Anyone playing HL2 on a GF3 ?

[DT4K]

It will be awhile before I have cash to upgrade my PC. Any extra money right now is going towards christmas presents for my kids.
I have:
XP 1700+
GF 3 Ti 200
512 MB PC 2100

I know I won't be able to run HL2 with high settings, but I'd like to know if anyone has been able to run it with playable frame rates on a similar system. If so, how low did you have to go with resolution and settings?

 

[Lonyo]

It works on a Kyro 2, it will work on a GF3.
It won't look all that pretty though (DX8 AFAIK), but will still look fairly good.
800x600 with medium details at a guess.

 

[Maverick2002]

funny, I have only a slightly better setup:

gf3 ti200 stock
xp 1700+ @ 2500+
1024mb pc3200 stock

my copy of hl2 is still on order, but I played cs:s beta, and it's playable. forget aa or af. 800x600 is your best bet for around 30fps (just an estimate mind you). hell, I played doom3 on this setup, and it wasn't pretty but it ran.

 

[DT4K]

Jedi Knight II works on my K6-2 380 / Voodoo 3 system.
That doesn't mean it's worth playing though. 😀

I'm sure HL2 will run on my system, I'm just hoping to get a first hand opinion from someone with a similar system on how playable it is.

 

[Maverick2002]

Although technically hl2 isn't as demanding as Doom3, when I played cs:s it seemed to run slower than doom3 (and no it wasn't the lag, especially not when your hdd starts caching like crazy).

I believe this is due to HL2 using DirectX unlike Doom3 which uses OpenGL (which NVIDIA cards are especially proficient with). Meaning ... I'm playing HL2 on my ATI 9600XT notebook.

 

[PrayForDeath]

800x600 medium to high settings over 30 FPS is my guess (1024x768 is possible with some FPS sacrifice), Half-Life 2 is very friendly with dated PCs, it runs well on the 4 years old GeForce 2 pro, so why not on a GeForce 3?

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: PrayForDeath
800x600 medium to high settings over 30 FPS is my guess (1024x768 is possible with some FPS sacrifice), Half-Life 2 is very friendly with dated PCs, it runs well on the 4 years old GeForce 2 pro, so why not on a GeForce 3?

Do you have any benches or first hand experience that tells you this is true?

I know there has been a lot of talk about how scalable HL2 is, but I haven't seen any concrete evidence that this is true.

I dl'ed the Doom 3 demo and it ran like crap on my system. I didn't bench it, but I'd guess I got 5-10 fps at 640x480 with lowest details. Definitely not what I would call playable.

Maverick, if you could let me know how it runs when you get your copy, that would be great.

I just figure if it's going to run crappy, I might as well wait a few months until I can upgrade. By then HL2 should be a bit cheaper too.

 

[Maverick2002]

Will do. CS:S still used the same engine though and it was playable, just not nearly as good as it was meant to be. Again, you should be able to do 800x600 medium settings without any aa/af just fine. I'm sure you could also squeeze out some FPS by overclocking the cpu and/or the vid card. What stepping is your CPU? JIUHB? Those OC like a mother .. I got about a 400mhz OC on mine just by upping the FSB to 166mhz; still at stock voltage (1.5v) with mediocre cooling.

 

[DT4K]

I don't know what the stepping is. It's an older core. I bought it almost 2 years ago. I did have about a 10% FSB OC going (133 to 145), but rolled it back to default because I didn't see much performance difference in the games I played. I've also had my Ti200 running at Ti500 speeds but again, didn't really have the need for it in the games I was playing and my case temps were getting a little high.

 

[kurt454]

I have played HL2 on a machine running a Radeon 9000 non pro. I ran it at 1024x768 with low textures, or 800x600 with medium, and it had good framerates. A GF3 should be a little faster than my little Radeon.