Half Life - Black Mesa

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Try going to this site www.laptopvideo2go.com and download the 76.50 drivers and the modded inf, it would also help to do a clean install and get rid of all the rubbish that dell have installed but that is up to you, also i assume that you are running at the highest resolution(1920 by 1440) so try turning the resolution down a bit.

Also do you have your power setting still tuned in for maximum battery performance? You need to switch this too Maximum Performance and restart your machine.

cs:s runs @ 60+ fps in 1920x1200, high everything, reflect all, 4x aa, 8x af, no vsync and fps_max 65 on my xps2... at least in the vst. in game, i've seen it dip into the mid 40s. i would expect hl2 to be able to run @ the same level.

do a clean format/reinstall and get the 76.50 drivers

I'm playing a lot of HL2 and CS:S at the exact same settings and I'm getting the exact same performance on both the 76.41 and newer 76.50 laptop2go drivers.

HL2 deathmatch is very gpu AND cpu intensive. especially with a crowded server going and cranked up settings

Game that are cpu intensive? Naw, not even close to how RAM intensive they are.

I bet you 10 bucks he has only 512 Ram. Upgrade to 1 gig and poof, the problem is gone. Writing to the pagefile because you're loading tons of high quality textures means that you will have stuttering, no matter how fast your CPU or GPU are.

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Black Mesa to finally launch on September 14th - Eight-year wait for the Half-Life mod coming to an end

http://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?p=480683#post480683%22

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Black Mesa is a Half-Life 2 total conversion, remaking Valve Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life.

Prepare for an experience that you will find nostalgic, exciting and fresh. Black Mesa (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's seminal game Half-Life. You will re-visit the inaugural role of Gordon Freeman and his memorable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility.

Expect tremendously detailed environments to explore, a huge cast of characters and experimental weaponry. All-new music, voice acting, choreography and added dialogue give way to a more expansive and immersive experience than ever before. In a nutshell, play Half-life the way we think it was meant to be played!

Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life. Black Mesa was built and founded on the basis that Half-Life: Source didn't fully live up to the potential of a Source engine port of Half-Life. As such, Black Mesa was founded to fully reconstruct the Half-Life universe utilizing Source to its fullest potential in terms of art detail, level sizes and code features. It should be noted that the project is being built from the ground up and is not a simple port of Half Life maps and models into the Source Engine. The idea is to remake the storyline used in Half Life into a new polished Source Engine version with new models, maps, soundtrack, voice acting and textures.

This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only a copy of any Source Engine game installed on Steam.

Minimum System Requirements:

Software: Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, or AMD processor.
RAM: 1GB (1024 MB)
Graphics Card: Shader Model 2.0 capable, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better.
Sound: DirectX 8.1 compatible.
HDD: 8 GB (Not including the Free Source SDK, installed separately)

Ideal System Requirements:

Software: Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or AMD equivalent.
RAM: 1 GB
Graphics Card: Shader Model 3.0 capable, ATI X1600, NVidia 7600 or better.
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible.
HDD: 8 GB (Not including the Free Source SDK, installed separately)

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