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Old Jul 12, 2004, 07:45 PM   #1
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Half-Life 2 specs revealed
Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed the hardware requirements for Half-Life 2, ahead of the game's expected late summer release.

Taking time out to post on HL2Fallout's forums last week, Newell said that the minimum spec would be a 1.2GHz powered PC with 256MB RAM, Win 98/ME/2000/XP and a DirectX 7 compatible graphics card.

But for those who want to see the game running in all its glory, be prepared to spec up to around a 2.4 GHz machine, with 512MB RAM, Windows 2000/XP and a DirectX 9 capable graphics card.

This will come as a relief to many PC gamers used to games requiring specs well out of reach, although in this case the graphics card will be the key component to consider when getting your machine back in shape. Our machine hasn't seen a great deal of gaming action so far this year, but we're happy to report it's fighting fit and ready for a slew of hi spec FPSs to finally make use of its expensive innards.

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Old Jul 12, 2004, 08:10 PM   #2
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Well i feel sceptic
I remember all these trailers and i finished Far Cry too...
So i know that running FC at Very High level without AA and AF low is not so bad,
but i'm sure that HL2 will be more hungry than FC
I doubt to be able to run it with all settings to the max with my actual rig...
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Hey at least the coding is optimized for DX9 cards this time
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Phew... this is good news, I was hoping that I wouldnt have to fork out more brass for a new garphics card. Looks like my 9800 PRO will be sufficient.
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Well i feel sceptic
I remember all these trailers and i finished Far Cry too...
So i know that running FC at Very High level without AA and AF low is not so bad,
but i'm sure that HL2 will be more hungry than FC
I doubt to be able to run it with all settings to the max with my actual rig...
What is your rig?
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Old Jul 13, 2004, 02:11 AM   #6
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Well i wont be upgrading my machine any time sooner, it ran FC pretty good, my 9700Pro still gives a good fight so no upgrade for me.
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my 9700Pro still gives a good fight so no upgrade for me.
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I think they need to release some more HL2 benchmarks like they did to certain websites to test last year. That way we can see how the new video cards on the market perform against the older ones, and also whether or not there's been any code optimization in the last year.
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I bet it won't need a gig of ram to run smoothly like FarCry with any amount of IQ settings cranked up. I know how my system ran the "alpha"- it was playable, but at least an OC'ed 9700pro is a must, anything less will be very slow unless you lower all IQ settings and turn AA/AF off.
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i wonder if my 9600 SE can take it
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i think the engine will be better then FC when it comes to eye candy and performance.... well I hope doom3 on the other hand looks like it wont run on any machine
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i think the engine will be better then FC when it comes to eye candy and performance.... well I hope doom3 on the other hand looks like it wont run on any machine
I think Doom III will NEED 1 gig of ram on many levels, some may be able to get by with 512 or 768, but I'm sure turning off the eye candy will allow almost anyone to run either games.... they just won;t look amazing like they will on a bran new shinny x800xt pe, that I was sure I was going to win in that contest....
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oh - oh well i usually don't turn that stuff on anyway
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