will my sh*tty pc run it?

i think nope

Er, very unlikely. Just get a new rig

Check this for a cheap build.

Or, if you're even cheaper than that, check this.

definitely not unless you like playing lower than 800x600 res on a mega tiny windowed screen

the games should be alright as they did come out some years ago

if you meet the system req usually you are fine

You can try this

No way in hell.

Nope, don't think it'll even run smoothly at the lowest settings.

No way it will run, I'm on an i3 # 3.3 ghz, 4 gb ram, GTX 550 Ti 1 gb and it runs KINDA OK on medium.

Don't risk wasting your money, I doubt those games would even run on that computer, and even if they did, they would definitely not be playable by any stretch.

I don't think it will, but if available download a demo or even pirate it to try it out, if it runs ok but it if you want to. I'm not gonna go around telling you what to do, but regardless on how you feel about piracy, you can use it to try out the game that doesn't have a demo.

Don't buy it. It's better to save your money to get a decent rig.

Just going to say that I played Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider 2013 on a similar laptop. At something like 800*1024, around 13-20 FPS. I had to tone down the post processing, and textures and models were set to low-mid. So it's possible, but only if you can bear that sort of number. I'm used to it though.
TR2013 is the only Square Enix PC game I've played, but I assume they use the same in-house engine for their games, apart from yearly improvements? So I'm assuming Thief won't be too different to Tomb Raider.
My experience though. I don't know if you'll enjoy the same performance I did.

That's hardly playing, I'd rather stick to older games than suffer through this.

No not at all sorry

Can't think of anything modern worth playing that would run on a single-core processor :/

Other than praying to the machine spirit, can't see what you could do.

wait...you said turn off explorer.exe? pretty sure it doesn't work that way if you meant the windows component and not IE

The way you'd have to play this game would make it basically pointless, I doubt you'd get any enjoyment from playing at a super low resolution while still having to suffer through terrible FPS (anything below 29 is basically like watching a flip book that skips half the pages).

I suggest you play some older games, like some of the source mods here on Steam, until you can afford some better hardware.

I also recommend playing some indie games, there are A LOT of great ones out there that can run on basically any machine and they're pretty cheap.

FTL: Faster Than Light, being one of my favorites, when I first got it I was running a Core2 Duo (2.2ghz), 4GB RAM and an Intel integrated GMA4500 and the game ran like butter!

upgrade instead of getting more games

if you upgrade your rig you probably get those games for free with your new graphic card lol.

Well, there is always an option to torrent it, and try it out. If it doesn't run, obviously don't buy it :)

No you can not, having just 256 RAM for the Video Card, you will not be able to run and play it at low settings. + very slow processor + low memory, dont buy now if you want to play now, save your gmg credit...

Try this on games you want: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

Not gonna happen, sorry.
Those specs are incredible though. Makes me nostalgic :D
I have a very old laptop with 64 MB Video Ram. It can run Windows XP, but that's about it. It even lags when playing Half-Life xD