My question is basically the title. Is that even possible? I have a pretty modest, old PC here at home that doesn’t have a graphics card, but it handles everything else we do day to day just fine. Word, Excel, internet, email, YouTube, all without freezing. I’ve always wondered if there was a way to play some old game on it. And today I saw an old Samsung phone running GTA San Andreas smoothly, so I didn’t understand why it wouldn’t run on my old PC. I don’t really know its specs and I have no idea where to check that. All I know is that it’s old. We bought everything in 2015, brand new at the time and without a graphics card.
Several factors. The most obvious one is that a modern phone, because it runs the Linux-based Android system, is lighter than Windows; in other words, even if both have 4GB of RAM, the phone still comes out ahead. Another point: current mobile processors totally outclass an Intel Pentium, which is another advantage compared to an old PC; one more: a phone’s resolution is lower than a monitor’s, meaning fewer pixels rendered on screen = more FPS. If you set the game to 800x600 or 640x480, for example, it will run much smoother than at 1920x1080 or 1366x768.
It’s not just the video card, but several other factors. If you can, add more RAM or change the processor — that’s what really makes a difference. Just so you have an idea, the Xbox One and PS4 have 1GB of VRAM, which is the video memory; in other words, these consoles are equivalent to having a video card with 1GB.
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