Half Life 2 intended for smaller PC's my arse?!

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:13 am

My laptop's specs:

P4 w/ HyperThreading @ 2.8 GHz
512 MB DDR RAM
20 GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MB)

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:53 pm

FDSMAN wrote:I have pci express lite, agp and pci slots, which one would I use for my gfx card?

currently i'm running a sad 16 mb card... slower then the card in my dads 733 mhz machine...

I'd say pci express lite. But that's just me.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:17 pm

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MB)

*runs away screaming bloody murder* At least it isn't the 32MB variant.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:39 pm

You guys got some good com's. On my computer, say a zombie comes, SLOWLY, then freeze, two seconds later, I HAVE 10 LIFE, HE TOOK 90% in two frame hiccuped seconds. Weird. The gravity gun even lags, and that's the best part

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:44 pm

Interesting...I'm running off an ATI Sapphire Radeon 256mb video card, 2.0GB or DDR RAM PC3200 400mhz, and a P4 2.8Ghz Processor...the game runs fine for me...oh well

The cheapest I've ran that game off of was a Celeron 2.0 Processer, 512mb ram and 128mb video card. Terrible playing Doom 3 (lagged a lot but took the fun away from the zombies jumpping out) but HL2 ran "okay" i would say. The celeron was what killed me...that and the fact it was an HP machine.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:20 pm

LOL, flaming HP

You should have gotten a Dell

Anyway, a Celeron 2.0 would work in most cases just as well as any other processor. The video card would be the problem in your your case. Also, notice that video memory has less to do with performance than other characteristics.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:36 pm

I dont think Celeron were ever good for things like gaming. That class only has a 256kB L2 cache. Having atleast a 512kB L2 is best.

Now Via's C3 is a clone/compatible version of the PIII. Its not bad but if you want to run modern games a P4 1.0GHz would be best, you'll need the extra power for the advanced game physics and videos (like Mpeg2).

As for the graphics cards.... 32 or 64MB? Come-on do those cards even support 3D acceleration or redering? I think a 128MB is bare minimum, and I havent played any really new game somthing like the card I have (Radion 9200) should handle it at lowend setup.

Post by **Triton** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:56 pm

i was playng doom 3 on a GeForce 2 MX100/200 32mb gfx card at a solid 30-40 fps PWNED, (mostly all low settings tho)my monitor is really dark so it was hard to see tho even with ingame brightness cranked all the way up

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:26 pm

Lots of 64mb video cards out there have 3d support...same with 32mb cards. Just need to look around!

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:57 pm

totokan wrote:
FDSMAN wrote:I have pci express lite, agp and pci slots, which one would I use for my gfx card?

currently i'm running a sad 16 mb card... slower then the card in my dads 733 mhz machine...
I'd say pci express lite. But that's just me.

Definatly PCI-E unless you cant afford a card for it, then you should get something in AGP might i suggest a BFG Nvidia Ge-force FX 5500 OC AGP 8X
it's not to expensive, like 100 bucks at wal mart(ME NO LIKE WAL MART FOR ELECTRONICS!) but newegg or ebay would have it for less. I have a lot of upgrading to do to my compy. im gettin a new mother board and stuff, with PCI-E and a geforce 6600GT

Sparkfist wrote:As for the graphics cards.... 32 or 64MB? Come-on do those cards even support 3D acceleration or redering? I think a 128MB is bare minimum, and I havent played any really new game somthing like the card I have (Radion 9200) should handle it at lowend setup.

heck I have a 32 mb AGP8x gfx card in my old computer that runs Halo just fine, its a pretty punishing game to a gfx card.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:09 pm

teraflop122 wrote:
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MB)
*runs away screaming bloody murder* At least it isn't the 32MB variant.

What was I supposed to get?!

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:29 pm

I'm just having 3vil flashbacks (Everquest II TRYING to run on FX5200 32MB)

Heck, even 8MB cards support 3D acceleration and rendering! Video memory has comparatively little to do with performance. If you gave a Radeon 9800 only 64MB, it would still obliterate a 256MB Radeon 9600.

Raise your hand if you just bought all the components for a decent gaming PC for only 224 dollars off newegg!!!

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:49 pm

i'm going to buy a eVGA NVIDIA e-GeForce FX 5500 256 MB,128 bit DDR AGP 8 X VGA/DVI/TV video card
256-A8N313-LX

hope hl2 will run smoothly on it

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:05 pm

it should, but HL2 it was designed for ati cards so it might not perform as well as it could. I HATE ATI CARDS!!! I had an ati card that went out for no good reason within the first 3 months of having it, and i have a friend who had an ati card that went out within the first year that he had it. I have an old compy that we have had for 5 years and it's got an Nvidia TNT2 32mb card in it that has been nothing but good to us. (by the way thats not the computer i use, i have a brand one year old new one) ok maybe its not brand new but it's good.