Half Life 2- should I bother with present rig

TheDuke

Hi guys,

I was all excited when DooM3 came out but on then it ended up looking like a fly downing in treacle...

I have a P1.7 200Fsb, 768MB 200Mhz DDR RAM, Gainward GeForce FX 5600 333ns 256MB DirectX 9 compl - so not a great system but it is a nearly 2 1/2 years old.

Is there any point in getting HL2 or should I wait till I get my new rig in the new year... which is going to be such a beast monstours I'll have to host it in the freezer.... ...

Talk to you guys,

The Duke

feylya

Yeah, get the game, give it a go. It should run on that machine. Then play it again on your new machine

Pugsley

Your PC is a shat load better than mien and I played it no bother, go for it. (1.6 ghz athlon, 512 SD RAM, 9600 XT 128mb)

po0k

I've got a P3 800 Cu, 512Meg PC100, GF4 Ti4800 and I expect to be able to run it.
I don't expect it to look pretty, but I expec to be able to play it.

My only concern is the lack of CPU horsepower for the physics.

TheDuke

tnx guys - suppose I'll give it a shot....

with D3 the graphics made it cause the game play was sheit... but know the HL team it'll probably survive on gameplay alone...

Ivan

SyxPak wrote:

I've got a P3 800 Cu, 512Meg PC100, GF4 Ti4800 and I expect to be able to run it.
I don't expect it to look pretty, but I expec to be able to play it.

My only concern is the lack of CPU horsepower for the physics.

Aye, dont expect to be able to play HL2 DM online or even lan.
It rapes the processor something horrible

vasch_ro

there is small article in pc gamer this month about this basically it syas that
if u fiddle withe settings even d7 compliant cards should be able to run the game

Anima

Putting in "mat_dxlevel 50" makes the game think your running a directX 5 card. FPS ++ . Looks worse than quake1 but its still pretty cool.

Felstorm

Does HL2 require a graphics card with pixelshader?

walter

Felstorm wrote:

Does HL2 require a graphics card with pixelshader?

HL2 uses Pixelshader 3

tman

walter wrote:

HL2 uses Pixelshader 3

it doesn't require it though

Felstorm

So i can use a gforce 4 mx440 until i get a better card?

angelofdeath

dont expect it to play very well, that card is a dud, trust me i know, i upgraded to a 9800pro after trying doom3 on it so i doubt hl2 is going to perform any better

edit: i mean the 5600 not the gforce4 (which is probably better)

tman

angelofdeath wrote:

dont expect it to play very well, that card is a dud, trust me i know, i upgraded to a 9800pro after trying doom3 on it so i doubt hl2 is going to perform any better

edit: i mean the 5600 not the gforce4 (which is probably better)

the 5600 is miles better than the geforce4mx (bottom of the range crippled card)
get a radeon 9600 (anything other than the "se") and you should be sweet
or get a geforce 6600gt if you've got the cash to spare (radeon 9800pro has had its day tbh)

Felstorm

So itll run until i get a better card?

Asok

Yeah I'm running it on medium detail on one of those cards, it runs fine no judder or anything

calis

dont buy it m8 .. it aint gona run properly and it will annoy **** outta u.

and any game that has an install like that shud be feckin burned and banned from sale.

rise up brothers ... blow steam!!!

Stephen

keep on preaching.

The steam activation works fine for most people.

Felstorm

Im only after buying an upgrade for everything else so im saving to get a better card