Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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I know this is oftopic,but i doupt that in that they help me in other forurms.

..Ok, i was playing HL2 garrymod V.7a a few minutes ago

A guy that was playing there told me he had a ati radeon 9200 256 MB,and he was running
on full setting and had no lag,is that even possible?

an other question : I'm planning to buy a new videocard ( 6600gt ( pci-e or agp?) 128/256 mb ) Wich one should i choose.
I know that this is al in SLD's thead but i don't realy have the time for looking.

Any help would be apriciated.
Angelslayer

  • 05.03.2005 11:30 AM PDT
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Yeah its possible.. to be honest i think SLD and the others give the old grapics cards no love:).. The New grapics cards are great but the old ones such as the 9200 are still in the game. And you should get the 256mb one belive me your be happyier in about 2 years later.

  • 05.03.2005 11:35 AM PDT
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PCIe and 256mb if you can find it. With older cards 256mb is actually worse than 128 cause the card can't work as fast with 256. With the new cards though always get the highest amount.

  • 05.03.2005 12:47 PM PDT
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the 9200 cant fully utilize 256 mb, so there really isnt any point in 256 on a 9200, except someday you might play a game that required 256, and you would be like, boy! my 9200 has that!. By that time tho, the 9200 would be like the 8500 is now... totally...crap

  • 05.03.2005 10:43 PM PDT
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Yes, the 9200 still runs Halo, but it isn't great. I mean, you get low res, low graphics, lag...I had a GeForce 2 when Halo came out, I know what it is like. The thing is, that card is almost at the absolute low end of the spectrum for playable cards. That's all. the reason I don't suggest it is in 1 or 2 years you won't be able to really play games on it. It's called future proofing.

  • 05.03.2005 10:52 PM PDT
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But is it even possible to play the source engine on full with 1024*7.. with a 9200?

My 6610 can't even handle that!

  • 05.04.2005 3:23 AM PDT
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Was His name Any Chance Called GaMeR cause if it was... Its was me..... lol... and it is True!!!!!!, And ur Name was HeadCrab right?. am Playing it full Settings Resolution: 1024x768 (My Screen will reach that only i told u in game) i dident think it would be you man lol..... if i see u on CSS sometime my Name on that is HeRo and GaMeR on HL2:DM,

and HL2:CTF (Mod) en Garrys mod i saw u on lol.

ITS TRUE I RUN FULL SETTINGS NO LAGG AT ALL!!!

And ful settings Halo 1024x768 My PC is a lot better then it sounds...... processer is AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.50GHZ 512MB Ram. It Run all me games fine full settings, The card is not Crap the Graphics are very Good. and omg.. cant belive it was u man... lol

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  • 05.04.2005 9:43 AM PDT
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Yes AngelSlayer, it`s posible. In fact i have a 9200 se 128mb ddr and Half Life 2 works a lot better then Halo with little slowness and so on. Oh and btw i run Half Life 2 @ 1024/768 with everything at High...on the other hand i run Halo @ 1024/768 or more recently @ 800/600 with no specular or shadows,low or medium textures,high particles and decals on.

  • 05.04.2005 11:02 AM PDT
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Half Life 2's engine allows you to run most old cards at 1024 res with many settings enabled. The graphics system is easy on the cards due to nice shaders, non-demanding shadows, and really only about 14 textures simply mixed - so it's older system friendly, unlike say, Halo or Doom3.

  • 05.04.2005 11:34 AM PDT
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Haha,lol yeah that was me,..
man...weird



Unlucky me,i finally thought i had a good card to play hl2....but no...

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  • 05.04.2005 1:00 PM PDT
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Did you know that most of the Unstickied posts (like SLD's graphics cards guide) are found in a locked sticky at the top of The Maw called "The Guides: READ ME FIRST" ?

  • 05.04.2005 3:47 PM PDT
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Yeah i knew that

  • 05.05.2005 2:45 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Hmm, I dunno aboot this no-lag theory, if you mean ping then yes, your screen rez doesn't affect that, but as in a framerate above 40F/S all the time? impossible.

Now, AS, try adding this to the command line for HL2: -dxlevel 81

that'll change HL2 to use DirectX v8.1 rendering abilitites. You should gain a few extra F/S so the game should run smore smoothly.

another tweak: -heapsize 128000

that should increase the amount of ram HL2 uses to 128MB. I suggest setting it to the max of half your ram, so 1gig = a heapsize 512000

and to disable the intro video: -novid

bah, just read through this tweak guide:
http://www.tweakguides.com/HL2_7.html :p

  • 05.05.2005 10:35 AM PDT
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Thanks man!

  • 05.05.2005 11:08 AM PDT
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AHHHHHHH sorry!!!!!!!! its not 9200 thats my old PC Graphics lol!!!! its actually ATI Radeon 9600!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SORRY THE THE CONFUSION ANGEL!!!!! i guess 9200 wouldent handle HL2 Graphics..... AH WELL :D AM HAPPY :)

  • 05.05.2005 11:37 AM PDT
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  • 05.05.2005 12:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: AngelSlayer
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I know Ur Exact Thoughts about me........ that am a dumbass......... and u hate me............ ^_^....

  • 05.05.2005 2:43 PM PDT