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    What is your half life 2 lost coast...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by crow11ad, Dec 30, 2007.

  1. crow11ad

    crow11ad Notebook Guru

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    FPS...Starting the game it said my processor was not fast enough...I have a 1.4, which can run all my games fine. Later on I will upgrade. But according to the test...I get 79.95 on fps. Is that good, low or what. I am just now starting to get into the fps mind set so I was just trying to see what others have done and thought.
     
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    Ackeron Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    The Steam/HL2 requirement analyzer doesn't work very well. It claims my GPU is an ATI integrated graphics card from like 2001, but we all know that's not true :p

    80 FPS on recommended settings (?) is fine, don't worry about it.
     
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    crow11ad Notebook Guru

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    ahhh I just ran the same stress test on the main pc which is an amd 2.0 dual core and it got 67
     
    crow11ad, Dec 30, 2007
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    I don't think that the System Analyzer recognizes that we have a Core 2 Duo Processor, and thinks it's only single core. Don't be set off-guard by this result. I get the same message with my 2.2GHZ C2D
     
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    crow11ad Notebook Guru

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    I am getting mixed reviews. Some people say that have a dual core at a certain speed is only going to be recognized by the software that can use dual core...some people say that a 1.4 is like a 2.8 single core...others say it uses the 1.4 until it needs help from the other one...

    But here is something else...when I goto systemrequirements it says my 256 8600 on my laptop is actually a 512
     
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    btw, try using frap and actually playing the game, as I have found that actual gaming fps can be lower than what the stress test reported.
     
    Dragonpet, Dec 30, 2007
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