I thought my GeForce 9800GT going up the creek was 100% a bad thing, but maybe not quite so much – with the very basic backup GPU on the motherboard, I can only run graphically very simple or old games. However I’ve realised that this is the ideal opportunity to do something I’ve been meaning to for a while – catch up on the golden era adventure games that I never got round to playing – starting with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis , and Loom (I know, I know… how can I have never played these before?!) . I’ve also discovered that Machinarium still plays quite happily, so I’ll give that another go. On Steam there’s a LucasArts pack with both of those games plus The Dig (which I already have, but it was still cheaper getting the pack of 4 games than 3 of them individually) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (which I’ve played, but many years ago) for just £6.99 – for the hours of playing time, that just has to be a bargain. And my broken computer can still run them without difficulty!!! The only thing with the classic LucasArts games is that I can’t seem to fullscreen them – anyone know how you do that? Alt-Enter makes it fullscreen but the actual game graphics remain at 640*480 resolution. (Still beautiful, whatever anyone says!) If there isn’t a solution to that I guess I can just reduce the desktop resolution before I start playing it. PC Game Reviews and News
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Broken GPU means MORE RETRO ADVENTURE GAMING!
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