Im worried 'bout something (HL2 Related)...

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I just wanted to know, heres all the crap my comp has:

64MB GeForce 4 MX420
Pentium 4 - 2.53ghz
512mb SDRAM
WinXP - Home Edition

Will Half-Life 2 run... ok or perfect?
Cause im always on 56k when it comes to online games.
And basically im having trouble just trying to get by ESF.
You can ask PCJoe the day I played him (Finally). My HL
would crash and sometimes I would lag out like crazy.

Battlefield 1942 also doesn't run all that great. And I have
DX9.0 installed. Also forgive me for asking but I really
dont know much about HL2. (Last time I was online it was
still a rumor with no screenshots/videos)
 
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battlefield doesn´t start or it laags etc?
if it doesn´t start then search "VideoDefault.con"
open it with a editor and change this line
"renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0"
to this
"renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1"
i had the same problem and that fixed it ^^

and hl2 should run on ur pcc very good if u buy a new 3d card :p because mx is ooold :p
 
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dark slayer said:
battlefield doesn´t start or it laags etc?
if it doesn´t start then search "VideoDefault.con"
open it with a editor and change this line
"renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0"
to this
"renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1"
i had the same problem and that fixed it ^^

and hl2 should run on ur pcc very good if u buy a new 3d card :p because mx is ooold :p
No it runs, but lets say the more "New Rounds" start the worst
my FPS gets, little by little. I donno why it does that.
 
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that´s strange :\ and is it the same level when the fps go down?
Yeah, but if map changes completely my FPS is normal again.
 
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HL2 was said to be able to support DX6 cards, Sierra was shooting for a wide range of players, if you set everything to low or medium, you SHOULD be able to run it.
When it comes to battlefield 1942 I was never able to run it very well with a Geforce 4 MX420, so its not surprising that it dosn't run well for you. I'd suggest getting a newer card. I just picked up a Gewforce FX 5200 128 megs for 100 bucks, it runs very well now, I can turn things up to high on BF1942.
For your 56k your pretty much screwed, I too am on 56k until next Wednesday I signed up for Gold service of Cable modem, so i
m pysched, anyway, I used to have to problem playing HL1 on 56k with near 200 ping, what I did was tweak out my modem a little. But I lagout on ESF because there was something wrong with the upgrade file that causes the major lag, I used the 1.1 WHOLE and it worked normal. But 1.0-1.1 seems to cause major lag and packet loss on 56k.
 
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Oh, well, I still have Beta 1.0 since I still dont have internet, im goinna be sure to sign up for DSL service next time I get online
 
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0_0 I only have:

AMD Athlon mmx 1200+
512MB SDRAM
GForce2 MX200 64MB
WinXP Prof

and ESF works Perfect, like all other HL-mods. The problem could be that you only have 56k. Or do you Installed KAZAA? Because there is a program that works all the time and is called P2P. Dont know if that is the problem, but when i installed kazaa on my pc, i lagged all the time, no matter which game.
BF1942........it only lags to me, if i play with bots.
 
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[GSF]Ganon said:
0_0 I only have:

AMD Athlon mmx 1200+
512MB SDRAM
GForce2 MX200 64MB
WinXP Prof

and ESF works Perfect, like all other HL-mods. The problem could be that you only have 56k. Or do you Installed KAZAA? Because there is a program that works all the time and is called P2P. Dont know if that is the problem, but when i installed kazaa on my pc, i lagged all the time, no matter which game.
BF1942........it only lags to me, if i play with bots.
No I dont use kazaa.
 
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The main problem will be your video card. You will be able to run hl2 ok depending on what your video settings are. The problem your having in bf1942 is the amount of ram you have. When it loads a new map it clears the ram but on new round it doesn't so it just fills up until it can't.
 

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HL2 will run ok on your computer. If you want it to run good-perfect you will need to invest in a new video card. Get a gf fx 5600 or higher for hl2 to run perfect.
 
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I just wanted to know, heres all the crap my comp has:
Crap? Lol. That's some pretty decent material. I have a similiar tower. I got an XP but they suck for games tho :p Yea, you should run it fine, but you might need to lower some gfx settings, dunno yet.. Wait til it's released to see.
 

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