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    Old 28-08-2003, 11:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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    Question HL2 - Spec Req ?
    Hey All

    I was looking at some screen shots of Half-Life 2 the other day and noticed that the graphics quality seems to be a whole lot better than HL 1
    What kind of system spec do you think will be needed to run this game at a healthy speed ?

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    Old 29-08-2003, 01:43 AM   #2 (permalink)
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    486, 2meg RAM, 50meg HD space should do it.


    Seriously though, a PC above 1gighz should manage to do it on low settings provided its a "ok" graphics card as an educated guess.
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    Old 29-08-2003, 02:14 AM   #3 (permalink)
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    As I understand it the absolute base gfx card is a TNT2! That will be with all special effects gubbins off and is likely to look pretty average as you can imagine. All the latest options should be in the game though so those with V8-powered graphics and thermo-nuclear CPUs should definitely see the benefits.

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    Old 08-09-2003, 07:18 PM   #4 (permalink)
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    yer there trying to make it work properly on as many possible poor systems as possible. i guess they will clean up that way.
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    Old 08-09-2003, 07:43 PM   #5 (permalink)
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    Safe system would be...

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    I've heard they were aiming for a PIII 700 for the CPU side of things.

    Not sure about the other components though...
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    there was a webpage somewhere which listed what would be shown for different graphics cards (eg tnt2 / geforce2 / gf3 or 4 or raddy 8500 / raddy9800pro

    i'll see if its in my history, if not a google will sort things out

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    Old 08-09-2003, 08:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
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    yep, lets hope they can hold this release date tightly.
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    is ATI really going to bunfle HL2 together with their furture cards ?
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    I cant see HL2 being bundled with graphics cards so soon. I'd be VERY surprised if that was true.
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    would be a good marketting strategy though
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    They are going to, a mate on msn told me earlier, supposedly a massive rush to try and get more top end cards sold.
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    Originally posted by garath
    is ATI really going to bunfle HL2 together with their furture cards ?
    afaik yes. theinq had a news post about the 7 figure sum that ATi handed to valve to optomise HL2 with 9800's

    Lucky I went ATi over nvidia when building this box
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    time to switch frm nvidia to ati i guess, more money spent again !
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    is all this taking manufacturers sides really fair? there basicly screwing people with nvidia over imho.
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    HardOCP have a quick news item regarding HL2 included benchmarking. Sounds like it will allow people to see how well the game will run :

    "...it looks as though we are going to have one hell of a benchmark based on Half Life 2...and possibly soon. "

    from : http://www.hardocp.com/
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