Nvidia 4200 Ti any good for HL2?

[rose 1138]

I recently acquired a new Sony Vaio pc whic contains a 2.6 GHZ amd athlon processor, Nvidia Gforce 4200 Ti 64mb card with the usuall memory 500MB blah blah that you would expect, it runs Star Wars KOTOR fine on 1024*760 graphics with smooth shadows turned off! and X2:the threat on a similar setting but 1280*1024, the machine starts to struggle a little bit with frame rates.
My question is basically, will HL2 run okay on my machine (not necessarily at the highest settings) or will i need a card upgrade possibly ATI 9600 or the new Nvidia card (cant rmember name).
If this is posted in the wrong forum i apologise, please move or delete if necessary.
Thanks :|

 

[Maxi]

It should run ok, but no one really knows since ITS NOT FINNISHED YET.

 

[rose 1138]

Ha Ha, i know that but would you consider an upgrade from this theoretically and if so, is it easy enough to do this with plug and play etc, as the only thing i have ever installed in a pc was a DVD drive on my old machine and i would be a little apprehensive about replacing things such as processors and motherboards to support a graphics card ETC. Although i would like to build my own PC in the future as PCGamer magazine here in the UK gives a detailed how to on building the ultimate PC for HL2 and it doesnt look too daunting!!

 

[Maxi]

It's actually very easy to build a PC if you have a good guide when building it, and a graphics card is even easier to install..

But I wouldn't upgrade yet since the new cards are right around the block, both nvidias and atis new cards should come out as paper releases in march. Then the current cards prices will drop and new 500$ cards will be out on the market.

 

[Przemek]

I don't think you need to buy a new card - your computer will run all today's games great in high detail and I believe I saw Gabe Newell's reply in "Valve info only" thread that HL2 is going to run in almost max detail on a 1.7+ processor, 256MB RAM and a GF3Ti200. And in another place Gabe said that the game looks 90% the same on a DirectX 8.1 hardware in comparison to DirectX9.
...but I could be wrong

 

[BigBoss9]

I don't think you need to buy a new card - your computer will run all today's games great in high detail and I believe I saw Gabe Newell's reply in "Valve info only" thread that HL2 is going to run in almost max detail on a 1.7+ processor, 256MB RAM and a GF3Ti200. And in another place Gabe said that the game looks 90% the same on a DirectX 8.1 hardware in comparison to DirectX9.
...but I could be wrong

damn.....i hope u right! i have the same card except that i have 128MB in it...and i was whinking of buying new 1

 

[Maxi]

Well you won't be able to have the best experience with that kinda card, since it is not a dx9 card, so you won't be able to see those features.

 

[umop]

Maxi, I just realize you were from Finland
I was born here in the US but almost my entire family is Finnish... I just visited last summer.

Anyways, yeah you should be able to play HL2 fine on that setup, and if you ever want to upgrade to a new video card in the future it will be easy, just take your Ti4200 out and plug your new AGP card in and install drivers.

 

[PvtRyan]

It should run things fine, the first press presentations (in february 2003)were run on a Ti4600 according to a gamesmagazine, a regular Ti4200 is about 15-20% slower. Altough your 64 MB memory could form a bit of a bottleneck, maybe you'll have to turn texture detail a bit down. But it should run fine.

 

[63]

I recently acquired a new Sony Vaio|

*cough* stolen *cough*

 

[ComradeBadger]

Ha Ha, i know that but would you consider an upgrade from this theoretically and if so, is it easy enough to do this with plug and play etc, as the only thing i have ever installed in a pc was a DVD drive on my old machine and i would be a little apprehensive about replacing things such as processors and motherboards to support a graphics card ETC. Although i would like to build my own PC in the future as PCGamer magazine here in the UK gives a detailed how to on building the ultimate PC for HL2 and it doesnt look too daunting!!

Yeah, PCGamer's article was what prompted me to think I could do it myself! Now I've sorta gone into buisness building 'puters :O

Anyway. Will run it ok. Moved.

 

[mrchimp]

It should run things fine, the first press presentations (in february 2003)were run on a Ti4600 according to a gamesmagazine, a regular Ti4200 is about 15-20% slower. Altough your 64 MB memory could form a bit of a bottleneck, maybe you'll have to turn texture detail a bit down. But it should run fine.

wasn't one of the bink videos on a GF4 Ti?

 

[Chode]

It better, I'm playing the game on my Ti4800 and I ain't gonna be upgrading for a while yet (much more important things to invest money in....this card gives me all games and runs 3D Studio Max 6 smick...need nothing more)