How will my spec cope with it?

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My spec is:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Half a gig of RAM

How well will it run HL2 and CS:S? Will I be able to have the graphic
settings above the lowest?

 

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:39:58 -0000, "qwirty" <qwirty@email.com> wrote:

>AMD Athlon XP 2000+
>ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
>Half a gig of RAM
>
>How well will it run HL2 and CS:S? Will I be able to have the graphic
>settings above the lowest?

Your limiting factor will be RAM, apart from that you would be able to
max out the graphics.
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qwirty wrote:
> My spec is:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
> Half a gig of RAM
>
> How well will it run HL2 and CS:S? Will I be able to have the graphic
> settings above the lowest?
>
>
It's be fine. I've played with that setup but with a GeForce 4 MX.

 

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In alt.games.half-life qwirty <qwirty@email.com> wrote:
> My spec is:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
> Half a gig of RAM
>
> How well will it run HL2 and CS:S? Will I be able to have the graphic
> settings above the lowest?
>

Yes, without a doubt. I do recommend you stick with the default
recommended video settings though. Perhaps tweak them after you have
had sometime to play the game.

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"Tim Sampson" <tim@get.rid.of.this.the-sampsons.co.uk> wrote in
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> qwirty wrote:
>> My spec is:
>>
>> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
>> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
>> Half a gig of RAM
>>
>> How well will it run HL2 and CS:S? Will I be able to have the
>> graphic
>> settings above the lowest?
>>
>>
> It's be fine. I've played with that setup but with a GeForce 4 MX.

You can't really compare how well the game runs if you use a GF4
because it will take the directX 7 path and will run much faster
because of the lack of refractive water, bump mapping etc etc whereas
the original poster's 9800 will take the directX 9 path

Having said that a 9800 will perform very well as long as you have the
right drivers (see www.steampowered.com forums for catalyst related
issues) and as long as you quit all background tasks (anti-virus etc)
then 512MB will be more than enough.

 

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:30:54 -0000, "I like Toys and Cake"
<me@privacy.net> wrote:

>Having said that a 9800 will perform very well as long as you have the
>right drivers (see www.steampowered.com forums for catalyst related
>issues) and as long as you quit all background tasks (anti-virus etc)
>then 512MB will be more than enough.

I have 768MB and the game regularly stutters with Windows busily
paging, I would hate to try it with 512MB.
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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:30:54 -0000, "I like Toys and Cake"
> <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>Having said that a 9800 will perform very well as long as you have
>>the
>>right drivers (see www.steampowered.com forums for catalyst related
>>issues) and as long as you quit all background tasks (anti-virus
>>etc)
>>then 512MB will be more than enough.
>
> I have 768MB and the game regularly stutters with Windows busily
> paging, I would hate to try it with 512MB.

Then I think you need to sort out your system, My friend plays
perfectly with 256MB and although I have 2GB I have windows set to
never swap off it's core along with several background tasks I cannot
quit leaving around 520MB actual free memory and it runs like a dream.

 

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In article <qlh9q0t0h2v6jb17tv9ufk52v0u32tsflt@4ax.com>,
spamtrap@localhost. says...
> I have 768MB and the game regularly stutters with Windows busily
> paging, I would hate to try it with 512MB.

then your system has serious problems. 512MB is more then enough to play
CS and most on-line games. What you need to do is look at ALL of the
things running in the background and determine which ones are stealing
CPU cycles while you are playing.

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:14:22 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.org> wrote:

>then your system has serious problems. 512MB is more then enough to play
>CS and most on-line games.

I was referring mainly to HL2. CS:S runs okay.

> What you need to do is look at ALL of the
>things running in the background and determine which ones are stealing
>CPU cycles while you are playing.

Nothing is "stealing CPU cycles", HL2 is using all my available memory
(about 512MB free before starting HL2) and then some.
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Andrew wrote:

>>then your system has serious problems. 512MB is more then enough to play
>>CS and most on-line games.
>
>
> I was referring mainly to HL2. CS:S runs okay.

Understandably - CS:S is designed with online multiplayer in mind - they
can't afford maps with gargantuan polycounts and hundreds of different
textures.


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