Who is playing Half Life 2 on their laptops?

Post your specs and experience...

 

I have a dell 9100 3.2ghz with 1gig ram and an ati 9800 mobility radeon vid card.

I expect my experience to be very good.. once i get home and get on steam that is [ !]

 

I was right, it does work VERY well. I do have the occassional audio stutter that seems the big bug with everyone though it isnt game breaking, very occassional. Hopefully valve will fix it tho, its the only time I realise I'm playing a game and not actually THERE!

[ )]

 

I do. Acer TravelMate 4501 WLMi, Pentium M 1.5 GHZ, 512 MB ram, 64 MB ATI mobility 9700. Runs pretty good.

 

I'm playing HL2 on my Emachine M6810 @ 1024x768 and medium settings with low sound quality.

The game is VERY variable in performance - some levels are very smooth and fluid and then others have frame rates dropping down drastically (one section of Route 17 comes to mind).

I was playing last night from the end of the Canal Route and the levels were loading nicely without any stuttering. By the time I got well into Route 17 I was getting the stuttering sounds and graphics as the game was loading into each section of the level.

Apart from the nice water effects I'm not too sure if it is visually stunning compared to the original HL to be honest. Certainly not to the extent that the performance of the game has dropped. After all I could play at 1024x768 on a GF2MX with a minumum of 70fps generally.

Tell it like it is...NOT how it should be

 

Once I go and pick up my laptop I will buy HL2 and it will be the 1st game in then MOA A and CoD. [ ]

HP ZD8000 | 3.4GHz P4 650 w/HT Tech | 100 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive | 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 533 MHz | 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X600 | 17" WSXGA+ Wide View | DVD+/-RW/R CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer

 

I have a Acer 3201, with ati 9700. 800x600 All high settings on. works great, i get 75 fps. very fast[ ]

 

it works pretty well on my laptop with only a 64mb Radeon 9600 and P4M 2.4Ghz

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

I play HL2 with no problems at all. Did not have to reduce graphics or sound details.
I have got a Pentium 4 HT 3.2Ghz with 512Mb RAM and ATI9000 as the graphics card. But the notebook gets pretty hot after a while.

 

does anybody play HL2 that has a nVeda card? how does it play?

Compaq Presario R3000z
AMD Athlon 64 3400 - 2.2gHz
1 Gig DDR
15.4BrightVew (1280x800)
100 Gig 4200Rpm
nVedia GeForce 4 440 - 64MB
8x Super Multi w/Multi-layer
802.11b/g, Bluetooth

 

I just bought a dell 9300 and it is scheduled to ship on april 12th with 2day shipping. It comes with the Nvidia 6800 go so i give you some info then.(it should play with max settings easily, except for maybe anti aliasing or whatever that is. Not like i need it when running the game at 1920 * 1200)

Just ordered: Dell 9300
Pentium® M 730 Processor (1.60GHz/533MHz FSB)
17 inch UXGA Display with Truelife
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 at 533MHz
256MB NVIDA® GeForce Go 6800
60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive
Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless
9-cell Lithium Ion Battery

 

Plays well on my Acer Ferrari 3200 [ ]

 

Works fine but not exactly the best of the best - here are my specs.

Sager NP4750
17" WSXGA+ LCD
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB DDR
AMD Athlon 64 3200 1024KB L2 cache
1,024MB PC3200 DDR400 Memory
40GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive 4,200 RPM

For World of Warcraft I get around 15-35 fps in large raids.

My friend's desktop with the ATI x800 gets around 25-50 fps in large raids.

 

I play it on my i9200 and it runs fine. It could be better.

These are my specs:

1.6 GHz Pentium M
512 MB of RAM
80 gig 4200 RPM HDD
ATi MR9700 with 128MB dedicated memory
17" 1440x900 screen

I play it at 1440x900 with medium settings. Occasionaly it will lock up when I try to change the video settings. I hope to expand my RAM in the near future. and extra 1.5 GB of RAM would surely help with some of my problems.

It's a great game and it runs great, compared to what I would have expected. It's quite smooth.

 

Works nice on my overclocked emachines m6805, medium settings. About 90-100fps usually, unless its some crazy explosion and a hundred bloody body pieces fly out from the.... ill stop... lol

There are very few problems that can't be solved with explosives.

 

guessing by my specs guys could u's tell me wat kinda framerate I would get on my laptop?

My SPECS R IN MY SIGNATURE BELOW ...


thankx guys[:I]




** Dell Inspiron 9300 ... Centrino 2 ghz ... 1 Gig Ram ... 256 Nvidia Geforce 6800 Go ... 100 Gig Hardrive ... 17 inch WUXGA screen with Truelife ... 8 x Dual DVD Burner ... Wifi **

 

I've got a question. I dowloaded the HL2 demo and I can play the first part fine. However, the second part of the demo when you have to shoot stuff is very laggy. Is this normal? Is the shooting stuff part of the game that much more graphics intensive?

Dell I6000

 

it's most liekly ur specs .... to run it majesctly i advise getting 1 gig ram ... nvidia 6800 ultra go or nvidia 6800 go ... centrino 2 ghz ... and the rest is cool ...

all this is for lappy's only ... and just to let u know a centrino 2ghz is equal to a pentuim 4 3.4ghz !

id advise u to get the Dell Inspiron 9300 with those specs or the XPS Gen 2 which is the ultimate gaming laptop with best value for money guarenteed![ ]

** Dell Inspiron 9300 ... Centrino 2 ghz ... 1 Gig Ram ... 256 Nvidia Geforce 6800 Go ... 100 Gig Hardrive ... 17 inch WUXGA screen with Truelife ... 8 x Dual DVD Burner ... Wifi **

 

Ok, it just seemed odd that there was about an 80% drop in FPS between those two parts of the game.

Dell I6000

 

DMB14

what are the specs on your I6000 (video card , RAM, proc)

 

I have a Gateway 7422GX, and I get framerates averaging in the 40s on maximum graphics settings (except AF & AA).

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Gateway 7422GX: AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 1024MB DDR RAM, 64MB Mobility RADEON 9600

AVERATEC AV3270-EH1: AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+, 512MB DRR RAM, 64MB (shared) S3G Unichrome

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by MAME

 

Judging by DMB's ability to run it with those low specs, do you think a compaq with amd 2800+, ati 64mb graphics (doesn't say if its 9200 9500 or whatever) 512mb ram, will run it with ok frame rate, ect.? Or do you think i should opt to go with the 3000+ and ati 9600 64mb graphics for $60 more of my very limited budget?

Looking for $650-$700 laptop

 

Definately pay more and get the one with the 9600. The ATI graphics in the Compaq are probably ATI's Radeon IGP 340 graphics, which are really bad. That chipset scores below 100 in 3DMark03. With the 9600 you can play pretty much all games out there at decent settings.

Dell I6000

 

Ok, thanks, i think i'll go with that then! I'm pretty sure it'll run Farcry at full specs!

Looking for $650-$700 laptop

 

ATI Radeon's are usually better then Nvidia GeForce right?

 

Some say that ATI is better and others say that NVIDIA is better...I believe they did do a study which showed the fastest ATI Vs. the fastest NVIDIA and the ATI only won by a tiny bit.. Hope this helps

~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
-512MB RAM
-128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
-80GB 5400RPM HDD
-15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
-DVD±RW W/DL support
-XP Pro
-2X 12-Cell Batteries