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Posted by OtZman on Fri Jan 23rd at 7:06pm 2004

What's the system requirements for HL2? Where can I find a good "tester" or something to test my computer? I plan to buy a new graphic card... do you think a Radeon 9600 XT will be enough?

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Posted by azelito on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:11pm 2004

Hahaha, yes.

They said it would run absolutely fine on a GF2.

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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:11pm 2004

If you are buying it for HL2, why not wait till the game is out. Then you will be able to see benchmarks of the game with the revised code, and something like a 9600XT will probably be cheaper by the time HL2 is out as well. There are some benchmarks of the 9600 in HL2 at: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863 but bear in mind that the game is supposedly being recoded, so the results may no longer be 100% accurate.



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Posted by matt on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:19pm 2004

I have GF2, so it had better. [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:25pm 2004

watch, I bet HL2 is delayed because Microsoft bought it exclusive for the X-Box



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Posted by Vash on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:26pm 2004

? posted by Jinx
watch, I bet HL2 is delayed because Microsoft bought it exclusive for the X-Box

Or ninjas threatend to cut off pieces of Newell's bacon fat if he didnt delay it more.

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:35pm 2004

Will there ever be a thread related to Valve without an obese joke?

I think they released the minimum specs a while back, but this is purely minimum. A safe bet is that if Unreal 2 runs on your computer, Half-Life 2 will run on it as well. [addsig]



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Posted by Vash on Fri Jan 23rd at 9:54pm 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype
Will there ever be a thread related to Valve without an obese joke?

I think they released the minimum specs a while back, but this is purely minimum. A safe bet is that if Unreal 2 runs on your computer, Half-Life 2 will run on it as well.

Yes, if Gabe newell did his job.

cant hold back..NEWELL IS FAT!!!!

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Posted by Jinx on Fri Jan 23rd at 11:13pm 2004

I think the best was on the AHL boards, just after the HL2 code etc. was stolen. Someone said something along these lines:

That sizzling sound you hear is Gabe Newell burning off his rolls of fat through the sheer force of hate.

Fat jokes are really cruel. Is that why they are so goddamn funny? I know I'm being a complete asshole but I just can't stop myself





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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Jan 24th at 12:42am 2004

It's like dead baby jokes. You know you shouldn't laugh at them, but you can't help yourself sometimes. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sat Jan 24th at 1:08am 2004

Fat jokes are a bit too 11 year old. [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Sat Jan 24th at 1:56am 2004

fetus handpuppets would rule!





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Posted by Leperous on Sat Jan 24th at 2:18am 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Fat jokes are a bit too 11 year old.

Agreed, fetal humour is a bit more mature though





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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sat Jan 24th at 2:21am 2004

My two favourites:

? quote:

What's the difference between a garage full of dead babies and a porsche?

... I don't have a porsche


? quote:

If a tree falls in the woods and lands on a baby, but nobody sees, is it still hilarious?
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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 24th at 4:05am 2004

like the maps that are with the alpha doom3 thingy, i am assuming the alpha HL2 thingy will/IS similar.

what i am saying is, the maps are prolly not optimized very well, so it takes more to run them.

with that said, the maps that are with the alpha HL2 run for the most part, very well with a 2.6 celeron, and 384 megs of ram and a radeon 9000/64 meg card.

system specs will play a part in the playability of this game i am betting. if you have an elcheapo mobo and a great card, you will be no further ahead than having a great mobo and an elcheapo card.

IMO nothing less than a 2.0 something and at least an AGP 64 meg card is going to run this game upon release.

some of the maps are on par with unreal 2's in shear size, now imagine an engine, NOT AS GOOD running maps that large.

before you complain about the HL2 comparison i just made with U2, remember this, you cannot compare an alpha to a completed version, so at this point its all conjecture.

IMO HL2 is going to rock the house, but it will take a bigger pc than it took to get U2 to run smoothly.

/ 2 cents

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Posted by Jinx on Sat Jan 24th at 8:39am 2004

sadly Unreal 2 was kinda like a supermodel- it looked hot, but it didn't have much going on upstairs. the -demo- was so boring I barely finished it. I mean, it wasn't really bad, just... not that interesting? From what I heard the rest of the game was about the same.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 24th at 9:50am 2004

what U2 lacked in content, it more than made up with the factor.

if anyone is interested, i can show some screens of the "American Army" game, it shows what the unreal engine can really do.

or i can just look at them myself

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Jan 24th at 10:20am 2004

If you have a GF2, then HL2 will run, it will just be using the DX7 rendering path, so everything won't look as nice. Even if you have a GF4, it will only be using the DX8 path, and so won't have all the graphical 'wow'-ness that you will get on a DX9 card, e.g. radeon 9600/9880 or GF FX. There will be a huge difference looks wise between a PC that can 'just' run the game, and one with a DX9 card.



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jan 24th at 11:18am 2004

....or you could run in OpenGL.... why is everyone neglecting this factor? Is it because most of the community uses DirectX for their video modes more often? or what?

However, Jeff is right that it wont look as nice, simply because anything before the FX in nVidias line don't have pixel shaders (It's just a register). And if I'm not mistaken they were scarce in ATI's until the 9600? I could be completly wrong though (probably am). [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sat Jan 24th at 11:44am 2004

? posted by Crono
....or you could run in OpenGL.... why is everyone neglecting this factor? Is it because most of the community uses DirectX for their video modes more often? or what?

Maybe it's because HL2 is supposed to run only in DirectX?






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