Why Half Life 2 will run smooth on mediocre pcs without a problem...

[Guest]

i just bought a p4 2.4 800 ghz hyper threading blah blah a ATi 9800 pro 128mb 512 ddr of crucial a hardrive a case some extra fans a mobo everything

For 800 bucks on newegg.com

thats what i recommend you go do.

 

[Goombatommy]

Originally posted by illspirit44
no shadows are on... without them.. the game would have no scaryness to it.. lol

hey man, what gives? I have a Radeon 9800 PRO, and if those really are your screenshots you've taken, what am I doing wrong? Mine looks like absolute crap!! The D3 Alpha. Blah, email me your .CFG. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

dont have the alpha anymore.. got bored of it...i had the pics posted up on rage3d.com so i waz able to get em from there.. but i used a cfg file off the internet i found u can get it here.. i changed a few things like rez and some other stuff i dont remember.. play around with it.. but the settings it comes with are good..

http://users.adelphia.net/~nrgonline/doom3/DoomConfig.cfg

 

[tim8604]

Originally posted by illspirit44
if my shitty pc can handle doom 3 between 30-60 fps and look good then im sure i can play hl2 without a single problem

if by shitty you mean.... not shitty

 

[Guest]

well i consider it shitty when compared to everyone elses pc who has like 1024 mb ram, or 4 ghz or some shit like that.. im prob one of the few people on this forum with 256 ram.. lol

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Originally posted by illspirit44
well i consider it shitty when compared to everyone elses pc who has like 1024 mb ram, or 4 ghz or some shit like that.. im prob one of the few people on this forum with 256 ram.. lol

don't feel too shitty... i have only 128..


/me dies

 

[Anwar]

Originally posted by nw909
?

All the 9000's?

9700 and 9800 are DX9

that can't be a serious qustion...

incase it is

NO the ATI 9000 is a DX8 product

NO if I wanted to say the 9700 and 9800 I would have

I know you knew exactly what I said anyways, you just had to write something.

 

[dawdler]

Its really simple: 9500 figures and up are DX9. Below is DX8.1 (or lower) whether its got a 9 number or not.

 

[RadiuS]

is the radeon 9200 a good card? i nkow someone who has it.

 

[dawdler]

Originally posted by RadiuS
is the radeon 9200 a good card? i nkow someone who has it.

Not really... It aint bad, but its like asking if the G4MX is a good card. Its not something I would advise to buy today

 

[rootbin]

mmm hl2 1280x1024 with 4xfsaa 8xaf at 60fps...

 

[Dagobert]

anyways.. if u saw the new hl2 tech videos.. in the wall video.. at the end it says that 20,000 polygons have been made into 1 polygon.. this means that even though it looks really good.. it will go easy on ur graphic card without any problems.. the only thing that ur cpu will really process alot is the animations and physics and that stuff.. but framewise i think the game will run just about good all ur pcs

The effect that reduces a polygon mesh to a normal map is only available on GF3 and above cards, so your assertion is incorrect.

A TNT2 can only support TNT2 features, so the game running on a TNT2 will look about as good as games that pushed that card at the time (Quake 3)

 

[Guest]

My best advice for anyone who is thinking of getting a new video card and wants the best out of it for hl2 but doesnt have too much money is to buy a ATI Radeon 9500 pro 128 mb.. i have one.. and it makes my games look AMAZING!! got mine for free.. my couzin works at best buy hehe...

BUT I dont think they make 9500 pros anymore... do they?? im not sure havent seen any for a while.. at stores

 

[Animal]

How does it make your games look amazing, do you mean it lets you put all the settings to full wihtout lag, or that it actually improves them some other way, so if you had the same detail settings on another card it wouldn't look so good?

 

[Guest]

well considering that the 9500 pro is a toned down 9700.. id say amazing as in i can play at 1024 x 728 with aa and af half maxed out most of the time..or if i turn of aa and af completely i can play sometimes at 1600 x 1200 and this is with 256 rdram

 

[Animal]

nice card, how does vice city look with it?:bounce:

 

[Guest]

great!

 

[arm4000]

Originally posted by Animal
How does it make your games look amazing, do you mean it lets you put all the settings to full wihtout lag, or that it actually improves them some other way, so if you had the same detail settings on another card it wouldn't look so good?

he ain't kidding

I havent experienced any slowdown at all with 4x AA, 4X AF and Trueform on

sweetness

 

[smilez]

Damn XSI is a nice program.. it makes 3ds max look like crudware

 

[FAK3R]

Originally posted by Dr. Freeman
don't feel too shitty... i have only 128..


/me dies

Yeah I only have 128 .. on my video card..
all jokes aside.. my pc sucks
Athlon XP 2200+
512 ddr ram
Geforce FX5200
WinXP Sp1

 

[Impute]

Originally posted by LoneDeranger
help computer

LMAO

Hey Kid, Ima computer. Stop all the downloading.