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Half-Life 2 on Radeon 9700 lappies?

post #1 of 22
11/22/04 at 11:59pm
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Anybody played Half-Life 2 on their laptop yet? I don't play alot of FPS games but I loved the first Half-Life and want to buy it. Will this game run OK this laptop - ASUS M6N with ATI's 9700 64mb VRAM.
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post #2 of 22
11/23/04 at 12:01am
I've played it on my laptop. I've got a 128MB 9600 Pro Turbo, so it might run a bit worse on a 64MB 9700, but you shouldn't have any problems.
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post #3 of 22
11/23/04 at 12:46am
I can play HL2 at 1280x800 at medium detail and higher with no problem. I haven't taken the time to push it yet or optimize settings. The GPU on this Asus can be overclocked well also, based on many people's experiences. It looks absolutely amazing. People come by and are floored by the graphics.
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post #4 of 22
11/23/04 at 1:03am
one of my friends (member of these forums...viper something...) ran (and beat) the game on his lappy, and it ran on high pretty well. his spec is 5400rpm hdd, 1gb pc2700, ati 9700 128mb P4 3.2
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post #5 of 22
11/23/04 at 1:29am
no problems here
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post #6 of 22
11/23/04 at 1:53am
Highest settings, no AA, no AF.

Card clocked to 485/285.

Running at around 60-130(when looking at a wall) constantly.
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post #7 of 22
11/23/04 at 3:24am
what driver versions (/mods) did you guys use?
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post #8 of 22
11/23/04 at 5:57am
Standard Dell driver. I tried the Omegas at one point, but they actually made my laptop slower (I probably didn't install it correctly), but the factory driver is just more polished.
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post #9 of 22
11/23/04 at 1:12pm
i play at 1024x768 with all settings on high and 6x AA and get 60 frames all the time. same thing for CS: Source. only problem is on a few places in HL2 and maps like Dust 2 where there is lots of fog, then frames drop pretty low, so you may have to turn off the AA at that point.
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post #10 of 22
11/23/04 at 2:50pm
Runs Very good 1024x768 unmodified game settings, but i did tweak my 258KA first. I just followed one of those guides for better performance off one of the hl2 sights... Ive also beaten the game alread!
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post #11 of 22
11/24/04 at 5:15am
it runs on med with no AA at 1280X800 wonderfully
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post #12 of 22
11/24/04 at 6:39pm
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Originally Posted by dalton9267
i play at 1024x768 with all settings on high and 6x AA and get 60 frames all the time. same thing for CS: Source. only problem is on a few places in HL2 and maps like Dust 2 where there is lots of fog, then frames drop pretty low, so you may have to turn off the AA at that point.
What???? You can run 6xAA on a 128 mb mobilty 9700? Are you sure you didn't mean AF?

AA absolutely rapes graphics cards.

I have a CL56 as well (1.8 not 2.0 ghz) and I run 1024x768 all details on high 2xAF
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post #13 of 22
11/25/04 at 12:11am
I run it at 1280x800 @ 25-125fps.Unfortunatly I found a point about halfwy tru the game that crashes to desktop...
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post #14 of 22
11/25/04 at 2:34am
im positive, if by rape you mean i occasionally drop to 35-40 fps but only when looking at certain things, then yeah
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post #15 of 22
11/25/04 at 6:32am
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Originally Posted by dalton9267
im positive, if by rape you mean i occasionally drop to 35-40 fps but only when looking at certain things, then yeah
That sounds odd, I don't think the 9700 mobile should be able to pull that off It's generally not that great with AA.
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post #16 of 22
11/25/04 at 3:00pm
Source Engine has extremely high fps on a 9700M. I get 100 fps at 1024x786 medium in CSS.
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post #17 of 22
11/25/04 at 11:26pm
1024x786 medium quality on my ferrari, runs extremely fine....except u have to plug the ferrari to the power, otherwise it's gonna run extremely slow on batteries... some AMD feature, dunno
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post #18 of 22
11/28/04 at 10:32pm
HL2 single player, 1024x768, 0xAA 0xAF, highest quality DX9 settings, I get 40FPS average, very playable. I play at 800x600 though just for the extra speed.

CS:Source runs pretty crappy however. I run it on high quality settings, because reducing them doesn't help. However, I have reduced CS:Source to DX 8.1 for a nice speed boost; at DX9 it's unplayable.

I don't know why HL2 runs so well but CS:Source runs so poorly. I'm hoping valve will release a patch to fix whatever is wong.
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post #19 of 22
11/28/04 at 10:41pm
Are there any tweaks for this game yet?
There were tons for doom3...
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post #20 of 22
11/29/04 at 12:48pm
runs perfect on my CL56 1024x768 at high settings
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