Half Life 2

[chadder]

I just beat it, and HL2 HAS to be the greatest FPS i have ever played!!! [img]graemlins/bowdown.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/bowdown.gif[/img] if you like FPS's and dont have it, go buy it RIGHT NOW!! ending is a little dissapointing though. Heres my system if you are interested

Athlon XP 3200 (at ~2400mhz)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo
1 gig CL2 Patriot (noname, but is great)
Radeon 9800 nonpro (@ 400/358, thanks to Zalman heat pipe)
2x Seagate Barricuda SATA 80g. in Raid 0
and a DVD player

i can play at 10x7 with everything maxed out (including 6x antial. and 16x aniso. only thing holdin me back is my crappy monitor :(

If you dont think you can run it, think again, my best friend runs it on his athlon 1600+ with a Radeon 8500, 256 of ram, its pretty dang slow, but it runs HL2 suprisingly well.

Sorry for the huge post, i think this is the longest one i have ever written...Enjoy [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/banana.gif[/img]

[Loochy88]

im thinking about buying it. it looks pretty good. maybe for xmas.

[L32Projekt]

I'm still waiting for my CPU to come in, but here's my system stats once that part's in:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (Clawhammer, 1MB L2 Cache)
1GB Corsair PC-3200 RAM CAS Latency 2.5
2x Seagate 80GB SATA Drives (RAID-0)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 128MB version
MSI K8N Neo-FSR nForce-3 Motherboard
Antec Sonata Tower w/380W PSU
HP 300i DVD+RW

I can't wait to buy HL2 and see how it runs! DOOM3 will be installed after I bore myself of HL2.

[RancidCamaro]

I totally agree with you - Half Life 2 was one of the best games I've ever played!

CS: Source isn't too bad either.

[MrCoffee]

I'm on CS source all the time!

[Merlin]

HL2 is truly one of the best FPS games Ive ever played. It makes Doom3's gameplay look like ping pong. The graphs, sounds, special fx, *gameplay*, storyline is all excellent.

I got it and got through the whole thing this weekend. You get to do just about everything you can imagine. The ending ... well, I'll refrain from giving any spoilers ;)

Oh yeah I played it in "Medium" settings and didn't notice much of a drop in graphic detail or FPS as opposed to the "High" settings.

[Merlin]

Originally posted by chadder:
ending is a little dissapointing though.

I agree, but up to the very VERY end, the story and gameplay is amazing [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img] It just leaves you wanting to kick more a$$.

[articacid]

Ive been waiting for this game for so long i just went and got a video card so i cant play now i just need to save up to money to get the game i think ill be able to run it prett good here what i got:
p4 non ht 2.53 ghz 533 fsb
80gig hd
512 ram
asylem/nvidia geforce 5200 256mb($125 at walmart)

[L32Projekt]

Originally posted by articacid:
Ive been waiting for this game for so long i just went and got a video card so i cant play now i just need to save up to money to get the game i think ill be able to run it prett good here what i got:
p4 non ht 2.53 ghz 533 fsb
80gig hd
512 ram
asylem/nvidia geforce 5200 256mb($125 at walmart)

Return that FX-based card ASAP! That thing's gonna hurt your performance since it doesn't truly support DirectX9. Hang on, let me get the article...

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281&p=3

Link to the beginning:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281

EDIT: Forgot to add my Athlon 64 3400+ came in today, had just enough time before work to install it and the fan, and see if the system would POST. Then I got to come to work... yay... :(

[BirdOfPrey01]

Here's my system..

2.9 ghz pentium 4
128 mb nvidia 5200 fx card
512mb ram

I can play half life 2 on anostophic times 16 all high graphics and very little to no lag. It runs so god damn smooth, its unbelievable.

The funny thing is doom 3 lags on pc even on low graphics.

It is because of dooms compression methods and super advanced lighting makes me bearly play it smoothly.

[chadder]

um, that sounds really wrong, cause Nvidia cards are supposed to play Doom 3 better, Doom 3 uses stencil shaders, which Nvidia cards rule at drawing, while HL2 is a true dx9 game which ATI cards 'used' to outperform Nvidia at. (doom3=openGL) what res. are you running at?

[Distephano]

Hey ya'll. I have a decent amount of Know-how on computers, but I'm pretty clueless on the subject of video cards.

My System:

Dell 8300

3.0 Ghz HT P4
512 Mb 3200DDR 400Mhz
Nvida FX5200 (128mb)

I have a feeling the Video card is gonna do me in for trying to play HL2, eh?

[L32Projekt]

It'll be playable, but you may have to use the DX8 codepath to get decent performance. Crap, I still gotta get my copy of HL2 before the stores close! :D

[RancidCamaro]

Anyone played HL: Deathmatch?

It's total chaos!

[speedracer95v6]

I think I need it. I imagine my 2600+(333), 512MB PC2700, 128MB radeon 9600 pro can take it.

Maybe when I get back from San Diego I'll buy more ram and a 3200+...who knows...I'll prolly just build a 64 system.