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Holy crap, HL2 runs on this computer
2005-10-09, 11:45 AM #1
So I'm at home for the long weekend; and I decide to conduct an experiment: will HL2 run on a five-year old computer?

Specs:

850 Mhz PIII
512 MB RAM (originally 128; we upgraded a couple of years ago)
64 MB GeForce 2

I downloaded the HL2 demo, and amazingly enough, it runs smoothly (at 640*480; all options at minimum). Now that's optimization. I'd like to see Doom 3 (or, hell, even UT2K4) running on this comp.
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2005-10-09, 11:48 AM #2
Awesome.

Congradtulations on the 13,000th thread. :)
2005-10-09, 12:01 PM #3
Wtf

I have a 1.8ghz 512mb ram GeForce FX 5200 128mb and I can only run on 800x600 with everything on minimum.

That's just wrong. :(

2005-10-09, 12:02 PM #4
Originally posted by Anovis:
Congradtulations on the 13,000th thread. :)
It's not the 13,000th thread. It's nowhere even close.

UBB was ever-so-slightly worse than VBulletin and it tended to die when there were too many active threads. In order to keep the forums running the old posts were routinely pruned.

Edit: It's not the least bit surprising that you can get it to run on a machine that old. HL2 is graphically primitive and the engine, itself, is little more advanced than Quake. :p HL2's big performance problems lie in its huge textures and its shaders, neither of which you'd be able to utilize.

And it runs crappily on MZZT's computer because the FX5200 runs about as fast as the aforementioned GeForce 2.
2005-10-09, 12:11 PM #5
UT2k4 will run on that machine. UT2k3 ran on my 700 Celeron, 192mb of RAM, 7500LE. Doom 3...yeah...no...
D E A T H
2005-10-09, 12:38 PM #6
Doom 3 runs on my P2-333 with 128mb of RAM and a Voodoo Banshee. If you remember that it is nothing more than Quake + Quake 2 + Quake 3 + New stuff, you realize that you can strip away the last 3 mentioned and get something that looks like quake with better models. CVARs, people!
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2005-10-09, 12:41 PM #7
Voodoo Banshee?

I'm skeptical, to say the least.

And Doom 3 is an entirely new engine, using no Quake 2/3 code (apart from the console Windows GUI code)
2005-10-09, 12:43 PM #8
Originally posted by FancyMan:
Doom 3 runs on my P2-333 with 128mb of RAM and a Voodoo Banshee. If you remember that it is nothing more than Quake + Quake 2 + Quake 3 + New stuff, you realize that you can strip away the last 3 mentioned and get something that looks like quake with better models. CVARs, people!



No. What's the frame-rate, and no. Oh, and by the way, no. A Pentium 2 could NOT under ANY circumstances power DOOM3.
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2005-10-09, 1:37 PM #9
Originally posted by Zloc_Vergo:
No. What's the frame-rate, and no. Oh, and by the way, no. A Pentium 2 could NOT under ANY circumstances power DOOM3.

I've seen it run on a voodoo card, not sure about that pentium 2 bit though
</sarcasm>
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2005-10-09, 1:47 PM #10
Listen to this:

UT2k4 will run on my computer, which is, get this:

a 6 year old Dell Dimension XPS
700 MGHz
384 MBs of Ram
Windows 98
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 Card with 64 MB of RAM

But believe it or not, UT2K4 runs beautifully:

I can have 1152x864 resolution
Graphics on medium to high range
And play on maps with several bots
with very good framerate
I can crank the grpahics up to the almost max
and it will still be barely playable

:p
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2005-10-09, 1:55 PM #11
Originally posted by Daft_Vader:
700 MGHz


:eek:
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2005-10-09, 2:02 PM #12
Wow, yeah, that's like 700 PHz
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2005-10-09, 3:04 PM #13
MEGAGIGAHERTZ
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2005-10-09, 3:24 PM #14
Originally posted by Daft_Vader:
Listen to this:

UT2k4 will run on my computer, which is, get this:

a 6 year old Dell Dimension XPS
700 MGHz
384 MBs of Ram
Windows 98
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 Card with 64 MB of RAM

But believe it or not, UT2K4 runs beautifully:

I can have 1152x864 resolution
Graphics on medium to high range
And play on maps with several bots
with very good framerate
I can crank the grpahics up to the almost max
and it will still be barely playable

:p

I played doom 3 with that same card, though my specs are slightly higher than yours.
</sarcasm>
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2005-10-09, 3:28 PM #15
Originally posted by Zloc_Vergo:
No. What's the frame-rate, and no. Oh, and by the way, no. A Pentium 2 could NOT under ANY circumstances power DOOM3.

And why the hell not? It's not like it uses advanced physics... or advanced AI... or advanced anything except graphics, which can be turned off. And BTW, I get around 30fps normally, 15fps combat. That's playable to me.
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2005-10-09, 5:26 PM #16
Originally posted by FancyMan:
And why the hell not? It's not like it uses advanced physics... or advanced AI... or advanced anything except graphics, which can be turned off. And BTW, I get around 30fps normally, 15fps combat. That's playable to me.


You're an idiot.
D E A T H
2005-10-09, 5:27 PM #17
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]You're an idiot.[/QUOTE]
I concur
did you even play doom 3?
</sarcasm>
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2005-10-09, 5:30 PM #18
Er yeah, Doom III's physics are quite advanced, although sometimes a little flippy. I haven't tried it since the patches or in the expansion, but for an inhouse physics engine, it rocks. It's also completely open to the community, I bet there have been mods to enhance the physics for quite some time.
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2005-10-09, 5:36 PM #19
Well, there is an ungibbable (sp?) mod by ID_Junkguy that lets you play around with dead bodies and such in Doom3. I'm not sure why id software made the bodies go away so fast (to save framerate?)
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2005-10-09, 5:40 PM #20
Originally posted by Echoman:
Well, there is an ungibbable (sp?) mod by ID_Junkguy that lets you play around with dead bodies and such in Doom3. I'm not sure why id software made the bodies go away so fast (to save framerate?)


It would have melted your pc. The models were VERY high-poly, and the bumpmapping...gah...yeah, it saved assloads of performance issues.
D E A T H
2005-10-09, 5:54 PM #21
Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW:
MEGAGIGAHERTZ


that made me giggle
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2005-10-09, 6:19 PM #22
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]You're an idiot.[/QUOTE]
Give me one example of something in Doom 3 that requires a lot of CPU power that cannot be disabled through CVARs.
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2005-10-09, 6:34 PM #23
Models.
D E A T H
2005-10-09, 6:38 PM #24
Lighting?
"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2005-10-09, 7:03 PM #25
[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]Lighting?[/QUOTE]
the screens of it running on a voodoo2 seem to be in fullbright
</sarcasm>
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2005-10-09, 7:06 PM #26
Whoever is stupid enough to run it on a voodoo 2 shouldn't be playing computer games on the first place, and go to consoles.
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2005-10-09, 7:08 PM #27
[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]Whoever is stupid enough to run it on a voodoo 2 shouldn't be playing computer games on the first place, and go to consoles.[/QUOTE]

It ran pretty well. Besides, GPUs do lighting.
D E A T H
2005-10-09, 7:10 PM #28
Originally posted by Zloc_Vergo:
No. What's the frame-rate, and no. Oh, and by the way, no. A Pentium 2 could NOT under ANY circumstances power DOOM3.


Zloc, you forgot about the part where you wouldn't know.
2005-10-09, 7:28 PM #29
[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]Whoever is stupid enough to run it on a voodoo 2 shouldn't be playing computer games on the first place, and go to consoles.[/QUOTE]
it was purely an experiment. a successful one
</sarcasm>
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2005-10-09, 7:32 PM #30
as much as it was, someone who does it to actually play the game has something wrong in their head :P
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"Oh."
2005-10-09, 8:02 PM #31
Originally posted by kyle90:
So I'm at home for the long weekend; and I decide to conduct an experiment: will HL2 run on a five-year old computer?

Specs:

850 Mhz PIII
512 MB RAM (originally 128; we upgraded a couple of years ago)
64 MB GeForce 2

I downloaded the HL2 demo, and amazingly enough, it runs smoothly (at 640*480; all options at minimum). Now that's optimization. I'd like to see Doom 3 (or, hell, even UT2K4) running on this comp.


Try running DoD: Source on that thing and THEN talk to me :p
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2005-10-09, 8:54 PM #32
me and my friends got doom 3 to run on this computer:

pentium 2 (600mhz)
128MB RAM
64MB video card (onboard)

the game didn't run very well but hey, it went
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2005-10-09, 10:15 PM #33
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]You're an idiot.[/QUOTE]

Don't you ever not repeat yourself?
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2005-10-09, 10:35 PM #34
Originally posted by SavageX378:
Try running DoD: Source on that thing and THEN talk to me :p


erm... everything at minimum would mean hdr and bloom off, so it would run the same. :p
gbk is 50 probably

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2005-10-09, 11:59 PM #35
Originally posted by NoESC:
erm... everything at minimum would mean hdr and bloom off, so it would run the same. :p

Not true. My NEW rig runs hl2, all medium or high, at 1024x768 at 50-60fps. It runs DoD:S on minimum/640x480 at 2-4fps.
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2005-10-10, 2:09 AM #36
This thread has got me curious, I'm going to test Doom 3 on my 7 year old compy.
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2005-10-10, 3:30 AM #37
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]The models were VERY high-poly[/QUOTE]

Thats hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever said about Doom3.
2005-10-10, 4:59 AM #38
Originally posted by FancyMan:
Not true. My NEW rig runs hl2, all medium or high, at 1024x768 at 50-60fps. It runs DoD:S on minimum/640x480 at 2-4fps.


That's probably because you have a DX8.1 card and there was a problem where it forced DX9.0, which would cause massive fps drops. Also, explain "new" rig. I've had people call 5700LE's new.

It would run it about the same.

Rob--Doom 3 does have very high poly models. You can't deny that. You can look at it and SAY they aren't high poly, but that doesn't make it not so.
D E A T H
2005-10-10, 5:08 AM #39
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]
Rob--Doom 3 does have very high poly models. You can't deny that. You can look at it and SAY they aren't high poly, but that doesn't make it not so.[/QUOTE]

The sharp edges must all be for aesthetics. :P
2005-10-10, 5:35 AM #40
Originally posted by Rob:
The sharp edges must all be for aesthetics. :P


There's plenty of smooth ones too, but yeah, there are a lot of sharp edges. Were in painkiller too, and iirc, they're about the same polycount for models.
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