Will It suck....

[Madhotch]

How will hl2 look and perform on my pc, and i dont mean w/ 8x AA
high res, and all the eyecandy, but with 640x800 res no AA and some nice effects. Because i heard it will be very flexible, and as long as it looks like max payne 2 or call of duty on high, and runs like silk, ill be thrilled

MY PC:
geforce fx5200 PCI
760 mb RAM
80 gb
celeron (no p4)

 

[KagePrototype]

There's a thread dedicated to this topic in the hardware forums, you should check it out. to specifically answer your question, I think you'll be ok on high detail as long as you keep to that low resolution.

 

[Nex321]

get another graphic card AND cpu. I'd be surprised you running it on low settings

 

[Gorgon]

How will hl2 look and perform on my pc, and i dont mean w/ 8x AA
high res, and all the eyecandy, but with 640x800 res no AA and some nice effects. Because i heard it will be very flexible, and as long as it looks like max payne 2 or call of duty on high, and runs like silk, ill be thrilled

MY PC:
geforce fx5200 PCI
760 mb RAM
80 gb
celeron (no p4)

suks big time :x :x

 

[Computer5k]

I would suggest using at least 2x AA on 640x480, but with those options it should run fine.

 

[Madhotch]

i AM NOT going to upgrade...i run cod and mp2 on high w/ no lag...so it aint too bad

 

[Nex321]

You know that *exemple* 2.6 ghz celeron equals 1.7 ghz P4

 

[Madhotch]

i know....but it works for me, just answer my ques please, i know i dont have no alienware, and thanx for those w/ pos feedback already

 

[Cole]

and PCI can really screw you over.
Celerons are by far one of the worst processors made.
Get a Amd Athlon 2400+(pretty decent) it serves me very well.
And well the fx series sucks from the start then a pci one?

Personally, i would get a new comp.


Also, just by a simple e-machines one for like 500 and just by some extra ram and an ati radeon 9600 - X800.
Thats what i recommend doing when u get the money.
I mean thats pretty cheap and will run most games easily had high quality.
I mean thats when u get the money, its cheap and works out well im not saying "go out to the store NOW and buy one".

But i spent around 500 and put 300 into my emachines. For 800 bucks i can easily run Cs:S on Highest everything 16x AF and 2XAA with about 30-40 fps.

 

[The Terminator]

your computer ****ing sucks

 

[poseyjmac]

yeah running at 640x480, it should be ok. if i was going to run at that resolution though id hook it up to a TV. it would look better overall.

 

[Vegeta897]

God people stop posting useless crap! Chris just got done cleaning another thread that was just like this!

If I were you, instead of running high detail on 640, I would go low detail on 800...

 

[Nex321]

who would be playing a masterpiece on res 640x480?? Not me atleast

Madhotch, if you have $400-$500 to spare just let me know. I can found you some good parts that will last you years

 

[Asus]

It should run OK at 640x800 as most of the cards do. Link
But remember a few things:
These benchmarks were run on a highend machine, far from a celeron.
Yours is PCI while all the cards tested are AGP.
And your card will run in DX8.1 mode.

Besides all of that, I would expect at least 30FPS and possibly hitting 40's depending on the settings. It should auto detect those settings for maintaining performance though.

 

[Madhotch]

NO UPGRADES DAMMIT...and i dont mind 640x800 res at all, as long as its on highish (man you think i'd spend $1000+ to play one game? its the gameplay that counts!) Plus if i want to play on a great comp ill use the ati 9800 agp family comp...but i just want to be able to play it WHENEVER I WANT on my pc, i have to sahre the new 1.

 

[Nex321]

Mady, I doubt that you will even see medium settings. Your card is really weak and on hl2 it makes it even more weaker.

 

[Madhotch]

30 fps is fine man...ur all so picky!

 

[Madhotch]

NO UPGRADES DAMMIT...and i dont mind 640x800 res at all, as long as its on highish (man you think i'd spend $1000+ to play one game? its the gameplay that counts!) Plus if i want to play on a great comp ill use the ati 9800 agp family comp...but i just want to be able to play it WHENEVER I WANT on my pc, i have to sahre the new 1.

 

[Madhotch]

it will still look good though, i mean low is like COD still, right?

 

[ailevation]

:O Are those specs even acceptable to run Half Life 2? We're talking Celeron here. Your RAM, you know the speed of it? I am guessing PC-100, PC-133?

 

[Nex321]

First of all you don't have to pay $1000+, $400 is more than enough

Ok now to the point, does FX 5200 even support directX 8.1??


About the 30 fps, you will be seeing 1 fps in fire fights and 30 fps should be your highest fps if you play it on high. Not playable

 

[Madhotch]

yes, it supports 9.0! and i dont have agp slot..so id have to get a new comp!!

 

[Madhotch]

pc2700

 

[Nex321]

Supports DirectX 9.0? Maybe you can have it but it doesn't have any advantage of it.......so it doesn't support it.

 

[Madhotch]

as long as it still looks cool, im not looking for graphics like in the binks

 

[Nex321]

Madhotch, ask your family for 400 bucks and I'll help you.

 

[ailevation]

:O Wow, PC-2700 Ram, that good stuff and you've got 768 of it, cool cool. How fast is your Celeron?

 

[Nex321]

as long as it still looks cool, im not looking for graphics like in the binks

It will look like doom 2 if you're lucky

 

[Madhotch]

bty, i run the far cry demo on high, pandora tommorow on high, mp2 on high, cod on high, i dont see how it could suck that bad

 

[Nex321]

bty, i run the far cry demo on high, pandora tommorow on high, mp2 on high, cod on high, i dont see how it could suck that bad

and pigs can fly

Ok seriously it will look like quake 2. So think about that.

 

[Madhotch]

i guess pigs do fly then, i swear to god, the only lag of any of them is in COD on stalingrad, but a quick tweak and all is good, other than that its great for me

 

[ailevation]

It's hard to believe you ran all those games on high settings, well you probably did... but I guess you see 10 FPS as something good for you.

 

[Madhotch]

my celeron is 2.6 ghz, ailevation, but its lower than that compared to p4...

 

[Nex321]

i guess pigs do fly then, i swear to god, the only lag of any of them is in COD on stalingrad, but a quick tweak and all is good, other than that its great for me

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[Madhotch]

no they're pretty good fps, only in the russina campain its laggy, but i just turn gen textures on low...still nice, its the ram...

 

[ailevation]

Well, 2.6 Ghz, atleast it's a 2.6 Celeron chip. I dunno maybe you could run Half Life 2 on super duper low settings, with everything set on ultra performance in your Nvidia control panel.

 

[Madhotch]

pentium 4
ati 9800 pro agp
512 ram
160 gb

family comp, if hl2 is too ugly on mine i always have that, but i have to share

 

[JimmehH]

It'll run perfectly fine on that computer in 640x480.

And it won't look like Q2 or any of that bollocks.

 

[ailevation]

pentium 4
ati 9800 pro agp
512 ram
160 gb

family comp, if hl2 is too ugly on mine i always have that, but i have to share

Take out all the parts from that comp, exchange with your sorry comp's. If anyone asks,"WTF! Why so slow?!?!" Just say pops downloaded hugeload of porno.

 

[Madhotch]

lol! wish i could, no agp though, so it'd mean me taking motherbord too...i cant do taht...too much, hate putting stuff in, i almost blew out a RAM slot last time