Will HL2 run? Created 19 years ago2005-01-22 12:05:06 UTC by LlamaRama2

Hey everyone- I was around a while back but have had little time recently to map... and I forgot my password, hence the very original choice of new username! Anyway... I have HL2 in front of me, but I am waiting for a new laptop to play it as I very much doubt my desktop would manage... do you think it would be possible? Here are the specs:

Pentium 3: 733Mhz
128 MB RAM
Intel 82810E Graphics Controller (shares main memory)

Doesn't look promising, eh? Also, are the Intel Extreme cards any good? I would ideally of course like a radeon in my laptop, just wondered how these compared. Cheers.

That 733 ain't gonna cut it. You'll need 256 RAM as well, so that kind of eliminates the RAM and the Graphics Controller from HL2's range.

No clue if Intel Extreme cards are any good, but I doubt they're as good compared to a nice ATI or nVidia.

hey man i beat all of hl2 without a problem on defult settings
my specs:
900 duron @ 1148 109-145-10.5-1.85v
gforce440mx(no shader support)
and 512 ram, only slows down when i have too may team mates at the same time. you might be able to run it on low and get good rates!!

p.s i decompiled my hl2 so that might speed it up too

No clue if Intel Extreme cards are any good, but I doubt they're as good compared to a nice ATI or nVidia.

Nope, they aren't. It's an intergrated GFX card.
Sorry to say mate, but you've got no chance.

p.s i decompiled my hl2 so that might speed it up too

I highly doubt it. You sure that's the word you meant?

Perhaps you extracted the GCF files? You must have HD room to blow...

Thats all a load of bullshit. (well maybe not all of it) But im running a simmilar machine to him and I can play it, its just that you dont get all the lovely jubly
DX8+ stuff. The intel extreme GFX is fine and can run games up to 64mb requirements. The only thing you should really worry about is your memory and im not sure how much your processor will afect game-play (im running a 2.6 Ghz celleron) but memmory should be upgraded to a min (in my opinion) to
about 256mb. My overall opinion is that if you upgrade your memory you should just about be able to play. But if want a descent looking Hl2 graphics that everyone is saying are amazing UPGRADE, UPGRADE!!
You by any chance running an emachine?

did u forrget the password for your computer,

or ur steam account?

he forgot his TWHL account password.

"Perhaps you extracted the GCF files? You must have HD room to blow..."

that's what i ment

im running half life 2 on my 10 year old laptop, i put setting on high get about 10000 fps, its alright i guess. I just need to pay for the chryogenic freezer thing to keep my computer cool why i overclock it. Uh oh its melting.

Intel 82810E Graphics Controller (shares main memory)

The intel extreme GFX is fine and can run games up to 64mb requirements.

Are you insane? That GFX card shares the main memory. 128 meg is bad enough to start with. I'd get some RAM and a new GFX card.

Currently, I run HL2 on a GeForce4 MX, P4 1.5ghz and 512megs of RAM. The game runs at an acceptable level.

10000fps? waht are you running some sort of alien technology or some type of military/labratory supercomputer.

and when i built my new pc i built it specificly for HL2, it meets the recomended specs exactly, except for the video card which is a radeon 9800pro

I dont like HL2 for that reason. I hate VALVe's greed and rejection of us minions.

I not saying dont upgrade but all im saying is that I can run it fine on my hunk of junk.
PS Jahze: come on you gotta be nice to them, they have made the nice engine that can work on lower spec computers yet still look amzing and even better on more powerfull machines.