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Half Life 2.....any rumours about specifications needed? seems to me like most games nowadays need stupidly futuristic computers with components only out the day the game is, and my computer certainly ain't up to date...have preordered Half-life 2, any idea if i can run it with:

2GHz Athalon Processor
256 MB Memory
Hardly any free disk space, easily remedied
52x CD-Rom
Geforce 5200FX
Mouse
The other usuals...

Any help would be appreciated

Meh, get a combo... Same-ish price, but better.

jimbojambo wrote:
> Hmm......so how do we do this steam thing? Failing that, how much do
> cheap DVD drives cost?

I got one for about £12 or something... not sure, I bought it with a bunch of other stuff too.
Not much though.

Download Steam.

Download HL2 via Steam.

Tada.

It's tough, I know...

Hmm......so how do we do this steam thing? Failing that, how much do cheap DVD drives cost?

The land that time forgot...

You're so lucky u can get the game the 16th allready. We'll prbably get it like 5 months later, cause I live in a lame small country in southern africa, and yes I am white, and yes technology has got so far in Africa. To bad its nothing compared to urs, we still think a pc that has 2.2ghz, 256mb ram and a geforce fx5500 specs kicks ass. the fastest internet connection here is a 128k isdn modem. (weak)

I thought that too... which was pretty much the reason I bought a DVD drive yesterday.

Maybe I'm making this up completely, but I'm pretty sure the game was getting a DVD only release - unless you download it via steam, of course.

ok ok it turns out i'm answering my own question, have just been given the official specs, straight from valve. Here they are, kids...

Minimum System Configuration

1.2 GHz Processor
256MB RAM
DirectX 7 capable graphics card
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection

Preferred System Configuration

2.4 GHz Processor
512MB RAM
DirectX 9 capable graphics card
Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Mouse
Keyboard
Internet Connection

I'd think so tbh Coin, thats not a bad rig, unless you're used to looking at performance, tech-headed overclocker boards ;)
And as you get a copy of the game with the 9600, I'd imagine it will work in at least mininum settings...