?

 

Has anyone tested Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) on NC10? Noticed that it's missing from the MMO section and am interested if I could run it on mine..and what do you think, should I upgrade to 2 gigs of RAM before trying to play it?