half life2 max settings

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Juan Alvarez

Hi,

I would like to play half life 2 with maximum settings.
Is my system capable to do this smoothly (acceptable framerate)?

pentium 4 - 2.8 (533 fsb)
dual rambus ram 512
ati radeon 9700 pro
80 gb. hd

thanx!
 
I would like to play half life 2 with maximum settings.
Is my system capable to do this smoothly (acceptable framerate)?

pentium 4 - 2.8 (533 fsb)
dual rambus ram 512
ati radeon 9700 pro
80 gb. hd
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Your RAM will be the limiting factor, 1GB would be better.
 
I would like to play half life 2 with maximum settings.
Is my system capable to do this smoothly (acceptable framerate)?

pentium 4 - 2.8 (533 fsb)
dual rambus ram 512
ati radeon 9700 pro
80 gb. hd
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I have a similar system at home and would also like to know at which
resolutions and settings would the game be playbable at? I have a 17"
CRT so I play most of the games at 1152x864.
The system is a 2.8 P4(800 fsb),1 GB DDR433 Kingmax and ATI Radeon 9700PRO.
 
Glitch said:
I have a similar system at home and would also like to know at which
resolutions and settings would the game be playbable at? I have a 17" CRT
so I play most of the games at 1152x864.
The system is a 2.8 P4(800 fsb),1 GB DDR433 Kingmax and ATI Radeon
9700PRO.
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My system is more or less the same, except I have a 9600XT, I also started
to play at 1152x864, I was playing higher but my frame rate fell below 30 in
some areas, I now run everything on high, water to reflect everything,
anisotropic x16 and 6xAA, and I have yet to see the game get sluggish, and I
am about 85% the way through.

Eddy
 
Eddy said:
My system is more or less the same, except I have a 9600XT, I also started
to play at 1152x864, I was playing higher but my frame rate fell below 30
in some areas, I now run everything on high, water to reflect everything,
anisotropic x16 and 6xAA, and I have yet to see the game get sluggish, and
I am about 85% the way through.

Eddy
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I think an 9600XT would be more powerful than a 9700 pro.
I am using an AMD XP 2500+ and 9800 pro, with 1GB memory. I played through
the entire game on 1024*768 with no AA and trilinear filtering, it was very
playable and looked great.(game recommendations)
Any higher settings caused the fps to drop below 30 (in outside areas
mostly), and made the game less enjoyable, so I left it as it was.

I doubt your setup will allow you to run the game at maximum settings.
I will play the game again on higher settings when I upgrade my PC - gives
me something to look forward to. ;-)
 
Potential newsgroup troll known as wazza said:
I think an 9600XT would be more powerful than a 9700 pro.
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Yeah... 8 pipes (R9700 Pro) versus 4 pipes (R9600 XT)... ;)))))))))))))))
LOL
 
maniac said:
Yeah... 8 pipes (R9700 Pro) versus 4 pipes (R9600 XT)...
;))))))))))))))) LOL
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+ 256 bit memory.. ;-) Indeed, 9700 is alot more powerful than the 9600
series ;-)

Thomas
 
wazza said:
I think an 9600XT would be more powerful than a 9700 pro.
I am using an AMD XP 2500+ and 9800 pro, with 1GB memory. I played through
the entire game on 1024*768 with no AA and trilinear filtering, it was
very playable and looked great.(game recommendations)
Any higher settings caused the fps to drop below 30 (in outside areas
mostly), and made the game less enjoyable, so I left it as it was.

I doubt your setup will allow you to run the game at maximum settings.
I will play the game again on higher settings when I upgrade my PC - gives
me something to look forward to. ;-)
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What drivers are you using?, have you tried the Omega drivers
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
I don't know if your CPU would slow it down due to being a little slower
than a P4 2.8, but I don't see why you can't run it at a higher setting?,
have you all the proper/newest chipset drivers for your motherboard
installed?, turned off all the background applications you don't need?,
especially your antivirus software, My gaming pc is a standalone system, I
do not put anything on it that I don't need, and never surf the web on it, I
don't need thousands of wee files slowing my gaming system down, O and one
thing, I do have the memory overclocked on the card but that is it.

Eddy
 
I think an 9600XT would be more powerful than a 9700 pro.
I am using an AMD XP 2500+ and 9800 pro, with 1GB memory. I played through
the entire game on 1024*768 with no AA and trilinear filtering, it was
very playable and looked great.(game recommendations)
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Maximum bandwidth of a 9600XT: 9.6 Gig/sec
Maximum bandwidth of a 9700 Pro: 19.8 Gig/sec

Double the pipleines, double the memory bus width. 'Nuff said
 
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