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I've bought about 4 PC video games in my entire life. I'm about to take delivery of my new computer, a Fujitsu LifeBook T4210 notebook. It's a Tablet PC convertible. Its video controller is the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, which has up to 224 MB of dynamically allocated system memory.

I want to buy a few games for it. I need suggestions about what are the best games I can run in a few categories. I realize that I may be stuck running 2 or 3 year old games. Fine, but what are the best games I can run?

(1) Race car games. No oval track only games. Looking for realistic physics mostly.

(2) First person shooters. Some (which?) version of Half-Life or Doom, maybe?

(3) Dog fighting (airplanes not canines). Are there any simple dog fighting games, games where all you have to need to know is stick left-right to bank, forward-back to change pitch, throttle to change speed? No full-blown flight simulators.

(4) MS Flight Simulator.

Anybody able to give me some quick suggestions? Also, any suggestions about what (cheap) joystick/throttle and steering/pedal setups to get?

Thanks, guys.