Should I Get Half Life 2 ??? (Is my PC good enough?)

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Posted by Sunquest on Nov-19-2004 13:35:

Should I Get Half Life 2 ??? (Is my PC good enough?)

hey hey
ok i gotta big question
this is my computer
P4 2.7 gigaherz, 512 ram, ati radeon 9200 SE 128 mb video card
NOW
when i played doom 3,
it was horribly slow (not that i care, the game sucks )
but now half life 2, the sequal to my all time favorite game just came out and im wondering if my computer will be good enough for it?
i dont care if the graphics arent the best but i just want it running smoothly, no choppy lag :S i hate that
so is my computer good enough?
let me know peeps
thanx

Posted by dj_lane on Nov-19-2004 15:39:

you will need better video, thats for sure, your card doesnt have enough guts, get a geforce fx5700 ($130) those cards work great, especially with there ddr2 ram

Posted by dj chex on Nov-19-2004 15:54:

if you have <$200 to spend, i would wait for the geforce 6600gt Agp to come out. It equals and surpases the performance of a 9800pro and fx5950 while not breaking the bank. check it out on hardocp.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njg5LDE=

Posted by Sunquest on Nov-19-2004 16:03:

hey guys thanx but i didnt ask for top of the line
i just wanna know if itll work for me atleast, and if itll work without being jumpy (if i have to put it on lowest i dont care, i just dont want it to jump, so will it?)

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Nov-19-2004 16:04:

Your system can SO handle it. Your card might not have as much 'oomph' as the 9800 or the X800, but it's definitely good enough to run the game, I think. Even if you have to put the texture pack at medium (like me) just to get the game to run really smoothly, things still look beautiful.

It's a great game, and would run perfectly fine on your system. If you don't mind sacrificing some eye-candy for smoothness of play (you COULD run it on high texture, but I find that sound skips a lot when I do that), then I'd definitely recommend going out and buying this game NOW!

Posted by Sunquest on Nov-19-2004 16:05:

ok then, i hope itll work

1 hour count down till get it wooooooo hooooo
half life 1 was OMG!!!! now this game looks 10000 times better

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Nov-19-2004 16:07:

If you like the first one, you are going to absolutely LOVE this one.

If you LOVE the first one...well, this one might just kill you.

Posted by Sunquest on Nov-19-2004 16:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
If you like the first one, you are going to absolutely LOVE this one.

If you LOVE the first one...well, this one might just kill you.

played the first one like 6 years ago or something? cant rememberr when it came out, from that day on, it was my fav. game of all time, so u can imagine how excited i am
also in love with opposing force, blue shift, and ofcourse counterstrike
im just THEE half life addict!!!

Posted by tu_face on Nov-19-2004 16:47:

be warned, there is a HUGE amount of messing about involved to get the thing going. the steam software is SHOCKING.

Posted by Cal on Nov-19-2004 17:38:

HL1 your favourite game of all time? There's got to be something wrong with you people. It was good at most, but the BEST? No way.

Posted by nrjizer on Nov-19-2004 18:02:

Steam isn't so bad. I downloaded the game right off steam over night last weekend, then on tuesday morning at 3am (right as the activation servers went up) it started automatically unlocking the game... took 10 minutes. Everyone's been complaining since then about the unlock times... but obviously Steam was swamped. It's probably died down now.

Posted by sleepydragon on Nov-19-2004 18:09:

it will run fine

Posted by Geoff on Nov-19-2004 19:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Cal
HL1 your favourite game of all time? There's got to be something wrong with you people. It was good at most, but the BEST? No way.

so wats the best?

Posted by Ken_Allen on Nov-19-2004 21:56:

Yes...your computer will eat that game for breakfest

Posted by k1ba on Nov-20-2004 07:23:

hl2 can run on dx7 cards fine, so ur good to go mate! also i dont know wtf people are bitching so much about steam, i never had any problems whatsoever since it came out, including when hl2 was released. it works perfectly fine.

Posted by tu_face on Nov-24-2004 16:59:

i guess my faff mainly came from having a 56k modem.. but its a rediculous concept anyway, they should have known the servers were going to be over-ruin and made alternate arrangements.

either way, the game FUCKING ROCKS. get it, worry about buying a system later

Posted by DJ_Hailstone on Nov-24-2004 17:34:

Re: Should I Get Half Life 2 ??? (Is my PC good enough?)

quote:
Originally posted by Sunquest
hey hey
ok i gotta big question
this is my computer
P4 2.7 gigaherz, 512 ram, ati radeon 9200 SE 128 mb video card
NOW
when i played doom 3,
it was horribly slow (not that i care, the game sucks )
but now half life 2, the sequal to my all time favorite game just came out and im wondering if my computer will be good enough for it?
i dont care if the graphics arent the best but i just want it running smoothly, no choppy lag :S i hate that
so is my computer good enough?
let me know peeps
thanx

Even if you dont care:
If you unpack the *.pk (not sure the extension) files with winrar for example, the game will be much faster.

Posted by Nayil on Dec-08-2004 18:24:

Posted by Jordan Stevens on Dec-09-2004 00:27:

u have what i have if better in all areas but the video card. i have the 9800. and it runs decent on my machine. i can tell you one thing thought, you will deff be able to run CS:Source for sure. it doenst take as much to run as HL2

Posted by 3xx3r7 on Dec-11-2004 00:32:

If you are willing to deal with that abomination called "Steam", then go for it.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-12-2004 20:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Cal
HL1 your favourite game of all time? There's got to be something wrong with you people. It was good at most, but the BEST? No way.

and what games would you say are better?

Posted by stren on Dec-12-2004 23:22:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
and what games would you say are better?

I guess you are to hyped bout it cause you haven't even played it actually

Posted by Sunsnail on Dec-19-2004 06:53:

So, how are you LOVING it?

Posted by Marcus007 on Dec-22-2004 23:51:

HL2 is the fkn BOMB! So scary. :X

Posted by Sunsnail on Dec-23-2004 06:24:

HL2's scare factor is a playground compared to doom3.

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