Free Games For Windows Vista

Im searching for first person shooting games for my windows vista and found an interesting site with list of free games, below are the list of the free games. Theres another genre too, like adventure arcade etc… for another genre, click here
America's Army - Download - Home Page - Pics - [RR]
America's Army is a freeware first person shooter based on the Unreal engine and developed by the U.S. Army. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror. The action-packed Operations portion allows up to 32 players to enter into "virtual service" with the U.S. Army on the same unit mission in. To join a multiplayer game, the players must complete the appropriate training. Gamers use realistic equipment and authentic military hardware. Borrowing a page from Army force-on-force training methods, players always perceive they are on the U.S. team.

Modes - Multiplayer, Training
Gameplay - Team Objective


Alien Arena - Download - Home Page - Pics
Alien Arena is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake II engine. This game features fast gameplay and next-generation engine features such as light bloom and reflective water. The game includes 32 maps, eight weapons (with alt-fire modes), nine player characters, mutators, built in bots, and an in-game server browser.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player (Bots)
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; All Out Assault, Cattle Prod, Deathball, Team Core Assault


AssaultCube - Download - Home Page - Pics
AssaultCube is a freeware first person shooter based on the Cube engine. It is multi-platform and low on system and networking requirements. It is set in realistic looking environments with fast and fun gameplay.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player (Bots)
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Coop Edit, Hunt the Flag, Keep the Flag, Team Keep the Flag, Last Swiss Standing, One Shot One Kill, Team One Shot One Kill, Pistol Frenzy, Survivor, Team Survivor


Cube - Download - Home Page - Pics
Cube is a freeware first person shooter built on the Cube engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, it comes with over 100 maps.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Coop Edit, Efficiency, Insta-Arena, Instagib, Tactics-Arena


Cube 2 - Sauerbraten - Download - Home Page - Pics
Cube 2 - Sauerbraten is a freeware first person shooter built as a major redesign of the original Cube Engine. Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features and eye candy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Assassin, Insta-Assassin, Capture, Insta-Capture, Regen-Capture, Coop Edit, Efficiency, Efficiency-Team, Insta-Arena, Insta-Clan-Arena, Instagib, Instagib-Team, Tactics-Arena, Tactics-Clan-Arena


D-Day: Normandy - Download - Home Page - Pics
D-Day: Normandy is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake II Engine. This is the original WWII modification of First Person Shooters. D-Day: Normandy is a stand-alone mod based upon the Quake2 engine, but includes new maps, player models, and a whole new style of game play. It is a team-based game where Allies (USA/British/Russians/Polish) battle against the enemy Axis (German and Japanese) on different maps set across the world with different climates and different terrain. Teams win a game after either collecting enough points (from taking or destroying objectives) or killing enough enemy troops. The amount of points or kills to win a game depends on which map (level) you are playing.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Team Objective


F.E.A.R. COMBAT - Download - Home Page - Pics - [RR]
F.E.A.R. Combat is a freeware first person shooter, multiplayer version of the retail game F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) based on the Lithtech Jupiter EX engine. It will allow gamers who don't own an actual boxed copy of F.E.A.R. to take on those that do online with an arsenal of 12 weapons and 19 multiplayer maps but supports the download of user-created content such as original maps and mods. It also has 10 different gameplay modes and contains the same anti-cheating software as the boxed copy of the game.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Conquer All, Control, Elimination, Team Elimination, Slowmo Capture the Flag, Slowmo Deathmatch, Slowmo Team Deathmatch


.kkrieger - Download - Home Page - Pics
.kkrieger is a freeware first person shooter that is only 96 kilobytes. The developers of the game managed to achieve a footprint so small by exploiting the Direct3D API and DLLs of the Windows operating system. It is essentially a demo showing how far the capabilities of Direct3D can be pushed with an absolute minimum amount of code.

Modes - Single-player


Legends - Download - Home Page - Pics
Legends is a freeware first person shooter based on the Torque Game engine. The game is designed to take advantage of beautiful environments while still offering the breakneck pacing and variety of styles available from such classics as Quake and Tribes. Gameplay is not the strafe-strafe-jump-strafe-shoot-strafe-run-like-hell style a lot of games espouse; the addition of a jetpack adds a third dimension of mobility that makes skill, forethought, and restraint necessities to winning. Team sizes are ideal between 10 and 15 on each side, and the network code allows 56k upwards to play smoothly.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Arena, Capture and Hold, Duel, Rabbit, War


Nexuiz - Download - Home Page - Pics
Nexuiz is a freeware first person shooter based on the Darkplaces (Quake) engine. The gameplay is with the most excessive possible speeds and weapons, giving incredibly intense fast paced action. It has 24 official maps and 15 different player models to use.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Domination, Instagib, Many Mutators, Race, Rocket Arena


OpenArena - Download - Home Page - Pics
OpenArena is a freeware first person shooter based on the ioquake3 (Quake III Arena) engine. This is essentially a fast paced version of Quake III.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player (Bots)
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Elimination, CTF Elimination, Domination, Double Domination, Last Man Standing, Tournament


Paintball 2 - Download - Home Page - Pics
Paintball 2 is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake II engine. It is an action-packed paintball shooter with a multitude of fun, a large set of paintball-pumping weapons, and hundreds of online players to play and match against. With its intense and fun gameplay, Paintball 2 has enjoyed continuing success for over ten years. New versions are constantly released with enhancements to the play, the graphics, and the overall game.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; 1-Flag Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Pong, Siege, Team Elimination


Red Alert: A Path Beyond - Download - Alt - Home Page - Pics
Red Alert: A Path Beyond is a freeware first person shooter that is a total conversion for Command & Conquer: Renegade. Now you can get into the look and sound of Red Alert with the Soviets versus the Allies. Be a shock trooper, blow up buildings as Tanya, drive a deadly demo truck, fly an Apache helicopter, sink submarines in your destroyer and more.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Team Objective


Smokin' Guns - Download - Home Page - Pics
Smokin' Guns is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake III Arena engine. It is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" great atmosphere. This total conversion includes completely new weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch; Bank Robbery, Duel Mode, Round Teamplay


Starsiege: Tribes - Download - Home Page - Pics
Starsiege: Tribes is a freeware first person shooter based on the Darkstar engine. It pits different warring tribes against each other. Use single-player training missions to develop the skills required to become veteran warriors, then join multiplayer combat between 2 to 32 players connected over the Internet or LAN on a wide variety of battlefields, fulfilling different objectives, using wide variety of weapons, armor, and equipment. Installs an AT&T icon on the desktop - delete it.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Arena, Capture and Hold, Defend and Destroy, Find and Retrieve, Practice


Tremulous - Download - Home Page - Pics
Tremulous is a freeware first person shooter based on the ioquake3 (Quake III Arena) engine. It blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more. Player advancement is different depending on which team you are on. As a human, players are rewarded with credits for each alien kill. These credits may be used to purchase new weapons and upgrades from the "Armoury". The alien team advances quite differently. Upon killing a human foe, the alien is able to evolve into a new class. The more kills gained the more powerful the classes available. The overall objective behind Tremulous is to eliminate the opposing team. This is achieved by not only killing the opposing players but also removing their ability to respawn by destroying their spawn structures.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Team Objective


Urban Terror - Download - Home Page - Pics
Urban Terror is a freeware first person shooter based on the ioquake3 (Quake III Arena) engine. The game is focused on realism with real-life weapons that have recoil, a decrease in accuracy when moving while shooting and the need to reload. The weapons and other gear that can be carried is customizable. The player's actions are limited through the use of stamina and a damage model covering various parts of the body. When wounded, players are slowed down until bandaged. The gameplay is similar to Rainbow Six and Counter-Strike but with the inclusion of strafe jumping, wall jumping, ledge climbing and power sliding.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Bomb Mode, Capture and Hold, Follow the Leader, Team Survivor


Warsow - Download - Home Page - Pics
Warsow is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake II engine. The game uses cartoon graphics with cel-shading style, mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures to achieve a unique look. The very competitive gameplay of Warsow focuses heavily on movement and trick jumping. Players use many tricks/bugs found in the Quake engine including strafe-jumping, double jumping and rocket jumping. There are also tricks like the wall jump and dash that were available in the Unreal series.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player (Bots)
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag; Clan Arena, Duel, Instagib, Race


Wolfenstein Enemy Territory - Download - Alt - Home Page - Pics
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a freeware first person shooter based on the Quake III Arena engine. It's a team game; you will win or fall along with your comrades. The only way to complete the objectives that lead to victory is by cooperation, with each player covering their teammates and using their class special abilities in concert with the others. Featuring multiplayer support for as many as 64 players, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory challenges gamers to the ultimate test of teamwork and strategy.

Modes - Multiplayer
Gameplay - Campaign, Last Man Standing, Objective, Stopwatch


World of Padman - Download - Home Page - Pics
World of Padman is a freeware first person shooter based on the ioquake3 (Quake III Arena) engine. The idea is based on the Padman comic strip for the magazine PlayStation Games. It is set in a cartoony, miniature world.

Modes - Multiplayer, Single-player (Bots)
Gameplay - Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch; Big Balloon, Capture The Lolly, Instagib, Last Pad Standing, Spray Your Color

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Do you ever wonder why your computer getting slow each time you open it? Not the speed you feel when you first bought it last year? This might be happen after you install a dozen of software and memory hunger antivirus or anti spyware.
Whatever the cause, there is several ways to help speed up your pc. Here are some tips that might increase your pc performance.

1. Delete the programs you never used.

A new desktop that you bought from your pc manufacturer usually pack with several trial version software, if you don't want it, uninstall it. This also applies to software that you install and don't use it anymore.

2. Manage programs that load at startup.

Many software you install often load at startup. You can disable it software explorer tool in Windows Defender. If don't know which program you should disable, try disable it and restart your pc, then try run the program, if your program fail to run, enable it in windows defender.
There is another way to manage program at startup, by using system configuration. Just type msconfig.exe on search bar then hit enter.

3. Defragment Your Hard drive.

I bet you already know how to this. Right click your hard drive -> properties -> tools and finally click defragment now.
Disk Defragmenter rearranges fragmented data so your hard disk can work more efficiently. Disk Defragmenter runs on a schedule, but you can also defragment your hard disk manually.

4. Clean your hard drive using disk cleanup.

If you want to reduce the number of unnecessary files on your hard disk to free up disk space and help your computer run faster, use Disk Cleanup. It removes temporary files, empties the Recycle Bin, and removes a variety of system files and other items that you no longer need.
Right click your hard drive, click properties and disk cleanup.

5. Run fewer programs at the same time.

Opening up so many programs in the same time will slow down your pc, close running program that you don't really use it.

6. Turn of visual styles.

If Windows is running slowly, you can speed it up by disabling some of its visual effects. It comes down to appearance versus performance. Would you rather have Windows run faster or look prettier? If your PC is fast enough, you don’t have to make this tradeoff, but if your computer is just barely powerful enough for Windows Vista, it can be useful to scale back on the visual bells and whistles.
You can choose which visual effects to turn off, one by one, or you can let Windows choose a bunch for you. There are 20 visual effects you can control, such as the transparent glass look, the way menus open or close, and whether shadows are displayed.

The Performance Options dialog box lets you turn on or off up to 20 visual effects
To adjust all visual effects for best performance:

1. Open Performance Information and Tools by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Performance Information and Tools.
2. Click Adjust visual effects. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3. Click the Visual Effects tab, click Adjust for best performance, and then click OK. (For a less drastic option, select Let Windows choose what’s best for my computer.)

7. Try restarting if there's a problem

This tip is simple. If your computer seems to be running slowly and closing all the currently running programs doesn't help, trying restarting your computer. Restarting can fix performance problems where the exact cause is hard to pinpoint.

8. Add more memory

This isn’t a guide to buying hardware that will speed up your computer. But no discussion of how make Windows run faster would be complete without mentioning that you should consider adding more memory to your PC.
If a computer running Windows Vista feels too slow, it’s usually because the PC doesn’t have enough memory. The most sure–fire way to speed it up is to add more.
Windows Vista can run on a PC with 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM , but it runs better with 1 gigabyte (GB). For optimal performance, boost that to 2 GB or more.
If you're going to the trouble of opening up your PC case to add more memory, you might as well boost the total to at least 2 GB. Especially if you're the sort of person who keeps a dozen e mail messages, ten browser windows, and six other programs open at once—all while instant messaging.
Another option is to boost the amount of memory by using Windows ReadyBoost. This feature allows you to use the storage space on some removable media devices, such as USB flash drives, to speed up your computer. It’s easier to plug a flash drive into a USB port than to open your PC case and plug memory modules into its motherboard.

9. Check for viruses and spyware

If your PC is running slowly, one dreaded possibility is that it might be infected with a virus or spyware. This is not as common as the other problems, but it is something to consider. Before you worry too much, check your PC using antispyware and antivirus programs.
A common symptom of a virus is a much slower-than-normal computer performance. Other signs include unexpected messages that pop up on your PC, programs that start automatically, or the sound of your hard disk constantly working.
Spyware is a type of program that is installed, usually without your knowledge, to watch your activity on the Internet. You can check for spyware with Windows Defender or other anti-spyware programs.
The best way to deal with viruses is to prevent them in the first place. Always run antivirus software and keep it up to date. Even if you take such precautions, however, it’s possible for your PC to become infected.

10. Check your computer’s speed

If you try these tips and your computer is still too slow, you might need a new PC or some hardware upgrades, such as a new hard disk, faster video card, or more memory. There’s no need to guess the speed of your computer, however. Windows provides a way to check and rate your PC’s speed with a tool called the Windows Experience Index.
The Windows Experience Index rates your computer on five key components and gives you a number for each, as well as an overall base score. This base score is only as good as your worst-performing component sub-score.
Base scores currently range from 1 to 5.9. (There is no score yet of 6.0 or higher, although Microsoft plans to raise the ratings in the future as hardware improves.) If your PC is rated lower than 2 or 3, it might be time to consider a new PC, depending on what tasks you want to do with your computer.

. Disable services you don’t need

This is the most technically advanced of all these tips. If you don’t want to mess with anything too advanced or complicated, you can skip this one.
Windows has more than 100 services running quietly in the background with names such as Network Access Protection Agent and Shell Hardware Detection. These typically launch when your computer is started and they run until your computer is shut down. Some secure Microsoft services cannot be disabled, but most others can be. Many software companies also install their own services, some of which you can disable to conserve memory and processor power.
You should not turn off a service unless you understand what it does and are confident you don’t need it. Explaining what the many services in Windows do is beyond the scope of this article, but there is plenty of information about this on various websites.

12. Check for updates from the manufacturer

Have you visited the support website of your computer manufacturer to see if the company has released any updates for your specific model? Computer makers often issue software updates for programs they shipped with a PC, especially if the PC is relatively new.
You might be surprised how much information you can find by checking with the manufacturer. If other users are reporting the same problem you are having, the manufacturer might have already issued a fix, or at least provided information about the problem.

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