Half-Life 2 on X200M

Hey this is for those of you that say you can play Half-Life 2 on the X200M.

My question is what is your average FPS? Is it playable as in enjoyable?


What about Half-Life 2: Episode 1? Would it work on the X200M, and does anyone know what the average FPS would be?


My system specs:
1.6 Ghz Pentium M
1278 MB Ram
256 MB X200M Express (I can lower this to 128 and up my RAM)
***I have the current Catalyst Driver for desktops. I thinking about installing Omega driver but having a problem with it's res settings, always changes on startup.

 

I would say it should be able to play it on medium settings...

 

I play it on med-high (almost everything med with a few highs; water is not reflective though) settings on the following specs:
P4 3GHz
512MB DDR
40GB 4200RPM HDD
Radeon 9100 IGP 64MB (shared)

If the 9100 can handle it well, then I understand that the 200M, which is supposed to be a more powerful chip, will play it well

 

Nevermind...

 

Put it on DirectX 8.1 mode and it plays fine all high @ 25fps solid.

 

Maybe you should try the search function first. There was a huge thread going on with the title: Will X200M play...?

Link: http://forum.notebookreview.com/search.php?searchid=503266

You can read how people play HL2 with their X200M with different configurations. And if you have a question about your X200M, post it there.

Charlie

 

I have a similar graphics card (the Ati X1100) and the game runs fine on medium settings for me. However, I can't seem to get the game to load at high settings.
Anyway, the game looks great on my notebook (Turion X2, ATI X1100, 120GB, 1024MB).

Check out my first screenshot (on med-low settings)

 

Portable Xbox... Not bad... Almost wish I didn't get a desktop replacer so I could get a laptop I could actually haul around... You may actually be better off

 

It'll run fine in mid settings. You have nothing to worry about, half life runs well on integrated.

 

What about Half-Life 2: Episode 1 or will it be the same as Half Life 2?

 

I don't see why Episode 1 will not run, but you won't be able to use HDR because the X200M simply does not have that kind of processing power at its disposal. With HDR off and at medium settings and resolution, it should run fine, just like regular Half-Life 2.

 

I ran Halflife 2 on my old computer with a Geforce 2 (32MB).

Of course it didn't look amazing, but it ran smoothly.
So yes, it should run smoothly on a X200M too. And I doubt you have to set everything to the lowest settings, even.

 

With Episode 1 its best to turn off Colour Correction in the video options. It added about 10fps, and I can't for the life of me see what benefit it brings to the game.

 

Thanks guys .

Though I'm having an issue with my notebook and a little worried to play anymore games on it, please go to "Warcraft 3, crashed comp"

 

geforce3 is way more powerful than x200!

ive played CS:S on my x200 on 640x480 everything on low with 1 Bot and had 40-50 fps which i think is amazing. I doubt it will run smoothly on medium settings with 800x600 res. Also dont bother using 128MB shared because it wont benifit from extra memory.

 

he said geforce 2

anyways, i remember the days when it said you must have the latest cards to play hl2 at blah and blah settings

and now even intergrated cards can run it

wow

 

Still geforce 2 > x200m

 

Using DirectX 7 mode in Source games with the X200M is a good idea; you loose the eye candy features of DirectX 9 (reflections, refractions, some special fx), but it is much easier on the GPU and you will be able to bump up the resolution/settings. I played Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source for the longest time on a GeForce 4MX and it was not that bad.

 

That's the best idea for the X200M. You can then bump the res to 1280x800, high settings.

 

I get 1 - 2 fps on my Dv1000 with GMA 950 :-D

Notice : This was not an attempt to rack up No Lemon policy at best buy by killing the computer...or was it :-D

 

Hmmm, no. Really, no.

 

I think people really underestimate the power of the x200m. I'm not saying it's better or not cause I really don't know. I just say that out of all the integrated cards I've used, the x200m beats them all, but I'm not that knowledgable in this area .

The X200M is a hard working card for what it was made to do. It isn't a gaming card but it can sure be used as one, and that's kind of amazing to me.

 

Last LAN party I went to, had two people using X200Ms. They played in every game we played . It'll play everything, but just at lower settings. And the updated X1100 looks even better. In a sub $1300AU laptop, they just can't be beaten.

 

The X200 is definately better then a Geforce 2.

Personally I played CS:S on my old laptop with x200 shared with basic DDR 266 memory - and still could run the game at 800x600, with 10 or so bots at about 30fps...would have been even better if I had gotten faster memory...

 

which Geforce 2 are we talikng about? MX? GTS? PRO? ULTRA?
In my personal experience Geforce 2 > x200

 

I think the main idea is missing here: what sort of performance comparison is being made?
The GeForce 2 is a DirectX 7 card; running a game under DirectX 7 is obviously going to be a lot easier on a card than running it under DirectX 9. You cannot compare the FPS that the X200M produces running (for example) HL2 under DX9 mode to the FPS of the GF2 running the same game under DX7.

It's probably not even fair to compare the X200M to the GF2 at all, considering they are both designed for different purposes, and they are several generations apart.