Benchmarks?

[warder]

Ok ok... I know it will run, but how good?
Anthlon 2200+
ATI radeon 9700 pro (do they not sell it anymore?)
512 ddr400 mem
These are the three basics, just wondering, on average how a system like this would perform? As in FPS and on what settings I should run it... thanks!

 

[spin03]

Ok ok... I know it will run, but how good?
Anthlon 2200+
ATI radeon 9700 pro (do they not sell it anymore?)
512 ddr400 mem
These are the three basics, just wondering, on average how a system like this would perform? As in FPS and on what settings I should run it... thanks!

they have stopped making the 9700 series, but you can easily run the game on medium. good chance you could run it at high, but i am not 100% sure.

 

[warder]

oi .

 

[blahblahblah]

I guarantee you can run HL2 on high settings. It is still a very capable DX9 card. HL2 will look amazing on your computer.

 

[warder]

sweet! What about with aax2 or x4 running? on 1024x768?

 

[bosox188]

Hmm yeah I'd say at 1024x768 the 9700 pro could do 4xAA high quality, and probably 4xAF too. Still a very capable card.

 

[Ennui]

Yep, twill look quite pretty and run well with all that.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

Yeah my 5700 can run at 1024x768 with full reflections AA and AF. And still get 50.46 fps. Well i did overclock my card. From 425/550 to 470/600

 

[warder]

cool! Im getting it tomarrow... YAY any recommended mods? and is there a setting above high?

 

[warder]

Also Im updating all my software.. I never got service pack 2 because i heard it sux0rz... Just kinda... talking about it. Anything wronge with directx 9.0c? Or the new ATI drivers?

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

Hmm yeah I'd say at 1024x768 the 9700 pro could do 4xAA high quality, and probably 4xAF too. Still a very capable card.

No. The cpu will bottleneck the performance a bit already, so this will run pretty bad. Look at my rig #1, I have a pretty comparable system. I must turn off AA to keep performance fine, but I have high settings. I turn shadows and reflections low, becuase I honestly never notice either while I'm playing. I run at 1280x1024 which decreases the "fuzzies" that AA removes, and performance is stable at around 60 fps. The 4.12 catalyst drivers helped a lot.

It runs fine, looks good, but it's not the best. The 9700 Pro was the best card around when it came out, and it's still running things well. The max fps I can get in new games is steadily going down though, which is why I upgraded to my rig #2. I've always believed that if I can't play with high settings, it's not worth it. Well, I think this is the last game the ol' 9700 Pro will run on high settings stable... Unreal3 would probably kick my video cards ass.

 

[bliink]

AA and AF being off wont impact the eye-candyness of the game too much though.

 

[Asus]

My brother has an Athlon 2000+ and runs great at 1024x768 with his GF4 4200. 512MB PC2700 (DDR333) memory on a VIA board and all. He only has a little lag on multi.

The P4 2ghz were not quite the same as the AXPs as they weren't able to stretch their legs with low bandwidth in games. AXP's don't really care about bandwidth.

 

[StainlessJ-FPGA]

AA and AF being off wont impact the eye-candyness of the game too much though.

In fact I read an article that showed AF may actually affect it in a bad way, so even with my new rig I'm not turning it on. I'll be running at 1600x1200 probably so won't need AA either.