Half Life 2: Video Card and Driver Performance Revealed

Danhill · Nov 18, 2004, 07:01 AM

Half Life 2 has arrived! Yes early this morning Steam authentication was activated, and we finally have access to the long awaited game. Sure there are questions about gameplay, but what about performance? We had a first glimpse at Valve's Source Engine performance when Counter-Strike was updated. Back then we ran the game through plenty of testing on several video cards. This was great, but we were itching to get the real deal and bench it to our hearts content. To up the ante we moved from AGP cards to PCI Express cards based on Nvidia and ATI chipsets using the new nForce 4 Ultra chipset.

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tazdevl · Nov 18, 2004, 04:29 PM

These guys should stay away from video card reviews. Half Life 2 writeup was even worse.

Nov 18, 2004, 07:01 AM	#1
Danhill DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 4,112 Rep Power: 0	Half Life 2: Video Card and Driver Performance Revealed Half Life 2 has arrived! Yes early this morning Steam authentication was activated, and we finally have access to the long awaited game. Sure there are questions about gameplay, but what about performance? We had a first glimpse at Valve's Source Engine performance when Counter-Strike was updated. Back then we ran the game through plenty of testing on several video cards. This was great, but we were itching to get the real deal and bench it to our hearts content. To up the ante we moved from AGP cards to PCI Express cards based on Nvidia and ATI chipsets using the new nForce 4 Ultra chipset. Read more: Amdzone __________________ MOBO: [color=white]ASUS A8N-SLI Premium[/color] CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (Venice) @ 2,50 Ghz MEM: 2 x 512 DDR 466, VGA: 2 x 6600 GT in SLI, HDD1: WD Raptor HDD2: Maxtor Diamond Plus 9, Case: Antec Plus View 1080, PSU: ThermalTake PurePower 500W, MX 1000, Dell 2001 FP, Aud. 2 SZ

Nov 18, 2004, 04:29 PM	#2
tazdevl DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2002 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 310 Rep Power: 0	These guys should stay away from video card reviews. Half Life 2 writeup was even worse. __________________ RIG: P4 2.6C, Thermalright SP94/Panaflo 92MM M1A, IC7 Max3, Swifty MCX159, 1GB Geil PC4000 Ultra Plat, Modded Radeon 8500, Audigy 2, 2X WD Raptor RAID 0, WD 250GB SE, Plex 708A, 166SDVD, LianLi PC75, WinXP Pro SP1, Z680's. Last edited by tazdevl; Nov 18, 2004 at 04:36 PM.