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Half Life 2

post #1 of 15
3/26/04 at 8:05pm
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Will the area 51m

3.0 MHZ

1 gig of ram

9600 ATi

be able to run this game when it is released

any ideas

opinions

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post #2 of 15
3/26/04 at 9:17pm
I think it will. I have a computer about half the speed of what you have, a GeForce 4 with a 1.5Ghz AMD, 768Mb RAM, and I can run games at very high res and high detail. The game will probably require something around what i have, probably less for the lowest settings, and i thik ill be able to run it at at least medium. At least until I get an Alienware of my own.
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post #3 of 15
3/27/04 at 4:38am
Valve claims that it has the possiblility of running on almost any machine that will currently run Half-Life - but I don't know how far that actually extends
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post #4 of 15
3/27/04 at 4:46am
Do your really believe they would release a game that 99% of the potential market would be unable to play unless they went out and spent another $3000 for better machines?

I mean, perhaps, if they were a subsidiary of a company that sold machines substantially better than the Area 51 (or the other 99% of the machines discussed in these forums). Indeed, I think a lot of us would really like to know what that company is so we could buy every machine they make. So far, nobody's posted the name and website of that company, most likely because it doesn't exist.

So, in short, don't worry.
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post #5 of 15
3/27/04 at 4:47am
kour it will run flawlessly, you have a pretty high end machine and they plan on making it a lower requirement game
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post #6 of 15
3/27/04 at 3:02pm
Here's some benchmarks of HL2 with the 9600 vs the 5600

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1866&p=9
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post #7 of 15
3/27/04 at 3:19pm
Ouch! That certainly wasn't very nice of Anand to post the scores to such an unequal contest.
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post #8 of 15
3/27/04 at 3:37pm
Go radeon!!
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post #9 of 15
3/27/04 at 8:05pm
Yep, it seems it's an actual design flaw in the GeForce FX cards. I wish somebody would re-examine it with the later rev 5x50 series of GeForces though. To see if they still suck.


As for the original question: Half Life 2 will run fine on everything from a Vodoo 3 up to a Radeon 9800 XT. It supports DirectX 6, 7, 8, and 9, and selectively turns stuff off to qualify for the lower DirectX specs. For comparison, the original Half-Life was DirectX 6. The Radeon 9600 Pro is a DirectX 9 card, and will run the game just fine. And if you find it runs too slow, scaling back to a previous DirectX spec will net you LOADS of speed.

As for processor, the Alienware is more than fast enough. Remember, Half-Life 2 is designed to run on everything from computers that run the original "Well" to computers that are top of the line.
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post #10 of 15
3/27/04 at 9:11pm
The GeforceFX series will have their own special settings using mixed dx 8&9 features in order to improve performance, at the sake of image quality. I think ...
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post #11 of 15
3/27/04 at 10:28pm
Yep, it turns down image quality to make it run decently on the GeForce FX. However even in crap-image-quality-mode, it STILL runs WAY slower than the Radeon does at full quality

It's a design flaw in the GeForce FX, at least in the GeForceFX at the time of the testing. Who knows if nVidia has fixed it since then.

EDIT: Benchmarks of the "special" mode here: http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863&p=6

As you can see, even with the special mode that reduces image quality, the Radeon still hands the GeForce it's ass.
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post #12 of 15
3/28/04 at 4:41am
woohoo i got the 9800pro to lol......i see at the stores the 9800xt dropped hundred bucks now its 400.00 ....hmmm should i or shouldnt i ...im not fired up to spend 400 on a vid card yet again
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post #13 of 15
3/28/04 at 2:39pm
It's a minor speed bump over the 9800 Pro.

Heck, I'm quite happy with my 9700 Pro, except for the fact that it's defective and needs to be replaced, again
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post #14 of 15
3/28/04 at 9:25pm
9700 is a good card.........i was reading about that one.........then the 9800 pro came out........9800pro has dropped in price also.......maybe can replace 9700pro
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post #15 of 15
3/28/04 at 9:30pm
I have a geforce 5200, it keeps freezing up on my games, dont buy it :X
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