Will i be able to play Far Cry, Half Life, Vampire Bloodlines etc.... with my system?

[Katre]

I have...

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 ghz
512 mb RAM
Ati Radeon 9600
Approx. Total Memory 128.0 MB

How about the performance? I've heard radeon 9600 isn't good for games like Half Life 2 or Far Cry. All i'm looking for is the enjoyable experience if i'm going to spend that much money for those games.

Thanks in advance!

 

[^Ben]

That's a nice beefy system you have there.

Should be able to have a very enjoyable experience with that machine.

 

[giant384]

if its for HL1 then of course your system will run it and where did u here that the 9600 was bad for hl2 thats a good card

 

[Katre]

if its for HL1 then of course your system will run it and where did u here that the 9600 was bad for hl2 thats a good card

I mean Half-Life 2 of course.

And about radeon 9600, just the general view that has come across to me, but i wasn't sure, so that's why i'm asking you guys.

 

[^Ben]

The best thing todo is get benchmarks on the game.

I belive if you search the news article on this site it has some links to some informative articles.

 

[countuebles]

Nice system. Only thing you might want to do would be doubling your RAM. I hear Bloodlines for example is quite a RAM eater - and besides it never really hurts and is mostly a relatively cheap upgrade.

 

[Katre]

What would be the first step to make, if i wanted to get the better performance out of Half-Life 2 on my computer? Deus Ex IW runs very choppily on my system, so i'd like to upgrade first before buying Half-Life 2. Would it help, if i went for radeon 9800 pro, how much difference would that make?

 

[Katre]

Oh and about the ram upgrade. Since i'm not the expert on this topic, how do i know, how much i can upgrade my ram, what my system can take.

 

[Katre]

Can anyone offer me some advice on this?

 

[^Ben]

Depends on how many slots the motherboard has.

Practically all newish boards can ake 1 gig of ram.