Windows what GFX card & system are you running with HL2?

Ok so HL2 came out yesterday and I have heard good things and bad things about how it runs on peoples systems so I was wondering if we could amass some figures here so if you have the game.

a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind.

This should help us solve which is more buggy the game or the game via steam. I would answer this forum my self but I am lacking funds to buy HL2 (I could have cried last night when I pick up a copy of it and knew I couldn't buy it) I also don't think my GFX card is up to snuff as I have an GF fx series and have seen that there might be issues with that series.

 

a) Radeon 9800 Pro
b) 1280 x 1024 (TFT) @ 60Hz
c) ABit NF7S-2, AthlonXP 3200, 2x512MB PC3200, Maxtor 200GB sATA, SB Audigy
d) Steam, baby
e) Only problem I had was one scene where flaming barrels were being chucked into water (in the sewers) and the fps dropped to about -1 for a few seconds. No idea why, although I have recently installed an Arctic VGA Silencer and I don't think it's making proper contact with the gpu core as the gpu is one of the sort that has a shim (doh), so I may very well take the VGA cooler off and stick the standard cooler back on. Using ATI Tool, I can clock the core up to about 460 before it starts artifacting, instead of 430, memory clock unaffected, but the 3d display on ATI Tool jumps about a fair bit. Bit peed off about that tbh, but hey ho.

Other than that one time, it plays very smooth.

btw, using Omega Driver's, I know they have a .67 at the end of the version, but can't remember the rest All details on full, 2xaa, 2xaf (first time I've played a game with aa/af on).

I'm up to a part where I've dodged the steam coming from the pipes and come across a small handful of the bad dudes (and one of those flying, choppy things). Dealt with them all but can't seem to progress. Will have another go tonight

 

a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind.

a) Geforce 4 Ti4600 128mb
b) 1280 x 1024 65hz
c) 2600XP at 2.1Ghz 768mb 400mhz (512mb corsair xms + 256 crucial)
80GB Maxtor, ASrock cheapo mobo
d) Amazon
e) runs a treat, not using AA of AF

 

a. 9700 pro
b. 1024 x 768, highest detail, 4xaa 4xaf @ 120Hz
c. XP-M 2500+, DFI NF2 Infinity ultra, 512MB XMS2700
d. Retailer - amazon
e. 30-150fps + loading jerkiness now and again

 

1. 9800pro 128mb @ XT clocks (412/365)
2. 1024 x 764, 75Hz. high settings, no aa or af
3. see 'my rig' in sig
4. steam, silver package (although hl:source is a bit poo )
5. just the load times.. and the jittering at the beginning of a new part, apart from that smooth @ about 70-90 fps average

 

Just got it fired up this morning.
"a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind."

a.) Gainward GFX 5950 Golden Sample, Stock at 500/1000, Watercooled and clocked up to 525/1050
b.) 1280X1024, 2XAF and 2XAA High Quality in NVidia Control panel- Dell 18" LCD
c.) Abit NF7-S, AMD 2500 Barton, 2X512 Kingston HyperX PC4200, 100Gig Western Digital ATA100 w/8Mg cache
d.) Collector's/Special Edition, since I didn't have HL1 or Counter Strike, so I guess via Steam with just the one disk.
e.) None yet, only played a little this morning, ran the Video stress test at no AA/AF and got 98FPS, and then with 2X AA/AF I got 39FPS. Ifs pretty playable, but I might tweak back to High Performance to see if I get 50-60FPS in the stress test.

 

a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind.

a) ATI Radeon 9800XT (stock speed)
b) 1024x768 70hz no aa 2xaf very good fps monitor doesnt like anything higher than that
c) P4E 3Ghz, 512 mb corsair twinx 3200XL (2-2-2-5), Asus P4C800E Deluxe
d) steam :S it took me 14 hours from start to finish!!!
e) maily steam problems with the download freezing for a while and other steam related stuff, no problems with the game whatso ever! no stuttering no random drops in frame rate for an instant, nothing just a lil caching at the start

 

Desktop

A> radeon 9700pro baby!
B> 1024x768
C>p4 3gig 800mhz fsb, gig corsair ram ddr enabled, western digital 120gb 8mb cache
D> downloaded bronze. started november 15th 5:30 pm, started playing at 3:53am november 16th
E> My Sleeping has fallen off the charts.

 

a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind.

a) Msi X800 Pro
b) 1280x1024 (TFT)
c) Barton 2800 @ 3200, 2x512MB Geil Ram (PC3200), Abit NF7-s, Maxtor 120GB SATA HDD
d) Steam
e) Occasional lag/freeze after level load but this could be attributed to my crap HDD as the game auto-saves after loading a map

::EDIT:: Oh yeah.. and I run EVERYTHING at max incl AA/AF

 

• ATi Radeon 9800XT 256MB
• 1280x1024 (75Hz)
• Athlon FX-51; Asus SK8N; Corsair 1GB DDR400; WD 74GB 10,000RPM; Creative Audigy 2 ZS Plat. Pro (see sig)
• Steam
• No problems at all

I played this game non-stop yesterday for >6 hours, and I am around chapters 8 and 9. Ravenholm was the greatest part thus far. ... Just a comment
:edit: Settings: everything max with 2xAA and 2xAF :edit:

- tf

 

a) Radeon 9800pro
b) 1024*768
c) Athlon XP2400, 512mb 2700 RAM
d) Retailer
e) No problems!

 

9800 pro 420=c 350=m
barton2500 226x10.5 , 2x512 mem insync
1280 x 1024 afx2 ffx2 rest set to high in game
got from P.C. world sorry none left anywere else
no probs. well the above............

 

a) Saphire 96ooXT
b) 1024x768
c) Shuttle SK41g w/xp2400+@2.2 1GB Geil, 60gb WD hd.
d) Downloaded with steam
e) Besides the Long install time the only problem I have had is the save points. The game stops and says "loading" for about 30sec. It starts right up smooth afterwards.

Second comp...
a) ATI 9700pro AIW
b) 1024x768
c) xp3200 512GB Crucial XMS, 120WD hd SATA, MSI Delta-ILSR Mobo
d) Downloaded with steam
e) Besides the Long install time the only problem I have had is the save points. The game stops and says "loading" for about 30sec. It starts right up smooth afterwards. A couple of looping sound in random areas on this comp, probably need to update sound drivers.

 

a) Gecube X800pro 256mb VIVO - ATI 4.12 Beta's - all settings on max
b) 1280x1024
c) 2x256mb ddr 400, amd 64 3200, MSI K8T NEO
d) Steam + bought at retailer ... I wanted the pretty boxes + i wanted it for my second pc
e) Had 1 random crash while i was in the buggy driving around on the

hehe i played no stop from 8am till 9:15pm when i finihsed it wish it was long tho ... and before you say it was on hard

 

a) X800PRO VIVO @ XTPE, 550/580, 4.11 Cats, 6xAA 16xAF, everything maxed
b) 1600x1200@100Hz
c) Barton 2500+M@2630MHz, 1GB BH-5
d) Steam
e) No, not even the stuttering when loading new effects that most people experience with the Steam version.

 

a)Gainward 6800GT GS 450/1200
b)1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF
c)P4E 4200MHz, 1GB 3700EB
d)steam
e)can see texture seams in the tunnels in the level "highway 17", and the crappy storyline

 

So basically you don't have to have an awesomely top of the line system to run HL2 like you do to run doom 3. hmmmmm now I just wish My home PC had an internet connection.

 

a) What GFX card are you using?
b) What screen resolution are you running it at?
c) What kind of system do you have? (i.e. ram, processor, etc.)
d) How did you acquire it? (via steam or retailer)
e) Have you had any problem and what kind.
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a) sapphire 9600pro 128
b) 1280x768 (16:9) - 60hz(dvi) (25ms response- just good enough to game comfortably)
c) barton 3000/400, 2x512 corsair value pc3200(2.5-2-2-8), shuttle an35n-ultra
d) nachos? mmm ... steamy
e) nope- expected the 20-30 second loads, as i only have a 10 and 60gb maxtor, and the 10 brings my ide channel down to udma4. having the pagefile on the other hdd makes up for it though.
saw a couple of texture seams, but just split second and quite rare.
love the captions option too ... it seems like someone in our house is always sleeping, so it's either headphones, or really low speakers.
i'd guess my framerate is between 30 and 45 , plenty smooth. on DVI i cant tell as long as it's over 30 tbh. anything over 60 is overkill with a flatpanel.

 

a) GeForce fx5200
b)1024*764
c)see sig
d) Retailer (Future Shop)
e) No problems, it just took forever to activate (stupid dial-up), Loading times are reasonable, but still sorta slow.

 

Can't you play it on the computer you're using at the moment or is it a work PC? Why not activate it on this coputer and then copy the files to you computer??