High-end HL2 specs

I seriously doubt Half-Life 2 will need 2 GB of ram.

 

I'm pretty damned sure that's what they recommended for the ultra-high-end.
As in, the highest you can go without going any higher.

 

Valve guys said the video stress test is the good indication of the worst case in HL2, so go guessing...

 

Only as far as video goes though, as soon as you hit heavy combat the CPU will really get a workout.

 

Perhaps Valve knows better?

It's for high-end only.

I welcome the move when at least I have a choice instead of watching pontyheads and cheese low-res texture crap...

 

As long as they don't have 12-poly rooms, like some screenshots have shown, then I'm all for it too.

 

Would be cool if it had the option to load the whole game into memory with that much memory, no loading from disc between zones ;p

 

Yes, but the in-game gfx will be nowhere near the stress test, so I think it should be about equal. I'm not sure, though...

 

Where do i get the stress test from? I take it it's very busy in there if it's "the worst possible scenario".... come on, i wanna see my 5900U melt down!!! So i can get insurance money and upgrade the whole thing!!!!

 

The dungeon siege games where made to not have any loading(after the initial one). I was quite impressed by this and the gameplay. Thumbs up to the devs.

epic

 

Many console games do this, and have done this for ages. What's stopping PC games from doing so? Genuine question, although off topic.

 

Just guessing, huh?

 

I'm just saying, it's possible to get the quality in Half-Life 2, without needing system-raping requirements.

 

Windows tends to stutter badly if you do disk access. I have no idea why, but it's really hard to get some kind of guaranteed decent io performance. Which means streaming would just lead to horrible stuttering. The PC architechture really isn't built for it either it tends to have fairly thin buses and lots of slow memory versus wide buses and small fast pools of meory on the consoles. I'm sure it's possible to do, *sometimes*, but then someone with PIO enabled runs your game that tries to stream off disc and everything goes to hell.

 

What's high quality?

How do you know that?

How can you know better than its creators despite the fact it isn't out yet?

It smells...

 

In PC Gamer review of DOOM3 (the first DOOM3 review), they recommended 2GB of system memory plus 512MB of video memory for high end machine.

 

Not sure what you mean. You want me to link to those screenshots?

 

Man: it isn't out yet.

Besides this it's pretty obvious if it has 12-poly rooms (which is BS), D3 ot 6 polis.

 

And? When did that stop you from complaining about anything before D3 was released?

All valve games have had low-poly rooms (or rather, lower poly than contemporay games). And, despite your argumen above, this continues with CS:S's maps (which, for better or worse, is HL2's MP component and has been released). As a mapper myself, I prefer intricate architectural detail (STALKER's strongest point in my view).

Please don't mistake my criticism of valve's map details like "OMG D3 HAS POINTY HEADS!!!1111!!1(one)!!!!"; I can see why valve does it, and can even accept it. I just wish they'd provide more detail because I wouldn't mind a 20 fps drop in performance to get it. You still seem to be into "if he likes D3, he must hate HL2" mode. :?

 

Reverend, you should write a little piece of code which automatically deletes any thread containing the words "Doom 3" , "3DMark" or "PowerVR"!