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[tamakun]

So, um, yeah. After leaving my computer overnight to download the Half-Life 2 Demo which I expected wouldn't run, I installed it (800MB expands easily to 4 gigs, I've discovered!) and gave it a test run.

It does. O.O

Aside from a little bottlenecking (audio/video stutter, choppiness) it still runs decently. I'm astounded. When I first saw the G-Man, I was expecting to see a blurry rendition, but nope... I could see the stubble on his cheeks. O.O

The only difference I saw in what I just played, compared to Kinnon's powerhouse compy, was that the G-Man's outline in the introduction overlayed the background, but the background wasn't blacked-out (I could see the environment behind him as opposed to just through him) - does that make sense?

back to *leers* work.

Comments

[kinnonyee.livejournal.com]

so he wasn't transparent

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

No, he was transparent - but I could see the environment through him and around him, as opposed to only through him (with nothing but black surrounding him).

Maybe I'm remembering the opening wrong?

Either way, I'm still amazed it works.

[rykuth.livejournal.com]

What are your machine's specs? I'm trying to determine how it would run on my computer.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I've got a 900-Mhz AMD Duron with 384MB RAM (admittedly a lot of memory was being chewed up through filesharing and BitTorrents) and a Sapphire Radeon 9000 (a DirectX 8.1 Hardware card).

I've had the stuttering occur before on other games - notably Half-Life 1 - when things got heavy in terms of action and loading, the framerate would drop considerably. Valve also released a patch for those who had stuttering problems, too, but I don't know if it works on the Demo.

Still astounded that it works... :P

[rykuth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so it's sounding like it might not run so badly on my computer. 1.8 Mhz P4 640MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro.

I'll have to try out the demo once I get back to college where my computer is.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Since your computer has twice the memory and processor speed of mine, with a DirectX 9.0-hardware Videocard, I would say "Yeah, your system can handle it". It'll have more special effects like shadows, fog, refractive water, etc, most likely.

Just make sure you've got a few gigs of Hard Drive space available for downloading and installing the game :P

[love-is-puke.livejournal.com]

such cute little zero eyes!