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HL2 Performance Not What It Should Be?



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#1 Posted 17 November 2004 - 12:25 AM

Hi All,

I'm running HL2 on my system perfectly. I've got a good rig, and I can't complain about the game's performance at all.

My friend, however, isn't so lucky. He's got an Athlon running at 1300 MHz (so that's what, a 1500+?) 512 megs of ram, and a Radeon 9600 Pro. He's been running the game at 800x600, with all settings at medium or low, and he's visibly chugging and getting stuttering audio. It gives him a headache to play, and he's frustrated.

He's well above the minimum requirements, any ideas? CS:S runs fine (40-50 fps) and the stress test gets about 35fps.



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#2 Posted 17 November 2004 - 12:38 AM

[shameless bump]also, he just reformatted, so we've got all the newest drivers, all the latest stuff, no idle tasks messing with performance[/shameless bump]



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#3 Posted 17 November 2004 - 01:42 AM

nobody?



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#4 Posted 17 November 2004 - 01:44 AM

Try -dxlevel 81 in the Launch Options of HL2 Properties.



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#5 Posted 17 November 2004 - 01:46 AM

well. how good do you expect it to run with that processor?



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#6 Posted 17 November 2004 - 01:55 AM

i'd say better than really bad chugging at 800x600 with low detail.

i've been reading reviews saying they have it running well on old systems with GeForce4s.



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#7 Posted 17 November 2004 - 01:57 AM

Probably because they have a lower Dx version running by using the -dxlevel command.



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#8 Posted 17 November 2004 - 02:02 AM

NickNitro, on Nov 16 2004, 07:46 PM, said:

well. how good do you expect it to run with that processor?

Exactly!

It's also works slowly on my 2500+, just face it: He needs a better processor.



City 17 Civilian

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#9 Posted 17 November 2004 - 02:17 AM

1.3.....

required 2.4...

processor is the reason, i dont think u can get it to run any better with that... sorry



Combine Elite Pilot

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#10 Posted 17 November 2004 - 02:23 AM

yea its kinda chuggin on mine too a lil bit :( ...(airboat) yea some points i just skipped over a gap lol but idc! ITS FREAKING AMAZING ANYWAYS! WEEEEEEEEEEE!


im running mine on 800x600 w/ medium-high everything :D



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#11 Posted 17 November 2004 - 02:35 AM

Get a Pentium 4 3.0ghz 1MB Cache :)



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#12 Posted 17 November 2004 - 03:45 AM

it seems dxlevel 81 has helped a bit. thanks.

we're looking into upgrades.
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