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Old 11-21-2004, 10:12 PM   #1
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Half Life 2

I am thinking about getting Half Life 2. Just wondering - will my hardware still be sufficient or would it be a waste buying the game?

I got the following system specs.

AMD XP 1800+
1 GB DDR Ram
Geforce 3 with 64 megs of RAM
80 GB IDE HD w. 8 megs Cache
Dell LCD 17" Monitor

What do you guys think? Sufficient enough or would it be a pain playing on this system

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Old 11-21-2004, 10:37 PM   #2
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Minimum System Configuration

* 1.2 GHz Processor
* 256MB RAM
* DirectX 7 capable graphics card
* Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
* Mouse
* Keyboard
* Internet Connection


Preferred System Configuration

* 2.4 GHz Processor
* 512MB RAM
* DirectX 9 capable graphics card
* Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
* Mouse
* Keyboard
* Internet Connection

Your video card would have trouble running it, your CPU should be powerful enough but I dont know how well it would run it. Maybe on low settings it would work.
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Old 11-22-2004, 12:00 AM   #3
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Plz upgrade so as to fully enjoy your experience, thanks.
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Old 11-22-2004, 12:08 AM   #4
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You have everything fine except the graphics card - you might consider a single upgrade on that so you can enjoy HL2. I would suggest any budget above 70 USD to upgrade to something sufficient.

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