Half life 2 requirements

[otispunkmeyer]

i hear the boys who is making that peach of a game half life 2 are expecting that a 700mhz, 128mb ram, DX6 "crap"-ics card machine will play Half life 2. and after watchin the juicy 600mb vid i doubt that very much. if you listen closely u can hear the commentator explain how the effects in the game have been made possible by the radeon 9800pro.

hmmm

my reliant robbin 3 wheeler of a system down stairs is only 50mhz shy of their minimum specs, that thing cant even muster 1000 3d 2001 marks its that cak. it scored only 650!!!!!
i guess the CPU would simply melt and dribble out the bottom of the case the minute it tried to process some of the source engines code!!.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Well it's possible. All of those effects made possible by new hardware just wont be used. That will free up alot of resources. Add a lower resolution, less detailed textures and lowered standard effects and you have freed up ALOT of resources making the game playeable. Remember that it's always possible to run quake 3 so that it looks terrible compared to quake1.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Can't believe the number of people who don't understand that system requirements is meant to mean "this is what you'll need to run the game, not pretty but run it none the less." I know I shouldn't let it get to me but I'm getting disturbed by the ammount of people who believe you'll need an impossibly fast system to run new games at all. Well at least companies like intel and amd and nvidia and ati seemingly have done something right making all these people think they need to spend $1000-$2000 just to play someone's $50 game. Well game developers are obviously aware that only about 1% of gamers have the highest end cards out there, and therefore need to program the game to run under circumstances where they can make money, and that means they'll have to find some way to include the other 99%...

Hell, isn't HL2 supposed to end up on the Xbox? That means 733Mhz Celeron with a "GF3" and 64MB of system ram is enough to play the game (even though the Xbox version will probably still look very nice with it being optimized specifically for such hardware), doesn't mean that a PC system with similar specs won't be able to run HL2 at all, oh it will run, but around 800x600 or so with details kept down low obviously. Some people simply can't afford to spend hundreds just to enjoy some single player gaming (and there are people out there that could "enjoy" it)

What they need to do to shut up some of these saps is make "minimum" requirements (what the game will run at bare minimum) and recomended requirements (what the game will run on with out making sacrifices), maybe that would calm some people down who get overly excited when they feel their beliefs have been questioned when their idolized game can supposedly run on inferior hardware.

 

[videoclone]

i'm going to try running it on a Pentium 266 🙂