messiah

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Gonna see how my Laptop handles the demo before splashing out my hard earned...

751mb!! better get started...

Chris L

Check the spec of your graphics card first! - Good game BTW - very addictive

messiah

Thats why I'm trying the demo first -

I've only got a Pentium 4 1.8ghz & a 64mb GeForce 4 graphics card - I'm a bit limited by what I can use to upgrade a laptop - don't know whether jumping up to 1gb of RAM from 512mb would make any difference...

Steve Perriam

hmm i'll go and grab this then as not bothered so far with the game........

whey hey, coming down at about 1.95 Mbps

Tim-Grove

1Mbps 124k/sec hear

Steve Perriam

yeah downloaded in about 50 mins

only ahd a quick look.

looks ok considering i was never a HL fan.

messiah

*****! Downloaded it at work then couldn't find an 800mb CD-R and I'd left my 1gb flash drive at home!

but there's always tonight...

MJW

The game will run on a GeForce4 MX440. It's been coded to use DirectX 7, 8 and 9 codepaths and you can select which one to run. DX9 looks the best of course, but it will still run on a DX7 card.

davegtt

started downloading at dinner and left the PC running whilst I came back to work, hope the PC is OK, probably get back and the house would have burnt down lol

only got a 128mb graphics card and 512MB RAM, reckon this'll run OK?

DrEvil

Which 128Mb GFX card and what CPU?

davegtt

Pentium 4 3GHz HT technology
GPX card is NVIDIA Gforce FX5200

Daz34

That P4 deserves a better graphics card IMHO

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

downloaded it and went to play , but after 3 minutes of waiting for steam to sort itself out i got bored and switched it off i think internet verification is just ruining the game, i cant even be bothered to play the demo now

Dave_A

downloading as we speak, hope my 386 will run this game ok.



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davegtt

I know I know, was ona budget at the time of purchasing and thought get the P4 whilst I can afford it and can get a better graphics card in time...

damn thing wont work. got 2 HDD's 1 10gig which is full and steam is installed on and the 40gig 1 which is free, when trying to run the HL2 demo it says cant install as not enough space (only 333mb left) although it wont let me change directory to the other HDD damn thing Ive given up with it tonight

PeterPerfect

I downloaded and played the demo
Steam registration is not a problem.......

DrEvil

re GFX card, if you get some spare cash, take a look at the 6600GT as a good upgrade.

As for the space issue, what a PITA that is... Hope you work it out.

mj

DL'd but wont install

I downloaded at work and it falls over on my home puter-wont install.

Chris L

Another decent graphics card (about £50 cheaper than the 6600 GT Alex mentioned) is the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I picked up the 128Mb version for £99 from Aria. Running on my P4 2.4Ghz (512Mb Ram, 120Gb HD) it's fine. My PC is in no way modded for games, but this card runs well.

what would scooby do

Yup my athlon xp 3200 with radeon 9800 pro works just fine also. Get the odd stutter when maps change but not a problem

DrEvil

Aye, tis a good card, I've got a Gigabyte 9800pro (256Mb) coupled with an AMD 3500+ (Winchester) - plays HL2 well.

The 6600GT is the current best performer it would seem in the circa 150 quid realm thou - check out reviews on anandtech.com

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Quite chuffed, my old Athlon 1700 with a Geforce 3 ti200 is handling it quite nicely, playable and looks superb even at 1024*768 and the next one up, even with high detail, I think bumping up the aliasing might finish it off though.

mj

just finished the demo after I eventually got it to work.

- will be buying the game to chug along on my P4 1.7 / radeon 8500 antique combo - plays ok TBH

Steve Perriam

just playing the demo a bit now and its not bad.

that gun you get whereby you can pick up items and throw them at enemies, like those big round saw-tooth edged discs is fun.

runs good on my 6600gt.

how do you get a fps reading in the demo ?

Frosty The Snowman

If you can get to the console, the "`" key directly below escape, you type in net_graph 3 I think and that should do it, if not play around with net_graph 1 etc 0 removes it again. You may have to activate the console which is done in the options-keyboard-advanced setting bit.

Dunno if the demo will allow you to do this but that's how it's done in CS:Source