Looking to get some Total War Games again, Rome, maybe Empire, Shogun. Wondering if those cheap like 200 dollar laptops will work for that, and if walmart is an ok place to get it, as best buy has burned me on defective electronics post 2020.
Thanks for any advice, was just going to use steam to play.
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For the games you listed, probably, yes. Anything made after 2015 or so, probably not. Anything more modern will require something near and around the $400 price point just to be acceptable.
Whatever you do, make sure it has an SSD. Any SSD will do. Do not get one with a hard drive.
2005 or so games programing went to shit. Before that you would plug in some ridiculous low res and anything would run. I used to play the equivalent of fgunz.net on something with 512mb vram and that was competitive full 3d 60fps. Before that there is ofc Quake and Doom which runs on toasters. Smh
Try a used Dell Precision series from the past 6 years. That should be roughly in that price point and will probably be an old business cast off with either decent integrated graphics or a real graphics card depending on how patient you are about waiting for a good deal. They are solidly made with aluminum cases and made to take a beating. I have a Precision I bought used from 2012 that’s still going, and just got another from 2020 for about $230 usd with shipping. Mind you this is a US perspective and I don’t know much about international markets.
Given the current price of RAM and SSDs, I don’t see how a $200 laptop is even viable to sell. Unless it is barely scraping by on specs or comes loaded with craplets and spyware.
Just doing a quick search, all I’m seeing is stuff in the $350 range with 4 or 8 GB of RAM. I’m not familiar with the genre of games you play, but I don’t think they would run well on that. Or run at all. Haven’t even looked at the gpu or cpu specs.
I would try to find something used and compare specs against the min and recommended hardware requirements for the games you play.
