What was your origional HL1 rig?

[Mutley]

What was your computer spec' when playing HL1 for the first time?

Myselfs was:
Intel Celeron 400mhz
128mb SDRam
Voodoo 3 GPU (think it was a 16mb)

 

[DevgruSeal]

At the time of playing it I didn't know much about computers and stuff, but I think I had an old e-Machines hunk of crap, that I don't even remember the specs, but probably a 8mb gpu..Possibly 16..

 

[boglito]

What was your computer spec' when playing HL1 for the first time?

Myselfs was:
Intel Celeron 400mhz
128mb SDRam
Voodoo 3 GPU (think it was a 16mb)

amd k6-2 333MHz
128MB sdram
hercules voodoo rush 8MB
hercules voodoo 2 12MB
soundblaster 16
17 inch crt

Good times.

.bog.

 

[lanceleader]

My first computer
A powerfull :
Pentium 3 667 mhz
64 mb ram
10 gig hard drive
Voodoo 3 3000 with 16 mb
sounblaster 128
Windows 98 se
15 inch monitor

 

[2Fast4U]

Pentium Celeron 300mhz
32mb ram
2.5gb hdd ( )
RivaTNT2 + Voodoo2 16mb
Some onboard soundcard
Windows 98 beta 2 ( )
15 inch monitor
I still have this PC somewhere

 

[Captain M4d]

Intel Celeron 400 mhz
192 mb ram
Intel i740 video card
10 gb hd

 

[Drackard]

lol i can't remember :| .... was years ago, a really old Packard Bell it was, thats about as much as i can remember of it.

 

[kupocake]

My HL1 playing PC, circa 1999:

Pentium III 450mhz
128MB 100MHZ SDRAM
16MB 3dfx Voodoo Banshee PCI (Crikey, remember that?)
15" ADi Monitor (max res 1280x1024 @ 60hz)
12.7GB Hard Drive UDMA33
8x Pioneer DVD-Rom drive
Intel Motherboard (don't remember model number)
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Cambridge Soundworks 4 Point Surround
Windows 98 First Edition

Lol, those were the days... Still have the same damned speakers and the monitor is on my mum's office PC. The rest is boxed up elsewhere, though some of it doesn't work. Think I sold the HDD.

 

[Solver]

A 500 MHz CPU
64 MB RAM
8.5 GB harddrive
Windows 98 SE
Some 16 MB videocard

The funny part is, that was just 6 or so years ago, and we're all now laughing at these specs. In another five years, we'll be laughing at the specs of the machines that we first played HL2 on. Heck, even now, a GF5700 is a low-end card, but was quite decent when the game came out. Of course, not to mention how laughable 512 MB or 1 GB of RAM will be in 2010/11.

 

[Steven]

Intel Pentium 3 400MHz
128MB RAM
Nvidia TNT2
8x CD drive
Creative Sound Blaster (Don't know which model)

This should be in Hardware and Software as this is not a general aspect of Half-Life 2

 

[Ennui]

800mhz AMD Duron, 128mb RAM, 8mb NVIDIA card

 

[Vegeta897]

How do you guys remember!?

 

[hungryduck]

Celeron 333mhz
32mb Ram
integrated intel video
4 gig HD

 

[Naudian]

I first played HL on my mom's HP...our family's first pc actually.

Celeron 350MHz or something
I'm not sure how much RAM...think it was in the 350MB range but that seems too big for back then...
Like..8GB HD
Some onboard graphics chip, 32MB I think...

Man I played so much NFSII on that thing ...

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Well I played through Half Life 1 at a CyberLounge, but this was in 2000. This was right after moving and we didn't have internet or a computer at the time.

 

[Vourdex]

My original HL1 rig:
Intel Celeron 701 MHZ
64mb of Ram
6gb Hard Drive
GeForce2 MX 400

Wow, that was a shitty rig compared to today. :thumbs:

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I still remember

Cyrix 300MHz
32Mb Ram
4Gb HDD
Intergrated graphics (think it was 8Mb)

The store owners said the rig was good for games, man was my Dad gullible

 

[Victor2]

Playstation 2 AhaHAHhAHaHahhaHaH then I loved the game, decided buy a new PC and bought the HL: Generations.

But when I first played it on PC my rig was:


Pentium 4 1.4ghz
128Mb RAM
TNT2 32Mb
20Gb HD

 

[RandomX]

My HL1 rig was utter crap, and I actually tried to play HL2 on it... the computer doesn't work anymore.

Pentium II
56mb Ram
Trident Blade 3d onboard graphics

It could barely play HL1, but it did work.
And yes, it did seriously only have 56 MB of RAM.
I'm so glad I gave it to my dad and took the new one

 

[Mutley]

How do you guys remember!?

Because I'm using it now, lol. My new PC has gone back for warrenty repair, so just using it to browse internet with.

I tried playing HL1 again but sound works for a few minutes then stops.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

oh dear me, counter strike took about 15 minutes to load up

350mhz K6 Athlon (i believe)
128mb SD RAM
ge-force 2 tornado 64mb (upgraded from onboard graphics!)
16gb HD hehe
17 HUGE CRT

Dear god, the pain.

 

[Reaktor4]

amd k6 500mhz
64mb sdram
8mb onboard ati rage laugh
13gb 5200rpm hd

350mhz K6 Athlon (i believe)

Athlons were k7s. And they werent released at speeds below 500mhz (i think), so it was a k6, not an athlon.

 

[EC]

Intel pentium 200MHz
32MB ram
voodoo3 3000 (damn that thing was fast)
13" monitor that hummed
4GB HDD.

 

[kupocake]

How do you guys remember!?

Personally, I remember because it was the first ever PC my family ever properly owned, and it was a good machine for its time, so I had something to brag about to my nerd friends

 

[ZPEGG User]

My ORIGINAL computer:

Windows 3.0

No clue on the specs, but I can imagine something like a whopping 10 mb hard drive.

My Computer I first played HL' on:

3700+ AMD Athlon 64 Processor (2.64 Gig)
1.5 GB RAM
200 GB HardDrive
Integrated ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Graphics card (256 mb)

The game ran perfect the first time, EVERYtime.

 

[TheDan]

My first ever computer (back in 1995 I think):

75Mhz Pentium
40Mb RAM (was 8Mb)
200Mb Hard drive
Dont know the Graphics card (probably wooden...)
Windows 95

That was a pretty good computer in its time..

Computer I first played HL1 on:
1.8Ghz Pentium 4
256Mb DDR Ram @ 200Mhz
40Gb Hard drive
nVidia GeForce MX 440 SE 64Mb
Windows XP

Yea... didnt get HL1 until it was out for a while

Current rig shown in sig.

 

[Solver]

Those of you guys who first played HL somewhere in the last couple years really missed on some of the experiences. It's a great game still, but you don't really get the "damn this is so new" feeling if playing through HL in 2004 .

 

[Sufferin-rebel]

funny enough, I played Half-life 2 first thinking "who the **** are these guys?" I had so many questions

After that I played Half-life 1 and it made so much sense

 

[Playbus]

My first ever computer was a ZX Spectrum 48k in the mid 80's

Then I went through the old Amstrad CPC464, and of course through almost
all of the Amiga range, I still have two Amigas now.

My first PC, in 1989 if I remember right

386SX 25Mhz
Some old Intel Motherboard
4mb 72-pin 70ns RAM
256kb Trident Display Adapter
40mb Hard Disk

My PC when I first played Half Life 1

Pentium 200MMX
Some old Intel Mainboard
64MB PC100
4mb Voodoo 1
2GB HDD


My current rig is somewhat better......

 

[Beerdude26]

600 Mhz Pentium 3
20 GB HDD
64 MB RAM (zOMG in those days)
Voodoo 3 8MB
DVD player
CD Burner (4X)

 

[Asuka]

My 1st PC was

Geforce 4 Ti 4600 128md
512 RD Ram
120 gig Hd
2.68 ghz Pent 4

Made by DELL

2nd PC and one im using now.

GeForce 7800 GTX 256mb XFX overclocked
1 gig 2.2.2.5
74 gig Raptor 10,000 rpm
320 gig
FX 55

Made by ME

Yes iv only had 2 Pc

 

[flycrusher]

I remember it well, it was the 29 november 1998. I know the time exactly because i just found the receipt for that Half-Life thing! My PC was a Pentium II 400 with 128 Mb of RAM a Matrox Mystique with 4 MB and 2 woodoo 2 in SLI mode. At that time it was a lot of money and a wonderfull machine, i could play Unreal in 1024x768, now it's just crap!!!

 

[15357]

HL1?

1GB RAM
2.8 GHZ CPU
128MB GeForce something card.

 

[0mar]

HL1 I had a p2 266 with 64mb of RAM I think. It might have been 32mb upgraded to 64mb later on. I had a Matrox something video card and a 10 gig harddrive.

Those were the days...

 

[Barney_Calhoun]

AMD 450mhz
128mb SDRAM
Voodoo Banshee graphics card
*edit* 8GB HDD also

it OWNED, still works

 

[incorrigible]

-NEC Direction 266 (P2 - 266 ; Slot 1)
-64MB Ram (upgraded to 96MB)
-4MB Number Nine (remember them?) AGP 1x VID card (upgraded to Diamond Viper V550 (TNT w/ 8 MB RAM)
- Crystal Audio (onboard chip) upgraded to SB Live Value.
- 14" NEC MultiSync II monitor

Goin' back a ways ... memory still foggy.

* Edit *
Wanted to add original 1989 PC specs for nostalgia
PC Brand 286 @ 8 MHz (16MHz on 'Turbo')
1 MB RAM (paid $385.00 for the extra 360KB)
Paradise VGA Graphics Adapter
No sound card (built in PC speaker)
Same Monitor as above IIRC

 

[liPillON]

PII 266
64 MB
nVidia TNT 16MB
SoundBlaster AWE64

spring 1999

aahh the memories

 

[oMeSSiaHo]

Lets see here...

AMD K62-450mhz
196 megs of RAM (upgrade!)
Voodoo2 12mb?
Sound Blaster somthing
20gig HDD

 

[Cargo Cult]

166MHz Pentium MMX.
64 MB memory.
1.6GB hard disk (shared between Windows and Linux - dual-boot!).
2MB graphics (not OpenGL-capable, and not good enough for HL's Direct3D)

I think you'll find I've won! ;-)

 

[bryanf445]

celeron 333mhz
8gb hd
some 32 mb radeon video card
64 mb ram

yea at least it ran