Caltrops - Half-Life II ??? - Re: I'm afraid...

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by Nixon 07/22/2003, 9:31pm PDT

Live Studio Audience wrote:

mrs. johnson wrote:

Will my computer be able to support Half-Life in all its splendor? Will my Athlon 1900XP chip with the 512 megs of ddram and a GeForce 4 TI 4400 be able to keep me satisfied? WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE?

HOLD ME,

the mrs.

GamingNEXT - With the outstanding graphics that HL2 is using, what should gamers have, minimally, to run this game?

Gabe Newell - An 800 MHz P-III and a DX6 level hardware accelerator (e.g. TNT).

You'd better start shopping for a new rig. I don't know if Dell is selling computers that can handle those requirements, but Alienware might.

BTW, valve is planning full client support for AMD 64bit processors on HL2's release.. which sounds very awesome.

This game will look so awesome scaled back for DX6. No complex water reflection/refraction. Simple shadows. No bump-mapping on the low resolution textures it will choose for you. No complex models in the background. Much less use of volumetrics and particles. Simple props and all at 16-bit color at 800x600. Man it will be as if it was 1997 all over again.

Your sarcasm has opened my eyes to a new kind of way just like that motherfucking Journey song. I'm never getting rid of my Packard Bell.