Half life 2 performance data avaliable?

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: squidman

Originally posted by: BoomAM

Originally posted by: squidman
In 2 weeks we are getting HL 2, so ill try out on both my PC's and tell u how it goes.

2 Weeks? Dude, you in dream land. It doesnt get released till September 30th.

Haha! in US it doesnt get released until then. In germany - the 0.3x version is already in press. Our distributors machines are located thereabout too, and are already in press as well. +1-3 weeks for transportation and we get a "pre-release"

so you will have a prebeta...so what? I gurantee I'll be able to find the same thing for download around the net

 

[BFG10K]

I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.

As for the E3 hardware it was definitely a 9800 Pro and probably a 3 GHz P4 as well.

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.

Good thing Carmack can't touch Valve's gameplay. 🙂 I'll take HL1 over any version of Quake, Doom, whatever. Anytime!

 

[FearoftheNight]

carmack + valve = unstoppable team?

 

[boran]

naah they would hold mass fights wether to go for gameplay or visuals 😉

the halflife engine (a modefied quake1 engine) is still one of the most used ones in existence in online gaming (Counterstrike, DoD, TFC, FA, etc) and offers many singleplayer mods, the $50 I spent on halflife here were the best money I ever spent on a game ever.

I have no idea how old it is, but I kno it's counting in over 2 years now. while the visuals might definetly not be up to par, they suffice, and they are not cluttred, hard to explain if you never have played TFC or CS or something like that.

 

[timmyG]

Originally posted by: boran
naah they would hold mass fights wether to go for gameplay or visuals 😉

the halflife engine (a modefied quake1 engine) is still one of the most used ones in existence in online gaming (Counterstrike, DoD, TFC, FA, etc) and offers many singleplayer mods, the $50 I spent on halflife here were the best money I ever spent on a game ever.

I have no idea how old it is, but I kno it's counting in over 2 years now. while the visuals might definetly not be up to par, they suffice, and they are not cluttred, hard to explain if you never have played TFC or CS or something like that.

way over 2 years. the game was released in 98 i think.

 

[gramboh]

Haha who is this guy lying about getting HL2. There have been no alpha leaks and there likely won't be -- Valve is being extra careful after what happened with Doom 3. Dream on buddy.

 

[GaryShandling]

What are you talking about, half life 2 is already out in the united kingdom. I purchased it 2 days ago from this online shop. I recieved it today, click on the link if you dont believe me.

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.

As for the E3 hardware it was definitely a 9800 Pro and probably a 3 GHz P4 as well.

From the visuals I have seen, HL2 looks superior...

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: Bonesdad

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I'm guessing that it'll require about the same level of hardware as Doom 3 does. It might not have the same levels of visuals but Valve can't match Carmack's coding skills.

As for the E3 hardware it was definitely a 9800 Pro and probably a 3 GHz P4 as well.

From the visuals I have seen, HL2 looks superior...

I agree. Doom3 uses various bump mapping techniques to get its fancy visuals, the textures in game are crap. HL2, from what ive seen has some nice high res textures.

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

Originally posted by: boran
naah they would hold mass fights wether to go for gameplay or visuals 😉

the halflife engine (a modefied quake1 engine) is still one of the most used ones in existence in online gaming (Counterstrike, DoD, TFC, FA, etc) and offers many singleplayer mods, the $50 I spent on halflife here were the best money I ever spent on a game ever.

I have no idea how old it is, but I kno it's counting in over 2 years now. while the visuals might definetly not be up to par, they suffice, and they are not cluttred, hard to explain if you never have played TFC or CS or something like that.

FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.

 

[Texter]

I thought H-L2 at E3 was run with a prototype Radeon 9800 with a 256 MB DDR2-module on it. And it didn't run THAT well (detail at max 6x FSAA and all)...whatever I'll see it when it comes out. I'll even buy it...98 days left...

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.

I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: Texter
I thought H-L2 at E3 was run with a prototype Radeon 9800 with a 256 MB DDR2-module on it. And it didn't run THAT well (detail at max 6x FSAA and all)...whatever I'll see it when it comes out. I'll even buy it...98 days left...

It did run on a 9800pro 256mb.
Have you even seen the videos of HL2 at E3? I hardly call that running badly do you? It was smooth through out.

 

[EdipisReks]

Originally posted by: BoomAM

Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.

I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.

it was more quake2 than it was quake1.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: EdipisReks
it was more quake2 than it was quake1.

I think it was a similar situation to the DeusEx2 thing. The renderer and sound systems in quake1 were completly re-written to cater for Valves needs, but the other stuff was still intact, such as the net code, and control interface.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: EdipisReks

Originally posted by: BoomAM

Originally posted by: TheInvincibleMustard
FYI it uses the Quake 2 engine, and was released in 1998.

I thought that a while ago, but i found out that it actually uses a heavily modified quake1 engine.

it was more quake2 than it was quake1.

How many times are we going to have to argue about this? Its been 4.5 years since the damn game came out and people still think Quake2 played any part in the game's inception. There was never a license for the Quake2 engine. The current rumour says there was a section of code that wasn't working properly from the Quake1 source that was fixed in Quake2. John Carmack snipped the function from the Quake2 engine and sent it to Valve as a patch.

HL used a heavily modified version of the Quake1 engine. Period.