HL2 requirements

[ATW]

What's with everyone in the mindset that they'll need the most sickly insane computer ever created to run Half Life 2? I've even seen numerous posts on other boards stating that if someone wants to play HL2 they'll need to purchase a 9800XT. From what I collect, low-end systems will play it fine, and it'll take a little more juice to run it with AA/AF enabled and details turned up.

[imbest123]

Well if you want to run HL2 at good resolutions with full detail and AA/AF enabled youll need a crazy video card. To just run the game all you need is like a 16mb Riva TNT2 Pro. The requirements arent high, its jus the detail that requires high end cards.

[DragonNOA1]

I've heard that having a DX9 card actually adds detail not available in lower DX cards. If I find the article I'll post it about exactly what it adds for HL2.

[coolcps]

Well for each step up in Dx you get more details in effects, I am guessing that with Dx9 cards all the new features are the standard stuff for Dx9. I should be fine with the 9800 Pro:) When I bought the card I had expected me to have been playing HL2 many times by now.:(

[ATW]

I'll probably be too busy playing BF Vietnam at 100+ fps to mess with HL2 at 15 with everything turned down anyway. :D

[CrazyMike]

Yeah, I can't wait to try Half-Life 2 on my parents Pentium II

[Jimmy White]

Anyone thinking of getting Doom 3?

[David14259]

Yeah, I'll get both....they both look excellent. Now if they'd just hurry up and get released....

[DragonNOA1]

Hopefully D3 has a good singleplayer experience... well, hopefully HL2 has a good one too... well, hopefully they both get released sometime this year!

EDIT*
coolcps, i don't mean just adding shader effects and other DX9 specific things. HL2 will know you have a higher end card, upping the detail by actually adding more detail... more vines in a pond, more decals on a building... besides all the nifty effects that come with DX9.

[Jimmy White]

I hope they come with good multiplayer aswell but ill proberly play BF vietnam online and those 2 singleplayer

[ghost2003]

My 9600se should be ok, shouldnt it? Their gonna give me HL2 free for buying it ;)

[coolcps]

Its not just based on the grfx card I think, it does a whole system diagnostic then it puts out the best graphics and performance the system can. Doesnt matter HL2 was so 6 months ago!

[ATW]

Originally posted by coolcps
it does a whole system diagnostic then it puts out the best graphics and performance the system can.

If it tested my current setup it'd probably flash "get off your broke ass and buy some parts" across the screen. :D

[CrazyMike]

Doom 3 looks good, but the requirments are probably ridiculously huge. I'll probably just get HL2.

[DragonNOA1]

In an article about HL2 it is supposed to work the best on a 3ghz ATI 9800 Pro. Anything above and beyond won't do any good except get higher frame rates. So the specs aren't all that high that no one can attain them. D3 should prolly be about the same specs. I'm sure all 2+ ghz machines will run the game just fine with a good vid card like a 9600 Pro.

[largosama]

EESh... Radeon 9000 Pro can't even run UT 2003 at highest detail properly... Theres not much hope for me.

DragonNOA1- prepare to celebrate your 1024 post!!!

[DragonNOA1]

Thanks Largosama!

[CrazyMike]

Actually I can run UT2003 on my 9000 at full graphics

[BryanMan]

will HL2 run ok on my computer?

2.66 ghz HT p4
1gb RAM
geforce fx 5600


and yeah.. gfx card not too great but i got it for free so shut up

[Spyda]

my old GF 4 Ti4200 64MB ran UT2k3 at full detail on 1024x768 res at crazy fps, you want to check you arent doing something wrong largosama

[Floppyman]

The way I look at it, if ATI is willing to bundle the game with their midgrange cards (the 9600XT for instance) then it must run fine on them. If not, what would be the point of bundling the game?

[Jester]

doom # will be bad ace. Trent Reznor did the sound track so that will add to the make you poop in your pants factor. Doom 3 is supposed to Come out with HL2 they are going to compete gee whos gonna win that one umm let me think oh yah HL2

[BryanMan]

someone answer.

i have a

2.66 ghz p4
1 gb ram
geforce fx 5600 non-ultra
48x cd rom (im not sure that matters)
and 120 gb 7200 rpm hard drive (not sure if that matters either)

so yeah, tell me if doom 3 and/or half life 2 will be able to run well with partial/ok graphical settings


thanks, Bryan

[DragonNOA1]

Yes you will have decent graphics with that setup.

[Spyda]

might have decent graphics ith high detail but downright crappy frame rates, like 9

[pam123]

Judging from what Newell said in Sept. the game will treat the 5600 as if it were a DX8.1 card.
Thus further embarassing NVidia, 2003 wasn't their year.
You'll miss some eyecandy but you'll get playable frame rates.

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

see, it makes a dif depending on wether you are addicted to the game or wether its just an "ok" game to you. if you only play it a little then i'm sure you'd be willing to make concessions on behalf of the graphics.

i dont much like half life (except cs. the god of multiplayer gaming). so i couldn't care less about how well hl2 will play on my setup

amd 2400+
256meg ram
geforce fx5200 128 mb (coming soon)

according to whats been said, i'll get crappy framerates in hl2. no biggie. maybe for doom i'd change but hl never seemed great to me

besides, i still aint beat hl yet

[Spyda]

if you dont have the fx5200 yet, i wouldnt bother getting it, save a little more for a better card, i know you said you dont care for framerates etc, but that card is dead before its taken off.

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

its on stage 2 in newegg order. i plan to try them early tomorrow to see what i can do (cancel, substitute, etc.). if i can i'll sub for a 9600se

[DragonNOA1]

just get a regular 9600, i've heard bad things about "se".

[Joeberg]

Originally posted by Floppyman
The way I look at it, if ATI is willing to bundle the game with their midgrange cards (the 9600XT for instance) then it must run fine on them. If not, what would be the point of bundling the game?

ATi is also bundling the game with the 9600 Se:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1064607240818&skuId=6035505&type=product
And as Dragon said, not many good things have been said about 'Se' cards (The ATi Equivilent to an nVidia MX card)
Quite Confusing...
Hopefully my 9600 Reg will perform well...

[largosama]

Originally posted by Spyda
my old GF 4 Ti4200 64MB ran UT2k3 at full detail on 1024x768 res at crazy fps, you want to check you arent doing something wrong largosama

Yeah.. there was something wrong.. I turned up AA and AF all the way in the ATI control panel. Now I can run it just fine, but prolly not as well as a GF4 Ti4200...
Never fear though, I'll throw a birthday party just for the money :D

[MaLfUnCtIoN]

hmmm. 9600se, eh?

[Rof_lmao]

9600 se is basically a oced 9200 pro, its liek the 9800 se, which is supposedly like the 9600....i have aslo heard that nvidia is retunning their new cards due to the bad performance they are getting on half life.... and the xt series cards also haev half-life free.... im getting teh 9800 pro, and the 9600xt for teh rig im selling to a kid(keeping the 9800, and half-life coupon) ;) :D

[largosama]

The SE series has 64 bit memory, whatever that means.

[Extremerc12]

If u've bought and ATI Radeon 9600 XT like i have it is the recommended graphics card for the full potential of hl2. Applies to 9600 se, pro and xt and then you have the 9700 and 9800 models that might improve it a bit but then again the 256 mb 9800 won't really accomplish much seeing no game need 256 mb graphics card.

[Spyda]

dont forget the FX5950 ;)

64bit memory?

my 5950 has 256bit memory, laughs all the way home

[largosama]

Oh I see... the bits thing is like the bit thing with the processors so it can transfer more data.