Half-Life 2 Benchmark

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So is a benchmarking program for Half-Life 2? Wasn't there supposed be one coming out with the SDK at E3? I really wanna know if my Duron 1.3 with Voodoo3 can handle it :|
 
Lowest requirement for GPU is a DirectX 6 card (although, that may have been bumped up to DX7 now)
 
Shuzer said:
Lowest requirement for GPU is a DirectX 6 card (although, that may have been bumped up to DX7 now)
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Yeah, it has.
 
SMT said:
Yeah, it has.
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VALVe said "may," they weren't particularly positive.. but chances are it'll be a DX7 card for the bare minimum
 
LittleB said:
So is a benchmarking program for Half-Life 2? Wasn't there supposed be one coming out with the SDK at E3? I really wanna know if my Duron 1.3 with Voodoo3 can handle it :|
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That last parts a joke right?

no chance in hell.
 
Oh that's nice... I guess I won't be playing hl2
 
Just get a new graphics card.. even if you're restricted to PCI, a PCI Radeon 9200/GFFX 5200 should run the game alright (on lower settings, obviously)
 
not everyone has money to waste on computers...
 
If you could get ur hands on a radeon 9600 or similar, u would probbally get it playable.
 
A geforce2mx would probably be enough. Spend 12 quid on one of those from ebay,and you'll at least be able to play the game, even if it's not going to look too great..
 
Yeah, a GeForce2 or GF3 will be enough for a lower resolution(and medium or low detail). The CPU will be ok I guess.
 
Crusader said:
A geforce2mx would probably be enough. Spend 12 quid on one of those from ebay,and you'll at least be able to play the game, even if it's not going to look too great..
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Hi guys! Just to let you know, the lower end GeForce cards, especially the MX ones do not support vertex shading... and a lot of other things! In effect, making playing HL2 a very sad experience ;(

I just thought I would mention that because telling these people to buy GeForce's, especially old ones is a disservice to those who are really looking for the chance to get their hands on HL2. Even VALVe has stated that nVIDIA's cards suck ass for HL2.

That is all I have to say... I will stay quiet now :)

Sincerely,
Christopher
 
well, a Radeon 9200 then, though it would suck the same way... I got a GeForce4Ti4200, I can only recommend it, it dousn't have Pixel Shader 2.0, but the water and all that looks great enough, I've seen the beta:P The GF4 don't cost that much nowadays...
 
hiln said:
not everyone has money to waste on computers...
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the people that do shouldnt have to listen to the people that dont whine....
 
crabcakes66 said:
the people that do shouldnt have to listen to the people that dont whine....
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People who have horses shouldn't have to listen to people that don't whine about horses.... :stare:
 
there's a double negative there crabcakes66. In essance you are saying that those with money to waste DO, in fact, have to listen to those without money for computers whine. QED your pwned.
 
I don't have money to waste on my computer. I spend all my money on 12 year old hookers.


On a more serious note, anybody have an extra 9600 they're willing to donate to a poor man who has been supporting his family since he was 15? (namely, me :o)
 
Well, if you buy Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 256 mb RAM.That will be fine.the Game will work.
 
Throw that "not everyone has money to waste on computers" right out the window. If you can't keep up with technology, do not expect companies to wait and develop games around you. The low end users are lucky that Valve itself is developing HL2 in their favor. Personal computer systems are not consoles. You are required to update your computer as technology advances, in order to keep up the graphical 3-D applications/games created. Not everybody has money to "waste" on computers?

Laughable. Go play a console if you are going to throw around harped, erroneous statements.
 
David said:
Well, if you buy Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 256 mb RAM.That will be fine.the Game will work.
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The 128MB version is more than enough.
 
I think that a Radeon 9000 PRO or a R9100 would do fine, but I think that these cards are a bit hard to get right now and have been replaced by R9200 - not a bad card if you get the 128bit version (not 128MB RAM, 128bit memory access), it's performance is comparable to GeForce3 Ti200 and GeForceFX 5200 (yes, the 5200 is that slow - only the 5200Ultra is a bit faster than R9100)...
 
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=121420&cks=PRL

it's an LE but it's the damned cheapest one i've ever seen.

your duron sounds old and will have lower l2 cache than most. Also how much ram do you have? It's gonna be slow as well. Plus I hope you've got AGP on your motherboard or you can't stick this card in it.

You could build a pc for £300 easy. Prob £200
 
i did a check on futuremark and roughly speaking with this duron setup the 9100 scores approx 960 points and the 9600se scores about 2000. These are 3dmark2k3 scores
 
R9600SE scored higher in 3dmark 2003 because it has DirectX9 support (shaders 2.0 and stuff like that) but it's performance in games will be a tragedy, and I bet you won't be able to run Half-Life in DX9 mode :/
 
it scored higher in 3dmark 2k3 because it is better than a 9100 at running current games. 3dmark2k3 is designed especially as a benchmark to see how well your GPU can handle 21st century games using dx 8 and 9 with pixel shader 2.

I understand what you mean though - the 9100 scored higher in 3dmark 2k1 but it's worth remembering that that benchmark is old and designed for dx6.0 boards and up. In my opinion 2k3 is a better reflection of hl2 than 2k1 is.
 
jonnyapps said:
it scored higher in 3dmark 2k3 because it is better than a 9100 at running current games. 3dmark2k3 is designed especially as a benchmark to see how well your GPU can handle 21st century games using dx 8 and 9 with pixel shader 2.

I understand what you mean though - the 9100 scored higher in 3dmark 2k1 but it's worth remembering that that benchmark is old and designed for dx6.0 boards and up. In my opinion 2k3 is a better reflection of hl2 than 2k1 is.
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that's laughable. imho, 3dmark03 is one of the poorest indicators of how your system will play games. It's not even a good indicator of you video card. If you don't have a dx9 card, you'll score under 1000. people with ti4600 play gmaes faster than people with 5600U or some 9600s. It's a horrible test of video card performance in real-world gaming situations. curently there are NO games that REQUIRE you to have a dx9 card.

And, as I said, it's a horrible benchmark of how you're system will do; it relaly only take sinto account your video card, and i've already shown how that's a bad test. Some site used 3dmark03 to benchmark 2 systems, and they scored within 400 points of each other. The 2 system? p3 500mhz and a p4 3.0Ghz, both with a 9800pro in them. Are you telling me that my old p3 will play games jsut as good as a 3.0ghz machine if i put a 9800pro in it?
 
I know one thing - buying a 64-bit graphic board (like 9000SE, 9600SE) is a total mistake.
Take a look at this page:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTYzLDM=
It shows that games perform similarly on 9200SE and 9600SE - It means that a standard, 128bit version of R9200 (non-SE) is faster than 9600SE!
Please, do NOT buy 'SE' video cards, no matter how cheap they are!
 
SE is the equivelant of MX on Geforce cards.
they are bottom of the barrel quality cards.

just remember you get what you pay for, its always a good idea to save and wait a little longer than to go out and buy the cheapest card/hardware you can.
especially since we have no Idea when HL2, and Doom3 will be here...... it could be another year (Im not saying it will, Im saying it COULD happen)...

@Przemek: nice Theatre of Tragedy site.. awesome band, thanks for sharing. :cheers:
 
half alive said:
fine. ...char. limit...
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Well thats a relief, but do you know on what resolution will it comfortably run the game at or how much AA I can work it at?
 
I guess that's why we have to wait for the HL2 Benchmark, MrWhite :)
But a good DirectX8.1 card may run the game at highest possible settings, just without the DirectX9 effects.
 
so which card would run better on hl2 in your guys opinion? the 9100 or the 9600se?
 
Well good... I hope they release a benchmark soon, I've been restless since the game was announced to know if I could play it... I don't mind not having the dx9 effects, because I know I'll eventually get a new graphics card soon enough, I just want to be able to play relatively well until I can
 
MrWhite said:
Well thats a relief, but do you know on what resolution will it comfortably run the game at or how much AA I can work it at?
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depends on the card, playing in DX8 mode, just means you miss a ton of cool shaders/effect.. it shouldnt really effect performance since your losing quality.

if its an MX/SE card, your looking at even less quality/effects since they dont support certain shaders (Vertex)

what system do you have? what resolution do you play games in currently? do you enable AF and AA in other games? if so which and how do they run?
 
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