twobirds

Well, I'm not sure why you would need to apply any performance tweeks for
this game. In fact I'm disapointed. Doom3 and HL2 were supposed to be the
games that forced users to upgrade their hardware... Hardly. Anyone with a
1.5 P4 or an XP-1700 with 384 megs and a GeForce 3 TI-200 or an ATI Radeon
8500 can get accpetable framerates at 800X600. Move up to a P4 2.4 or an
XP-2400 with a GeForce 4 class card and you're playing at decent framerates
at 1024X768.

I installed on a fast machine with a GeForce 4 TI-4600 and it was smooth as
silk at 1024X768... So, I wondered how it would go on a lesser machine.
Even though Steam pitched a momentary hissy fit when I fed the same CD key
for a different installation, it came out OK. I installed on a PIII 1.0 Ghz
with a GeForce 3 TI-200 and 512 PC-2100. fraps is reporting 28.4 frames per
second at 800X600 and the shadows etc turned off. There is some stuttering
audio but I'm experiencing that on the fast machine, too.

iphigenie

I started thinking something odd was going on in
alt.games.half-life when one foggy november evening "twobirds"
<notareal@eaddy.com> came into my office and told me:


You're disappointed? Imagine how ATI and Nvidia feel!

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mcgrandpa

after seeing Anandtechs writeup on this issue of ATI/Nvidia DX8/DX9
stuff, I won't be surprised at all to find that DX9 with PS2 looks and
behaves very well and smooth with my FX5900 that's going back in soon.
McG.