CNN preview of Half Life 2! With screenshots!

[KOBALT_KORE]

Erm
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57513
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And most people won't have to upgrade their systems - the game's minimum requirements will be something around a P700 with a TNT2 card! ("optimal" will be a p4 2Ghz with a Geforce 4).

[raz-0]

yeah and since when has minimum system requirements ever yielded anything playable? Minimum system requirements usually land someplace between an outright lie, and the game will boot and let you load a level eventually and refresh a frame eventually with everything set to the absolute minimum.

From th looks of it, anything under a gigahertz CPU and a geforce 2 GTS are probably going to be useless, but that's my guess, I could be wrong.

[ambient-whisper]

actually that usually goes for really shitty computers :) in the past ive played games that had about 100-200 mhz over what i had and the game played fine. sure it wasnt 60fps+ FAST, but very much playable.

Alices' requirements were way above what i had at the time. what helped me a ton was the videocard i had was new. :) and had plenty of ram.

[bentllama]

http://koti.mbnet.fi/nimda/hl2hc/index.htm

[KOBALT_KORE]

Originally posted by raz-0

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I agree with ambient-whisper... I played the original Half-Life on a computer that had 2/3 the CPU and 2/3 of the RAM that Half-Life required as a 'minimum'. The load times weren't bad considering(about a minute), and only once in the entire game did I ever have any slowdown that was bad enough to detract from the gameplay (it was in that level where there was that annoying rotating cylinder with a bunch of teleporters in it).

I played a bunch of other games on that comp that had 'requirements' far above the speed of my machine without any problems...

Plus, Valve has said specifically that they don't want to alienate all the CounterStrike players with TNT2's and lower-level CPU's from being able to play Half-Life 2.

ps. Sweet link bentllama! - I put it in the other thread too (just to keep all the info in one spot), and credited you for it.
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