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Will Half-life 2 work with this setup?

post #1 of 18
5/30/06 at 7:27am
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Hi!


I am buying a laptop from Dell, the 6400 series. And I have the plans to play some Half-life 2 on it.

The config is;
Intel Duo core T2300
1024mb 533mhz ram
ATI Mobility x1400 256mb


Do you think that it can handel Half-life 2 with medium setting and a decent FPS?


Greetings from Sweden
Bjorne
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post #2 of 18
5/30/06 at 7:52am
Should be fine on high settings too. Just no HDR.
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post #3 of 18
5/30/06 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by makemedie
Should be fine on high settings too. Just no HDR.
See you have closly same setup as i will order, or to write right, that i orderd 15 minutes ago

A bit slower CPU, hope that won't be a problem. But anyways, what battery-time do you get?

See your using the 9-cell battery, same as I will. If you disable the W-Lan and other things that you aint using, and play some games or watch a XVID, how long uptime do you get then, is it like one hour, two or mayby three?
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post #4 of 18
6/2/06 at 3:32am
It should run fine. Hell these e1505s are better than my dang desktop these days and i built it just to play hl2 :P
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post #5 of 18
6/3/06 at 5:07am
Yeah no problem playing HL2 and higher settings. Counterstrike Source is the only game I play.
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post #6 of 18
6/3/06 at 11:25am
Quake 4 Doom 3 (now have a pach for duo core and wow )no problem at high settings 1280/720,Americas Army no problem everything on top.
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post #7 of 18
6/3/06 at 12:49pm
i swear, source engine games play awesomely on the X1400.
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post #8 of 18
6/3/06 at 6:17pm
Source was built for ATI graphics, so pretty much anything will go. Also, you can use HDR (excent Half-Life 2 doesn't have any HDR maps) and get ok performance since you have 256 megs of memory (unlike me)
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post #9 of 18
6/5/06 at 1:50am
I will say again and again, Source is highly cpu dependent, and loves Ram.
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post #10 of 18
6/5/06 at 2:50am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bjorne
See you have closly same setup as i will order, or to write right, that i orderd 15 minutes ago

A bit slower CPU, hope that won't be a problem. But anyways, what battery-time do you get?

See your using the 9-cell battery, same as I will. If you disable the W-Lan and other things that you aint using, and play some games or watch a XVID, how long uptime do you get then, is it like one hour, two or mayby three?

It's not mine, it's my fiance's. Mine's the one in my signature in the image.

Just surfing the web, typing, using internet (by LAN, not WLAN), and a little bit of photo/video editing etc, and you'll even get up to 4 hours (my fiance does).

She's a visual arts student at university, so far, she loves her new laptop
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post #11 of 18
6/5/06 at 10:44am
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Originally Posted by Dellwind
Quake 4 Doom 3 (now have a pach for duo core and wow )no problem at high settings 1280/720,Americas Army no problem everything on top.

are you referring to the core duo/usb patch or is there a new patch to increase core duo performance?
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post #12 of 18
6/5/06 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by toshio
are you referring to the core duo/usb patch or is there a new patch to increase core duo performance?
he's talking about the 1.2 SMP-aware patch for multiprocessor/multicore/hyperthreading. edit: 200th post! woo!
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post #13 of 18
6/5/06 at 4:32pm
where can i find this patch? is it available through windows update?
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post #14 of 18
6/6/06 at 2:00am
I believe the mentioned patches are for the game not for windows. They give the game itself the ability to utilize both cores more effectively, (maybe add multithreaded functionality?) that they cannot neccesarily do originally.
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post #15 of 18
6/6/06 at 8:25am
http://www.fileplanet.com/158619/150...e-4-Patch-v1.2
http://www.fileplanet.com/146116/140...OM-3-Patch-1.3
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post #16 of 18
6/6/06 at 10:48am
I think its only for quake 4 the duo core support, Same engine so i dont know why doom 3 has not updated the patch for support?!! the creator of the engine=(doom3)
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post #17 of 18
6/6/06 at 12:35pm
yeah, really.. look at the date on that doom patch also. (sep 28, 2004)
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post #18 of 18
6/7/06 at 2:38pm

thanx for the links.
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