Will it run on my laptop?

[quadra]

Okay, I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this question - but we will see.

I currently own an Alienware Sentia Mobile. With 1024Mb RAM, 1.7GHz Intel Mobile Centrino processor, I also have an external Creative Soundcard. So far I think things will be okay - and here is the question - my graphics card is one of the Intel® 82852/82855 Graphics Controller Family (Intel® 852/855 Chipset Family) type, and i am quite sure it will support Directx9.0 (at least 7.0!!!) - it was useless on DOOM3 (lucky i didn't buy it!)

Will Half Life 2 run on this setup? Am i going to lose all the glorious effects to get it too run? Will Valve be bringing out patches for stuff like this, and can i control my drooling - i need a fix of HL2!!!

 

[Sharpfish]

tbh - that integrated gfx is going to let you down. It runs on my widescreen laptop (amilo 1630) which is AMD 64 3400+, 512mb ram, Radeon M9700 128mb.
I run it at the widescreen res of 1280x800 with Textures on high, shader on high, 4x Ansio, reflect on medium.. basically pretty decent settings but NO AA (it get's a bit choppy with AA on). Part of the "joy" of the game is seeing the new effects, as a lot of it graphically would look similar to other games if ran at the lowest settings (BSP). Your CPU should be ok (is it Dothan?) and your ram sounds good but I would be wary of the integrated gfx. What do titles such as UT2004, far cry etc run like? for your information Doom3 runs fine on my laptop - but slower than HL2 and FarCry. I would say FC and HL2 run on average around the same speed - which is about 30% less than UT2k4. If that is any help in gauging it.

As for the support, I doubt it is a DX9 gfx solution - probably at most dx7. Of course it will run Dx9+ titles but they will fallback to older methods or disable the latest effects (some shaders etc), so I imagine you could run it, at a lower resolution with low settings and probably miss out on some of the gfx effects but I wouldn't particularly want to experience it that way, sorry.

 

[quadra]

Cheers Fella, thats all i wanted to know, I seriously doubt its gonna run if Doom3 was shoddy - it would be great if Valve relaesed a demo so people could test before they buy (hint hint). I will just go back to kicking my ball around in the back yard...:-(

 

[Sharpfish]

yeah a demo would be good for those that want to test it.. but with steam etc I guess it would be another nightmare for them to deal with

 

[StarBob]

My friend ran it on his crappy laptop at college... but it wasn't evne worth playing really. I think you'd be better off avoiding it until you can either get a better laptop (video card) or a decent desktop. When you get down to it the requirements really aren't too steep to get the game running but if you want to see it at least in some manner of how it is design to be seen, you should get a system that runs it well.