For those of you that don't already have this great game, you may want to hold back on upgrading your system. All I can say is, WOW. After playing Halo 2 and being less than completely blown away, this game feels right, like it is a complete package. I just recently purchased parts for a new PC 
. I still haven't gotten everything yet, so I figured i'd load it up on my "old" rig:
P4 2.26
Via P400 MB
1 GB 2700 RAM(cheap Kingston ValueRam)
Geforce 4 Ti4400
I couldn't believe how well Half Life 2 ran on this rig. I am getting around 50-60 fps at 1024x768(Counter strike source video test shows 58 fps average), all graphics options are at their highest except Anti-Aliasing(set to none) and Texture filtering is on Trilinear. This is an amazing achievement for a PC game. On this same machine I was lucky to get 15-20 Fps out of Farcry and thats with medium graphics settings. Doom 3 at the medium setting I was lucky to spike into the 20s, and the game would literally lag behind my mouse movements. Even loading a game like Need For Speed Underground 2 ran terribly on this machine. For once its nice to see a company that is actually tuning their graphics engine for the entire consumer market, and not just the latest and greatest. So for everyone out the who thinks their rig may not be up to snuff, and your only reason to upgrade is for HL2, give it a shot first before you go and spend the big bucks.
. I still haven't gotten everything yet, so I figured i'd load it up on my "old" rig:P4 2.26
Via P400 MB
1 GB 2700 RAM(cheap Kingston ValueRam)
Geforce 4 Ti4400
I couldn't believe how well Half Life 2 ran on this rig. I am getting around 50-60 fps at 1024x768(Counter strike source video test shows 58 fps average), all graphics options are at their highest except Anti-Aliasing(set to none) and Texture filtering is on Trilinear. This is an amazing achievement for a PC game. On this same machine I was lucky to get 15-20 Fps out of Farcry and thats with medium graphics settings. Doom 3 at the medium setting I was lucky to spike into the 20s, and the game would literally lag behind my mouse movements. Even loading a game like Need For Speed Underground 2 ran terribly on this machine. For once its nice to see a company that is actually tuning their graphics engine for the entire consumer market, and not just the latest and greatest. So for everyone out the who thinks their rig may not be up to snuff, and your only reason to upgrade is for HL2, give it a shot first before you go and spend the big bucks.
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